Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-10

Miss Maggie Brooks, the only resident
member of this aid society who was not
| drowned, is school teacher here, and
known to every child and their parents in
the city. She spends her time in hunting
every house for miles around for parents
and children.
WHEN CHILD Is FOUND
1t is sent to the headonarters and note
| and description made of it, When any of
| the childs relatives or parents are found
they are sent to headquarters and in this
way many families have been reunited.
Mrs. Aston to-day found at Kernyille
seventeen adults and children living in
| one room about 10xl5. The children will
be sent to Pittsburg until the parents can
find some sort of habitation, when they
will recall them.
oVERCRoWDING AT KERNvILLE.
Numerous cases of overcrowding were
found at kernville, and bad results are
feared. William Furguson walked down
! from the South Fork to-day, following the
line of the Pennsylvania road. He said all
the railroads from the South Fork to the
viaduct had been swept away. The old
Portage viaduct is gone. A part of the
road known as the deep cut is half filed
with earth, and the tracks are lost for a
Point to the cut are lost.
The trestle work is being built where the
deep cut bridge once stood From the via
duct to the South Fork, he said, was six
miles. 1t will be three weeks before the
load IS open for travel, and months before
1t Will be restored to its former stability.
ENROLLING THE SURVIVORS.
The work of registration of the survivors
c
this evening there were about q, 900 regis
tered, and the list was still increasing. The
number lost is placed now at 5000 by those
who held it would reach 10000 one week
ago.
\ conservative estimate is between 8. 800
and OOO Up to date there has been 800
bodies recovered.
CHURCH TOWER BLOWN Up
The remains of the tower of st. Johns
Catholic Church were blown uD by dyna-
mite this afternoon. This is the church
which caught fire on the eventful Friday
night and burned. The tower stood alone
and was constant menace to passers by.
1t was condemned and danger signals
placed near it, but as measure of safety
the authorities ordered it to be demolished
GOVERNOR BEAVERS PROPOSITION.
In an important meeting here this after
noon, at which Governor Beaver, Adiutsnt-
General Hastings and others were present,
the situation was discussed. Chairman
McCreery, of the Relief Committee, said
he thought it was time the Relief Commit
tee was relieved of the work of clearing
away the debris by the State
The Governor said that all the necessary
money could be raised. That there were
200 men who would become responsible
fOr = J., i l..
bond TO the State Treasurer for 81 ,OOO, 900
with those 200 men as bondsmen, and the
State Treasurer would then pay out 81 ,O00,-
600 for the necessary work. When the
Legislature met the money Withdrawn
from the Treasury could be appropriated.
He said
THE MONEY ALREADY SUBSCRIBED
Should be used entirely for the relief of the
sufferers and the money from the State
Treasurer be used for restoring the vicinity
TO its condition before the flood
All debts already contracted for the re-
moval Of the debris should be paid, but all
money paid out for this purpose from the
lelief funds shall be refunded, so that every
cent subscribed for the reliefof the stricken
people shall be used for that purpose alone.
Governor Beaver has $250,000 in his
hands now for the relief fund. A COM
mlttee OF seven weIl-knOWn men OF the
State will be appointed to distribute the re-
lief fund, and the present reliaf committee
is to continue until the commission is ap-
pointed.
In an interview tonight, Governor
Beaver said: 1.-The funds which have
come into my hands from so many quarters
outside of the State, and which have been
imposed upon me as sacred trust, will be
expended wholly and absolutely for the
benefit of the individual sufferers. No part
of it will be expended in the work which
is legitimately the domain of the State
under its police powers"