Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-04
DEATHS STRONGHOLD. 500 Burials in One Day at III.
 Fated Johnstown's Ruin. POLICE PRESERVE ORDER. Cutting Of a Woman's Head for
 Her Necklace.
 FEARS FOR PITTSBURG. Typhoid Looked for Owing to the Allegheny's Poisoned Water. DEBRIS YET BURNING.
DEBRIS YET BURNING.

The Body of Mrs. Ogle. the Heroine ss
 che Telegraph Omoe. Found at Her
 Post or Duty-Ths had story of airs.
 Fsnn's Loss of Mer nusband and
 Seven ohildren-wiiliam Hunman
 and Twenty -eighs Relatives Wiped
 Out of Existence--The South Fork
 Fishing olub to be Prosecuted for
 Criminal Nssligsnce-xvillie
 Moarns Flfty or Sixty Dead and Re
 nova as Almost Destroyed.
 JoHNsTowN, June 4.-This town Is a oharnel house.
 The odor of death Is everywhere in the air.
 It rolls through the wrecked openings that were once streets and around the shattered corners H dismantled strucp ures that were once business blocks or dwellings filled with happy families.
 As one walks up the street he sees in too awful proximity .little groups. The outsiders of them lean over and crane their necks to sec something. When they sec 1t they look around and shake their heads sadly. CT maybe there are tears in their eyes.
 What they see is the body of dead man, woman or child which has been pulled out of bank of sand or extracted from a mass of wreckage. in which you may sec anything from an elegantly up- holstsred chair to saucepan.
 The body is swollen and there are cruel bruises all over it.
 Johnstown Is almost city of the dead.
 Ifyou do not see a corpse you hear of them as being in nearly every house.
 Five hundred were buried yesterday of the ], ,0OO bodies that were recovered.
 The seventy-fve policemen that are here are sufficient to keep order and the arrival of provisions. in no matter how inadequate quantities. the tempta- ton to fight and steal is largely re- moved.
 A couple of Huns. 1t Is true. did rob dead people. but were shot dead for It. and now there Is nothing of the kind going on.
 It was reported that seven were lynched but 1t Is not SO. They will not steal now. They are towards who thought no one saw them.
 Order Is maintained and tho locality Is all right as far as that Is concerned. But the desolation, the wrecks and the losses are appalling.
 Of the borough of Johnstown proper but two buildings are standing-the rail- road depot. which Is being used as An undertaker's establishment, and the school house, which Is too badly wrecked inside to be used for anything. The big wave swept out oi existence Washington street. Vine street and Mar ket street, and made a woeful ruin of Main street, the principal business thoroughfare of the town. The car tracks of Market and Washing ton streets arc under masses of send, varying in depth anywhere from two to | forty feet.
 James McMillan, who was reported dead, but who miraculously escaped after | remaining all night on tho roof of the l clubhouse, is the resident director of the Cambria Iron works. He was about the richest man In town. His loss amounts to miilions-that is his individual loss. He owned the street railway and many of the business blocks They are all gone. Nothing Is left to him but his family. He took them te Greensburg. about fifteen miles from here.
 The river Is still an angry stream. \ Is three feet above It's ordinary level and its muddy waters are rushing dowr from the mountains at racing speed. l You may hear their roar above tho noise of the train. Their noise Is the only noise there Is in Johnstown excep, that of the axes and picks and crowbars of tho big gangs of rescuers. | The town is strangely quiet, 1t appearf the more SO because formerly there wer, puffing of engines and the sound of trip hammers continually.
 The mass of debris which banked III against the bridge and in which 80 man, miserable beings lost their lives by bein, roasted to death, Is still on fire. It i not burning, only smouldering. No at tempt has been made to probe 1t for tn, bodies of the victims. None can be mad until the fire burns itself out
 Then, If the mass were cleared it is be lieved that thousanss of bodies would b found. It Is impossible that they woul ever be identified. They are undoubtedl nothing but a mass of bones now. There are fifteen physicians here They have come from towns in all d rectionel There are about 700 woundo people under treatment. Out 0. au cases treated at tho Little Cambria hos l nifal On PrOsnact hill hnt rne has dinr