The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-07
The CREMATION CRY.
It Will be Raised in JOhnStOwn
This Morning.
]. OFFERINGS OF A GREAT PEOPLE
Aid From All Quarters is Coming in-Ihe re
lief Committee will be Made National
Immediate Needs.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June "a wal htt9
j been thrown around Johnstown and no
body can enter it unless it is shown that
he has business in the city.
The Pennsylvania railway has been max
ing every effort to keep out the crowd, out
the Baltimore & Ohio opened yesterday
and brought in a food Of people from SOM
erset valley this morning. When General
Hastings heard of it, he had conference
with Scott and O'Mera, of the Plttsourg
police, and it was decided 10 SEM
company of the Fourteenth regiment TO
Somerset for the purpose OF preventing
any further rush Of people tins way. A
committee of citizens accompanied the
militia. They will stop OFF at all the sta-
tions along the road and demonstrate with
tbe people against coming TO JohnstoWn
The crowd of curious ones Is constantly
growing. to the hindrance OF the WORK OF
removing the bodies and clearing away tne
debris. On the PENNSYLVANIA road the sue
oates are practically shut, ard IL Is noped
fbis viii have some effect on the Baltimore
& Ohio. There is but one bridge across
tI,e Conuenaugh and nothing but pass
from Generals Hastings or Scott Will carry
one over II.
Gloom settles over Johnstown as soon as
the sun goes down, the colored lanterns OF
the railroaders being about the only relleI
to the darkness. ,,,-
SUPERINTENDENT Duncan of the Allegheny
Electric light company is still here await
4 ing the arrival of his engine and dynamos
2 which have been blocked in the Pennsyl-
yauia freight wards west of the town.
There are tons of supplies IN TINS OIockaue'
The state board of health and the Penh-
sylvania railway are to-day DuSy operating
in the work of removing bodies from the
debris above the stone bridge. DIR. Gross
of the health board says there Will be l,OOO
men at work here tomorrow. Inc sam.
tary Question is the paramount one OF the
hour The state board OF health is
looked on as a more important FACTOR IMAM
the militia and civic forces. rms after
noon the work of the board was dlstrl-
buted. DIR. Lee taking relay to Plttsburg
with the intention of establishing head
ouarters in the city hall. Then a force OF
sanitary inspectors will be established,
half of which will 90 up the river by BOAT
and the remainder take construction
crew up by railroad. The latter nave
adouted cremation as their cry and to-
morroyv night the desolate valley will be
lit m with a bonfire of the wreckage which
will be the pyre of hundreds of dead
bodies. DR. Morrell, deputy chief OF the
state hoard of health said to-day: "A
point has come in this horror when
sentiment must be laid aside. To endanger
the lives OF the living Iutll eilc uCdu tlaS
be identified is no longer iustitiable, besides
bodies are past being embalmed and friends
can scarcely recognize features any longer.
Identification is possible only by the cloth
End iewelry on the persons
DR. Croft, who is now in charge oil the
Johnstown bureau of the state board OF
health and sanitary inspection, said to an
Associated Press CORES pondent this after
noon: "There Is no immediate danger OF
an epidemic in Pittsburg. The danger"
said he, lis that people will be scared into
being SICK. We need thousands Of men to
work on the debris and clear 1t Of car
cases."
An inspector who has just arrived from
the Wooddale district reports great destltu-
ton. There is nothing in town but flour
and bran. and very little OF that. About
noon to-day IL was reported to Chief
Gageby. Of the police committee, that
body of alleged rescuers at the foot of Main
street were removing iewelry from the
bodies they carried away. Gageby ordered
a policeman to go and pretend to superin-
tend the work for the purpose of appre-
hending the thieves. Special police had to
be selected to prevent stealing from the
debris back of the general hospital.