Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-07
Sufferers Absolutely Crazed
byGrief Over Their Losses.
CRIES IN A HOSPITAL.
Three Deaths at Mercy Yesterday, Ont Of
Thirty survIvors-More Sick and Injured
Brought TO the City Last Night as Well
as Refugees from the Devastation.

! of any brave man coagulate, the scenes whiel
| were witnessed by DISPATCH reporter a
Mercy Hospital last night caused the tears t
come unbidden and caused thrill and shive
| to pass over him as if the angel of death hat
suddenly drawn aside the portals and given hin
glance of death, yet life, but with all it
beauties gone.
Thirty patients had been received by thl
| hospital and 20 still remained. AS q favor t.
The DISPATCH, Sister Superior Magdalen'
took him through the wards The rooms wer'
dimly lighted, which added TO the gloom OF thu
surroundings.
Had just Died.
Mrs. Julia Brady had just died before the re
porter's visit, leaving 15-year-old daughter
sobbing with grief. In a bed in the middle o.
one ward was Mr.. George Slich, hi
life fast ebbing away. BY his side
sat his wife, He had been sick and she hat
held him on to q roof 15 hours, but his day.
Nearby was an old lady, her silver hail
spread on the pillow and her lips clinched tc
keep back cry of pain--from the heart q:
well as body-her all was gone.
Praying for Death.
Hark! what was thatI "Oh God, oh Lord
Why did you do it? Let me die; must;
must" 1t came from a room in the basement
His name was Albert Ross; his wife, baby son
and daughter were swept away. Is 1t wonder
that nature gave up the strain and left reason
dethroned, body without soulf
Another-her name was Bessie Foster, moth
ing more was known of her, was demented.
She must have had a father, mother, brother or
sister.
raised on his elbow, but the reporter passed on:
'Her mother is Dead" ''her father is gone, "
shocked" 'iconclusion," and so the explana-
tions went on.
Rescued Only TO Die.
One man, Mr.. John Koran, fought and
prayed for his wife's life. She was rescued
only to die in the hospital He went back to
Johnstown a broken man. Two others died,
and their names are given below with the
others cared for by the hospital:
Mrs. Sarah Young, confusion and wound Of
Rose Young, prostrated.
Benton Roenig, typhoid pneumonia; serious.
Mrs. Margaret Donnely, pleurisy and fractured
ribs.
Miss Kesiah Vance, exposure.
Mr.. George Slick. congestion Of the brain and
Mrs George Sick, confusion and shock.
Mamie secIst exposure rsm9yea no M 10 frierSs rsd
latter sent to St. PauI's Orphan Asylum.
,iS Sarah al Brady; lS years DID, exposure; motner
Mr. and Mrs. Muller, exposure.
Mrs. Ann sweeny, old lady Of IS, exposure.
Mrs. Kate Hines, exposure.
Albert Rose, demented from loss.
Mrs. Mrs y" Julia Brady died last evening of pueu-
mon1a-
Mrs. John Horan died yesterday morning-ex-
posure.
Others Injured Arrive.
ABB. & o. train which came in at IL As brought
u more wounded and some sufferers The fol-
lowing is the list and where they were taken:
Mrs. A. W. oxnard, two children, 10 days and
IA months old respectively7M Mercy Hospital -,
old ladies-Mrs. 9. W. Canagh, 200 Penn avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Wilson with Mr.. Wilson'S
Mrs. Mary Tice, bruised and prostrated-west
Mrs K. Nagle, prostrated-west Penn Hos
Mrs. Daily, widow, demented from the loss of
her son-Mercy Hospital.
Alex Recky, leg crushed, atnputation necessary
saiome Biershenk-Mercy Hospital.
Hospital.
In Other Hospitals.
The following are those cared for at the other
hospitals, not including those that came in last
night, given above. At the Homeopathic:
Jennie Holt, confusion.
William Schofenstein, bruised.
Charles Nagle, foot badly crushed.
Harry Hoffman, bruised.
away by friends.
At West Penn
Forrest Fewman, fractured leg.
Bonheim Fewman, confusion.
Harley Reed, lacerated hand.
James Gillespie, confusion.
A. j. Lick, sick before flood.
Elizabeth Walker, dropsy.
Elizabeth Edgewood, pneumonia.
At Allegheny General
William Singleton, sick before food
Ross D0ns0n, cOntusi0ns,
Mary --, about rs serious injuries.
Arrived at Midnight.
At II o'clock last night the following refugees
from Johnstown arrived in this city over the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and were cared for by
he Ladies' Relief COMMITTEES:
Bole and three children; Mrs, DIVA
BOle and son, sent to Allegheny General
Hospital; Mrs.; John Weir; Mrs; J. A. McMil-
VI. and Mrs. Peter sangghort and Terry Jung,
irieHds A on Superior street. street, AiieRhepTT3 SeRf TO
Mrs. John K. eockley. Beiiaire, e.; Mrs, oal0; 3%;
bach, going to Newark, n. j.; Senor h. Farias,
of Mexico, was on the wrecked train; Mrs. Robert
A. Perkins, going to Cincinnati; Mrs. Mary
Layhe, going to Indianapolis; Mr.. and Mrs ii.
Helsel, McKeesport; Charles ,Bracken, James
Crown.
s. A. Duncan, Chairman of the Hospital Com
nittee at Johnstown, telegraphed John Camp
bell, Manager of the Postal Telegraph Com
,any, yesterday, that 80 people, mostly women
md children, will be sent to the city to-day for
medical treatment and asked that suitable
be made. Everything will be in
eadiness when they arrive.