The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-06-14
SCENES OF WOE.
The Conemaugh Valley Disaster
Almost Indescribable.
Scenes OF Death. Devastation and Woe
Appalling Enough 20 Make the
Strongest Heart Quaii-The
Search for the Dead.
Hhs Number NJ Victims will Reach Many
Thousands tshouls la Human
Form Eobbsng the Dead
swift Retrsbution
mack on the Ruined site Of the City OF
Johnsown.

mack ON the Ruined site OF the City OF
JDhnsown.
PrTrsBuRGH. Pa. June 1.-The first
force of rescuers and press representa-
cives who had been making every effort
sor TWO days 10 gain an entrance into the
valley in which was located the city of
Johnstown. accomplished their purpose
Just as the light Of this mornings sun
broks over the mountain tops surrounding
the place Of desolation. The news re-
.reived in this city during the Gay con-
Arms in almost every detail all OF the
syrayest fears. statements aud conjectures
tLat have been entertained All reports
agree that the city Is literally ruin, the
description Of which is simply impossi-
1le-
From Johnstown to Mineral Point
tower the Pennsy Viva nia roadbed has been
completely swept awaY. For distance
81 one-fourth Of mill the road is unin-
lured then comes another complete
wreck 10 q point above South Fork.
Twenty-seven Pennsylvania railroad
locomotives and an unknown number OF
both freight cars asd passenger coaches
are lying in the river bed under the de-
iris Of Johnstown at the Stone bridge.
The towns OF woodyiile and Cone
snnugh borough above Johnstown. are
swept As clearly Of the face OF the earth
as II they had never had an existence.
OF Wcodville's population, Of fifteen
hundred souls, barely half dozen have
-sern accounted for.
The Hungarian colony at Cambria City
are stealing and plundering every thing
obey can reach. The work Of exhuming
me dead AT Johnstown has only begun.
suf already more than one hundred
bodies have been carried out OF the ruins.
Eleven carloads Of finished collins and
thirty undertakers arrived during the
tsr- and the work Of interment which
oegnr this afternoon will rapidly
p-1gress under the direction OF a spe-
'ciaily- force OF men.
Sineveh will hereafter be known as the
city ~ the dead, for at this point the
Ccncmaugh has given up large portion
~ its dead. When the waters rcceded
from the fields aud bottom lands over
which il had flowed. the stiff, staring and
mixed. bruised and mangled bodies OF
men. women and children. from the aged
. the infant, lying ia the soft mud, was
horrible sight, making heartsick those
Win witnessed II. Nunemacher's PLAN
lng-mill was used as temporary
norgle, and II was there that the blood
stained. swollen and disfgured remains
a whites and negroes were first placed
for protection and Identification. If such |
q thing were possible. Some OF the faces |
yere wreathed in dimpled smiles; upon |
,thers death stamped looks OF agony aud |
horror that spoke the inexpressible Lam
.rfage OF the soul while struggling with |
Heath Most Of the bodies recovered at |
this place were Catholics. and around |
sheir necks hung emblems OF their re-
iigion- The attire and features OF ma
lorify showed them 20 be Of the lowly |
class. yet there were many bearing evil |
isnce Of culture. refinement md pros
perity.