The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-06
WORK ON THE RUSH.
Men Pouring into Johnstown to Clear
Away the Debris.


rived later and took charge of ths work,
and by II o'clock they had succeeded in
doing more work at clearing away the
debris than had been done here before. Mr..
Flynn has offered his men no special induce
ments but will make them work. Seventy
five carpenters and twenty carloads of pro-
visions came up..with the laboring men. This
morning another delegation of workmen
came up from Braddock. Each man had a
pick, shovel, saw, or some other instrument
on his shoulder and was prepared to go to
work Immediately. Adjt Gen. Hastings has
requested the Associated Press to state that
this is the kind of men that are wanted here
and too many cannot be sent.
At ii O'Clock this morning Gen. Hastings
sent the following telegram to Gov.
Beaver:
Fully 5000 men are at work clearing off the
debris. Bodies are now being rescued In large
numbers. The citizens committee has organ
lied and its working is systematized. A de-
tachment of twenty of the Fourteenth regi-
ment was detailed last night TO guard the
supply trains. Provisions are pouring in and it
is difficult to take care of them. There is no
suffering from want of food or shelter. Con-
tributions Of money are more desirable than
anything else.
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS.
There is no surcease of horrors here
uO-udJ, Dub bu6 SlIudJlOU Is resolving 1USolI
into something like order The relief work
has been so systematized that there is no
danger of any confusion. At several dis
tributing depots hundreds assemble MORN
ing, noon and night, and forming in line,
are supplied with provisions Men and
women with families are given bread, but
ter, cheese, ham and canned meats, tea or
coffee and sugar, and unmarried applicants
slices of bread and butter or sandwiches
SOVoatbiDcr ic haino
too, in the estimates of the loss of life The
most conservative estimates now put the
number at 10, 900.
The 900 army tents brought on by Adit.
Gen. Athne of Ohio have been divided, aud
two white walled villages now afford shell
ter to nearly 5000 homeless people. These
villages are policed and in charge of Gen.
Atline.
ALL UNDER A DICTATOR.
The action of the authorities yesterday
in consolidating all authority and vesting
it in B. B. Scott of Pittsburg as dictator, is
received with favor on all hands. Dictator
Scott has taken hold of the stupendous task
imposed upon him with energy and already
has marked out his work and assigned
the direction of various portions
to men equally jealous. Already he
has $500 men at work and has called for
$500 more, to whom he promises work for
sixty days at 50 per day and board. Mr.
Scott, in an interview this morning, said
that he proposed to clear the town of all
wreckage and debris of all description and
turn the town site over to the citizens, when
he had completed his work, clean and free
from distractions of all kinds.
REBUILDING PROBABILITIES.
In conversation to-day Supt. Duncan of
the Johnstown street railway, and one of
the leading citizens of the place, declared
that as soon as the people recovered in a
measure from the dazed conpition in "a. ch
they have been since the catastrophe. i'm
mediate measures would be taken in rebuild
ing. This will be gigantic and costly
work, but Supt Duncan expects to see
new city spring from the ruins of Johns
town.
The work of reconstructing the rcadbed
and reIaylng the tracks of the Pennsylvania
railroad is being pushed forward vigor-
ously, and already trains from the west are
running down from the passenger station,
while construction trains are able to go
considerably farther By night it is ex-
pected that the high emhankment at the
big bend of the river which detected the
river from its course on that fatal Friday,
and which was finally washed away itself,
will be reconstructed.
THE CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY.
Although the loss of the Cambria Iron
Company will foot up into millions, tho
destruction of their plant is not as bad as
apprehended and reported at first, and the
officers of the company now say they ex-
pect to resume operations in thirty days.
The civil engineer of the company, who
made a careful survey of the premises
yesterday, asserted to the writer this morn
ing that, although the greater portion of
the valuable buildings and their still more
valuable contents in the way of improved
machinery are damaged beyond repair,
there is a complete set of machinery in the
Bessemer mill uninjured, and the manu-
facture If steel rails may be resumed within
two weeks.
COLDER WEATHER.
There has been a disagreeable fall of
temperature since yesterday that will be
prolific of much suffering and many ills.
The atmosphere to-day is damp and the air
keen and penetrating. This condition of
affairs is favorable to the workers, but
most unpleasant for the houseless sufferers.
and thinly clad women and children were
shivering this morning under the ewes of
every convenient building. The sun has
been obscured the greater portion Of the
day.
The sight of the long relief trains rolling
into Johnstown, over both railroads, and
from every SScLlOu Oh bu0 country almost
every hour, tends to make the observer
conclude that charity, whether christian
or not, is not so rafe under the sun as the
cynic philosopher would have US believe
From east and west. north and south, come
whole trainloads of clothing and provisions,
accompanied by special messengers having
funds and a large force Of volunteer
physicians nurses and workers. Accompa-
nying a big Philadelphia relief train was
special car occupied by corps of surgeons,
who were ecu pped with large outfit of
instruments and medicines. The character
of the supplies sent out from the Quaker
City is most able, consisting Of cotton
sheeting, clothes, boots and shoes, hard
breads of all kinds, salt fish. canned goods
everything, in fact, in the provision line.
CAMP HASTINGS.
Perched high upon the hill three-quarters
of a mile from the Pennsylvania station on
the Ebensburg road is Camp Hastings,
where several hundred destitute sufferers
are sheltered and fed. The camp is in
charge of Thomas Watt, of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, and w. j. Cain, both of
Pittsburg, who have organized it thor
oughly. Men have blankets and straw to
sleep on, and women mattresses, and all are
provided with an abundance of good COM
Portable bed clothing. There is no sickness
in the camp, but among the inmates is
woman who viii become mother before
fha daw fe otft