The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-06
JonNSroWN DESCRIBED.
s sight Never before seen In lhis
world

J0Nmsr.wN. PA. June S.-From
J1hu-.own up the valley easy com
munication has been opened as far as
Concmaush. two miles. ard it is posi-
bic for any one here to readily behold a
-ightAever before seen in this world.
and which no one who does not
see himself will ever believe
.did really exist. 1t is de
.cn0ed here as we'll as worth can
describe it. but merely q duty to history
and not with tie id>a that any one who
emit look al it will ever think it true.
Every one has sten the light iron beam
shafts and rods in q factory lying IN
twisted. broken. and criss-cross shape
after fire has destroyed the
factory. I'm the gap above Johns
town the water has picked uP a
iaur track railway covered with trains,
frcieht and passengers and with ma
chine shops. round houses aud other
heavy buildings with their heavy con-
tents. and has torn the track to pieces.
twisted turned and crossed 1t as
fire never could. 1t has toss
cI huge freight locomotives like
barrels and cars, like packing-boXes.
torn them 20 pieces and scattered them
oyer miles of territory. lt has IN one
place put a stream Of water a block
wide between the railroad and the
DluT. and IN another place 1t has
changed the course cf the river as far
inthe other direction and left hundred
wards INLAND. ION which are the tracks
tnst formerly skirted the banks. Add
to this. that i'm the midst of the fire.
with the singular fatality that has made
IL every where the companion of the
food in this catastrophy. has destroyed
"a train of cars which the flood had
wrecked. that the passengers who re
manned i'm the cars through the Hood
and until the fire reached them were
.aved. while their companions
who attempted to flee were overwhelm-
CA and drowned. and that through 1t
all one locomotive stood AID still
stands. comparatively uuinjured, in
the centre Of the wreckage. This dis
aster and the story of one Of the most
MARVELLOUS FREAKS OF THIS MAkNLLOUs
HOOD
/ f.. barely outlined. That locomotive
stands there ON It's track now with It's
fires burning. smoke curling from the
stack and steam from tie safety value.
AN ready to 90 ahead as soon
"a. a trace is bull. d,wn to 1t.
II is No. 1909. a fifty four-ton, eight
driver. class Pennsylvania locomotive.
GEORGE Hud ON was lis engineer, and
Conductor shool Y lad chargi OF the
trau. The,. with all the rest Of the
crew. c.caped b, ilis LIT when they saw
,be flood. Ths wi dows Of the play
Ground. where giant forccplay ed with
masses of iron as child might
n,,y with ~tbbles. begins with Il
bridge or piece Of bridge about thirty
feet long that stands night and day up
ON two ordinary abutments at Wood
yale. The part Of the bridge that re-
mains spanncd the Pennsylvania tracks
The tracks are gon g, the BRIDE IS gone
ON either side, the river is goae III a new
channel. the veiy earth 70 100 yards
around has been craped of AID swept.
away. but this little span remains
,erched up there twenty fee owe
everything in the mids. Of desert ruins
the only pi0ce f a bridge tn" IS
standing fiom the ia lad lridge 10
sonth Fork. | ~ light on structure
and tie abutlmen.s are Mt unusually
heavy. Tat It should b. kept there
when everything else was twist d ana
torn to PEGS is Cneoi the qu or ire- AS
Of this flood. Near by are the
WRECKS OF TWO FAEGHr TRAINS
hat were sta ding side by side when