Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-29
The Official Report of the Relief
Commission on the Johns
town Disaster.
MONEYS RECEIVED AND DISBURsED
Clearly Accounted for, and Show Balance
on Hand of $67,2O5 of a Total Of
S4,116,SO1 IS Paid In.
TIE LOSS OF LIFE NUMBERS 2,142'
Comprehensive Statistical Information Regarding the
Work Of the Commission.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 THE DISPATCH ]


HARRISBURG, July 2S-J. B. Kremer,
Secretary of the Flood Relief Commission,
appointed to distribute tine fund which
Governor Beaver received for the relief Of
the sufferers in the Conemaugh Valley and
other localities, has completed his report
He says:
The contributions of the nation and of the
world in general through individuals and
local committees, were concentrated at foul
principal points: In the hands of Governor
Beaver at Harrisburg; at Philadelphia with
the Permanent Relief Committee of the city
at Plttsburg with the Flood Relief Committee
there, and at New York with their Relief Com
Inittee. Immediately on the formation of the
commission the Governors fund" was trans
ferred to it and later the other funds, except
such sums as had been sent direct to the
several flooded districts or expended by the
committees IN the way OF relief, were trans
ferred to the commission for distribution.
Included in the Governors fund" are sums
from many general relief committees, some OF
them being from the Relief Committee of Bos-
ton, $780, of Brooklyn. $4,000; of Ohio.
through Governor Foraker, over $4,000: of
San Francisco. $50 600; of the District of Colum-
bia, over S4l 600; of Providence, R. l., over $685.
900; of Newark, n. J., nearly $4,000; of Syra-
n. III
lures of New Hampshire and Connecticut,
$4,000 each, and from the citizens of Iowa
through the State Treasurer, Sl4, ,526 49,
AMOUNTS PAID BY COMMITTEES.
On June and Il, the relief committee Of
New York sent to Governor Beaver moneys to
the amount of 500 900, which have been carried
on the books as part of the New York fund.
and the same committee transferred to the
Iuly
tober Z, the further sums of $4,000, $3.50, 900,
100000 and sic, l99 IS. On July 15 by formal
action, the Pittsburg Relief Committee gave
into the hands of the commission S400. 900, and
on September Is the further sum of $l60O00
The Philadelphia Relief Committee, by for
NAL vote, transferred to the commission on
July II, $4,000, and on October 1 100000. In
addition to these four funds. large sums of
money were sent by individuals and by local
committee, without passing through the hands
of the commission, to Johnstown, Wiliamsport
and other places, to be distributed by the sew
eral local committees of the districts.
Among the moneys sent to the Governor
were some accompanied by requests that they
be appropriated to specific purposes; this, in
all cases was done, and the recipients were fur
nIshed the names of the donors, and were re-
quested to make to them personal acknowl-
edgments. In addition to the above, mer-
chants IN the cities gave assistance to their
customers in the valley. by canceling their en-
tire claims in some cases, and by largely re-
ducing them in others; contributions were sent
70 individuals, churches, schools fremen,
band. postofhce employees, policemen and by
the several trades unions to members of their
crafts, a statement of all which it has been i'm
possible to obtain,
SOCIETY CONTRIBUTIONS.
The many charitable and social organizations
of the country sent special contributions for
their fellow LIembers. There were subscribed
and distributed by them in addition to supplies,
amounts as follows, as was learned from