The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-04

troops to the scene, but both officials siren
uously objected, as they claimed that any
/ hing of this kind was not necessary, and as
proof of this not a breach of the peace
was committed last night in Johnstown and
vicinity.
/ General Hastings estimated the loss of
| life at not less than seven thousand. 1t has
not been generally believed that the district
in the neighborhood of Kernville would be
! so prolific of producing corpses as it has
proven to be- An Associated Press cor
respondent visited that part of the town
where both the riyer and Stony creek have
done their worst. He found that within
the past twenty-four hours almost
one thousand bodies have been re
covered or were in sight. The place
! is great repository of dead bodies. Every
day adds a long list of dear ones to the lost.
One hundred and fifty persons were taken
out of the sand along Stony creek this
morning. One hundred and seventy-five
bodies were recovered to-day at Morrill,
vile: four are still alive, but severely in
iured. Grand View cemetery has 800
buried in it. All met their death N the
flood. They have 300 men digging graves
Seven hundred dead bodies in the hospita
on the Bedford street convent and fifteen
dead ut the schoolhOuse hospital, Adams
street convent. Three hundred bodies
were found to-day in the sand banks along
Stony creek in the vicinity of the Baiti-
more " Ohio; there are l2S bodies at
Ninevah
The hourly recovery of bodies near>the
vicinity of what was once the Baltimore &
Ohio Depot at JOhnstoWn is increasing with
trlghtful rapidly. Half of the unknown
are Inangled or burned beyond recognition.
Ever since the recovery of the first body
the populace have not had near enough
collins for the dead, although hundreds
arrive daily, and owing to the decomposed
condition OF most of the bodies, they have
to be and are boxed up in rough board
boxes, merely store boxes and buried at
once.
a man named Christ Myers has been
rendered completely insane by the fact that
his mother, father, two sisters and a
brother are among the missing When
notified OF the loss of his family he threw
up his hands and exclaimed: MY God.
what Will come neXt!" From that time,
which was last night, he has been hope
lesSly insane, at times bordering on VIC
lence and wanting to kill himself.
Anxious inquiries sent by President
Harrison to-day, caused the belief that ex-
PostmaSter-General Hatton was among the
passengers killed on the PENNSYLVANIA
road last Friday. President Harrison
knew tlatton was on that train and asked
Acknowledgement Hastings to ascer-
anything about his Whereabouts.
This afternoon William Henry Smith, gen
eral manager Of the Associated Press, came
IN from Ehensburg, where he and Mr.. Hat
ton had been in a pocket since the train was
lost. They were on the train together and
had narrow escape from death. All of the
passengers, twelve or thirteen in number,
who left the train were killed. Mr.. Hat,
ton and Mr.. Smith were lucky
enough TO stick to the train. Mr.. Smith
was in hurry to get west and forced his
way over the mountains to Johnstown. Mr.. |
Hatton and the rest of the passengers are
waiting for the Pennsylvania road TO re
sumo operations. On receipt of this news
Adlutant- General Hastings forwarded it to
the President.