, 1889-06-02

of friends and relatives, swept away in
last nights food. Most intense excite
ment prevails. The street. corners are
crowded with pale and anxious people,
who tell of the calamity with . still breath.
The bodies are being prepared for burial,
but will be held here for Identification.
-Four boys have Just come from the
river bank above here. They say on the
opposite side a number of bodies can be
seen lying in the mud. They found the
body of a woman on this side. X. b.
Rogers, Justice of the peace at Nineveh,
wired the coroner at Greensburg that 100
dead bodies were found at that place.
From this one can estimate that the loss
Of life will reach 1000, perhaps more.
No n knows; no one can guess.
How can anybody tell how many
people are dead2" said a railroad engineer
this morning. Il have been at Snug
Hollow since IL O'Clock yesterday and
have seen fully 500 persons lost in the
flood"
J.. W. Esch, a brave railroad employee,
saved sixteen lives at Nineveh. The most
awful elimination of the night was the
roasting of a hundred or more persons in
the mid flood. The ruins of the out
buildings and other structures swept
against the new railroad bridge at Johns
town aud from an overturned stove or
some such cause the upper part of the
wreckage caught fire. There were crowds
of men, women and children on the wreck
and their screams soon added to the awful
chorus of horror. They were literally
roasted in the flood. Soon after the fire
burned itself out, others we're thrown
against the mass. There were fifty people
IN Qtuht whan tho ruInu porfn1 Ar0Io -
and swept under the bridge into pltchy
darkness.
PITTsBURG. Jnne 1.-The body of an
old woman was taken from the river at
this city at 10 o'clock this morning. -Four
other bodies were seen. but owing to the
mass of wreckage coming down the river,
could not be recovered and passed down
the Ohio river. A citizens meeting has
been called to advise means to aid the
sufferers OF the Johnstown flood.
SAUK HOLLOW, Pa. June AT $50
the first train passed New Florence east
crowded with people from Pittsburg and
places en- route, on route to the scene OF
the disaster with little hope of finding the
loved ones alive. 1t was heart rend-
ing sight and there was not a dry eye
IN the train. Mothers moaned for chill
dren, husbands paced the aisles wringing
their hands in mute agony. Fathers
pressed their faces against the windows
in a vain endeavor to see something, they
knew not what. They knew in a measure
Of the dreadful fate their loved ones had
met with. All along the raging
Conemaugh where the train stopped bod
les were taken on the express car and
carried to the villages out along the banks.
oh. horror, infinite pity of it all
PHILADELPHIA, June I.-Indications
point TO the present trouble as being the
worst ever experienced by the Pennsyl
vania railroad. The suspension Of traffic
caused by the washing away of bridges
and viaducts, heavy landslides, long and
deep washouts. and the fall of masses of
rock from the mountain sides to the track
below between Altoona and Johnstown, a
distance of forty miles has caused much
loss to the road. Wires to Williamsport
are down. A dispatch received from that
city by way of Reading states the lumber
boom was broken at 9 o'clock this morn
ing and the water rushing through the
upper end of town. At 2 O'Clock the
city was flooded and the water still rising.
Railroad bridges are beginning to go out.