Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-07

tributors will forward money bv expres
to j. d. Roberts. 1t is stated that Phil
adelphis has promised $500, 900, which
is now at the disposal of the COMMITTEES.
Governor Beay or has reported 500 600,
is at hand, but has not made any move
to send it 30 far as known. Pittsburg
has about $500, 900 in receipt.
TWO MORE MISSING.
PHILADELPHIA, June 6.-General Sup
erintendent Pettitt telegraphs from Al
toona that Miss Agnes @. Christman, Of
| Beaver Ford, and the colored Pullman
porter, who were on the second sections
| of the day express, are missing. When
last seen they we're going back in the car
| to get something.
PORTABLE HOUSES PRoFFERED.
New York, June 6.-Mayor Grant this
afternoon asked Governor Beaver if port
able houses would be useful. I'M q few
minutes Governor Beaver sent the reply,
"Supplies of clothing and bedding are
greatly needed, both in Williamspoit and
Lock Haven. We are shipping supplies
to both points. Houses, think, would
be very desirable, as have urgent re-
quests for more tents to shelter the home-
less and those who are at work removing
the debris. If the houses could be
pushed forward at once they would bring
much needed relief. The removal of the
vast accumulation of wreckage at Johns
town will be the work of weeks, and it is
estimated by reliable parties to cover
81, 100000.
| wILLIAMsPoRT A WASTE.
WLLIAMsPoRT, Penn, June 6.-Word
was received from the Crescent Nail
Works, on the Northern Central Rail-
road, that the place has been nearly all
washed away. Many of the houses, and
part of the Nail Works are gone. The
population took refuge in church on the
side of the hill and are left entirely
destitute. Most of the men of the town
helping in repairing, but their families
are left, staying wherever they can fluid
shelter.
AN EPIDEMIC FEARED.
A tour of the outlying districts of
Johnstown was made to-day by the AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent. Affairs
are Frightening slowly, and moving for
ward with some system. Supplies have
arrived at Mineral Point, and accommo-
dations are being provided for the COM
ments are being made at Conemaugh
and Woodvale. One or two cases of
pneumonia are reported at these places,
but none serious. Measles and sore
throat have broken out among the chill
dren. An epidemic is feared.
| REsUsCITATING INDUSTRY.
i L. D. Smith, of the Gautier Steel
Works, of Woodvale, has Issued an order
requesting all employees to report at the
mill Office to-day. The mill, which
manufactured steel railway specialties,
is to be removed to Moxham, another
suburb of Johnstown. This will leave
only the wooden mill and chemical works
in Woodvale. The removal will be q
serious blow to it's future prosperity.
The new site is located on Stone Creek,
) near the Moxham Steel Works.
DISTRIBUTING RELIEF.
Captain Logan, at Morrellville, I'M
loaded forty carloads of relief goods to-
day. He advises that all goods be con-
signed to him, but to send to no commit
tees, as it only creates confusion. Drafts
for the relief fund should be addressed to
James B. Scott.
A carload of supplies was unloaded on
the track in Johnstown to-day by the
Relief Committee. There was rush
for the goods. The strong overpowered
the weak and got the best. A fight &C.
Cured at Conemaugh, Mineral Point and
Woodvale.
Il FIRE FOLLOWS THE FLOOD.
Provisions and clothing are still badly
! needed. The Byron Kernville wooden
mill was burned to-day. At one time it
looked as if the whole village would be
destroyed. The mill was three-story
brick building, situated in the midst Of
the wrecks of several houses. The ruins
we're on fire several times, but were ex-
: tinguished after hard fight by bucket
: brigade.
PURIFIED AS BY FIRE.
There is strong movement on foot
, wrecked buildings in YOUNGSTOWN and, al
though the suggestion meets with strong
, opposition, there is little doubt that the
ultimate solution of the existing Official
ties will be by this method.
, been for two days employed in
, clearing up the wreck in the city
proper, and although hundreds of bodies
have been recovered, not one-fifth of the
J ground has yet been gone over. In many
places the rubbish is piled up twenty. five
, or thirty feet high, and not infrequently
J there are great drifts covering the area
of nearly an acre. Narrow passages have
been cut through in every direction, but
the herculean labor of removing the rub
bish has yet hardly begun. At a meet
ing of the Central Relief Committee,
Gen. Hastings suggested the advisability
of applying the torch to the great sea Of
waste. He explained that this was the
only great work yet to be accomplished,
if it were hoped to thoroughly clear
levery portion of the debris, and insisted
that it would take so, 900 men months to
complete the task of recovering the
hundreds of bodies buried beneath the
rubbish of sand and stones. Rotten or
putrid remains was all that could be
hoped to be recovered.
is THE TORCH TO BE APPLIED?
A motion was made that, after forty
eight hours further search, the debris
be consumed by fire, engines to be on
hand to play upon the valuable buildings
that, despite the previous destruction,
might become ignited by general con-
6agration. Those whose rel itives or
friends still rest beneath the wreck re-
monstrated strongly against any such
summary action. The physicians have
warned the committees that further ex-
posure of the putrid bodies could have
h,,t ho fuu hr1a n 1fhar