St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-02
and shouted to her to try to guide her
self into shore with bit of plank. She

ana SHOuCeU 10 neT 10 Hy To Suiuc her
self into shore with bit of plank. She
was a plucky girl, full OF nerve aud en-
efgy, and stood upon her frail support
of the operator. She made two or three
biz strokes, and actually stopped the
course of the raft for an instant. Then
it Swerved and went out from under
her. She tried to swim ashore, but in a
few seconds she was lost in the swirling
water. Something hit her, for she
lay quietly on her back with her face
pallid and expressiOnless. Men and
Wcmen in dozens, pairs and Singly.
children, boys. big and little, and wee
babies, were there in among the awful
confusion of water,
DROWNING, GASPING, STRUGGLING
and fighting desperately for life. Two
men in tiny raft shot into the swiftest
part of the current. They crOuched stOl-
idly, looking at the shores, while be-
tween them dressed in white. and kneel-
ing with her face turned heavenward was
a girl six or seven years old. She
seemed stricken with paralysis until
she came opposite the tower. and tnen
she turned her face to the operator.
She was so close they could see big
tears on her cheeks. and her pallor was
as death. The helpless men on shore
shouted to her to keep up her courage,
and she resumed her devOut attitude
and disappeared under the trees OF a
projecting point a short distance below:
1--WE could not see her come out again.
said the operator, and that was all OF it:
''Do you see that fringe of trees" SAID
the operator, pointing to the place
where the little girl had gone out of
sight. "Well, we saw
SCORES OF CHILDREN
swept in there. believe that when the
time comes they will find almost hun
dred bodies of children in there among
those bushes" just above New Flor
ence is the9little town of Nineveh. 1t
was here that found the first charnel
house: 100 dead were here, the larger
proportion of whom were women. Here
it was that the awful work OF the
freshet could be realized; What have
been fertile farms look like worn out
brick yards. Great trees have been
twisted and torn like weeds, and broken
household goods of hundreds of houses
line the shores for miles. Thieves OF
the vilest sort, those who steal from the
the dead and the unfortunate,
have been busily at work rob
ticlees e of furniture, and there is
nothing worth taking left except lum-
Der. Every now and then CHASTITY out
lines could be seen in the water being
swept down stream. Two miles from
IS Q" tower is the rs X'' tower of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, and
here it is that the greatest railroad in
the world ends suddenly in the river.
For more than thousand feet the ell
tire track is wiped out. rails, ties, and
even ballast. The north track is en-
tirely washed away. This is the nearest
tetegraphic point to Johnstown, and the
delay in getting off news dispatches has
been fairly maddening. The Associated
Press expedition was the first in the
field, and was ready with thousands of
words of specials, but no wires could be
had from II a. M. until almost 2 p. IN.
No special trains could be hired, no loco
motives were to be bought, and the situ-
alton canske appreciated,