Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08
SCENES 1T JOHNSTO WIN.
Sufferings of the Survivors-Driven In
sane-Need of Grave Diggers.

Sufferings of the Survivors-Driven In.
sane-Need of Grave Diggers.
JoHNsTowN, June 4.-Twenty.fv " registry
Offices for the living were opened this morn.
ing. Up to noon 5000 out OF "a, 900 in
habitants had registered.
| There is but one street left in the town.
About 155 houses are standing where once
there stood n Thousand. One thousand
is the lowest estimate OF the number of lives
lost in this town. But few bodies have been
recovered. A walk through the town re.
vealed a desolate sight. Only about %
ablebodied men have survived, who are
able to render any assistance. Men and
women can be seen with black and bruised
faces and cut heads who were injured in the
food and since have not slept. Their faces
have turned a sickly yellow and dark rings
surround the eyes. Many women have sue
cumbed. For two days but little assistance
could be rendered them, and the wounded
remained uncared for in houses cut of by
the water and died from their injuries
alone. Some were alive on Sunday and
their shouts could be heard by the people
on the shores.
Mosham, the iron manufacturer OF Johns
town, is mayor pro tenn to-day. He is
| probably the busiest man in the United
States. Although for days without sleep,
he sticks nobly to his task. Hundreds OF
others work like him and many fall to the
ground
FROM FATIGUE.
There are many who have not closed
their eyes in sleep since they awoke on Fri.
day morning. They are hollow-eyed and
pitiful looking. Many have lost near rela-
tives, all have lost friends. Men and horses
are most needed.
Ever since the recovery OF the first body
the populace have not had near enough
collins for the dead, although hundreds
have arrived daily. Owing to the decom-
posed condition OF most of the bodies they
have to be boxed in rough board boxes,
merely store boxes, and buried at once.
A man named Christ Myers was rendered,
completely insane by the fact that his
mother, father, two sisters and q 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, until the present he has been
hopelessly insane, even at times bordering
on violence, and
WANTS TO XII HIMSELF.
What is needed here, to-day, more than
anything else, are grave diggers. This
morning hundreds Of bodies were lying
around and there was nc n to dig graves.
At least fifty funerals nave already passed
the associated press headquarters. 1t is
not an unusual thing to see two or three
collins carried along, one after the other
followed by a number OF mouruers all in
the same family. 1t is impossible to secure
a conveyance OF any kind, consequently all
funeral professions are on foot.
General Hastings has ordered the Four
teenth regiment to YOUNGSTOWN to relieve
the sheriffs, who are weakened out. He is
hiring all the men he can to remove the
debris. Pittsburg contractors have a num-
Der OF men at work and put up placards
calling for 1000 men.
The Cambria iron works company are
already preparing to get their works in
operation, and it is probable that two
furnaces will be in operation by the end OF
the week.