Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-06

Clear Away Wreckage. WORK MOVING SLOWLY Mrs. Psnn Sees Her Eight Children Cnr-
 risd Down the Raging Stream to
 their Death, but Is Herselr Rescued
 Two Hundred and Fifty Bodies Re
 covered at the Bridge Yestcrdny.
 More Men Needed for the Work oi
 Wrsckage Piled High at the Bridge.
 The Cambria Iron Works to Resumc e
 Business Soon ns sPosstble-Plenty y
 of Work for Red Cross sisters-Ons
 Thousand Gases Of Typhoid About
 the City or Death
 JoHNsTowN, June 6.-The effect of last Fridays disaster will not be confined to this stricken region alone. Tho fearful
 
 spread. The waters of Conemaugh river empty into Kiskimentas river, and its waters flow down the Allegheny to Pittsburg, where they go into tho Ohio. !.
 The pollution that Is packed in behind the fatally firm stone bridge at Johns town will thus be carried miles and miles down the Mississippi, and thence into the Gulf. Before the danger can be car ried away by evaporation 1t cannot but cause disease and death everywhere along these streams.
 !hThe odor of decomposing flesh which arises from the mass of debris at the bridge Is everywhere, and this breeding place of contagion cannot by any possi- ble means be cleared away for days and possibly weeks. The very work of re- moving it will be q work of danger to the brave men. The only thing that Is to be done Is to hurry more men on to Johnstown and rid this community of its present danger.
 There are 4,OOO men here now but they are not enough. They can only work their utmost strength, and whatever inn pression they have already made in the pile at the bridge is not perceptlble from the banks. Willing arms are impera- lively necessary, and the greater num- bers of them the better
 MT. Scott, who supervised the local relief committee, Is making his presence felt. He is q man of strong executive power, and his sternness, rapidity of de- cision and the fact that he Is backed by great wealth have gone far to inspire q feeling of confidence in the breasts of those who await anxiously for relief. He distributed thousands of orders for food and clothing. A long line of sorry look ing refugees has besieged his office all day long, and none have gone away empty handed But the aid that is given to them Is only temporary and tomorrow morning they will be here again with the same look of pleading in their faces and the same ragged and dilapidated appear ance.
 When those who only escaped with their lives will return to their former condition of comparative prosperity Is q problem difficult of solution Many are considering the advisability of moving away, the awful calamity having com pletely convinced them that this beauti- full valley will never De anything but what 1t Is now, place of death and deso- lation. But they cannot go; they have no money, neither can they earn 1t, be- cause there is no work for them, and so they do not know which way to turn.
 The survivors are stupefed, and tho most they do is to stare stolidly at each other and wonder-simply wonder. That they are becoming hardened to awful sights Is evident by the indifference with which they regard the bodies of the dead as they are taken from the ruins to the morgue. There are few tears today, the walls are not heard. There Is only un- thinking indifference.
 Many persons have come to the city who arc dif1dent about asking the relief committees for the food and sleeping &C., commodations which they need. Among these are the hundred or more newspaper correspondents. They have had to work as many hours out of each twenty-four as their systems would permit, generally about twenty or twenty.one. In the hours of activity they have had no time to think of where they would sleep or eat. and sustenance has been snatched where, ever 1t could be purchased.
 There are no restaurants, and the onl, places where food can be obtained Is in, side of the camps and the commissary department. or in the homes which cs- caped the food A few of the townspou pie have tried to feed those who prefcy,c, not to trouble the authorities, but {. have not been very successful.
 The people who are in tents al Ga Hastings are as comfortable as the, be under the circumstances. The WOE. have developed an anxiety to secure