The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-03
DEATH LIST
 IS NOW l5O
TWENTY-FOUFl BODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED AND
 IDENTIFIED
Work of Relief Has Only Just Begun and Health Authorities May Apply Torch to the Should
 ering Ruins.

Austin. Pa, October 2-Twenty four known dead, eieltdy-six missing and believed to be buried behea,, the debris is the offical census to night of Austin's loss of life in tn, flood of Saturday. It is conceded however, that several, if not man. visitors and strangers were in towl that day and undoubtedly perished Including them and allowing dor in eyitabIs errbrs in compilation, tho total Of dead probably will reach on, hundred and fifty.
 Twenty-one of the bodies recover. ed have been identified and of the missing. hope is entertained thai some may yet be accounted for.
 The problem tonight is to recover the dead from the thousands of tons of debris choking the narrow val ley. To do so before it becomes necessary to burn the ruins and save Inc living from an epidemic an army of laborers must reach the town with in the next 36 hours, officials say. Otherwise the torch may transform the wreckage into the pyre of most of those who have perished.
 The single line of wire out of Aus tin carried an urgent plea for work men to the mayors of Buffalo, PitIs- burg and Philadelphia.
 Give Us our dead is Austins cry, voiced by State Senator Bald win, who lost father, mother. sister and other relatives. Only the body of his father John E. Baldwin, mad Ieen recovered tonight.
 The nine mile railroad leading here from Keating Summit was given over today to rescne and relief work Locked cars pulled out of the sum- init for Austin. When they reached here the workers SSdetrained. The drones were sent back.
 Every man on Austin's streets ex- cept newspaper men were conscript- ed for service but despite the efforts of the authorities only $50 were working at sunset.
 Smouldering flames in the debris burst forth anew in the wreckage this afternoon, but i. is not believed any bodies were burned.
 Austin stands to man against tlhe suggestion that it maybe neces- fary to put the torch to her ruins. Feelsng runs high and should the health authorities be forced to this extremity there is no foretelling the result. The Pennsylvania state cen stabulary holds the town in it's grasp tonight, however, and the troopers win remain here until State Commissioner of Health Dixon gives the word to go.
 The food swept valley offers no shelter for the laborers who are ex- pscted here tomorrow and unless they come in bunk cars they cannot he cared for Eight homeless men slept last night on the floor of a house spared by the waters two women and five children, all refugees slept in the room above them, whi'e the house hold of five huadled into two remain ing rooms This is but typical ol conditions everywhere in the flood zone.
 Food and clothing reached Austin in carload lots today and there was enough to eat for all
 Across the street from the morgue life insurance companies nailed thelI sling es to tree near a small shack today topping them with sign Inquire Within 7 A file of weep ing women took turns at recording their claims.
 A call For ald came today rom Costello, three miles below. Con dltlons there parallel the situation here. and the town is much smaller and less damaged than Austin while the deaih list at Costello is but two .at is believed all others escaped.
 Eight men charged with footing the ruins are arraigned tonight and com. mltted to the Coudersport jail foi grand jury action. One man, 3 boarding house keeper, complained today that his home had been rob bed of s2SOO; another, a storekeeper -decared that thieves had smashed his cash register and stolen $500. 4