Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-14

the ruined district, and there is not one Of
his houses standing, the ground being as
clear as a field. He was worth $500, 1000
last Friday. Now he is a bankrupt. This
story could he repeated a hundred times.
SOME OF THE INCIDENTS.
While the searchers were at work in
.Johnstown proper the fifth day after the
flood. they came upon a house and heard u
noise under it, and chopped through the
roof and discovered a man in the top story
of the house. They pulled him out but he
was too weak to give his name, and no one
has identified him as yet.
A row of human feet was noticed SUCK
ing out of the sand on the rlVer-bank near
Kernville. A gang Of men soon unearthed
the bodies of two men and one girl, all III q
good state of preservation.
BY sunrise at Johnstown, Thursday, a
thousand funerals were cOursing the green
sides of the mountains. There were no
hearses, few mollrners, and as little solem-
nifty as formality. The majority of the
collins were of rough pine. The pail
bearers were strong OK teams, and instead
of six pall-bearers to one coffin there were
generally six collins to one team.
DROWNED IN THE LOOKUP.
On Memorial day, Thursday, May Both,
there was little drunkenness and but one
arrest for it. This one person was the son
of Squire Jones, Il very Well-knOWn and
highly respected man. Young Jones did
not get his hearing before the flood came,
and was found dead in the lookup yester-
day by Samuel Duff. Z Young Jones par
ents reside on the hill away out OF the reach
of the flood, and they did not know where
he was until his body was discovered i'll a
Ill al, hn1 bo
at home, as he usually was, he would have
been alive to-day.
A CASHIER WITH HIS POCKETS STUFFED
! WITH CASH,
The body of a Cashier of one of the loca-
| banks was found in the jam by the bridge
and his pockets were bullying out with huge
rolls of currency. He had evidently grabbed
all the money in sight when the flood caught
him and his brother clerks, with the idea
that he might escape alive and protect sucl
OF the bank IS funds as he could lay his
hands on. The money taken from hin
amounted to a little less than $1,000.
HER REASON DETHRoNED.
On the hospital train which left for Pitts
! burg last night there was among the pas
sengerS Il woman whose condition was pit
iolC llttIl Hcl IClfiU1NcS
home had been carried away, but at frs
she did not seem to comprehend her los
and went to work with q vim, nursing ;lnt
caring fol- the sick and injured. At las
the strain proved too much for her and sh
Succumbed. Her reason was dethrOned
and she became violently insane. She wa
placed i'll the care of Miss Dr. Bennett, O
the State Asylum at Norristown.
ADOPTED ELEVEN CHILDREN.
The magnanimous charity of the bette
class of the surviving citizens is certainl,
without parallel in the history of catas
trophies. One illustration will suffice t,
show the intense fellow-feeling and goot
will of this class. Mrs. Cronin, of Pros
pect Hill, who is woman of modest means
has six children of her own. They rang
in age from IS years down, but, believing
that she could do something for the orphan
who a week ago lost their parents, she ha
adopted eleven more, they being the childrel
of two families.