Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
YOUNGSTOWN RECOVERING.
Improved Prospects for the
People Of the Flooded City.
Business Resumed, and the Work
of Restoration Progressing.

/ estimate of the loss of life has been reduced
! to between 5000 and 1000 The amount of
money subscribed throughout the country
or the food sufferers is over $, 600, 900. A
ecent dispatch from JohnstOwn gives the
| GLOWING details concerning the resumption
| of business and the work of restoration and
| relief:
The first real work under the supervision
| of the State commenced this morning at
o'clock. The whistle at the Cambria Iron
and Steel Works was the signal for the men
to commence and about fifteen hundred start
ed in with their picks and shovels. The ear
ly morning was warm and cloudy As the
morning advanced the weather grew warm
err and by 10 o'clock the sun was shining
brightly and every one on the ground was
hard at work During the morning crowd
Qfmen in some manner secured an entrance
to the town and wanted to inaugurate a
strike among the workmen. James Nc
Knight, of Pittsburg, of the State contract
ors went to General Hastings, who IS n full
charge at Johnstown, and demanded protec-
ton for the men. A detachment of mill
tia from the Fourteenth Regiment were de
tailed to the place and they drove away all
the men who refused to work This caused
General Hastings to Issue an order TO the sol
dierS not to admit any one to JOhnstOwn
proper without an order
The business men of the town seemed to
have awakened to their senses, and this
morning number of them were preparing
to start over again in business. Two grocery
stores We're started near the Pennsylvania
railroad freight station. Both places were
doing land office business and this encOur-
aged other merchants to start up and the
probabilities are that inside of week at lat
est 100 stores will be in operation Already
two BARRIERS shops and one jewelry store
have been opened.
General Hastings said g AS yet Go not
know how many men are at work. but L sup
pose there must be 1900 at the least calcula-
ton. We intend to put many men to work
as can be worked properly. l do not suppose
we want more than 5000 and it will be
easy matter to get that many men. do not
want to employ any one but Pennsylvania
men, and would like to get as many Johns
town people at work as possible. They are
the ones that need the work. A false impress
sion has broken out to the effect that the
borOughs here are under martial or military
law. This is a mistake The State has
charge of the work, and the only thing the
military is doing is guarding the property.
We will clear away all the debris the
streets and level the town off. l do not know
yet whether we will clean out the cellars of
the houses, but if l had my own way would
do it. 1t is as little as the State can do to
clean out the places and give the people clean
foundation to build on. Beside, there is not
the least doubt that there are number OF
bodies in these cellars and they should be
taken out"
General Hastings has now gotten every
thing down to a system. There will be but
one morgue and hospital and one headquar-
ters Everything has now been centralized,
and it is easy to get at the facts.
Captain Seers, of the United States Army,
of the Corps of Engineers at WiIIets
Point, and Captain Burbank, of the West
Point Engineering Corps, have laid out the
different boroughs in five districts and COM
petent men have been appointed to take
charge of each district Captain Seers, in an
interview, said II am only here to advise
General Hastings and do what I can to help
him. l think that inside of two weeks the
three or four thousand men that will be at
work will succeed in putting the town in very
good condition, and l think inside of month
Johnstown will have almost recovered from
this terrible shock"
The general opinion among well-posted
people here is that the loss of life will be be-
tween 5000 and 1000 1t was generally given
out that Johnstown and boroughs adjoining
had population of $4,000 people, but this is
very high estimate, and conservative peo-
pie put the population between 25, 600 and
$4,000. Colonel Rogers, who has charge of
the registration states that from all he can
learn the population only amounted to about
$4,000, and this accounts for $1,000 people
supposed to be lost.
The reports sent out from here to the eff
feet that II, 600 to Il, 900 people were missing
were based upon the suppoSitOn that there
were 35, 900 inhabitants in these boroughs
To-day was the second day since the food
that JOhnstown was not deluged with rain
The people are making heroic efforts to clean
out their houses to fit them for habitation.
Neighbors have combined to help one another
to reset houses on their foundations and to
remove the accumulatiOns of drift and rub
Dish which bar entrance to their doors. The
sewer pipes are all awry and the cellars are full
of water. There is need for engines to pump
out the water as early as possible. Syphen-
ing has been tried, but with no success, as
the cellars are much lower than the ground
The Cambria Company started out corps
of surveyors this afternoon to locate lines of
demarcation for the rebuilding and repair of
their demolished plant.
The first decisive step toward putting
JohnstoWns business men on their feet again
was made to-day, when about two hundred
merchants who had survived the food many
of them without dollar, met Adjutant
General Hastings this afternoon and were
assured that they would be re-established in
business on long credit. Both Pittsburg and
Philadelphia wholesalers have offered Johns
the suggestion of General Hastings.
The report of the Bureau of Transporta-
ton, which died with the Citizens Relief
Committee, was presented to James B. Scott
to-day 1t shows that from June to H. in
elusive, 1892 people were given free trans
pOrtatlOn out of Johnstown. Out Of these
S72 were over the Pennsylvania and 720 over
the Baltimore and Ohio. One hundred and
seventy-six were sent to Fittsburg by the
Baltimore and Ohio and 636 over the Penn
sylvania; 157 were sent to Philadelphia over
the Baltimore and Ohio The Bureau of In
formation answered 287 kilograms and sixty
eight letters, mostly inquiries from anxious
friends as to the safety OF transformers.
The mass at the stone bridge was fired this
afternoon and tonight is burning furiously.
With it is destroyed all hope Of recovering