Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-04
TuEJoHNsToWN HORROR.
The Relief Train-Scenos of the Terri
 ble Wreek=Uhe Dead ROdies.

THE JOHNSTOW WIN HORROR.
 The Relief TraIn-scenes of the Terrl-
 ble yyreck-The Dead Bodies.
 JoBNsTowN, Pe., June 3.-The relief train from Pittsburg over the Baltimore and Ohio road reached here this morning. All along
 the road contributions were made to the al-
 ready we'll filled cars of provisions. When Johnstown was reached everyone was anxious to get to work to assist in the work of rescue. A party was made up and started for the lower part of the town. The patch was covered with trees, rocks, fences, parts of houses and every imaginable thing. Bureaus, beds, sideboards and furniture of all kinds were strewn from hill to hill. The whole valley of Stony Creek, for miles up from Johnstown, is filled with debris. When the lower part of the town was reach ed the scene presented was beyond descrlp- ton. Half has not been told and will not to the extent of the awful disaster. From the Pennsylvania road to Main street, there
 is nothing standing but the stone church and the large brick school house. The Mansion House is gone, and over 100 people who were in it were lost. From the B. & O. depot one
 can see for blocks in every direction and be-
 tween the depot and the ''Point" there is standing only part of Morfell block and two small brick offices that were protected
 by the Morrell building.
 The town is under martial law and every one who goes about the place is chal- lenged and required to give an account of himself. The water has subsided to @ great extent and the streets in the main part of the city are free from water. The falling water has laid bare the terrible
 work of the flood and the full extent of the disaster is only being ascertained now. The streets are one sickening, foul smell ing mass of wood and debris, and the work of searching for bodies has only fairly begun. The latest estimates put Every one is so thoroughly tired out and overcome by the weight of the disaster
 as to be utterly unable to give any accur- ate details or figures. The work of iden- tifying the dead goes on very slowly and comparatively few so far have been identi- fed.
 Among those identified to-day were Nuns Wolf and wife and Mir. Goldbert Behind the Morrell property lies a locomotive which was carried over by the bridge and swept up by the flood. Frank McDonald, 8 conductor on the Somerset branch Of the B. and o. was at the Pennsylvania depot when the flood came. He said when he first saw the flood it was thirty feet high and gradually rose to at least forty feet. Decker, the Pennsylva- mia railroad agent, said he, read to me 8 telegram he had just received saying the South Fork dam had broken, As soon as he heard this the people st the station, num- bering 500, made rush for the hill. ''I cer- tainly think" continued Mcdonald, t'that I saw ,O00 bodies go over the bridge. The first house that came down struck the bridge and at once took fire, and as fast as the others came they were consumed. I believe l am safe in saying that saw a thousand bodies burn. It reminded me of lot of dioS 0r1A ckr %r tyaS xuikI, no hope and no chance of saving themselves. have no idea that had the bridge been blown up the loss of life would have been any lees. They would have foated little furth- CT with the same certain death"
 From under the large brick schoolhouse 124 bodies were taken last night, and to-day in every nook and corner the bodies are be- ing found and buried as fast ss possible. The necessity for speedy burial is becoming manifest, as the stench arising from the bodies is uEbearable. A number of the bodies have been found with bullet holes in them showing conclusively that in their maddening fright suicide was resorted to by many. Ten bodies were taken out of some debris at 10 o'clock this morning. There was nothing to identify them as they were burned almost to 6 crisp. It is thought, however, that several of them belong to one family as they were all found under the roof of house partly burned.
 AMONG THE DEAD-A NAhELEss PAUL REVERE.
 JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 3.-A nameless Paul Revere lies somewhere among the name less dead. Who he is may never be known, but his ride will be famous in local history. Mounted on bay horse he came riding down the pike which passes through Conemaugh to Johnstown like some angel of wrath of old, shouting his portentious warning, "Run for your lives to the hills!" ''Run to the hillsp' IL kl.. IL the thickly settled street mortified and won dering. Nobody knew the man and some thought he was maniac and laughed. On a quick pace he rode and shriily rang out his awful cry.
 In few moments, however, there came & cloud of ruin down the broad streets, down the narrow alleys, grinding, twisting, hurl- ing, crashing, annihilating the weak and the strang. It was the charge of the flood wear ing its coronet of ruin and devastation, which grew at every instant of its progress. Forty feet high was this sea, and it travelled with swiftness like that which lay hidden in the heels of Mercury. On and on raced the rider and on and on rushed the wave. Dozens of people took heed of the warning and ran up to the hills. Poor faithful rider, it was an task. Just as he turned across the railroad bridge the mighty wave fell up on him and horse. Rider and bridge all went into chaos. A few feet further on ScNCk6l CnLS OL tAC ISnuSyINhnla TOdu LEhih from Pittsburg were caught up and hurled into the cauldron.
 NOBLE woMAN'S GREAT SACRIFICE.
 Mrs. Ogle, the manager of the Western Union office, who died at her post, will go down in history as heroine of the highest order. Notwithstanding the repeated noti- fcatiops which she received to get out of reach of the approaching danger, shs stood l. . and undaunted courage, sending words of warning to those in danger in the valley be- low. When every station in the path of the coming torrent had been warned she wired companion at South Fork, "This is my last message" and as such it shall always be re- membered, as at that very moment the tor rent engulfed her and bore her from her post on earth to her post of honor in the great be- yond.
 The most awful destruction in a single house occurred at the Hurlbut Hotel. There were 57 people in the house when the torrent came down, and of these only ten are living. Four travellers who were stay ing at the Hurlbut went to the top floor when the flood came and wishing each "good-bye" surrendered themselves to the fate. Fate was death to three of them. They were John Little, W. J. Cox and k. s. Metz. The one survivor is John Dorsey of Philadelphia. The register of the wrecked hotsl cannot be found, so it is impossible to give the names of all those who perished in the Hurlbut House. Those who are known to have perished are Elmer Brinker and Dr. Brinker, two brothers, two Mrs. Richards, a man named Butler, Mrs., Miss and Lewis Benford, mother, sister and brother of the proprietor. Mrs. Smith and her two chil- dren aseended to the fourth floor with the four travellers when the flood came, and all were drowned.
 Tka1 COURT RECORD.
 Superior Court-DecisiOns Rendered.
 Decisions were yesterday given on two