The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-11
THE NUMBERED DEAD
Eighteen Hundred and Eighty
Nine Bodies Recovered.
HOYT SHERMAN, JR., RECEIVER.
An Old Union Pacific Employee Appointed
to Ofiice-The Register of the Land
0fiiee-0ther Appointments.

the work at the stone bridge to-day has
been more satisfactory than any 50 far.
A stationary engine on the bridge has done
more work than fifty men. Huge masses
of broken and bent iron and immense tim
bers which the men have been trying to
move for days were lifted from their places
and moved with ease. Fourteen more of
these great helpers have been sent for.
A heavy charge of dynamite was set of
to-day and did a great deal of good 1t
demonstrated that heavy charge must be
used in order to do any good.
Three bodies were found to-day near the
stone bridge and ten or twelve were found
in that vicinity. All commissary stations
are kept busy. At the Cambria one, vast
amount OF provisions and clothes have been
distributed. Long lines of sufferers stood
IN the heat and rain waiting their turn. No
one Is furnished without orders, and every
department is under the strictest diSci-
pine Most excellent work is being done
here. Some good work is being
done at the Americas club com
missary and others. The hurried
burial OF the dead in Prospect Hill ceme-
terry is causing the residents of that beau
tlful suburb OF Johnstown a great deal of
annoyance and may cause much sickness.
The bodies were placed in cheap collins and
none were, secure. The odor from the de
composed bodies arising to the surface
attracted number of dogs, which make
night hideous by bowling and paw
ing over the graves. The collins
were put only three feet under ground
as there was no time to dig graves deeper.
1t was found necessary to place guards in
a little cemetery containing POO graves to
drive the dogs away. To-day DR.. Miller
instructed the Americas rclub members,
who are in camp near the cemetery, to Sc
cure some disinfectant and place it on the
graves, thus killing the odor
The first funeral of flood victim that
might be truly called such and
IN which the corpse was taken to
the cemetery III wagon accompanied by
mOurnerS III carriages and burial services
held over remains, was that Of thirty-tive
bodies recently recovered, eleven of them
at the stone bridge. Those taken out of the
water were in much better condition than
those found among the debris. The latter
were not only horribly bloated and dis
torted IN features, but decomposition had
set in. The stencil arising therefrom was
so uRbearable that the men at the various
morgues found it a disagreeable
duty to wash them. The list of
unknown is growing, as the means
VI LOOnlIIlCdllOu DetOult more insecure
The report of DR.. Sibbett, addressed to
DR.. Croft, may be givenin brief as follows
Fourth Ward school house mOrgue, bodies
received, 219; Pennsylvania Railroad Sta
ton morgue, 49,; Morrellville morgue, lbs:
St Columbia church mOrgue in Columbia
city. S35: Il. Halves morgue. 1876; Millville
81: Grand View chapel, us; Old Ninvah
Indiana company morgue, ST; Niuveh
proper, 1913. Total 1889
Tho ofinia1 oF
board Of health issued to day
says: Reports received last night
from inspectors to this board show that the
favorable condition stated in the first re-
port continues. No contagious disease of
any kind prevails. There are few cases
OF mild type of measles, but no signs of
any epidemic The bodies still in the
wreck are SO covered with earth as not to
DE dangerous to health. There is every
precaution being taken to prevent the
contamination of the water supply for
towns below Johnstown. There is no
ground for alarm in this matter at present
The weather is cool and favorable Though
the destruction of life has been appalling.
there is not at present any occasion to be
discouraged.
Ilr. Scott said this afternoon that work
will continue as it has until Wednesday,
when everything will be handed over to
the state, as they We're obtaining some sort
of system and had finally brought some
kind of order out of chaos
The work of relief will have to continue
until the people can take hold for them
selves When the Cambria Iron works and
other mills resume, the people viii be able
to earn money. The great aim at the pre-
sent is to give the survivors work The
line of charity will gradually shade into
that of ability of taking care Of themselves.
Until this time, people will have to be taken
care of. Mr.. Munson, in charge of the
removal of the bodies from the ruins, says
! that up to this date there had been found
over $1,000 in money in the pockets of the
victims. The largest sum was Si,ll+23