Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-10

6OV. Beaver arrived In youngstown yesterday,
and will take personal charge of the work of
clearing the town and river. For that purpose
$1,000, 900 from the state treasury will be made
available immediately. commission will be
organized to take charge Of the disbursement
of the relief funds raised by the public This
action means that the state of Pennsylvania
will clear and clean the town. but the charlta-
BILE world must still support the destitute.
1t was day OF prayer. but not a day of rest
in Johnstown. Faith and works went hand in
hand. The food-smitten people of the Cone
maugh, though they met in the very path Of
the torrent that swept their homes and families
into ruin, offered up their prayers to Almighty
God and besought His divine mercy. But all
through the ruin-choked city the sound of the
pick and the shovel mingled with the voice of
prayer and the challenge of the sentinel rang
out above the voice of supplication.
The congregation Of st. Johns Catholic
church attended mass in the open air, Father
Tahney celebrating, but in St. Columbia's
church, where the statue of the Virgin stood
unframed by the flood, the solemn service was
conducted by Father Smith, of Ebensburg.
Father Divan, the pastor of the church, was so
affected that he did not feel like trusting him
self before his people.
AN IMPRESSIVE SERMON
After the mass was over Father Smith said:
1--WE have had enough Of death lately, the
calamity that has visited us is the greatest in
the history of the United States. You must
not be discouraged. Other places have been
visited by disaster at times, yet We know that
they have risen again. You must not look on
the fearful past. The lives of the lost cannot
be restored"
Here he paused because they were weep
ing around him and his own voice was
broken, but, continuing with an effort, he
told them to reflect for consolation upon the
manner in which their friends had gone to
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waited in prayers and acts of contrition, their
souls had left their bodies and appeared at the
throne in heaven. 'Surely never such prayers
fell save from the lips of saints and the lost of
the valley are saints to-day while you mourn for
them. God who measures the acts of men by
their opportunities had pardoned their sins.
GU who are left living must go to work with a
Will. Be men, be women. The eyes of the
world are upon you, the eyes Of all civilized
nature. They listen, they wait to see what you
are going to do"
Father Smith closed by telling them that the
coming fast days of this week need not be OBJ
served IN the midst of such restitution as this
and the might eat without SHINING any food
that would give them life and strength When
the father had finished the congregation filed
slowly out past the high pile of collins, for St.
Solumblas was amorgue in the days just passed.
Some of them waited awhile, straning their
eyes for their own priest, Father Divan, but
not finding him went slowly away.
STILL DIGGING OUT THE BODIES
The thousands of laborers continued their
work just as on any week day. except that there
was no dynamite used on the gorge and that
the Cambria iron works were closed There
was the usual reward of the cleaners in the
harvest-ield Of death. fifty-eiGht bodies having
been recovered. The most of those have been
IN Stony creek, up which they were carried BY
the back rush of the current after the bridge
broke the first wave. The time that has now
elanSpu ahOnt "a tn ~ fba hali
OF the drowned in a condition TO rise to the
surface. and they are continually appearing
along the streams. 1t is supposed that great
many bodies will be recovered lower down the
river within the next few days.
DIR. Croft, of the state board of health. YES
terday issued a proclamation to reassure peo-
pie as to the sanitary condition of the town
He declares that there is as yet no appearance
OF an epidemic, and that there probably will
be none. Yesterday was blazing hot and the
town was fun of dreadful odors Diphtheria,
pneumonia, and other diseases not epidemic
are prevalent but not to alarming extent
considering the unusual hardships that the
people have endured. The railroad officials,
IN order to keep sight-seers out Of town,
stopped all passenger trains between Johns
town and Plttsburg yesterday.
OPINIONS OF SANITARY EXPERTS.
DR.. ". II. Devoe, of Pittsburg. a sanitary
expert, declares the outlook is very grave.
Prof. Blow, of Chicago, SAYS that Johnstoyn
Will not be tit to live in for five years They
find danger in the mud, which has baked into
cakes, and in the decaying vegetable matter. as
well as from decaying animal matter Ger
talnly JohnstoWn proper is in a terrible condi-
ton, and even Contractor Films workmen are
getting frightened and are DESERVING him, so
that he did not have to-day more than 3. 600
men of the 5000 he had a day or two ago.
What Is feared Is warm rain, which will play
havoc with the soil and debris. 1t must be
RENE rendered that just now few people live
III Johnstown proper. The flood wiped it
nearly out OF existence. There are n
few buildings. very few, which are intact but
so complete Is the wreck that there Is not a
store III the entire place. There is nothing on
sale, and business has come to a complete stand
still. There are carcases of horses under the
ruins which pile the streets; there are bodies
human beings, there, too. Yesterday several
more bodies were found in the ruins of the
fourth ward, not far from general head
quarters.
The danger Of contagion in Johnstown proper
is consequently confined for the most part to
the workmen who are occupying tents in the
mud and sand-covered flats. These men, as
indeed Is the case about everywhere, wash in
the river. perhaps not far away from some car
casses. They breathe the poisonous vapors
from the ground. As an offset fires are con-
tlnually burning and the smoke and disinfec-
ants are relied upon to protect them. But the
danger of the future lies in the mud and decay
menace the occupants of the new houses which
Will rise upon the ruins of Johnstown
There Is danger in Kernville, on the banks of
the Stony creek. This place suffered from the
backwater. when the flood was damned by the
bridge: The water caused great havoc here.
and 1t has only been within a day or two that
dlslnfectants could be obtained for this
place: On Prospect Hill there is some sick
ness, but as yet nothing alarming has devel-
oped In the sanitary situation. But what is to
come no one can guess. OF course there is
no sewerage, and where thousands of people
are living IN hap-hazard way with no SAM
tary regulation, it can be readily understood
that the danger Is not small. This will increase
as the summer advances, and the state medical
board will have accomplished a stupendous
task If they can ward OF disease.
RELICS AND MONEY FOUND
Yesterday the waters began to give up their
dead. Stony creek first showed their white
faces and lifeless bodies floating on the sur
face, and men IN skifs went after them with
their graphing rods. Several OF them were
taken ashore during the afternoon and carried
TO the Presbyterian church morgue, which was
the nearest Then, too, the dead among the
| wreckage on shore came to light lust the same
| as on other days. Their elimination excites no
notice here now. At the fourth ward morgue
| there are eleven added to the legion: at the
| Presbyterian church morgue the same and so
| on everywhere. DIR. Beale, keeper of the records
| OF morgues, counted the numbers on his finger
tips and said there were more than fifty found
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