Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-06-07

Hundreds Of Cambria employees are at
work to-day clearing away the wreckage,
and there is much complaint over the con-
duct of the Iron company officials in cut
ting their men off the general work to their
own premises. The officers of the COM
pany justify their action on the ground
that the sooner they can get their works in
operation again, the better it will be for
the community. The sight of long relief
trains rolling into Johnstown over
both railroads and from every sec
tiOn of the country almost
every hour OF the twenty four tends to
make the observer conclude that charity,
whether christian or not, is not so rare
under the sun as the cynic philosopher
would have us believe. From east and
west, north and south, come whole train
loads of clothing and provisions, accom-
panied by special messengers having
funds and large corps of volunteer physi-
clans, busy road nurses and workers. The
character of the supplies sent out from
the Quaker city is most acceptable, consist
ing of cotton sheeting, clothes, boots, shoes,
hard breads of all kinds, salt fish, canned
goods, everything in fact in the provision
line.
THOUSANDS OF TENTS.
Where JOhnstOwn's principal stores
stood last Friday are now pitched thous-
ands of tents, and before tomorrow night
this number will probably be doubled.
Under this shelter are accommodated mem
ber8 of the militia and thousands of work.
men who are trying to clear the streets of
this wrecked city. Over 5000 men are
thus employed in Johnstown proper,
about fifteen hundred of them being regu-
lar street hands employed by contractors,
Booth & Flynn of Pittsburg, others being
volunteers. All the labOrers who have
BEEN toiling with the wreckage are quar-
tered tonight, some in barns and others in
the tents above referred to. 1t was scene
army life at time supper was ready and the
long pine tables were crowded with m en-
Stoves were erected out in the open air
and coal fires heated gallons of Coffee.
This beverage is boiled in large wash
boilers, and for one gang of men seven
boilers full were emptied in half an hour.
Coffee, bread and cheese was the fare to-
night, but more substantial rations will be
be given out tomorrow. As darkness
drew over the scene, the valley became
quiet, the only noise being the occasional
challenge :of the militiamen who bade
some belated individual obey the orders of
the sheriff and leave the city of the dead.
J0hnstown is under martial law and
labOrers only are wanted.
DYNAMITE OF LITTLE USE.
The enormity of the devastation is be-
coming more and more apparent with
every effort of the laborers to resolve order
out of chaos. Over 100 men have been all
day engaged in an effort to clear the mar
row passage from the death bridge up
ward through the sea of debris that blocks
the Conemaugh for nearly one-half mile.
Every ingenuity known to man has been
resorted to by this crew. The giant power
of dynamite was brought into requisition
and at frequent, intervals the roar of the
explosions reverberate through the valley.
Gradually few OF the heaviest timbers
were demolished and fragments permitted
to float down stream. At nightfall, how.
ever, the clear space above the bridge does
not exceed sixty feet in length by forty in
width