Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
BEING SHAKEN DOWN.
AFTER THE FLOODS JOHNSTOWN
WRECKED BY DYNAMITE.

Five-Hundred Pound Blasts which Tum
BILE Down Walls and Chimneys an
Break All the Glass I'm the Neighbor
hood-Progress in Clearing Away tn
wreckage. -s--. r. ..... 20.
JoHNsTowN. June 15.-Sunshine has sue
ceeded the morning showers. This is tn
first bright noontide Johnstown has seel
for week. On the principle that rain can
not fall perpetually, the several Thousand
men who are anxious to clean up thi
ruined city, are hoping for fair weathe
from this on. The Conemaugh is swollen
rushing current, and reminds Johnstowl
OF the day proceeding the food. The higl
water is an advantage, however, as it car
ries away great portion OF the impurities
lodged along the banks.
Engineer Phillips has resorted to the hun
dred-pound dynamite cartridges to clear
up the debris. this morning The first
charge OF that eize frightened the town and
snook the houses. Half OF the windows in
the Millvaae school.house were shattered,
and on Prospect Hill, just opposite the
chimneys came rafting down upon the
house tops. The next charge was dimin-
ished somewhat.
Only four bodies were recovered up to
noon.
THE AWFUL DYNAMITE CHARGES.
JoHNsrowN, June 15. - Major Philips
dynamiters have had Johnstown in state
OF nervous terror all day, and this evening
General Manager Fulton of the Cambria
Iron Works dictated q iorcibls protest to
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and Offices OF the company were being
ruined by the blasts, that Adjutant.Gen.
eral Hastings had paid no attention to two
requests for it's discontinuancf, and that
the state would be held responsible for any
further damage done.
Before the message WAS sent, however,
Adjutant-G General Hastings had issued an
order to Major Phillips to discontinue the
blasting.
Major Phillips has been engaged since
Wednesday in blowing out the wreckage in
the channel OF the Conemaugh above the
Pennsylvania railroad stone bridge. He
was anxious to have passage for water
by this evening, and to that end had put in
50O-PouND BLAST
OF dynamite at noon. The blast was placed
under two buildings, one OF which was
lying upon the other, and both OF
them covered with logs. The explosion
was terrific. A blast not placed so deep
was OF 400 pounds. This one did all the
damage. The report was awful, and the
strongest houses in the city trembled like
leaves. All the glass was blown out of the
windows OF Odd Fellows hall. 10 the same
neighborhood the rear wall OF the hall of
the wrecked Catholic church fell upon the B.
& o. track, blocking them. Chimneys rat
tied down all about, and dishes were bro.
ken in houses in Kernville half q mile away.
Asked about the matter, Major Phillips
said: 1--WE have used only
1000 POUNDS OF DYNAMITE
to-day. The charges will not be 30 heavy
hereafter. / had no idea we were doing any
damage. So far as know no persons were
injured"
Adiutant General Hastings to-day re.
ceived letter from Vice. President Morton
saying that on his return to his country |
home he found that his little girls from 8
to IA years OF age had been hard at work
sinCs the terrible disaster at Johns.
town in making articles OF
clothing for the poor homeless
children who have survived the floods; that
he forwards to-day 1877 articles OF wearing
apparel made by their own hands or pur-
chased with their own money, with some Of
their dresses, and that his children will feel
greatly obliged if you will cause the cloth
ing to be distributed among the little suf-
ierers by the recent ealamity, for whom
they feel the deepest sympathy.