Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-05

o'c ock Monday p. m. Up to noon yes
ter lay 1900 persons had registered. Their,
wee $4,000 people residing in Johns
town and the boroughs named before thu
ter ible catastrophe. When the work Of reg
istr alton is finished, which may be tonight,
the it will be known about how many per-
son, are missing. The work is very carefully
anil thoroughly done, special care being
tax en- to prevent Implications.
Later Estimates of the Mortality.
Superintendent Morgan, of the Cambris
Iron company, who is regarded as an excep
tioilally level-headed man, returned yester
day from a tour of the entire flooded district
He declared that only about 5000 person
are now alive where %, 500 lived and haG
the being before the food.
Adjt. Gen. Hastings maintains that tn,
the death list may not exceed 5000, and o
this number he thinks 5000 bodies will never
be recovered. Mr.. McConnaughy, the chic
OF the bureau of registration, said yesterday
thai he is convinced that the number wht
per shed is fully 10000 or more
Corpse Every Five Minutes.
At 80 O'Clock p. m. bodies were bein.
taken from the ruins at the rate of one every
five minutes, and there were about fifty bod
les lying on the bank. The supply of coffin
on the west side of the bridge has run out
and the corpses have to be laid ON the ground
An extra supply of coffins is expected from
Pittsburg, and if they do not arrive soon tn,
work of rescuing the bodies from the burn
ing ruins will have to be stopped. as tn,
ster ch arising from the place is terrible.
Roll of Recover ed Dead.
The roll of the recovered dead kept up it
apr alling growth yesterday, but the list O
those recognized is not SO large as Monday
owing to the fact that many of the bodies re
covered are burned beyond recognition, o.
decomposition had set in The ascertainet
list of $500 bodies Monday was augmented
by 13S more in Johnstown, Cambria ant
Kernville, a large number at Woodvale and
1t is said, thirty-two at Nineveh and vicinity
The undertakers are becoming tagged out
Alarming Prevail ence of Illness.
DR.. w. B. Lowman, of Johnstown, is il
cha rye of the medical relief corps, He is as
sisted by over 800 physicians. Dr. Lowmai
said yesterday: 1.-THE first day or two yer,
few injured people were seen. They are com
ing in now by the score. Sickness is getting
alarming and we see our duties multipl,
hourly. Nervous prostration, pneumonia
and fevers will be and are the most frequent
and pneumonia is sure to be very prevalen
because of exposure in the water and damp
ness. There are over 1000 sick in the gen
eral hospitals here and in the boroughs al
ready, and there will be three times as many
We must arrange to disinfect the city imme
diately. Two carloads Of disinfectants hav,
already been received from Pittsburg, but {
train load will be required"
Burials by the Hundred.
Yesterday was the day set aside by the cit
liens committee for the burying of all tn
unidentified dead that had been lying in tn
MOI que since Sunday. At 10 o'clock in tn
morning the men who were in charge of tn
burning started to work, and were busy al
day There were no pathetic scenes at thes
bur ais. The men who had been hired to de
the work seemed to do it just as matter o
business. The bodies were inferred in thu
cemetery nearest the place where they were
found. A noon procession of about fifty
collins was seen going up the hill above the
railroad. There was not mourner present
and the sight was CHASTITY one to behold. /
will take several days to bury the bodies II
the different graveyards. Altogether abou
800 bodies were taken to the different GENE
teries yesterday morning.
Feeding the Hungry.
Tie principal depot for food is at tn,
Pennsylvania passenger station. A portion
OF the platform has been wired off and large
tablss filled with all kinds of good, substan
tial cooked and uncooked food, arranged
along the whole length of it Police are OF
guard not only to repress the eager crowds
but % prevent the incoming of loafers, who
are very abundant. Those asking aid are
admitted to the wired passage way and a
fast as their wants are attended to, Their
baskets filed and addresses taken, they are
hust ed out at the other end, where also are
statione several officers who narrowly scar
each outgoer in order that he or she may moi
duplicate the visit in the same day.
They Want Boots and Shoes.
Maj Spangler said yesterday: 1--WE have
an abundance of everything except boots
and shoes, and there should be supply
Of them Immediately. The railways are for
waroing us stuff by the train load as rapidly
as they can move them, and on the whole We
are Going very we'll l may say that many
appf cants have money to buy, but there is
moth ng TO buy in the city, and we can sell
moth ng."
The Farmers Come Forward Nobly.
Al day long wagons heavily loaded with
provisions have been coming into town from
the farmers of the surrounding country, and
the fear of the scarcity of something to eat
has been dispelled. Clothing is still needed
as we'll as bedding and bed-clothes
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