Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-07

Forkes, David Fisher, Margaret Fisher,
George Fisher, John Il. Fisher, Fishers
servant girl, Mrs. Kinney, and five un-
known bodies.
THE UNFoRTUNATEs STARVING.
Kearnvi,le is in deplorable condition.
The living are unable to take care of the
decd. A majority of the Inhabitants of
the town were drowned. A lean-to of
boards has been crested on On the only
street remaining in the town This
is the headquarters for the committee
that control the dead. A. quick as the
dead we're brought in they are placed
in boxes and then taken to the cemetery
and buried.
milkman who was overcharging for
milk this morning narrowly escaped
lynching. Infuriated men appropriated
all his milk and distributed it among the
poor, and then drove him out of town.
The body of the Hungarian who was
lynched in and orchard last night has been
recovered by his friends. The inhuuan
monster was noticed as he cut off four
fingers of woman's body. He dropped
the fingers into his pocket where they
were found when he was captured. The
act maddeued the men and they took him
to an orchard on the hillside and hung
him. There is but one street left in town.
About 155 houses are standing where once
there stood thousand.
Low ESTIMATE.
A thousand is low estimate of the
number of lives lost from this town. But
few bodies have been recovered. 1t is
directly above the ruins and the oodies
hor A., fal inf har vuh hay
burned. A walk through the town
revealed desolase sight. Only about %
able bodied men have survived and are
able to render assistance. Men and
women can be seen with black eyes,
injured in the food and
since that have not slept. Their
faces have turned sickly yellow and
dark rings surround their eyes. Many
of the women have succumbed TO nervous
prosSration, For two days but little as
ststance could be rendered them. The
wounded remained uncareu for III some
houses cut off by water and died from
their INJURIES alone. Some were alive on
Sunday and their shouts could be h card
by the people on shore. A man caught
stealing a gold watch is now in tenn
porary Jail of what is left of the town.
Shots were fred at him but he was not
wounded. The only thing that
SAVED HIM FROM LYNoHING
was the smallness of the crowd. The
services in the chapel from which were
taken, consisted OF merely a prayer by
one of the survivors. No minister was
present. Each coffin had a descriptive
card On it and on the graves 8 simiiar
card was placed SO that the bodies can
be removed later by friends. The Cambria
hos pital now has 800 patients. DR.. Buck
with his efficient corps of aides Is in
charge. Two ST the patients dieI yester
day. The remainder are doing we'll.
The hospital in the upper part of Johns-
town is full to overfowing. Many have
been carried to surrounding houses.
Hos pitfalls are established at Conemaugh
and Mineral Point, but little could be
learned of how many patients it con-
tanned, and how they were faring.
miracle, rs it is called, happened to the
church of the Immaculate Conception
has caused a tremendous sensation.
large number of persons will testify as to
the nature of events, and the circum
stances are really remarkable. May
devotions were in progress Frida,,
when the water descended on Cambria
city. The church was filled with people
at the time, but when the noise of the
flood was heard the congregation has
tened to get out out of the way. They
succeeded so far as escaping from the
is concerned and in few mo-
ments the church WAS partly submerged
the water reaching 10 feet up the sides
and swirling around the corners furiousiy.
The building was badly wrecked, ben Jhes
were torn down and in general the entire
structure both inside and out fairly dis
mantled. Yesterday morning when a n
entrance was forced the ruin appeared
to be complete. One object alone had
ESCAPED THE WATERS WRATH.
A statne of the blessed virgin that had
been decorated and adorned because of
the May devotions, was as unsullied as
the day it was made. The flower wreath
and lace veil we're uniIsturbed and
unsoiled. The marks on the wall showed
the statue, which is three feet high. The
surface of the water had risen to the
height of fifteen feet, while the statue
had been saved from all contact with the
liquid. Every one that has seen the
statue and it's surroundings is firmly
convinced that the iscident was
MIRACULOUS ONE
and even to the most skepticsl the affair
savo1s of the supernatural There are
about thirty Catholic priests and nuus
here who are devotipg themselves to the
care of the sick and injured. Bishop
Phelan has organized the Catholic forces
in this Leighborhood, and all are devot-
tn
yusly. What the hospital would have
done without the sisters is difficult
question. Among the priests here are
Fathers Guido, Goebel, Cosgrave,
Gallagher, Troutwein, RosensteI, Cor
corsn, Derlin, Boyle, Smith, O'ConneI and
Landing.
j. ]. Murphy, a bookseller of Pitts
burg, haunted the morgue all day. His
brother James ard his entire family have
been lost and he is seeking for their re-
mains. Every fresh arrival of ghastly
bodies set him TO anxious inquiry, but as
yet he has not discovered his relatives.
There is much comment over finding the
body of nun cut in two. II was at first
thought she was a resident of Johnston xn,
out as Lone of them have been reported
as missing the supposition is that she was
travelling at the time of the accident on
the day express.
BRoKEN HEARTED.
A troken hearted couple are Thomas
Leyden and wife, hard working people
of the little town of Minersville. All day
they have trudging over the slippery
ooze in Johnstown asking every person
for news of their daughter Mary.
R. S. Frazier, Pittsburg lawyer, was
trampiug amoung the ruins looking like
a miner. Frazer has sister here,
whose family of four child
rem was almost drowned but
managed to escape after exciting ex-
periences. When the foods came down
upon them they were driven from the
first to the second story and soon after to
the third. They were kept there six hodrs
before they were helped through the roof
and fro ia there made their escape to the
hills over house tops in che neis shborhood-
Where Woodvsle once stood, there is now
sea of mud, broken but rarely by a
pile of wrecksge- A correspondent of
the Associated press waded through
mud and water up the valley today over
the site of the former village. As has
been often stated, nothing is standing
but the old WOODEN mills. The place is
swept bare of all other buildings but the
ruins of the Gautter wire mill. The
boilers of this great works were carried
1000 yards from their foundations.
Pieces OF engines, rolls and other mschi-
merry we're
SWIFT FAR AWAY
ftom where they once stood. The wreck