Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-06-06
Plies or rnE DEAD.
Three Hundred BOdies discovered
III NtOnY NFeek.

Three Hundred godies Discovered
ia stony CreeK.
JoHNsTowN, June 3--3 D. m.-Three
hundred bodies have Just been discovered
in the sand at Kernyille near the mouth
Of Sandy Greek.
AT THE FATAL RESERVOIR
Measrs. w. fl. Singer, George Singer,
Louis CLARK aud X, Hussey Binns OF
Pittsbur3, relatives Of members OF the
South Fork Fishing Club, have Just ar.
rived from the broken dam. They all
had friends or relatives at the lake ct the
present time. and being very anxious IS
to their fate, they made q daring break
through the flooded district and after a
careful examination returned this morn
ing.
Mr.. W. II. Singer sag s wo left
Pittsburg on the day expreas and got to
Sang Hollow about l 20 O'clock. We
walked up 10 Johnstown but could not
get across there. We went up Stony
Greek couple of miles and got man to
ferry us ACROSS and took the Frankstown
road around the hill to the lake. II is
about 10 miles from Johnstown to the
lake by this road. We reached the club
ID
We found that Mr. Jamts Oiark son
OF CARR, end two Shay hoys
and y iRRIs Aaron had a.4rted froE,
The --As on Saturday on horseback 70
South Fork station to take the train to
Altoona. They got no further than
Altoona, owing to washouts and are still
there.
THE FLOODS DEADLY RUSH.
There was no one at the lake when we
arrived except the custodiaLs OF the
building and some workInen. A. j.
Heating and George Wilson arrived last
night about IL O'Clock. The lake is
completely dried out. The dam broke
in tho centre at 8 p. IN. Friday and AZ 4
O'Clock it WAS dry. That great body oil
water passed ont in one hour. Messts
Park and Van Buren,, who are
building new draining system at the
lake tried to avert the disaster by DIGGING
sluice way on one side to ease the pres
sure on the dam They had about 40
men at work and did all they could win.
out avail. The water passed over the
dam about foot above its top beginning
at about $50 p. m.
SPREADING THE ALARM.
Whatever happened in the way of a
cloud burst took place during the night,
There had been little rain 10 10 da,k
When the workmen woke in the
morning the lake WAS very full
and was rising at tho rate
OF foot an hour. At Q
O'Clock it first began hieaAiug over
the dam and undermining it men were
sent three or four times during the day
TO warn people below Of their danger.
When the final break came ut 3 O'Clock
there was . sound like tremendous and
continued peals OF thunder; treee,
rocks and earth we're shot no
into mid air in great columns and
then the wave started down the rayine.
A farmer who escaped said that the
water did not come down like a
wave, but jumped on his house
and beat 1t TO Fragments in IN
instant. He was safe on the hillside,
but his wife and two children were killed.
at the present time the lake looks like a
cross between the crater Of volcano and
huge mud puddle With stumps and rocks
scattered over it.
THE pREAK IN THE DAM.
There is small stream of muddy water
running through the centre OF the lake.
The break in the dam is about 200 feet
wide and there ia but small portion OF
the dam left on either side. No damage
was done to any of the buildings belong.
ing to the club. The whole South Fork
IS swept away with not a tree standing.
There are but one OF two small streams
showing here and there in the lake. A
great many of the workmen carried of
baskets full of fish which they caught IN
the mud.
| FINDING SCORES OF BODIES.
The rescuing parties who were at work
on the mass of unburned wreckage in the
river above the stone bridge, are finding
podles and fragments OF bodies at the
rate of from 10 to 10 an hour. In ether
parts OF the auhmeTgsa districts many
bodies are being taken out.
800 RonIEs RECOVERED.
Careful estimate at this time OF the
bodies recovered everywhere put it al
oUO. The total loss of life must certainly
bs from 6,0G0 to 5000. Bodies are
being picked up in pockets like ore in ali
SORTS Of une \ pected places.
fREEziNG AND HUNGRY.
A dispatch dated Jamestown, IL. 10 N
M, says A small cold wave has struck
Tue town and the people are badly in
need OF clothing. The newspaper men
are among the sufferers. 1t is almost an
lmpossibility to get anything to eat
There ~ nothing to smoke and only water
to drink. 1870
Watering THE auNaAaIANs,
The citizens committee ia making des.
Eesate efforts to preserve peace, and the
hungarians at Cambria City are beiuu
Kept IN the house by men with climbs
who Will not permit them TO 20 outside,
| There seems 10 be considerable race
prejudiee at Cambria and trouble NAV
follow.
R pBER LYEcHEp.