The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-13

DClny 10 uO lOuBcT pOSSlDlc. lHc ueCOul-
posed corpses will inevitably breed pesti.
lence If longer exposed to the air. At the
first break Of dawn Tuesday morning orders
were issued to push preparations for the
gigantic burial with all possible speed.
Where there is no reasonable hope for iden-
tifcation the bodies will be buried at once.
The most definite account which has yet
been received concerning the condition Of
the villages along the Conemaugh to Stony
Creek and South Fork was given by the
members of a relief committee from Alli-
ance, 0. Prof. r. f. Hudson, one of their
members, said: ''The scenes along the up
per river are so horrifying that the mere
narration would nauseate one. We discov-
cred 1913 bodies along the bed Of Stony
Creek, lying in all sorts of positions and
showing the mostdesperate wounds. Nearly
all the corpses were Of women and children.
The men seemed to have been ut work and
to have regarded the warming The women
and children We're totally unaware of the
gravity Of the on-coming flood. There
were quite twice as many bodies lying be-
tween Johnstown and South Fork as at any
other place, save the Johnstown railroad
bridge"
PITTSBURGH, June 5.-It appears that
each passing hour but adds additional hor-
rors and dangers to the catastrophe. Not
only has the Hood swept from the face of
the earth thousands Of people and millions
OF treasure, but the destroyed now threaten
10 become the destroyers. Scattered along
the Allegheny and its tributaries from Pitts
burgh TO the scene Of the disaster, some on
the shore, many In the eddies and pools,
others lodged against the driftwood or
buried in the mud and sand, lie hundreds Of
human bodies and dead animals. In ad-
dition TO this can be counted the disease
breeding matter from cesspools, etc.
fittsburgh's water supply comes from the
washings from the infected district, Great
Ing new danger in the way of an epidemic.
steps have been taken to avoid this. The
committee at Johnstown has telegraphed to
Washington for sanitary corps, and the
State Board of Health has telegrapued
orders for posse to commence clearing the
river at once. Citizens whom necessity COM
pels to use the water have been urged to
exert every precaution. A small steamer
started from this city yesterday to explore
the Allegheny river as far as the mouth Of
the Kiskiminitas. From that point the
search will be continued in rowboats.
A fve-pound can Of dynamite was ex-
ploded yesterday among the wreckage at
the second pier Of the west end of the stone
bridge. Beyond terrific report it failed to
dislodge any Of the debris. Lieutenant
Liggett commanding squad of one Of the
companies OF the Fifth Regiment, yesterday
placed guards all over the burning debris
above the bridge, and gave orders to shoot
al persons not working who would not keep
e6 the wreckage
It 10 now definitely settled that at least
twenty and perhaps forty persons were lost
on tho two sections Of the day express that
teft Fttsburgh ct eight O. m. Friday, and
the accommodation train that was about 70
leave Johnstown that Afternoon, Thero
hsve been numeroIs and conflicting reports
About how many trains were caught IN the
decd, but from most ycliable sources Il hss
beeu .aAceftalned that three trains wero
cea0ht II TIE water. 'if''7
p 1AllroaA connunicatisu with the outsids
weglA yea epsablashsd shortly before hooa
yesterdAy, tho first relief train rassinr ever
~ bridss .across tho improviaed trestle
end traek Up The inoltpe 70 ,the Johnstovn
depot, Tho train yas loaApA with thovs =
of pounds Of assottsd ptovisiohs and 4,0O0
cnlana slNSNl3 bnfDgqsat 'g0
4 rhs large dry GOODS store Of PsA. Cosa,t
WQe We only etose left from the Aood. Il r
sAA he had about 00,ooo worth o{ stock O.
tAnAy but 6ave u III sway 70 tde Aood .anf-
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