The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-27
PzvEa AMONG TIE ronERs.
Forty-Nine TAKEN Sick ct Johnstown
Within TweLty-Four Hours

Forty-Nine TAKEN Sick ct Johnstown
Within TveLty-Four Hours
JoHSsrowS, Pa, June 26-Acting Sur
geon Foster, Of the Fourteenth regiment
and laboring camps, reported this morning
that within the last twenty-four hours,
forty-nine labore-s were taken seriously
sick with symptoms of typhoid fever.
/ Many of them were sent home and others
/ are being cared for in the hospital. The
local physicians, many Of them sufferers By
/ the q Ood, have sent representatives 70 zen.
/ Hastings protesting against the presence
here OF Red and Yellow Cross physicians
who are caring for all the sick to the finan-
cial disadvantage OF the local doctors.
Gen. Hastings refused TO act in the
premises
The river channel above the railroad
bridge was for the first time opened this
morning, after five heavy blasts had been
discharged. Engineer Phillips this morn
ing ordered several large graphing hooks,
with which be proposes clearing away the
channel of the river. There are thousands
of tons Of steel wire washed there from the
Gautier wire mills The wire has become
twisted and tangled at the bottom OF the
stream and tends to impede the TOW OF the
wreckage blown up by dynamite
Reports sent out regarding the dlssat1s-
faction over the Chicago por able houses
are condemned by the authorities here.
All the houses brought here are entirely
satisfac. DRY to those living IN them.
TRICKS OF EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.
Gen. Hastings issued the following an
nouncement this afternoon: ''Some en-
ployment agencies in New York, Pitts
burg and other cities are send
ing laborers to Johnstown. They
tell them they will be given transportation
and 50 per day wages. These promises are
practically false pretenses. There are more
lab0rers in Johnstown now than can be
employed, and the rate of wages is not as
high as stated No workmen should come
to Johnsto WI at this time to seek work."
NUMBER OF MEN AT WORK.
The force Of men now employed under
the contractors in the flooded districts OF
the vicinity number about 800, having
been reduced from about 1000 by the dis
charge of 500 of Meningitis men, mostly
from New Y ork this morning. In addition
to the 1900 men under contractors there
are probably 500 others work. g in various
places about the city on their own
account. The contractors now in charge
are four in number, and each has force OF
about $50 men and 112 teams. The reason
given for the discharge of the men this
morning is that they were not needed.
Now tnat the streets are pretty well open it
is claimed that smaller force can work
more effectively. The feeling among the
citizens generally appears TO be
that the work of clearing up the
wreck and removing the debris and mud
is progressing satisfactorily. The prlnci-
pal streets are pretty well cleared, so that
wagons can traverse them in all directions.
Maj Phillips concluded the work of blast
ing tonight, and it is expected that the
river channel will be speedily cleared.
Four bodies were found to-day. three of
them children, and were not recognized.
THE DAM UNSAFE.
Coroner Evans this evening resumed his
inquest on the body of Mrs. Helen Hite,
victim of the food. Expert witnesses only
were examined. j. L. Coffin, of this place,
mechanical engineer, was the first witIess,
and said he considered the South Fork dam
unsafe as it leaked. There was, he said, no
means of drawing off the water.
John Fulton, ge eral manager of the
Cambria Iron Works, was the next wit
ness. He said that hay had been used to
stop up the leaks in the dam, and he be-
lieved that the repairs made after the
bursting of the dam in 1888 were not per-
feet. He also mentioned that escape pipes
should have been used.
Col. T. P. Roberts, a civil engineer of
| Pittsburg, said discharge would not have
| been a benefit. He considered the dam
perfectly safe, and attributed its bursting
| to the extraordinary rains on the NOR ing
of the fatal disaster. He believed that the
bursting of the dam contributed to the dis
aster of the food
John g. Parks of Pittsburg, also an engi-
neer, said he was at South Fork when the
dam burst, and in detail he told Of the rapid
rise of the water. When he arose on the
| fatal morning he found the water surpris-
lngly high and the lake was boiling
| and boi.terous He told of how
the water had extended back into the woods
and said he had rowed in a yawl over
| adjoining fences. The water rose from
| to 10 inches an hour. He saw the lake
overflow and he warned the people of South
Fork and Johnstown of the approaching
disaster. The inquest was adjourned until
Monday next when other engineers will be
examined.
DAMAGE TO RAILROADS.
PHILADELPHIA, June 26.-The board of
directors of the Pennsylvania railroad to-
day held their first meeting since the recent
floods. which did so much damage to lines
owned, leased and operated by that COM
pany. Reports, sufficiently in detail, were
presented TO show that on all the lines of
the Pennsylvania railroad system, IN
Guiding the Philadelphia and Erie railroad
and the Northern Central railway,
the damage done would not exceed from
81, 500 900 to 81, 10000. This amount will
be entirely supplied from the surplus profit
Of all the companies whose lines were af-
fected, which surplus is intended to meet
just such extraordinary emergencies The
current net revenues of the sever Il com
panieS will, therefore, not be affected in
any way except by the loss of traffic.
PENTUP FLATHEAD FURY.