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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

was local passenger, with three carr
and q locomotive. It stands there yet,
the cars tilted by the washing of the
track, but comparatively uniujured.
Somehow a couple moro locomotives have
been run into the sand bank in front.
| A freight train stood upon the track
whereon large collection of smashed
cars has its place now. 1t was broken all
to pieces. Inside Of all was the day ex-
press, with its baggage and express cars
and at the end three vestibule cars. 1t
was from this train that number of pas
| sengers-ffteen certainly, and no one
| knows how many more-were lost.
When the alarm came, most of the pas.
sengers fed for the high ground. Many
! reached it. Others hesitated on the way;
| tried to run back, and were lost. Others
stayed on the cars, and after the first
| rush Of the flood were rescued alive.
| Some of the freight cars were loaded
| with lime, and these 1eaped over the ves-
thule cars and set them on fire, ard
quickly had the cars blazing. Three Of the
vestibule cars were burned down to the
trucks. These and the peculiar shaped
iron frames of the vestibules are all that
show where the cars stood. The reason
the food did not wipe out these thee
trains entirely is supposed to be that East
in front of them and between them S1d
the flood, was the rouud-house filled with
engines. 1t was O large building, and
probably forty feet high to the tops of
the ventilators in the roof. The wave OF
wrath, eye-witnesses say, was SO high
that these ventilators we're beneath it.
The round house was swept away to its
very foundation, and the food played
jack straws with the locomotives. But it
split the torrent and part of it went
= L Al ~
from the worst Of its force. Thirty three
locomotives were in and around the
round house and repair shops near. OF
these twenty-six have been found. or at
least traced, part of them being found
scattered down into Johnstown, and one
tender was found in Stony Greek.
The other seven locomotives are gone
not trace of them has been found up to
this time. 1t IS supposed that some OF
them are in the sixty acres of debris at
Johnstown above the bridge. All the To-
cOmotives that remain anywhere within
sight of the round house, all except those
attached to the trains, are thrown about
in every direction, smashed, broken and
useless except for old iron. The tenders
are all gone. Being lighter than the To-
comotives, they fioated more easily. and
were more quickly carried away. The en-
gines were apparently rolled over and
over, in whichever direction ran the cur
rent which had hold of them, and occa-
sionally were picked up bodily and
slammed down again, wheels up or which
ever way CHANGED to be most convenient
to the food. Most of them lie in five feet
of mud and gravel, with only part show
ing above the surface. Some are out in
the bed of the river.
In the town of Conemaugh there are
only thirty EIGHT persons positively
known to have persisted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13
THE LOST TRAINS.

Latest Reports Of the Dead and Missing
Passengers of the East Bound Trains
Caught by the Flood at YOUNGSTOWN.
PITTSBURGH, June THE official rail-
road reports of the dead and missing
from the east bound trains that left Pitts
burgh last Friday now give the number at
fifteen passengers and the colored porter
OF the Pullman car New Orleans. There
were no losses from the first two trains.
The corrected list of dead is:
Mrs. Talbot nee Long, of Cleveland,
O., with two or three children.
Cyrus Schick, of Reading, and his sis
r-in-law, Miss Stinson. Mrs. Schick
saved her life by going back to the car to
secure her waterproof.
John Ross, Of Jersey City.
Mrs. j. B. Ranney, of Kalamazoo, Mich.
Miss Jennie Paulson and Miss Bryant,
of Pittsburgh.
Mr.. Misall, manager of the Mansfi field
CO., Baseball Club.
Miss Agnes c. Christman, Of Beaure.
gard, Miss.
L. P. Hullips (colored), porter Of the
Pullman car New Orleans.
Mrs. Smith and child, of Dayton, O.,
where the bodies have been forwarded.
Miss furnish, of Dayton, 0.
Andrew Ewing. Ligonier.
Mrs. Mary Swing, Bellefont.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

EDWARD HANLAN, the oarsman, ar
rived in San Francisco from Australia Oh
the Sth.
MRS. JOHN WANAMAKER and child, with
several other members of the POST
master-GeneraPs family, arrived in New
York, on the 9th, on the steamer La
Bretagne, from Havre. They were met on
board by Mr.. Wanamaker.
The President has issued an order to
the army which abolishes Sunday duty,
with the exception of inspection parade
without firearms. The barracks inspec-
ton, which usually takes place on Sun
day, will hereafter occur on Saturday.
In hole on the site of the Hurlbut
House, in Johnstown, forty bodies,
supposed to be those of guests, were dis
covered on the Sth.
HARRY HEFFRIGHT. engineer, was in
stantly killed, and Lincoln Post, fireman,
fatally injured, on the Sth, by their engine
going over an embankment, eight miles
west of Huntingdon, Pa. Heffright's
body was literally roasted, and Post was
terribly scalded.
THE center board lugger-rigged yacht,
Paradox, built to compete with the Amer
lean yachts, was launched into Underwater
at East Bourne, England, on the sth.
amid the cheers Of a large crowd of peo-
pie. She is of sixty tons measurement,
seventy feet long, twenty feet beam, and
draws nine feet of water. Yachting ex-
perts are enthusiastic over her.
JOHN D. MILES rendered his resigna-
ton, on the Sth, as member of the
Cherokee Commission. 1t was accepted.
THE Secretary of State is informed that
Brazil will participate in the international
conference of American States which
opens in Washington next October.
THE Washington Sunday Herald, of the
9th. declares upon trustworthy informa-
ton that the dam to the Georgetown dis
tributing reservoir is in precarious con-
dition, and likely to precipi.ate another
disaster like that which devastated the
Conemaugh Valley.
PART of the contribution of Columbus,
O., to the stricken people of the Cone
maueh Valley, consisted Of hundreds of
pals in each of which were packed
lf.dozen each of plates, cups, saucers,
knives, forks, tablespoons; one dozen
spoons, one vegetable dish, pound of
tea and coffee, with large sized coffee
not tied on the outside.
IT was reported, on the 9th, that an
alarming outbreak of diphtheria had oc-
cnrred in one Of the large camps in
Johnstown, 1t is said that many cases
of fever. diphtheria and pneumonia were
being concealed from the people for fear
of causing a panic among the workmen
employed on the wreckage.
IT is reported that the Shah of Persia,
during his late visit to the Gar, entered
into a secret treaty, temporarily annex
inc the northern portion Of Persia to the
Russian empire, in the event of a certain
contingency happening, which is defined
in the treaty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13
BLASTING THE DEBRIS.

Gunpowder and Dynamite Res Orted to at
Last Clear the Debris From tho
Bridge at Johnstown.
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June AT forty-five
minutes past seven O'Clock yesterday
morning the first blast of gunpowder was
fired at the bridge. Improved more effect
i've than any of the charges Of dynamite,
heretofore used, and hurled fragments Of
debris two hundred feet into the air.
Mingled with the debris was q round
fragment, which looked like the trunk Of
human body. 1t fell back into the.
water with splash, and glided with the
swift current under the bridge before it
could be pulled in with pike poles.
Explosion after explosion Of dyna-
mite followed the blast of gun
powder, the detonations coming SO
close together that they might almost be
taken for the continuous discharge OF
heavy guns. An opening four hundred
feet long, which runs back in some places
fifty feet, was made during the afternoon.
Relics OF the Flood.
PORTSMOUTH, O., June Ga large num-
Der relics of the Johnstown disaster wel
drift. At Sciototille q pocket-book con-
tanning 1926. set of silver spoons
marked IS. w." a handbook of the First
National Of Johnstown with q credit to-
Nathan Dyer, and two locks Of hair
were found.
Pick-Ups Among the Debris.
JoHNsrowN, Pa, June IA live horse.
with harness on, but SO badly injured that
it had to be shot, was taken from pile OF
wrecked houses yesterday morning.
Tents for laborers to sleep in are ar.
irving from Washington, and fully Ave
thousand men are at work.
1t is thought that Sidney McCloud and
F. B. Delp. of Chicago, and w. F. Dow, Of
New York, are in the ruins.
Fifty men were arrested yesterday for
loafing about Booth & Flynn's tent and
stealing the provisions from the work.
ingmen.
Notices are posted asking for carpen.
ters, stonemasons and bricklayers, but
they do not materialize.
When the Gautier Steel mill of the
Cambria Iron Company closed down al
ten O'Clock last Friday morning, nearly
fourteen hundred men left the works.
When the men yesterday answered the
notice that all should present themselves
ready for work, only 4S7 rep orted.
1t is thought not improbable that there
are some people alive tied up in houses
left standing along the lower part Of the
island. where laborers havelnot been able
to penetrate as yet. This may seem i'm,
probable at distance of one hundred
miles or more from the scene of disaster,
but the most skepticai and cynical have
been shocked by scenes related by
eye-witnesses and stories told Of narrOv,
escapes by survivors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13
MARTIAL LAW.
The Ruined City OF Johnstown Encircled
with Wall of Martial Protectors.

The Ruined City of Johnstown Encircled
with a Wall of Martial Protectors.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 6.-The ruined
city lies within a girdle of steel-the
bayonets of the Fourteenth Regiment.
The militia has captured Johnstown, and
over the desolate plain where the
city proper stood, through the tow
ering wrecks and by the river passes,
marches the patrol, crying ''halt!" and
challenging the vagabonds, vandals, and
ghouls who cross their path. General
Hastings, of course, is the highest officer
in rank, and in command, and when the
survivors of the flood awoke this morn
ing, when the weary pickets were relieved
at sunrise, brigade headquarters had
been established on the slope of Prospect
Hill, overlooking the hundr of white
tents of the regiment down below under
the tower, by the German Catholic
Church, which was on fire when the
deluge came.
The Fourteenth Regiment was REIN
forced yesterday, until it is now six hum
dred strong.
Early yesterday morning the regiment
went into service. Company F was de-
tailed to Cambria City, where the ele-
ment of ruffianism, meeting that of des-
peratien, foreshado we'd o storm. During
the day many people Of questionable
character were escorted out of the city
limits.
The Cool Weather Godsend to the Liv.
ing in the Track of tile Deluge.
YOUNGSTOWN. Pa, June 5.-In the midst
Of this scene of death and desolation a
relenting Providence seems to be exert
ing a subduing influence. Six days have
elapsed since the great disaster, and the
temperature still remains low and chilly
in Conemaugh Valley. When it is remem-
bered that in ordinary June weather Of
this locality from two to three days are
sufficient to bring an unattended body
to a degree of decay and putrefaction
that would render it almost impossible to
prevent spread Of disease throughout the
valley, the inestimable benefits Of this
cool weather are almost beyond appre-
citation. Emanations from half mile
of debris above the bridge are but little
more offensive than yesterday; and
should this cool weather continue few
days longer it is possible that hun
dreds of bodies may yet be recovered
from the wreck in such state of preser-
walton as to render Identification possi-
BILE. Many hundreds Of victims, how :.
ever, will be roasted and charred into
such shapeless masses as to perclude all
chance of recognition. The work of
clearing up the wreck and recovering bod
les is now being conducted most
Systematically. Over 5000 men are at
work in various portions of the valley,
and each little gang of twenty men is
directed by foreman, who is under
orders from general headquarters As the
The Reading Railroad Company a Heavy
Loser.
BALTIMORE, Nd, June 5.-One Of the
heaviest losers by the recent floods in
Maryland is the Reading Railroad Com
pany. They owned and controlled the
Susquehanna G. Tidewater canal, which
is nearly obliterated. The company paid
$3.50. 900 for the canal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13
a MARROW ESCAPE.

Sow NJ tho rxcape of the Cashier OF the
Cambria Iron Company's stores WITH
Hfs Fellow Clerks ana Twelve Thousnno
Dollars In Cash-Their Efforts In fsesou-
Ing Others.
JoHNsrowN, Pa, June Thomas Ma
gee, the cashier of the Cambria Iron
Company,s general stores, tells q THRILL
ing story of the manner in which he and
his fellow-clerks escaped from the waters
themselves; how they saved the mo ney
drawer, and rescued the lives OF nineteen
people during the progress OF the Hoods.
He says: cit was fifteen minutes past
four O'Clock when the food struck our
building with crash. 1t seemed TO pot
in from every door and window on all
sides as well as from the floors above us.
I was standing by the safe, which was
open at the time, and snatched the tin
box. which contained over twelve thou
sand dollars in cash, and, with the other
clerks at my heels, few up the stairs to-
the second floor.
SIN about three minutes we were up to
our stomachs in water, and started to
climb to the third food of the building.
Here we remained with the money until
Saturday morning, when we were taken
out in boats. Besides myself there were
in the building Michael Maley, Frank
Balsingerm, Chris Mintzmeyer, Joseph
Berlin and Frank Burger, all OF whom es-
capped. All Friday night and Saturday
morning we divided our time between.
guarding the money, providing for our
own safety, and rescuing and feeding the
poor people who were floating by. Wee
threw out ropes and gathered logs and
timbers together until we had enough
to make raft, which we bound
together with ropes and used
in rescuing people. Besides this, We
cut large pieces Of canvas and oil cloth
and wrapped it around bread and meat.
and other eatables and threw it out to
those who went by on house tops, RATS,
ETC., whom we could not rescue without
getting our raft in the drift and capsizing.
We must have fed one thousand people in
this way alone. When we were rescued
ourselves we took the money out to Pros
pect Hill and sent for the justice Of tho
peace, who swore US all in to keep guard.
We remained on guard until Monday
night, when the soldiers came over and
escorted us back to the Office of the Cam
bria Iron Company, where we placed the
.v> I, ysr mil C
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE business portion of the city Of
Seattle, W. T., was practically wiped out
by a great conflagration on the evening
of the 9th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

The cotton mills in Offenburg, Baden,
were destroyed by fire, on the 9th, involv-
ing a loss of 800, 900 marks. Several work
men were killed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

The Standard Oil Company has bought
ten acres of ground just east of Terre
Haute, Ind. on which they will erect an
immense oil-tank.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

CRIsToBAL FERNANDEZ, the Cuban kid
naper, was executed at Jovellanos on
the 4th
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

DISASTROUS floods are reported from
different parts of Bavaria with consider
able destruction of property. The crops
were ruined in many localities.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

A NEW YORK detective who went from
the Paris Exhibition to Berlin, had his
pocket picked there on the 9Th. He lost
his money and valuable papers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE Johnstown tiood-sufferers' fund
being raised in Paris amounted, on the
9th, to $4,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

COUNSEL for Kemmler, the condemned
murderer, will appeal on habeas corpus
proceedings, in Buffalo, N. V, for re-
view of the verdict, on the ground that
death by electricity is a cruel and unusual
punishment, and therefore unconstltu-
tiOual
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE silver miners in the Ural mount
aims of Russia, struck, on the Sd, and set
on fire the houses of the managers in
Ekaterinburg. The factories adjoining
were also set on fire, and seven persons,
who were in the building, were burned to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

WIN. MILLS, the 100 yards Splinter, who
lived at Watertown, Mass, AMI who has
a record of 104 seconds, was last heard
from in Johnstown, just before the disas-
ter there, and it is thought he is among
the victims.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

CAPTAIN WIssnANN has had another en-
gagement with the Arabs, in which the
latter were completely routed. He has
also destroyed their village of Saadani,
Windji. Captain Wissmann's casualties
we're trifinp
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

I One of the heaviest losers by the re-
cent floods in Maryland is the Reading
Railroad Company. They owned and
controlled the Susquehanna & Tidewater
canal, which is nearly obliterated. The
company paid $3.50, 900 for the canal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

FARMERS, living in the country border
ing on the Conemaugh Valley, who load
ed wagons with provisions for the desti-
tute survivors of the food, had to fight
their way into the stricken cities against
the thieving Huns who tried to capture
their precious freight.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

1t was expected, on the Sd, that the pro-
tocol to be drawn up by the Samoan con-
ference would be signed by the repre-
sentatives Of the three governments con-
cerned on the sth. The commissioners
were then preparing to take their de-
parture from Berlin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE Nord Deutseha AIlegemeine Zei-
fung, of Berlin, in an editorial, on the
9Th, on the Johnstown foods, closed with
q call upon German generosity in aid Of
the sufferers. America, it says, has
never been slow or niggardly In respond
ing TO the voice of distress when it, arose
in Europe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE New York Commercial Advertiser.
of the 9Th, says deal is being arranged
between the County Democrats and the
Republicans, with a view to increasing
the strength of the Republicans in the
Legislature and ousting Tammany from
control of the city.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

In the joint session of the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, on the 9Th, David c.
Goodell, Republican, was elected Cover
nor of the State, receiving 16S votes to
us for Charles Amsden, Democrat. The
inauguration took place on the 9th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

JUSTICE GRAY, Of the United States Su-
preme Court and Miss Jeanette Mat.
fhe.s, daughter OF the late Justice Mat
ssaess. were married at the BRIDES resi-
aeRes IA Washington on the 4th. A
Iasss Number Of distinguished guests
Witnessed tbs ceremony.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE National reunion of Elks was to
have begun at Pittsburgh. Pa. on the 9th.
The reunion has been postponed until
July 16, owing to the disaster at Johns
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

FEF tfFsesskaeH Of Morocco, who are in
ss9,ssafatg4g sgsifst the authority of the Sui
ssss ktsss eSefarsd Prince Hamid, the
Ats5F 81 tF4s ss.fesss aud killed several of
AS s<HbFF, TI.s rebellion Is spreading
very s4st Tbs Sultan Is very much
sseesSss+s, SD - raising an army to crush
IL
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

AT the meeting of the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian church in Belfast,
Ireland, on the Sd, the moderator took
occasion to strongly denounce home rule.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

A FIRE in the village of Libonsch, near
Ratibori, in Prussian Silesia, on the 5th
destroyed 105 houses, including the viii
1age church and vicarage. Seven hun
dred OF the villagers are rendered home
less
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

BESsF GEORGE Boz EgE, staff engineer
on the British man -of-Yar Calliope, has
been promoted To be fleet engineer in
recognition Of his services on the
Cailiope when she steamed out of the
harbor Of Apia during the hurricane that
destroyed the American and German ves-
sells
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE Matte Winship, detained at Hall
fax by the Dominion authorities, fur
nished bond, on the 9th, and commenced
getting ready to sail for the mackere
grounds,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE mayors fund in New York City
for Johnstown had reached, on the 9th,
Sl63, 900, and the Chamber Of Commerce
fund $40. 900. Other funds are also in
creaSinp rapidly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE President, on the Sd, appointed
Chas- L. Knapp. of New York, Consul
General of the United States at Montreal,
and Alex. j. Reed. of Wisconsin, Unit ed
States Consul at Dublin,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

In Coburn, Pa, there is not one gooa
house left standing as the result of the re-
cent storms. The total loss will aggre-
gate fully $1,000 The valley is strewn
with bodies of all kinds of animals.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE Times counsel, assisted by the
counsel for Mr.. Parnell, began, on the Sd,
an inspection of the private letters of the
latter. The correspondence covers a Pc
riod Of six years, and comprises 5000 let
farS
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

THE citizens committee at Minneap-
oils, Mimi. on the 9Th, voted to send 1000
barrels of flour to the Johnstown suffer =
ers. The order was divided among all
the mills so as to hasten shipment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

The returns issued by the London
Board of Trade show that the imports
during the month of May increased "a, $50
and the exports increased f1,060,00O as
compared with the same month last year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

that tko passengers who remained in the
cars through the flood and until the fire,
were saved, while their companions who
attempted to flee were overwhelmed and
drowned, and that through it all one To-
connective stood, and still stands, COM
paratively uniniured in the center Of the