Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-06-08

not single vestige will ever be rec.
ognized of hundreds that were roast
ed in the flames above the bridge.
Since the last sentence was penned a
party of searchers unearthed a char
red and unsightly mass from the
smouldering debris within thirty
yards of the Associated Press head
quarters. Unused to such frightful
discoveries the leader pronounced the
remains to be a blackened log, and it
required the authoritative verdict of
physician to demonstrate that the
CHASTITY discovery was the charred re-
mains Of a human being. Only the
trunk remained and that was roasted
beyond all semblance of flesh. Five
minutes search revealed fragments
of a skull that at once disintegrated
of its own weight when exposed.
Within the last hour a half dozen
discoveries in no way less horrifying
than this CHASTITY find have been
made by searchers as they rake with
sticks and hooks in the smoking
ruins. So difficult is it at times to
determine whether the remains are
those of human beings that it is APP
parent that hundreds must be fairly
burned to ashes. Thus the number
that have found a last resting place
beneath these ruins can at the best
never be more than Appropriated.
Johnstown, Pa, June 1.-The resi-
dent portion of Woodvale borough is
completely wiped out. The proper.
ty loss is estimated at $3,5O0,0O0. On
the hills above the wrecked village:is
presented the worst spectacle of the
hour. Here are clustered the several
thousand inhabitants who escaped,
and unless aid is given them soon
they must perish of want. Starva-
ton stares them in the face. They
are so far above Johnstown that the
relief parties have not yet reached
them, and only few provisions have
been brought up to them by the
other survivors in Johnstown. Sew
eral have lost their mind, and it is
feared that the horrors of death by
starvation or the worst horrors of
madness must soon overtake them
unless at once relieved. A large
number of lives were lost here.
Johnstown, June 4.-While the to-
tai loss of life at JOhnstown and the
surrounding boroughs of Cambria,
MorrellSville, Kernville and Cone.
maugh will never be known, yet q
fair attempt is now being made to as
certain it within reasonably fair
limit. This is being done through a
bureau of registration which was es.
tablished yesterday. Twenty-eight
agencies have been established with
in the food districts, and all survi-
vors have been notified to register
themselves and their families at once.
This work was begun at 4 o'clock
, yesterday, and at 8 o'clock this morn
ing $500 persons had registered
, There were $500 residing in Johns
town and the boroughs named before
, the terrible catastrophe. When the
work or registration is finished, which
may be tomorrow night, then it will
be known about how many persons
: are missing.
5 Supt. Morgan, of the Cambria Iron
Company, who is regarded as an ex.
o ceptionally level-headed man, re.
: turned today from tour of the en-
, tire flooded district. He declared
that only about $1,000 persons are
, now alive, where $4,000 lived an6
had their being before the flood.
r Adjt. Gen. Hastings maintains thai
g the death list may not exceed 5000
!. and of this number he thinks 3,00(
o bodies will never be recovered. Mr.
, McCOnnaughy, the Chief of the Blu
reau of Registration, said today tha
! he is convinced that the number whC
persisted is fully 10000 or more.
4 FLOOD NOTES.
t The Baltimore & Ohio Road il
e again open for business.
t Johnstown has been placed unde
n martial law and most of the survi
/ vors are living intents.
: 1t will be several days yet befor,
!. the Pennsylvania road is repaired
from Altoona to Pittsburg.
r The indications up to noon Wednes
# day were that the proportion of los
l. and saved was about equal.
# Very extensive floods are reported
= from Saxony and BOHEMIA with seri
IS Gus loss of property.
O The thermometer took decide,
n