St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-04
While the Loss to Property
Will Reach Nearly $780,
OOO,OOO.
The Wounded Uneaped For
and Dying From Their In
juries Alone.
An Incident in a Church That
Savers Of the Super
natural.
Serious Reflections on Penn
Sylvania Railroad Officials
FLOODS Elsewhere.

JOHNSTOwN, Pa, June 3.-The de-
velopments eff every hour make it more
apparent that the exact number of
lives lost in the Johnstown horror will
never be known. All estimates that
have been made up to this time are con-
sentative. and when all is known will
doubtless be found to have been too
small. Over 1000 bodies have been
found since sunrise to-day, and the
most skeptical cOncede that the re-
mains of thousands more rest beneath
the debris above Johnstown bridge.
The population of Johnstown, the sur
rounding towns aud the portion of the
valley affected by the flood is, or was,
from $4,000 to $1,000. Associated Press
representatives to-day interviewed
numerous leading citizens of Johns
town who survived the flood.
and the condensuS of opinion
was that fully SO per cent of the resi-
dents of Johnstown and Cambria had
been victims of the continued disasters
of fire and water If this be true the
total loss of life in the entire valley
cannot be less than 1000 Oh 5000, and
possibly much greater. OF the thousands
who were devoured by the flames, and
whose ashes rest beneath the smoking
debris above Johnstown bridge, no
definite information can ever be OBJ
tanned. AS little will be learned of the
hundreds who sank beneath the current
and were borne swiftly down the Cone
maugh. only to be deposited, hundreds
of miles below, on the banks and in the
driftwood of the raging Ohio. Probably
0ne-third of the dead will never be re-
covered, and it will take list of the :,
missing. weeks hence, to enable
even a close estimate to be made of the
number of lives that We're snutfed out in
that brief hour. That this estimate can
never be accurate is understood when it
is remembered that in many instances
whole families and their relatives were
swept away and found a common grave
beneath the wild waste of waters. The
total destruction of the city leaves no
data to even demonstrate that names of
these unfortunates ever found place on
the pages of eternity's history. At
present there are said to be 1900 recov-
cred bodies. The great difficulties ex-
perienced in getting correct list is the
great nulnpei VI iioIsueS. iHeIe Is no
central bureau of information, and to
communicate with the different
dead houses is the work of
hours. The journey from the Penn
sylvania railroad morgue to the one in
the Fourth ward school house in Johns
town occupies at least one hour. This
renders it impossible to reach all of
them in one day, particularly as some
of the morgues are situated at points in
accessible from Johnstown. At g.
O'Clock in the evening the 650th body
depository for corpSes. Kernvllle is in
A DEPLORABLE CONDITION.
The living are unable to take care of
the dead. The majority of the inhab-
itants Of the town were drowned. A
lean-to of boards has been erected on
the only street remaining in the town.
This is the headquarters for the COM
mittee that controls the dead. AS
quickly as the dead are brought to this
point they are placed in boxes and then
taken to the cemetery and buried.
A supply store has opened in the town.
A milkman who was oyercharging for
milk this morning narrowly escaped
lynching. The Infatuated men aDpro-
priated all his milk and distributed it
among the poor and then drove him out
of the town. The body of the Hun who
was lynched in all orchard last night
was removed by his friends during the
night. The inhuman monster had cut
Off her four fingers of the right hand.
He was noticed before he escaped and
dropped tine fingers into his pocket,
where they were found when he was
captured. The act maddened the men
and they took him to an orchard on the
hillside and hung him. There is but
nna ctraat loft in tho TOWN hOut 1SS
houses are standing, where once there
stood 900. None of the large buildingsin
what was once thriving little borough
have escaped. One thousand people is
low estimate of the number of lives
lost from this town. 1t is directly above
the ruins, and the bodies have foated
down into them, where they burned. A
walk through the town revealed desc
late sight. Only about twenty-five
able-bodied men have survived, and are
able to render any assistance. Men
and women can be seen with black eyes,
bruised faces and cut heads. The APP
pearance of some of the ladies is heart
rending. They were injured in the
FLOOD. and since that have not slept.
Their faces have turned sickly yellow,
and dark rings surround the eyes.
Many have succumbed to nervous
prostration. For two days but
little assistance cOulQ De Tell-
dered. No medical attention reached
them. The wounded remained uncared
for in some houses cut off by the water
and died from their injuries alone.
Some were alive ON Sunday and their
shouts could be heard by the people on
the shore. A man is now in a tempo
rary jail in what is left of the town. He
was caught stealing gold watch. A
shot was fired at him, but he was not
wounded. The only thing that saved
him from lynching was the smallness
of the crowd. His sentence will be the
heaviest that can he given him. Serv-
ices in the chapel from which the bodies
were buried consisted merely of prayer
by one of the survivors. No minister
was present. Each coffin had de-
scriptive card Oh it, and on the graves
similar card was placed so that bodies
can be removed later by friends. The
Tam lria hocnital has now 200 natiantS