Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-03
WATER RECEDING.
Two Thousand Two Hundred Collins For.
wartied from PIttsbmrm

Two Thousand Two Hundred Collins For
warded from PIttsburg.
PITTSEURG, June 2d.-The usually quiet of the
streets OF PltSourg On Sunday were to-day
awe with excited people eagerly seeking news
| from the food destroyed JDhnStown in front OF
newspaper bulletins. Groves were rapidly for.
Warued TO the scene of the disaster. Coffin
manufacturers here are worked TO their fullest
capacity and collins being shipped rapidlv
This morning ten carloads were sent down con
t4lnlng ZOO collins, and they VIII be distributed
at various points along the river where the dead
nave been collected. Reports are coming in
from large number OF towns throughout
5 Ihe western s part OF the State and eastern Ohio
being held, and donations
IL AID OF THE SUFFERERS
Are fast pouring in. \ dispatch from Stem
benville, o., states that Scott SalkeId, with his
little son, let that place Monday for South
Park. 1t is feared they
PERISHED IN THE FLOOD
benefit by theatrical company to be given
IN ald OF the sufferers was advertised to be given
in one of the theaterS in this city this evening
The fact coming to the ears OF the Law and or.
der Society, however, they gave notice that the
performance would not be permitted. This aC-
ton Is severely condemned by the community
The rivers are slowly receding, ard all appre-
hension of danger is past.
SCENE OF DEsoLATIOS.
Johnstown is the most complete wreck i'm.
aginable. Some l 500 houses have been swept
from the face of the earth rs if they had never
been erected The streets from end to end are
piled from fl teen to twenty feet high with de-
DrS, ana IN some instances it is as high as the
roofs OF the houses. This grt at mass of wreck
age fills the streets from curb to curb and fire.
quently has crushed the fronts of buildings in
and hiled the space with the reminders of
TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
From the woolen mill above the island to the
bridge, distance probably of two miles, a strip
of territory nearly q half n mile in width has
been swept clean, not stick of timber nor
one brick on top OF another being LETT TO tell
the story.
All day long men, women and children were
plodding about the desOlate waste, trying in
vain to locate the boundaries of former homes
Nothing but wide eXpGnSe of mud, ornn-
mented here and there with heaps of drift
wood, remains, however, for their contempla-
ton.
These losses however. are as nothing com.
pared to the rightful sacrifices of precious lives
to be seen on every hand. During all this Sun.
day JohnstOwn has been drenched with the
TEARS OF STRICKEN MoRTALs,
And the air is filed with sobs and sighs that
come from breaking hearts. There are scenes
enacted here every hour and every minute that
affect all beholders very profoundly.
An utterly Wretched woman named Mrs
Fem stood by muddy pool of water trying
10 ma some trace OF a once happy home. She
was halfcrazed with grief, and her ewes were
red and swollen. As the writer stepped to her
side sac raised her pale and haggard face and
remarked:
They are all gone. Oh God be me.cifnl to
them. My husband and my seven dear lit e
children have been swept down with the flood
Hoods into garret but the water followed MS
there. Inch by inch it kept rising until our
heads were crushed against the roof
IT WAS DEATH TO REMAIN,
SO we raised window and. one bv one. placed
my d&ringS on some drift wood trusting them
to the Great Creator. AS ! liberated the last
one, my sweet little boy, he looked at me and
sad Mamma, you have always told me that
God would care Tor me; will he look after me
now l saw him drift away and with his
face turned toward me and with 6 PRAYER on
my lips for mis- Geliverance he pass. f.om my
sight forever. The next moment the roof was
crushed in and l toated outside, to be rescued
fifteen hours later from the roof of d house in
Weave vile. If could only find
ONE OF MY DAELINGs
| l could bow to the will of God. But they are
! all gone; have lost everything on earth now
handsome woman walked through the de-
pot where dozen or more bodies were await
| ing burial. Passing from one to another she
hnally lifted the paper covering from the face
| OF woman, young, and with traces of beauty
showing through the stains of muddy water
With cry of anguish She realed backward to
be caught by man who chanced to be passing
| In moment or so she had calmed herself suffi-
ciently to take one more look al the features of
| her dead.
She stood gazing at the unfortunate as one
dumb. The dead woman was the
SISTER OF THE MouRNER.
The body was placed in a coffin few min.
utes later and sent away to its narrow house.
These incidents are but fair samples of
scenes familiar to every turn in this stricken
| city. The loss of lite is simply dread III. The
| most conservative people declare that number
| Will reach 5000.
THE LAST STORY.
The streets have been full of men carving
bodies to various places where they await iden5
| titication since morning and the work has only
! just begun. Every hour or so forces of men
working on various heaps of debris find mum
Der of
| BODIES BURIED IN THE MUD
| And wreckage 1t is believed that when the
| flames eXtinguished in the wreckage at the
| bridge and the same is removed that hundreds
and hundreds of victims will be discovered
| In fact this seems certain, as dozens of bodies
! have already been found on the outskirts of the
| mass OF broken timbers.
Reports from outside points are also appalling
! Up TO o'clock tonight $50 bodies had been en-
balmed at Ninevah, and there is a report that
| more have been discovered half buried in the
| mud on the island between New Florence and
| the place named At the Fourth Ward school
house over one hundred victims have been laid
out for Identification. In many cases they
have been recognized, while in many more the
| tags bear the simple word unknown
Shocking sights have become so common that
they have lost their terror, and The finding of
body here and there attracts little or no atten-
ton from the great crowds that constantly line
the river banks and crowd all other accessible
places.
AS this is being written, hundreds and hun
dreds OF homeless men, women and children
are sleeping
on THE HILLSIDES UNDER TENTS
That were sent on from Pittsburg and other
places about the country.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has succeeded in
getting a track through to the city, and pro-
vision enough to meet all immediate wants
have arrived.
Those people who were not swept away or
disabled are working earnestly for the revival
work to come anywhere near repairing the
fearful damage, while it is about certain that
the list OF the loss will never be made COM
pletc.
THE SUPPLY OF CoFFINS
| Sent in from Pittsburg and o'her points is so
great that the kelief Committee telegraphed
last evening not to send any more until ordered
\ dozen OF places have already sent in gener-
| Gus sums OF money, and the people are eneour-
will be provided for 1t will require several
| days yet to ascertain anything like definite
| idea OF the loss of life, but it will certainly
reach up into the thousands. Every hour
brings fresh evidence of the fact that the dsas-
ter eclipses anything OF the kind in the history
| OF the country, and no one Can say what the
| final results will be.
| this evening near Kernville. A man was OBJ
| served stealing valuable articles from some
houses. He was seized by mob,
ROPE PLACED AROUND HIS NECK,
| And was jerked up into the air The rope was
him. Bystanders cut him down before he was
| dead. The other men did not interfere and he
was allowed to go.
Ex-Mayor Chalmer Dick of Johnstown shot a