The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-08-06

Total Cash Contributions to Suffer
ferses. s4.lie,5oi.4s--To,ai
Drowned. 2.I42.

The report OF Secretary kremer, OF Tie
Flood Relief Commission, appointed To dis
tribute The funds contributed for the relief
of the sufferers in Pennsylvania by the Hood
Of May 3lst and jane l, 1889, has just been
made public He states that there was dis
fribnied by the commission in the eastern
part Of the State. outside of Cambria Coun-
ty. $2i, 40s IS in cash, and 5000 6s in sup
plies. In these eastern districts rs persons
were drowned The total cash contributions
10 the sufferers, so far as the commission
has been able to obtain information, amount
TO si.llc, SOILS.
The most careful investigation, continued
10 the present time, shows the number Of
drowned to be 2.l42. Ninefy-nine families,
numbering from two 10 ten members each,
were entirely washed away. OF food wid-
ovs there are i2i. and i9s widowers. The
orphans and ha... orphans reach the number
Of 5G5. There were found and identified
i,Il5 bodies found and not identified. CSC
missing. 39I. The number Of males lost
was 923. of whom 49S were found and iden-
titled, and 252 found and not identified the
females lost number ! l,2l9, Of whom 6i7
were found and identified and $40 found but
not identified
The sex of "a persons who were found
could not be asceriained Johnsiown
quota OF dead was / ia Cambria City, $50
Woodvale, 30 Conemaugh Borough, l67
Miilville, ll5; South Fork 5 4; Mineral
Point, iG Franklin Borough, II; East
Conenaugh, I3 hotel guests and railroad
passengers, 63. Forty nine of the dead were
under year old 1856 from l TO 5, and II
from to 10; 3I3 from 10 to 70 5I3 from
% to 30; 200 from 80 TO 40 l73 from 40 to
50 l35 from so to co 102 from co TO 10:
3e from 20 to 50 G from so to9O The ages
of 425 could not be ascertained.
Including The amounts which did not pass
through tbs commissions hands, with
those that did. the various States and terri
tories with the District Of Columbia, con-
tributed S3G0l ,ol7 so. and the foreign coun-
tries s14I ,3Oo9s. The largest contributions
were from the following States: California,
$93, 1922; Connecticut, s6s.0i475: District
of Columbia, $40. .357 07; Illinois, $2O6. .0s6 So;
Massachusetts,. 255,646l2; Michigan, $66.-
esl % New York, S9ll, ,76l G5 Ohio, $500
243.02; Pennsylvania, 81 ,lS3. f03 81 Rhode
Island, $40, 99s77. OF the foreign countries,
England contributed the largest amount,
$42, 500 50 GermaEys share was $S7 065.36,
and that of France $25,05233.
The receipts of the commission were as
follows From Governor Beaver, 81 ,236, l46.-
IS; from the Philadelphia Relief Committee,
$G00,00o; from the Pittsburgh Relief Com
miltee. $4,000; from the New York Relief
Committee, s5l6, 100 s5-a total of s2,9l2,-
346.30. The expenditures in the Conemaugh
Valley were s., ,592. .936 Os in the State, out
side OF the Conemaugh Valley, s246, 6,475.26
general and Office expenses, SJ,T2S.S9, or a
total OF s., ,sl5 l40 SO. The commission has
So ,2O5 AZ in cash in its hands.
Attached 10 the report is an appendix
showing that contributions came from forty
six states and territories and fourteen for
eign countries.