Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-06-19
FLOOD NOTES.

sickening smell
"A SO called clergyman who said
he had lost n wife and three children
by the Conemaugh disaster refused
Il suit of clothes at the Pittsburg re-
lief depot because they were second
hand He then asked for summer
hat. He was offered a..new,,black one.
but he would not take any but one of
summer color, and went away dissat-
isfied"
During flood tide pig found its
way into the hardware store in Pat
terson and finding the stairway went
to the second story and there seem
ed to feel comfortable.
A WIlliamsport paper SAYS: A
dude wanted to be photographed
standing on a raft in the midst of q
flooded street He hired photo
grapher and man to carry him to
! the raft, 50 that his feet would not
get wet. Some railroaders for harm
less diversion, jumped on the raft
and sunk 1t, compelling the dude,
with ill-concealed rage to wade out
in water to his middle
A large rat seated on buffalo robe
| floated from Clothing Merchant
Strayer's stable across his lot into his
store in Patterson and would have
fioated out of the front door, if it
had not been caught That is the
robe was caught, the rat drowned.
a resident of South Williamsport
who had put his two pigs III his par
| lor To shield them from the flood
soon after missed them, and conclud-
ed they had got ont and drowned.
At bedtime in going up stairs to his
room he found the two slowed in his
bed and fast asleep"
a number of Bellefonte women
put on masculine attire to clean up
after the flood"
The wire of the railroad ferry
broke n number of times last Thurs
day. On Friday report was cur
rent that the wire had been fled.
Governor Beaver proposes to bor-
row 81 900, 900 from private citizens,
the money TO be expended in clean
ing away the drift along streams.
The refunding of the money to citi-
zens who loan 1t to the Governor is
to come from the state as soon as the
next Legislature convenes and passes
an appropriation for that purpose.
Mr.. J. VI. Fronheiser, one of the
Superintendents in the Cambria Iron
Works, lived Oh Main street. His
house was one of the first to go, and
he himself, his wife, two daughters
son and baby were thrown into tho
raging torrent. His wife and eldest
daughter were lost. He, with the
baby, reached place of safety, and
his ten-year-old boy twelve year-olC
girl fioated near enough to be reach
ed He caught the little girl, but
she cried
Let Inc go, papa, and save broth
er NV leg Is broken and NV foot Ii
caught below"
When he told her he was deter
mined TO rescIe her, she exclaimed
Then, papa, get a sharp knife anc
cut my leg off. L can stand it
The little fellow cried To- his faith
er: you can't save me papa Bot
my feet are caught fast and 1 can
hold out any longer Please get ;
pistol and shoot me"
Captain Gageby, of the army
and some neighbors, helped to res
cue both children. The girl display
ed Spartan fortitude and pluck A
. night long she lay in a bed withou
mattress or medical attention, in
garret the water reaching to tn
, floor below, without a murmur or
, whimper. In the morning she wa
carried down stairs, her leg danglin
, under her, but when she SAW he
father at the foot of the stairs sh
whispered to Captain Gageby:
I Poor papa he is so sad Thel
turning to her father, she threw
]. kiss with her hand and laughingl
l said Good morning, papa : I'm a
right
f. THE plucky little thing is gettin
T. along handsomely, and the boy ht
t. "a vet suffered no i'll consequence
- from his immersion.
The fiat Mt the Books ferry caIri,
1 40 tons with safety,
:, The creamery has recovered frol
h the flood disaster and Is in full ope
alton During the time 1t was ol
a of working order many hundre
# pounds of butter was made out {
the farms and brought to stores
It town-then there was n glut III Il
d butter market. Store keepers begi
10 shut down ON taking. when 10
20 the creamery starts and the glut
el over.
In the lower end of Johnston
IN stood the United Presbyterian Ps
,onage. The waters carried IT I
10 Stony Creek two miles and h;
IN and landed it in Sandy Vale Cen
terv, while the sections house IN t
pe cemetery being caught by anoth
,h eddy, was landed squarely on the '
ne cant foundations of the parsonage
Undertaken Fannery from JOIN
u town s.ys that nearly all the victn
had their hands crossed IN front
nj their faces. evidently to ward off {
IA iects from striking them. Not O
H. victim out of fifty was drowned, /
[c- killed by being struck by some flo
ing object.
I'M The probability is that by tn
the three thousand workmen at Joh
nj town have.been fed and paid for IN
to work bv removing the wreckage fr,
of the stricken city. There will be
Nv tie of the one million dollars rais
bv Governor Beaver To pay for
srs cleaning up of the drift piles Of
ns .traarns of the Commonwealth