Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
THOSE WHO PERISHED
List of the Dead Who Have Been
Identified Up to Date.
UNKNOWN COUNTED BY HUNDREDS
The Estimate of the Loss Of Life Will Not
Fall Short Of 5000.
HOW MORGUE RECORDS ABE CONTINUED
Reduction in the Working Force Of the Cambria Iron
Works Severely Felt

L UVAAo oofcAoiJ rus
Even year after the food, it is impossible
to state exactly how many people perished.
The official records do not tell the tale, for
in the first few days Of the intense excite
ment many persons recovered bodies Of
their relatives, buried them themselves
and then moved to distant places without
reporting the facts. In other instances
whole families of foreigners were lost, and
being comparatively unknown in
large manufacturing community like
Johnstown, nobody has since inquired
how many were in the family or
how many of their bodies are yet
undiscovered. The fact that bodies
are still being dug out of the
sand and debris every week shows
that there are very many bones yet
unearthed. Many people believe that scores
and hundreds of corpses still lay buried by
the five and seven feet OF mud which has
filled in the bed of Conemaugh river and
Stony creek.
NEARLY 5000 DROWNED.
| Rev. D. J. Beale, D. D., one of the his
torians of Johnstown's calamity, says in his
book that nearly 4, 900 persons were drowned.
j. j. McLaurin, of Harrisburg, the
author of magnificent vol
the total about 5000. He adds: "The official
report of the morgues show 2,253 bodies
! were handled. Another basis of comparison
is the membership of the churches, The pas
tor of one church with 600 communicates
counted the loss at 200. another with a mem
bership of 300 gave 100 as lost. This is not
counteracted by the estimate of several of
tbe Cambria Iron Company's foremen that
| 1000 of the 5000 employees on the rolls were
drowned. They were mostly strong men, and
| a loss of one in five in such class might
mean a much greater loss in the general
population. There were only 5000 OF the
| 5000 former employees Of the Cambria Iron
| Company remaining. Some of the host pre-
| sumed to have gone away Immediately after
the calamity to other places may, like Ten
nyson's mute-steered dead, have gone up
| ward with the food.'"
| The new directory of Johnstown, pub
! lished in September, by G. 3. Clark, of AL
toona, is not far off this estimate. At the
| time of the flood the whole edition, which
was in book bindery, was lost. From the
proof sheets the names were obtained and
| printed as they were before the flood, with q
/ special record OF those lost. The number of
| drowned is put at 8, 500.
Messrs Gibbs and Akers, of the Johns
| town Tribune believe the number of dead
\ will be under 5000.
State Commissioner j. B. Scott says only
| 1900 perished.
/ THE UNKNOWN DEAD.
| The number of unknown dead is still
1 large. Last November the work of raising
the corpses from temporary graVeyards all
along the Conemaugh Valley was completed
and the bodies reinterred in Grandyiew
Cemetery at Johnstown. Up to this time
| about 800 unknown dead are buried in this
cemetery. In June the last morgue was
4 closed. Since then Undertaken John Hen
/ derson has continued the record of bodies
recovered. As each body comes to him he
enters a full description on the public
| record numbers the description in numeri-
| cal order, then buries the body, and on the
grave plants stake bearing a number tally
| ing with the book number. In this way a
| complete description has been preserved Of
most bodies and with each grave numbered
| it is possible to still reclaim lost ones.
| Many bodies, however, were too far decayed
to give any description, and plenty of graves
| will never be aught else than unknown"
But now, after a years time, it is not likely
that many of the 800 unknown ones will be
identified.
NAMES OF THE KNOWN DEAD.
A list of the known dead, corrected up to
this week with additions from Mr.. John
Henderson's official list, is as follows:
A NDERSON, JOHN; Adams, Henry Clay;
N Alexander, John g.; Alexander, Mrs. John
e.: Andrews, John ST.; Adler, August; Adler,
Miss Louisia; Adler, George; Alberter. Annie;
Alt, George; Alt. Mrs. George; Allison, Florence;
Alexander, Auraliar;s Akers, Alvar; Arthur
Mrs. William; Albetter, Miss; Atkinson, John;
Aubrey, Thomas; Abler. Louis; Adler, Lulu;
Adler. Lena; Anderson, Samuel; Aubey. Kate;
Alberter, Mrs. Teresa; Amps, Mr.; Amps. Mrs;
Amps. Mary; Aaron, Mrs H. B.; Aaron, son Of
Mrs. II. b.
DRINKET, ELMER; Burns, John; Baldwin,
ID George; Barbor, Harry s.; Brown. Peter.
Brown, Sadie; Brown, Emma; Butler, Sarah A.;
Elizabeth; Barrett James: BsDford' Mrs. r
Brennan, -; Brennan. =; Brennan, =; ?
Bowman. Nellie; Brady, John; Bantly, William;
Bryan. William; Barnes Lizzie; Brinker. Miss;
Bricker. Henry; Buckley, D. E; Brinkey, DR.. g;
C.; Benshoff Arthur; Benson son Of Reuben,
Boyle Thomas; Bishop. Julius; Bagley VIII;
lam: Bradley. Thomas; Baumer. Little; Ben
child of William; Bowman, Charles;
Brindle MOllie; Byrne. Ella; Brawley, Maggie.
Benford. son of Mrs. E. E; BenfOrd, Jennie or
Jessie; Brown, Mrs; (colored); Bruhm, Claus;
Bryan, Elizabeth NJ; Burkhart, Mrs. Mollie;
Boyer, Solomon; Blough, Emanuel; Buchanan,
John s; Buchanan. r. l.; Beam, Charles;
Bowman. -; Baker, Mrs. Nelson; Brennan,
Mrs. Edward; Brennan, Mary; Brennan, -i
Benshof, ]. Q. A.; Blair, Mrs; Rehuke.
Charles: Beam. DR.. w. c.; Beam, Mrs. W. c.:
Butler Charles F.; Benford, Maria; Benford,
May; Bates, Mrs. Annie; Beck, Mrs William;
Bracken, Kate; Bracken, Minnie; Bopp, Mamie;
Bitner, A. B.; Bowers, George; Bair, Rosa;
Bridges, Emma; Boyle, Charles. Brawley, John;
Brawley, George; Brawley, Jacob; Buchanan,
Kate J.; Bending, Mrs; Byers, Catherine; Bur-
ket, Frank; Brown, Peter: Barley, Mrs; Brady,
Mrs. Eliza; Beam, Roscoe: Bopp, Jacob; Bloch,
Louisa; Benigh John c.; Bairg. Charles; Boeh-
Ter, Annie: Barker, Mrs. Ed; Brady Mrs. j.;
Bopp, Monacia; Bunting, Mrs; BIough, 8. 7.
CONSTABLE, PHILLIP; Clark, Mrs ]. b.
" Cronin, Daniel; Cox, James g.; CarlIn,
Jonathan; Carroll, Thomas: Campbell, Peter;
Christman, Mrs. A. c.; Christie, A. C.; Conmors,
Mrs. Mary; Craig. ]. j.; Craig, Mrs. ]. J.;
Cooper, Otho; Cunz, Robbie; Cunz Lydia; Coad,
John; Coad, Mrs. John; COad. Willie; Carroll,
Rosie; Cullen, Annie; Clark, Thomas; Cornell
son, Maggie; Constable, Mrs; Clark, Mrs Owen;
Craig Mrs. Catharine; Corr. Mrs. Sarah p;
Greed. David; Cope, Mrs. Margaret; Coleman,
Jessie; Craig. Christopher; Craig, Annie: Gull
liton, Mrs. Frank; Cooper, Mrs. (colored) :Cush,
Mrs. p; Cush, P, Sr.; Couthamer, Mr.; Cush,
Joseph; Cush. ]. Daniel; Curry, Robert B.;
CODY, Mrs. Eliza; Chinaman; Chinaman; Casey,
William; Custer, w. H; Clark, J. H; Greed.
Eliza; Cadugan, Mrs. William; Cadugan, Annie;
Cole, John; Conrad, Mrs. NJ.
DiEVLIN, LIZZIE; Degnan, Mrs. John;
~ Davis, Thomas; Driscoll, Jessie; Delaney,
Mrs; Dougberty. Mary: Davis, Mrs Aaron;
Davis, Mrs. Phillip: Dobbins, Mrs. ]. R.; Davis,
NJ. l.; Davis, Mary; Dimond. Frank; DeFrance,
Mrs. H. T.; Dunn, Mary; Diehl, Carrie: Dillon
James; DIbert John; Dibert Blanche; Downey,
Mrs. Mary; Davis, Frank Drew Mrs. Mary,
Downs Teresa; Dixon, Mrs. r.; Dyer, Mrs;
Davis Mrs. Walter: Davis, Miss Della: Dernia.