Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-08

great amount Of leakage through the dam be-
fore IL broke. The destruction came from
the water flowing over the top.
Wellington said no engineer Of known and
good standing for such work could possibly
have been engaged on IL, since in the partic-
ulars mentioned 1t violated the most ele-
meutary and most universally understood
requirements of good practices. Estimates
of the original dam indicate that it was
made about half of earth and half Of rock,
dence of IL in the broken dam.
The ripprapping was merely the skin on each
face, with more or less loose spoils, mixed
with earth. The dam was seventy-two feet
above the water two to one inside slope,
one and one-half TO one outside slope and
twenty feet wide on the top. The rocks
throughout were about one foot below the
surface. Earth was pretty good material for
such dam, If it was to be built at oil, being
of its standing intact since 1881 must be as
cribed, as no engineer of standing would over
have tried to so construct it. The fact that
the dam was reconstructed one after over
twenty years. abandonment, made it es-
pecally hard on the older part of it to with
stand the pressure of water.
Eight thousand men have been at work
to-day
CLEARING OUT THE DEBRIS,
but truth compels the statement that the
undertaking has not yet been fairly started.
Fires are burning up and down the valley as
with smoke, and as yet the efforts of this
army of earnest laborers is hardly
apprecable. The most careful estimates are
to the effect that it will take 10000 men for
weeks to clear out the heaps of ruin piled up
for miles between the hills up and down the
course of the river.
An hour ago the writer completed tour
of the wreck IN this vicinity. Dozens of
human beings and animals were to be seen
on the surface charred blackened by fire,
n n 4 Accommodation ut ha
strongest man could not more than glance
at them. Eighty-six men from AL
toona, under orders of the sanitary Of
iicials, are scattering disinfectants
over acres of the wreckage that the railroad
bridge stopped. Mr.. Kirk declares that
thousands of bodies will yet be found in this
territory alone.
The great trouble thus far experienced at
the bridge has been caused by the mass of
telegraph wires that reach across the vari-
Gus spans, through which the water has
passed. Line repair men are badly needed to
help in removing the wires, and Kirk says
that as soon as they are gone he
will hustle the debris through by the acre
The problem of the hour is the DISPOSAL of
the debris about the Pennsylvania bridge.
Unless it is soon got rid of the stencil will
be so overpowering that no human beng can
withstand it.
THE PNEUMONIA sCoURaE
Grows alarmingly, notwithstanding the state
hChtS VI VI Lue SUdCe nealun DOaru.
DR.. Sweet, a member of DR.. Grof's staff,
came down from the Cambria hospital, to-
night, with startling report. To the Asso-
ciated press correspondent DIR. Sweet said:
prospect Hill is full of pneumonia, with
some dlphtheria and measles. The hospital
is full to overtlowing, and forty cases are on
the outside. They were almost all severe
pneumonia. There is every condition needed
for the spread of the disease, and 1 fear an
epidemic"
DIR. Darlington also reported several cases
of pneumonia, having found them on a hill
near Morrellville.
A pair of human feet were noticed sticking
out of the sand on the river bank, near
Kernville, to-day. A gang of men soon up-
earthed the bodies of two men and one girl,
all in good state of preservation.
THE FISHING CLUB BLAMED.
This community is in wild state of ex-
citement as the result of the recent flood.
The blame of the entire affair has been
placed upon the South Fork Fishing club.