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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

Union and John streets. Back along Stony
creek some extensive building has been car
ried on, and now that oblone district ia
pretty solidly built up with frame dwellings
almost down to the awful fire district
around the stone railroad bridge.
IN KERNvILLE.
In Kernville probably 200 new dwelling
houses have been erected since the flood.
Some odd things are noticed here. Next
door to B. f. Horner's residence stands
large two-story rame, which looks like a
new house. It is simply painted. 1t f1oated
there the night of the flood, having come up
from the lower end of the town. The house
that had stood there had been wrecked, and
here stood new house next morning on the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

Grander sight the world meier saw,
Poured, and poured as flood that wrecked thee,
Smitten queen of Conemaugh;
Came like rift of sunshine breaking
Der some dark tempestuous sea;
Promise in the future Of the
Broader brotherhood to be.
Heal, o Lord the broken nearredi
Wipe the tears of those who weep;
And this grand and generous nation
OF Our Father, bless and keep.
GEORGE HENRY THURSTor.
PITTsBURG, June Is, 1889.
The above was written by Mr., Thurston short
Iv after the awful calamity. The author did
not desire its publication, but finally consented
to its appearance in this issue Of The DIS
PATCH.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
= CEIVED at the office of the City Con-
troller, until THURSDAY, May %, 1890, at P.
NJ for the repairing and remodeling of No,
Liberty.
Plans and specifications can be seen at the
office of F. ]. Osterling, Architect, No. AZ
Fifth avenue. Pittsburg. Pa.
Bond in double the amount of bid must ac-
company each proposal, said bond to be pro-
bated before the Mayor or City Clerk.
The Department of Awards reserve the
right to reject any or all bids.
J. o. BROWN,
Chief Department of Public Safety.
PrTTsBURG, May IT, 1890. my20-75-D
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REBUILDING A CITY,
A Description of the RemodeIed
JohnStown as 1t Looks
To-Day,
AN INCREASE OF go STORES.
One Million Dollars Expended for
New Buildings and
THE WORK HAS ONLY COMMENCED.
Interesting Facts and Figures as to the
Progress Made In
The WORK HAS ONLY COMMENCED.
Interesting Facts and Figures as to tht
Progress Made In
REDEEMING THE FLOOD-SwEPT VALLEY

Johnstown is still q marvel. One year
ago every store and counting room was
either gutted or completely wrecked. In
the devastated district not a dollars worth
of goods was left unharmed. Several thou
sand houses were swept away, and between
5000 and 1000 customers disappeared for
ever.
Yet, the mercantile appraisement this
month shows that there is more business in
Johnstown to-day than before the food.
This sppraisement takes in the food-swept
district throughout the Conemaugh Valley.
From a summary of the appraisers list it is
found that South Fork village last year had
business houses and this year u; Mineral
Point, last year and 2 this; East Cone
maugh, 9 last year and this; Franklin
borough, z last year and this.
POOR wooDvALE.
Woodvale, last year and none this;
First ward of Conemaugh borough (present
Ninth ward), 3 last year and IL this; Sec
ond ward OF Conemaugh borough, last
year and none this; First ward of Johns
town, 16 last year and Is this; Second ward
u 10 last N0dA anu eAASs PAAu-
cipally in the temporary buildings on the
Public Square; Third ward of Johnstown,
5s last year and 90 this; Fourth ward OF
Johnstown, SO last year and 49 this;
Fifth ward of Johnstown, 8 last year and IA
this; Sixth ward of Johnstown, last year
and this; Seventh ward OF Johnstown, 5
last year and II this (Moxham being now
included); Stony Greek township, adjoining
the city. 8 last year and II this; Grubbtown
(present Eighth ward). 2 last year and 4
this; Prospect (present Twelfth ward), none
last year and l this; First ward OF Millville
(present Thirteenth ward), last year and 8
this; Second ward of Millville (present
Fourteenth ward) 4 last year and this;
First ward Of Cambria (present Fifteenth
wsrd), last year aud 9 this; Second ward
of Cambria (present Sixteenth ward), 3 last
year and 8 this; Morrellville, 9 last year
and IL this Coopersdale, last year and
this.
A REMARKABLY SHOWING.
The figures in the foregoing foot up 213
stores or business houses for 1889, and BOB
in 1890. OF course, there was demand for
more stores; new homes were being rebuilt,
and had to be reftted and refurnished
throughout. Everything went with the
hood-china, bed clothes, glassware, furni-
ture, carpets, cooking utensils, etc. All
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

washed there year ago. This vacant area
is bounded by the stone railroad bridge and
Market street, and by Lincoln street and
the Conemaugh river. You can count on
your fingers the buildings that are standing
in this wide space, but you cannot so easily
calculate from yawning cellars, fence posts
and other fading landmarks how many
dwellings formerly stood along the streets
here. Through this section of the worst
flooded district run Main, Locust and
Washington streets, while crossing the
oasis in the other direction are Walnut,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

stantial material, however. G. w. Showe's
bakery is two-story frame, while opposite
stands double brick House with ornamental
front which belongs to Mr.. Won Newland.
The residence of Mr.. Joseph Zimmerman,
once large in size, has only been replaced
by little bit of brick law office. MANY
members of the family were lost in the
food.
AN INCIDENT RECALLED.
Just opposite, William ii. Levergood
sells hardware in cheap two-story frame.
Formerly the site was occupied by the old
Levergood mansion, a substantial two-story
brick. Not brick of it could be found
after the water subsidized. Mr.. Levergood's
mother was found the next day, dead, Sit
ting in her own armchair, in the cemetery
at hernvllle, nearly a mile away from
where the flood picked her up, 1t had car
ried her all that distance and deposited her,
chair and all, among the tombstones. There
was very peaceful look upon her face, and
her features had been spared unsightly
bruises. Mrs. Buck, a woman in the house
with Mrs. Levergood at the time, was after
ward found alive on the branches of a tree
in the neighborhood
n. j. Swank, a painter, has erected a
small frame shop across the street. Then
comes Susgarder & Greer, with two-story
frame furniture store. The next new block
is frame also, and is occupied as three stores.
Formerly it was a tenement house.
WHERE % GIRLS PERISHED.
Mrs. Pershing formerly lived near here in
frame residence. On the site of that
dwelling is now two-story frame with
three storerooms in it. A two-story frame
has been built on the site of the Hamilton
residence, where Jacob Hamilton and his
three daughters lost their lives. At Lever
good street nothing has yet been built upon
house of John Clark. In it perished Mrs.
Clark and her three children. Several
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

erected since the flood, which have been in
steady operation. But the contract for the
enlarged plant calls for structure ], 800 feet
long by 400 wide. This addition will cost
$4,000.
UPPER WASHINGTON STREET.
On Washington street, from Clinton clear
down to the Point, the buildings are all
new. Everything there was food-swept.
From Clinton to Market the buildings are
on only one side of the street. They are
nearly all rebuilt OF frame-some 80 of them.
A good many of these are restaurants and
saloons. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
depot was repaired early in the year, and
the wooden freight sheds have been erected
since.
At the corner of Washington and Market
streets John Coads has erected a very hand
some five.story brick hotel. It was a mere
frame structure before the flood. Just
across the street from Coads' new house is
the city engine house-a small frame struct-
ure with little belfry. Before the flood
the city had rather pretty engine house.
From this point down, Washington street is
only supplied with
A FEW SCATTERING SHANTIES.
The vacant lots and stunted foundations
of former buildings are numerous. Slow
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
y CEIVED at the office Of the City Control
Ter until P. NJ. on SATURDAY, June Z, 1890,
for fitting mp Offices in Municipal Hall for use Of
Department of Public Safety. Plans and speci-
ncations for said work can be seen at the Office
of Bickel & Brennan. architects, Hamilton
building. Bond in double tine amount of bid.
with two sureties, must accompany each pro-
Mayor or City Clerk. The Department OF
Awards reserves the right to reject any or all
bids j. o. BROWN,
my2S-8S Chief Department Public Safety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

oundations of the old. So Emil Young,
the owner of the foundations, hunted up
the owner OF the house, bought it from him,
and to-day is living comfortably in it. The
case of John Shorps, OF Kernville, is similar
to this. He purchased the house which
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

Rebuilding Wood, Morrel & Co.'s Store.
the BIS. Buildings enough have been
put up there for 1000 population. Os-
bourne, Hornerstown, and the hillsides-
all are dotted with scores OF new frame
houses for homes.
Such is picture OF the busy, very busy
Johnstown of to-day. Much has been done.
Much remains to do.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
Information About Johnstown.

For some of the information in the his
toricaI part of our Johnstown articles to-day,
THE DISPATCH is indebted to "The Story
of Johnstown," handsome volume written
by J. J. McLaurin, of Harrisburg; and also
to the interesting history of the flood written
by Rev. d. j. Beale, D. D., of Johnstown.
The photographs of the Johnstown OTTO
day were made for THE DISPATCH by
Herbert E. King, of this city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

DAINTERS - SEALED PROPOSALS
Il will be received up until FRIDAY, May
81, 1880, at o'clock, p NJ. for painting the Com
troller's safe. Information furnished on ap-
plication. The right reserved to accept OF re.
ject q. 8. MORROW, Controller.
my20-1l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

RID yourself of the discomfort and dauger
attending cold, by using DR.. D. Jayne's
Expectorant, an old established curative
for coughs, sore throat and pulmonary afso-
tlonh
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
THE AWFUL BLIGHT.
Continued from Nineth Paos.

is one of the most romantic and thrilling
stories OF the deIuge.
IT SOUNDED A DEATH KNELL.
The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church
was obliterated from the face of the earth.
The Welsh Baptist Church was badly dam
aged. The Welsh Congregationalist Church
was destroyed and the German Catholic
Church was knocked full of holes in one
wall by the debris and logs that were driven
against it. In the Lutheran Church is the
steeple where hangs the bell that strikes the
hour of the day, and by the large clock
dials Of which three-fourths of the residents
of Johnstown set their watches. This clock
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
ABouT THREE mI1.1JoNs

The above balance of $40, ,631 is being
gradually reduced by drafts upon it for new
claims.
The above does not include che money
sent to the Local Finance Committee, which
amounted to between 500, 900 and $3.50, 900.
Nor does 1t include the money expended by
the Pittsburg Relief Committee before the
Flood Commission was organized, which
amounted to $3.50, 900. On the whole, there
fore, there has been about So, 900, 900 left in
Conemaugh Valley since the flood.
Secretary Kremer's report showed that
there had been left by the flood 116 widows,
to whom have been paid S179,471 and to
whom, for their children. will be paid
S95, ,250 in annual payments ranging as the
number and ages of their children. Secre-
tary Kremer said: ''The total number known
to have been lost is 2,228; there have been
recovered I, 676 bodies, and of that number
1,021 have been identified and GA are uni
Identified.
FUTURE BOOK.
The Commission is now arranging for the
publication of large book Of more than
1000 pages. It will give full details as to
the work of the body, and will make the
most minute statement of financial opera
tions possible. It will trace back every
dollar of the contributions as near its source
as can be done, and then it will give the
circumstances under which this dollar was
spent. A narrative of the disaster will be
written, giving some important matter
hitherto unpublished about the extent of
the phenomenal rainfall which caused the
flood
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

ALWAYS use Platt's Chlorides to disinfect
the house drains, water closets, sinks, etc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
A CHASTITY MEMORY.

Recall to your minds the fire at the stone
railroad bridge-the fire that ignited that
great raft of wreckage in which were en-
tangled hundreds of human bodies. Still
remember, if you can, the stealth with
which the flames spread over its wide area
that memorable Friday night when there
was no help at hand. Without much effort
on your part your ears will again echo with
wreck alive, were slowly burning to death
now. And as you remember how, at dawn
on the next morning, you watched with
horror the clouds of smoke that arose from
greater funeral pyre than India ever
built, you may complete this picture Of
Johnstown on Saturday, June 1, 1889.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

never stopped, and at 5 O'Clock that Friday
afternoon, less than 40 minutes after the
monster wave from Lake Conemaugh struck
the town, it slowly and deliberately tolled
the hour. Many people who were strug-
Cling for their lives at the time in the
meshes of the wreck have since related how
horrible the clang of that deliberate, agoniE-
ing bell seemed to them. 1t continued to
strike throughout that long night and in all
the weary weeks that followed. It still
strikes,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
DISPOSITION OF MILLIONS.
HOW THE STATE COMMISSION HANDLED
THE MONEY GIVEN TO YOUNGSTOWN.

hO" ne SthtE WIN OhNDLEb
THE MONEY GIVEN TO YOUNGSTOWN.
A Very Small Balance Now on Hand-Pro-
vision Made for Orphnns-A Permanent
Hospital 60 be Built-The Commission
VIII Publish nm Exhaustive Report.
1t took many months to remove that en-
barge of debris from the streets of Johns
town. 1t took many thousands of dollars,
too. Beside all this the people were border
ing Oh starvation the first few DAYS after the
flood. They had to be fed first, and then
they had to be clothed. After that. places
OF shelter had to be hurriedly built Then
it was discovered that many of the survivors
had no money to rebuild their homes with.
The task before the State Relief Commission,
appointed by Governor Beaver, was pro-
digious one. But it successfully fulfilled
every duty. The commission made q final
report on January Is, 1890. It was as
follows;
Amount received by Governor d.
rectly. 80
Amount received from the Phila-
deiphia committee. ............ 100000 90
Amount received from the Pitts
burg committee. tee.................... $4,000 90
Amount received from the New
York committee. 5l6,Iss IS
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UNFIT FOR USE.

st. Marks Episcopal Church, on Locust
street, was also annihilated. The Dunk.
ard Church in Kernville had one corner
knocked out by the wreckage floating
against it.
The Presbyterian Church stood the ordeal,
though the frame structure of 1.-THE origi-
nal church-was elected from its position.
Only the image of the Virgin Mary was left
at the German Catholic Church in Cam
bria. The interior of st. Columbia Church
there was also badly wrecked. And thus it
was with nearly every other sanctuary
which withstood the food in the city and lts
boroughs. They were filled with water, mud
and wreckage and rendered unfit for use for
months. Divine worship on the first Sum-
day after the catastrophe was held in the
open air. Then for weeks and months the
few halls that remained were occupied, or
services held in the storerooms.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS-SEAL
N proposals will be received at the office of
Citv Controller until FRIDAY. the 9Th day Of
June, a D. 1890, at P. NJ, for the following,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
Story
-oF THE
CONEMAUGH.

AL the night, and all the morning,
Clouds their aqueous burdens poured,
Ali the night and all the morning
Through the mountain gorges roared,
Like to tiger scenting blood,
Ragged and roared the tawny flood,
Swift, impetuous; and resistless,
Like feather, downward bore
Huge primeval boulders massive,
Forest from the hillsides tore.
Grand old giants Of the forest,
Sturdy pine, and sturdier oak,
Like to weeds and grasses tossing,
Into fragments rift and broke.
Higher. higher, rose the waters,
Faster. thicker. fell the rain,
Ger its bounds the river swelling.
Flooded all the narrow plain.
Still the children laughed and shouted.
Still the writer held his pen,
Laughed and joked the busy master.
Laughed and Joked his journeymen.
Denser, lower. hung the rain clouds.
Down the hillsidss torrent poured.
While the tawny Conemaugh
Like hungry lion roared.
Still the brawny workmen labored,
Still on lovers maidens smiled,
Still the merchant sold and bartered,
Still the mother rocked her child;
And the City of the Gorges,
City of the Conemaugh.
With the water tapping thresholds,
Flowing through the builded Streets
Naught Of coming danger saw.
Felt no fear, or gloom Of awe;
Heard no sound of hast'ning feet
To the hills for safety fleeing;
Saw no men with quick'ning PAGES,
From their homes with pallid faces
Gath'rfng wife, and babe, and treasurer
None the danger fearing, seeing.
All pursued their work or pleasure.
Still her needle piled the seamstress,
And the housewife wrought with care;
Still the maiden. singing. fingered,
Binding up her braided hair.
Higher crept the yellow waters,
Higher rose the river still,
Creeping up the steps and porches,
Creeping DER the warehouse sill.
Still the banker told his silver,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-25
COMPLETE DESOLATION
Points Coupe Parish q Scene Of Ruin and
Devastation.
Hundreds OF Families Rendered
Homeless by the Fiood-A Prob
ability That Human Lives
Have Been Lost.

NEW ORLEANS, April 2l.-A dispatch
from Bayou Sara says that ruin and desc
lation meets the eye on every side in
Pointe Coupe parish. Destruction is COM
plete. Not a plantation Is left above
water. and not lcvec is uubrokcn, while
hundreds Of families are homeless. Thou
sands OF stock have been drowned and
from meagre reports received from the
interior IL is quite probable that human
life has been sacrificed To the flood.
Standing on the deck of a relief steamer
last evening the full extent df the disaster
could bc seen. Grouping together on
little knolis between broken levecs
through which the water rushed
with ungovcrnable fury. were scores Of
people, both white and black; some with
babies i'm arms, while many had dogs Sc
cured by cords. Many of them had moth
they wore on their backs. Whenever the
Dacota discovered a scene like this
stage was swung out and the stricken ones
taken on boarl. Equally as sad "a scene
was that Of the poor dumb cattle standing
in the water actually starving.
United States Engineer Douglas telc-
graphs that Point Pleasant levee, Tensas
from Il will no doubt overflow the greater
part OF the parish. Capt. John A. Grant,
superintendent Of the Texas q Pacific
railroad. speaking of the Morpanza
crevasse, says; "This is one Of the worst
calamities that could have been avoided
II the people had only made AN effort.
They are To blame for il. Now they are
creating big hubub about sending relief
up there and all that sort of thing, while
before the disaster occurred they seemed
utterly unaware of the impending danger.
II need be, they should have raised $780,
A.. I...l.u al 4. n n.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-25
WHAT THEY TALKED OF
Major Aa6inniS Puts In a Pleasant Hint
for Senator Gray.
Reasons That Cannot Be Found out
to Account for Delay In the
Naming OF Mr.. keppier
for Postmaster.

Special In the standard.
WASHINGTON. April 2i.-Thcrc was a
pause in the appointment of Mr.. Keppler
for the Anaconda postoffice, which l.
finally reported to-day. The reason for IL
ID not known. For while the department
was urging Congressman Carter to hurry
up and he was In telegraphic communion
tion with Anaconda, and finally Mr..
kcppler's name was handed in as the
popular choice of large number OF Ana
conda people. just then Sanders and
Power were seated and there was pause.
just what the trouble was il is difficult 10
say. Sanders knew but he would not tell.
The question is said TO have been talked
about when Sanders and Power visited
the white house last Tuesday.
In his speech at the Clark-Nlaginnis din
ner last night, the major closed his speech
by saying, IL would that Montana's first
presidential vote could he cast for the
learned. the eloquent, the noble Senator
Gray Of Delaware" Gray in response said
he had taken mp Montana's case as
routine duty and 1t had become labor OF
love. Senator Hearst made one of the
best speeches Of the evening. full Of quaint
phrases and sound common sense. There
was good speech from Senator Morgan
president and he had been for Gray for
chief justice when Fuller was appointed
Gov. Toole, who is in New York. has
told friend that his wedding with Miss
Rosecrans will he quiet one and that il
will take place in williar,ls hotel IN this
city at date not yet publicly announced.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-25

NEw YORK, April 2i.-Coroncr Wood Of
Port Richmnod. l.. l.. said to-day that he
felt sure that the body of the Willow
Brook suicide was that Of Michael Eyraud.
the Partisan strangler, who killed Deputy
Marshal Gouiln. After the inquest was
adjourned the last iurymcn looked on.
The coroner found marks on the body
such as Eyraud was said to have. The
left Icy gave evidence that il had AT one
time been broken. The French stranglcr's
leg Is said to have been broken in the
same place. The large and peculiar
shaped eyes were similar to those Of
Eyraud and the forehead, nose. and
hands all correspond with those of the
French murderer. Before the coroner
aud his jury left the county house at midi
night they were fully convinced that the
body Of the suicide was that of Eyraud.
Coroner Wood cam" specially Tn this city
to inform the French consul that the sui
| cid" was the French Strangl"r Eyraud and
| to inquire as tp what action th" French
government intended To tax" in the mat.
/ ter.
Th" coroner notified the French consul
I That gentleman later viewed ia" remain,
with two persons who knew Eyraud and
th,y declared the remains were not his.