Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-02

Ralph Donafiro.
Plans for the funerals weDe being
made today.
The most essential matter in hand
here, aside from the persistent work OF
clearing away the more accessible
ruins, is the completion of a census OF
the living Austinians. II the death list
aggregates anything like the enormous
number estimated, health officials
realize that conditions demanding
prompt attention will arise within q
few days in the ruins.
$50 TO 200 Probably Dead.
The most careful and well-informeo
investigators, however, are unprepared
to learn that more than two hundred
have perished. There is; indeed, pos
s,hility that one hundred and fifty VIII
be the total. There is little hope that
any of the bodies remaining IN tne
wreckake will be found intact. Inc
general aspect of the debris lnaaoa.es
mat hlndreds of thousands OF 1aVeun7-
lilo snlinters and shreds of bundinss
we're shot through and through the hrst
accumulations of ruins by the deprls
subsequently hurled onward by the con-
tinuing food
THE noticing Conditions today are
practically perfect. twelve nours
a,u,nno,,r of rain served to materially
reduce the number of incoming sight-
seers. and to this extent the pouce arg
relieved The State constabulary state
ssritarv engineers and chief otf1clals
of the state health department are tcos
oneretine in the measures for protec-
ton and relief.
The aspect of Austin. Costello ana
the valley beyond today is as dfeary az
a. g annalIing The towns are pictures
81 aasolation. The valley hillsides IN
u,bicb they lie are still Uttered by the
shattered homes of the people and the
ron,nants of prosperous places OF tlsi-
ness and manufacturing plani1- TO
raIiable estimate of the property 'oss
lac been. or can be soon made, elt L
is safe 10 say it Will not be less l'ail
ss 0og 900 The paper and lumber M
dustrles are utterly destroyed
T,n,er supply nearly exhausted.
The timber supply mad been rapiuiy
nearing exhaustion and AZ me best II
was thought five ytars rom now ths
industry would DC practlealiy at an
end In fact, about 2eo lanlllss naa
moved from Austin this fan. rive
hundred more would have gone Wlthin
the next year or two unless some m
dustrial development came IN TO noAo
them. oe .hA
questioned as TO the cause OF tns
sudden failure of the BaNless PUP anu
Paper Company's dam, citizens ana
businessmen accustomed to visit AUS
tin shake their heads omlnousiy. 1ney
recall the scare a year ago last Jan-
nary. when a considerable leak was
discovered in the immense cement
structure. Although two feet along tte
rim OF the dam We're removed 70 re-
lieye the pressure and fourteeh- iops
match was placed where it was neeueas
the alignment of the upper edge OF lns
dam gradually became slight arc m
stead OF a straight line This huis7
caused worry on the part of the Gus
zens ana led to somewhat recent IN
spection. Certain protective measures
were determined upon but the delay
was fatal.
'I never went to sleep in The hotel in
Main street here said a visiting rail-
road official today, without mighty
fervent prayer that the apparently IN
evitable might be delayed. s.
Below the torn dam today the yalley
for a mile or more is swept practically
clean TO bedrock and Freenans ituns
the reservoir feeder. swollen ~ asr
nights rain is sweeping through 'tner.
channels where the main business por-
ton of the town once stood