Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
A CHAPTER ON CHARITY.
HOW PITTsBURGH RELIEVED FLOOD
SUFFERING.

| Report OF the C1t1zens' Rellet Committed .
and Its Auxiliaries-FaitIIful Stewards
of Magnificent Funds - Interesting
Figures.
The report of the Citizens Relief Com
mittee of Pittsburgh on the Johnstown
flood appears in neat twenty eight page
octave pamphlet. The members of the
Committee are Chairman, William Nc
Creery Reuben Miller, II. l. Gourley, FL.
G. Frck, James B. Scott, Henry Pbipps,
Jr., James McCrea, David Robinson, S.
| S. Marvin, and w. r. Thompson, Treas.
urer.
The first three pages are taken up by
an interesting report of Chairman Nc
CreerY, addressed to the contributors. In
| it be reviews JUhnstown's former prosper
/ ity and the terrible calamity which swept
down upon the unfortunate city on the
last day of May, 1889. He refers to the
citizens meetings all over the world, and
particularly to the memorable meeting of
Pittsburgh citizens in old city hail. at
which the members of the Citizens Re-
lief Committee were named. In giving
short account of the committees work
Mr. McCreery says:
The haste in sendin9 forward relief
renders it impossible to fully report all of
the supplies furnished by the committee.
Ii would afford great pleasure to thank
each individual and locality for the dona-
tions and labor, but the task is impossible.
Night and day, every hour, and every
moment, tens of thousands worked with a
will all over the country, gathering and
hurrying forward food, clothing, money,
ETC., while in the stricken valley other
thousands with warm hearts and busy
hands, were removing wrecks, rescuing
the living, burYing the dead, and com
foring the dazed and sorrowing survi-
vors.n
THE CITIZENS COMMITTEE.
The Citizens Relief Committee makes
the following statement
A very large proportion of the con-
tributions from New York, New England
and the eastern part of the State had been
sent direct to Governor Beaver. Other
portions of our State than Conemaugh
valley had met with severe loss of life and
property IN the same great disaster, and
after the pressing and immediate wants of
each section had been met, it seemed to
us that the harmonious action that had
hitherto prevailed between both custodi
ans of the fund would be made more
effective for the permanent relief of all
parties if a joint committee were formed.
The appointment of a State Commission,
upon which Governor Beaver invited
three of our most efficient workers,
namely, Mr.. James B. Scott, Mr.. Reuben
Miller and Mr.. S. S. Marvin, to serve;met
with the unanimous approval of our Com
mittee, and we at once transferred $780,
900 of the funds then at our command to
the treasurer of the new State Commission.
This Committee, however, continued its
weekly meetings, closing up as rapidly as
possible the work still upon our hands,
and hearing reports of the larger work Of
State Commission from our representa-
tives, the gentlemen above named. At a
later date, September 81, 1899, we directed
our treasurer, William r. Thompson, to
transfer the additional sum of 100000 to
the commission.
j. B. sCoTT's REPORT.
The report of James B. Scott, Chair
man of the Relief Corps at Johnstown,
to William McLreery, Esq, is prose
epic. 1t relates the deeds of men who
dared everything in behalf of suffering
humanity. Mr.. Scott speaks in glowing
terms of the hearty cooperation of the
Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio
railroads, and of the unlaggng zeal with
which the Relief Corps pressed forward
to the assistance of the unfortunates,
after leaving the train at the Sang Hol-
low tower, four miles west of Johnstown
The description of how the two com
panies of men, under the command of
| Captain A. A. Logan, and DR.,
Ii. L. Campbell, succeeded in pushing
through two carloads of provisions to
Johnstown by Sunday morning after sur
! mounting the most unheard of obstacle,
is most graphic. Then follows descrip-
tion of the scene presented to the view
of the party on that eventful Sabbath
morn, whose light broke on one Of the
fearfulest and ghastliest sights ever look
ed upon, or the imagination of Dante
could have conceived. twas reign of
horror and devastation, an earthly ante
chamber of hell" writes Nh. Scott.
Following Mr.. Scotrs repurt of ten
pages, is the report of the LADIES' Relief
Committee, covering three pages
WORK OF THE LADIES.
At the call of Chairman McCreery
about twenty ladies met at the chamber
of commerce on June 4th in order to
provide for survivors coming from John
stown. They at once organized by APP
pointing an Executive Committee, consist.
ing of Mrs. ". G. Cambell, Mrs George
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