Telegram-herald., 1889-06-16
DOCTORS AT WORK.
Every Precaution Used to Keep
Down Disease at JohnstoWn.
WORK OF THE RED CROSS SOCIETY.
The Pennsylvania Road Ready to Re-
sumo business The Relief Fund
Amounts To s6:o.OOo-Picnty of
Homes for Orphans.
NEWS PROM THE FLOODED VALLEY.

JoHNsTowN Pa, June l5-The State
Board OF Health hes begun a systematic
sanitary survey of the flooded district
taking in every thing from the South
Fork TO Nineveh. Every house viii
be visited, and every nook and cor
nsr examined by the physicians, who
will make report on each place examined
The board now has 30 men in its employ.
mostly laborers, getting out and burning
the bodies of animals and distributing dis
infectants. bulletin issued by the board
says that while there is a good deal OF sick
ness in the valley, 10 is not OF u dangerous
nature. ssss~<E
WASHINGTON, June 15-Dr. Hubell, OF the
Red Cross Society, Clara Barton's field
marshal, returned from Johnstown Friday
night He said that although the Red
Cross is doing good work lis labOrs have
not begun. The work OF going out into
the highways and byways seeking for
those who are distracted by their mis-
fortunes aud who are so bowildered
that they can not find their way 10 the sta
tions TO make known their wants will be
the principal duty of the society in the
future. Even now they find good many
people who are in stunned condition.
VINO do not realize their position, and can
not tell what they want, although IL is
known that they need both food and
clothes
Q PITTSBURGH Pa. June l5.-Tnder the di-
rect supervision of the officers in charge of
the engineering and transportation depart
ments OF the Pennsvlyania lines two armies
have been working at the Johns
town washout, one from the east toward
the west and the other from the
west eastward On Thursday even
ing the fcrces met and the last rail needed
70 connect the severed parts OF the great
thOrOup hfare was placed in position. The
new track s substantially built and IL viii
be gradually tested until Monday. June :,
when the great trunk line will be opened
PGTrsBUn3H. Pa. June 15.--The coBtribu-
tions To the JohnstOwn sufferers received
b. the Pittsburgh Relief Committee Friday
aggregated s25.0O0 The total amount re-
ceived 10 date is s5G4, Geo.
NEW York. June u Tho work of the
mayors food-relief committee was prRc-
tically closed Friday night Permission
was telegraphed Governor Beaver to use
his discretion In dispOsing of money sent
from here The total is s}i0,0on
HAREIsBULG Pa, June l5.-The total re-
ceipts FOR the Governor fund FOR the rciies
OF The food sufferers Thursday aud Friday
aIpount to sl2i ,00O. making the grand total
about sG21 000
CmcA0o. June l5.-The total amount re-
ceiyed Ia this city Tor the Joh8stown fund
IS sl05. AIS
pEs MorNFs Ia. juno lS-More than
$500 has been received bv State Treasurer
Twomhly from over the State for the relief
of the Johnstown food sufferers over and
above the large amounts that have been
forwarded bY commit ttces and individuals
direct
PrTrsBURGH Pa June l5-Tbe ladies'
Belief Committee Ia this city have placed
on their file al applications for babies res
cued from the doo3 During FRIDAY twenty
seven new refugees Were accommodated and
seventy one persons were clothed