Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-06
FOR RELIEF AND REPAIRs.
How Dictator Scott Is Pushing Forward
the With Tremendous Energy.

How Dictator Scott Is Pushing Forward
the With Tremendous Energy.
JoHHsrowN, June 5.-There is no cease
of horrors here o.day, but the situation is
resolving itself into something like order
The relief work has been 20 systematizsd
that there is no danger Of any confusion
about it. At the several distributing de-
pots hundreds assemble morning, noon and
night, and forming in line are supplied
with provisions. Men and women with
families are given bread, butter, cheese,
ham and canned meats, tea or coffee aud
sugar, and unmarried applicants with
sliced bread and butter or sandwiches.
The 900 army tents brought on by Adju-
tant General Axline, of Ohio, have been
div ided, and two white-wslled villages
now afford sheltef to nearly 5000 home
less people. These villages are policed,
and are under charge OF General Ak
line
The action of the authorities yes
terday in consolidating all authority
and veeting it in Mr.. ]. B Scott, Of
Pittsburg, as dictator, is received with
favor on ell hands. Dictator Scott has
taken held of the stupendOus task imposed
upon him with characteristic energy, and
already has mapped ont his work ana as
signed the direction of various portions OF
it 10 men equally as jealous and energetic
with himself. Already ne has $500 men
al work and has called for 2, 800 more, to
whom he promises steady work for sixty
dsys at 50 per day and board. Dictator
Scott. in an interview this morning, said
that he proposed to clear the town of
wreeksge and debris of al descriptions,
and turn the town site over to the citizens,
when he has completed his work, clean
and free from distractions of all kinds.
In conversation to-day, Superintendent
Duncan. of the JOhnstOwu street railway,
and one of the leading citizens Of the place,
declared that az soon as the people recover
ed. in q measure, from the dazed condition
in which they have been since the catas-
trophe, immediate measures will he taken
in the direction of rebuilding. This will
be a gigantic and costly work, bat Mr..
Duncan EXPECTS, he says, to see g new city
spriug from the ruins of stricken Johns
town.
TIL work Of reconstructing the rOad-bed
and relaying the tracks of the PeDnsylva-
mia railroad is being pushed forward Wig
orously in charge of Engineer of Mainte-
nance of Way Kittridge, of the Panhandle
railroad, and already trains are running
clear down to the passenger station, while
construction trains are able to 20 consider
able further. By night 1t Is expected that
the high emhsnkment at the big bend oi
the river, W ich turned the river from Its
course on the fatal Friday and which was
finally washed away itself, will be recon
structed.
Although the loss of the Cambria Iron
Company will foot up into tie mil
lions. the destruction Of their plant
is not total, as apprehended, and
reported at first, aud officers OF the Com
nanv now say they expect to resume oper-
stions within thirty days. A Civil Eog'-
neer Of the Company, who made careful
survey of the premises yesterday, asserted
IN the writer this morning that although
the greater portion of the valuable build
ings and their still more valuable contents
in the way of improved machinery is
damaged beyond repair, there is one COM
plete set of machinery in the Bessemer mill
unipiured, and the manufacture OF steel
rails may he resumed within two weeks.
Hundreds of Cambria employees are at
work to-day clearing away the wreckage'
and there is much complaint among the
citizens to-day over the contract OF tue
Iron Company officials IN cutting tnelr
men off the general work to their own
PREMISES. The officers of the Company
iustify their action on the grouad that
The sooner they can get their works in op'
Grafton again the better it will be for the
community.
From East and West North and South
come whole train loads Of clothing and
provisions, accompanied by special mes
sengers having funds. and large corps OF
volunteer physicians, busy road nurses and