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7LENA, MONTANA TERRITORY. SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE -2, 1889.
FfYECENTS
HERSHFIELDADD'N.
Snuatedon Montana Avenue Just North^of Flower Garden Addition.
TheSite of this Addition is a B-antiful Knoll, and the Scenery^on all Sides is Unsui P.aBB-d. f^^ BUILDING HAS ALREADY^COMMENCED.The CATHOLIC COLLEGE GROL^ DS
adjoinit on thk north. Only six minutes walk from the^Northern Pacific Depot.
LargeLots, Cheap Prices, Eary Terms
SixtyLots sold the first day the Addition was or the Market.^No better Lots were ever Offered in this City foi Safe Invest^^ment and Quick Profits.
WALLACE^THORNBURGH,
SoleAgents, Roomn 1.2 and 3, Second Floor First National Bai.k .Building, En^^trance corner Grand and Jackson street*.
A\ TERY WASTE.
Milesam- miles of Railway Tracks^Washed Away. Bridges Gone^and Trains at a Standstill.
TneImmense Works of the Cambria^Iron Company. Destroyed Entail^^ing a Loss Of Millions.
Flood* in Maryland and Want Virginia^Canning- loa of Life and Great^Damage to Property.
FineCarriages, Buggies and Road Wagons,
Landaus,Coupe s^and Phaetons,^i NT ;geeatdvariett
Schuttler'sMontana Lnmber and Quartz Wagon Gears. Farm^Wagons. Harness, Etc.
ST.AMOUR ^ LAMBIE
RealEstate, Insurance and Mining^Brokers, Room 8.Pittsburg Block
$36,oo0will buy :-t7i^ acres adjoining College Grounds and one-^sixth interest in Canyon Crvr-k Ditch Company.
$20,000will buy ISO acres three-fourths of a mile from College^Grounds. A BARGAIN.
FOURRo'm House on Eighth Avnune.
EIGHTRoom House on Breckinridge Street Cheap.
NINERoom House on Buford Street $4,350.
TWOHundred and Fifty acre Ranch, one and-one-half miles^from City Limits $75 per ace.
ONEHundred and Sixty acres on Silver Creek $2 500.
LOTin East Helena at a Bargain ii Taken at Once.
CHOICELo s in all the Additions.
WeHare a Large Liat of Al Mining Properties.
GeneralAg*nt for the Bankers Life A scoria ton St. Paul.
TheCriterion Cafe!
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RB4K FIEST NATL RANK.
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Wewant everybody to know that we are^doing a rushing business, but have room^for a lot more.
Onand after June 1 we will run a Mer^^chants' Lunch for 35c from IS M.to4 P.^M. and a Regular Dinner for 50c from 4 to^8 P. M.
BestMeal in the City for a Little Money.
Fairbank^ Sutermeister.
ATTENTION!
WeCarry a Full Lin* of
GrSL^y Bros. Slices.
Ttoeyexcel any shoe in the market for STYLE and DURABILITY. Also the large*
lineof Gentf Shoe* in the city, including HAXAN ^ SON^and LILLY. BRACKKTT ^ CO. makes.
RALEIGHft CLARKE, No. 25 Uoper Main St.
STJOCSSSOR8TO F E G - OB A OO
Philadelphia,June 1.^Indication,^point to the present trouble being the^w ^rst ever experienced by the Pennsyl^^vania railroad, necessitating a complete^suspension of traffic. Bridges have been^washed away, heavy landslides and long^and deep washouts, with the fall of masses^of rock from tho mountain to the track be^^low are reported. A dispatch from Wil^^liamsport reports the lumber boom broke^at 9 o'clock this morning and the water^Is rushing through the upper end of the^town. At 2 o'clock this morning word was^received at Williamsport that the boom at^Lock Haven had broken and that place^was overflowed.
Adispatch received at 5 p. m. says the^Pennsylvania railway people have suc^^ceeded in getting a temporary wire through^from -Sang Hollow to the western end of^the railroad bridge, which is west of Johns^^town. Debris is lodged against the bridge^and piled up to the distance of probably^forty feet, and is said to be still burning.^Until the flames die out, so as to admit of^passage across the bridge, nothing can be^done towards repairing the heavy washout^between the bridge and Johnstown station.^The dispatch also says the Cambria Iron^comi^an^^s plant on the north side of the^Conemaugh river at Johnstown is a com-^ptata wreck. I'ntil this dispatch was^received it was not thought here that^thi^ portion of the plant had been seriously^i jured. The plant is said to b#va!ued at^35.000,000. A dispatch received at the^Pennsj Ivania railway office this afternoon^siys considerable damage has been sus^^tained by railroad property. It is feared^the bridge crossing the west branch of the^Mis'jnt lianna, at Linden, will go. This^bridge was previously reported as being^ballasted with a heavily loaded freight^train. Additional information from the^Philadelphia ^ Erie branch is that the four-^span bridge across the Juniata river,^at Orantsvilie. has been carried^away. The water is still rising in^the Juniata between Grantsville and I'us-^carora. a distance of forty miles. Nothing^is known of the condition of the roadbed or^bridges. Of twenty bridges south of Ral^^ston on the northern Central branch five^are washed away and all the rest badly^damaged. The Cumberland Valley rail^^road lost the new iron bridge crossing the^Potomac river near Williamsport, Md. The^bridge across the sinneniahouing creek is^gone and the bridge over the same stream^at Keating is badly damaged. The rail^^road yard and tracks at Emporium have^been badly washed out. At Williamsport^the west branch of the Susquehanna is said^to be thirty feet high. There are eight^inches of water on the floor of the railroad^station there. This would indicate nearly^the whole city is overflowed. At Harrisburg^the Susquehanna river is still rising. At^Steelton two and a half feet of water flows^over the Pennsylvania railroad tracks and^the steel plant at that place is also sub^^merged.
Informationwas received about 11^o'clock to night at the office of the I'enn-^^ylvania railway company of a frightful^disaster to two through trains from Pitts^^burg which had been supposed to be safe^at Conemaugh. Assistant Superintendent^Trump telegraphs from Blairsville Junc^^tion that the da^ express eastbound from^Chicago to New York and the mail train^from Pittsburg boand east were put on^side tracks in the yards at Conemaugh^when the flooded condition of the main^tracks made it apparently unsafe to pro^^ceed further. When the continued rise of^water made the danger apparent the^frightened passengers tied from the two^trains to the bills near by. Many^in their wild excitement threw them^^selves into the raging flood and were^drowned. When Supt. Trump reached^Conemaugh be immediately gathered to^^gether the remaining passengers of the two^trains and had them conveyed to Edens-^burg by wagon, a distance of about ten^miles. T e survivors are now at that^place. The conductors of the trains went^with the passengers to Edensburg and the^Pullman conductor, who is supposed to^have a list of those under his charge, is^there also. It was impossible to give the^names of any of those who lost their lives.
AtOther rulnta.
UisRinuitG, June 1.^The great rain^storm has entailed heavy loss here, in the^east and south ends of the city the water^rose about the banks of Baxter creek,^swept away the bridges and reached the^first stories of the houses. The mayor^conducted a relief expedition which util^^ized all the boats to be bad and while the^rain came down in torrents he and his as^^sistants did good work. While thus en^^gaged the mayor and one of the offcers^narrowly escaped drowning. The Susque-^hana river at this point is eighteen feet^above low water mark, and rising every^hour. Independence island is com^^pletely covered. The tracks of the Penn^^sylvania south of here are undertwoteet of^water. Advices just received from points^np the river say the beautiful fish houses^built ny Harrisburg citizens ai^ at ten^miles from here, were washed away, as^were sheds and outhouses of every^kind. The great embankments here have^raved in, culverts and sewers are demol^^ished and great trees were laid prone.
Atmidnight the river Is eight inches^higher than during the flood of 1866. The^water is backing up Into south Harrisburg
ina most appalling fashion, and cellars are^being inundated. Logs are pounding the^bridges and it is feared they will be car^^ried away. The city is in semi-darkness,^the electric light company's plant being^partly submerged.
Uibok. June 1^The heaviest floods in^the history of Dubois occurred Thursday-^night and yesterday. The rain began fall^^ing at 11 p. m. and came down in torrents^without intermission until yesterday noon.^The low-lying parts of the city were en^^tirely submerged. Small outbuildings^were lifted from their foundations and in^many instances floated away. The great^^est ex^itement prevailed in the vicinty of^Pentz Run, which separates the first and^second wards of the city. At one time the^buildings which face the stream were in^danger of having their foundations under^^mined, but now all is safe. No casualty Is^reported.
Wilkksbarre.Pa, June I.^The Sus^^quehanna river at this point began rising^rapidly this afternoon and it is continuing^at the rate of a foot an hour. Reports are^coming in this evening from the country^districts to the effi-ct that crops were bad^^ly Injured by the tremendous wind and^heavy rain. Several washouts in the^mountains have occurred and trains due^here are delayad.
Shamokin,Pa, June 1.^Seven bridges^and twenty houses in this vicinity have^been swept away. The damage to mining^property cannot be estimated. A number^of collieries are overflowed and many are^completely wrecked. It will be two weeks^before the mines can resume. The loss is^estimated at 9250,000. There were no fa^^talities.
York.Pa . June 1.^A number of bridges^in this county were swept away and the^loss in this county, exclusive of the city,^which is about 826,000. is estimated at^5100,000 James Mcllvaine was drowned^this morning.
AtHarper. F.rry.
Washington.June 1.^Latest reports^from Harpers Kerry say the Potamac and^Shenandoah rivers are rising one foot per^hour. Cattle, boats and other drift are^running thick. The river is very high here^and is rising. The water has reached^Eighth street, and has put out the fires in^the engine house at the Washington monu^^ment and stopped the elevator. Cellars on^the south side of Pennsylvania avenue are^flooded. Last night the rain was almost^equivalent to a cloud burst.
Thelock gate at the end of the Chesa^^peake .v Ohio canal was carried away by^the rising water and washed several canal^boats into Rock creek, where they were^destroyed. Since then the river has been^rising rapidly, and the flood waters from^Harpers Kerry and the upper tributaries^are swelling it every niontent
Alongtne street north in the neighbor^^hood of CeuU-r market the country produce^dealers were driven off eany in the day^and the streets was turned into a lake,^floating chicken coops, market truck and^all sorts of odds and ends. Cellars were^flooded and much damage to property re^^sulted among the commission houses. Up^in Georgetown the scene along the river^front was exciting. Docks were under^water and lumber, coal, cement, provisions^and all kinds of property has been carried^away. At Long Bridge the water at sun^^set was almost level with the bridge. Sev^^eral barges have already struct and sunk^here and the railroad men are making^every effort to prevent the accumulation of^drift against the bridge. The water is^still creeping up, however. And the^bridge is in a precarious condition.^If it is carried away to night,^which is by no means improbable, the result^will be serious and cause interruption of^railroad traffic between the north and^south. The cofferdam at Longbndge has^been greatly injured, and much of the^work which has been done upon the Poto^^mac flats at the expense of millions of dol^^lars will be ruined. It Is not yet possible^to estimate the losses suffered by merchants^and warehousemen, but one individual has^lost 590.000 worth of coal on one dock.
Thewater at midnight has reached with^^in a few feet of Pennsylvania avenue. The^Baltimore ^ Potomac station is surrounded^by water and is inaccessible to passengers.
Athalf-past twelve to-night the water^had reached Pennsylvania avenue at Sixth^{ street and washed away the street car track^on the south side, and was nearly to the^door steps. A strong current is sweeping^through B street and around the corner of^Thirtieth and Pennsylvania avenue. Cen^^ter market is surrounded, and the floors^are flooded. The water is within a foot of^the waiting room and car shed of the^Pennsylvania railway.
Washington,June 1.^The president^has sent a telegram to the mayor of Johns^^town. Pa , expressing his sympathy for the^people of that city in their recent calamity,^and saying that the secretary of war is^considering means for their relief. He^also made a contribution to the relief fund.
InMaryland.
EllicottCitv,Hd., June 1^ Hundreds^of people lined the banks of the Patapsco^to-day watching the rushing floods which^have receded bnt a few inches since last^night. Nothing since the flood of bas^equaled this. All communication further^west by rail is cut off. Several buildings^have been swept down the stream. The^only death reported is that of Wm. liunson^at Orange tirove.
Frederick.Md., June 1.^The rain has^poured incessantly since Thursday night^The wheat crop of this county has been^damaged to an ^ xtent that cannot now be^^fated, and early fruit destroyed. The^Potomac at Point of Kocks and vicinity is^rapidly overreaching its banks and the^damage will be great Advices from West^^minster. Md.. say surrounding lands are in-^unadated and mauy workmen unable to^get to their homes. Between New Wind^sor and Lin wood and Linwood and Union^bridge, the Western Maryland railroad is^covered with water to a depth of three feet^by the waters of Little Pipe creek, and the^track is washed away for a considerable^distance. Two feet of water flows over the^bridge at Harper's Ferry which is heavily-^loaded with locomotives and cars. The^tracks on both sides of the river are sub^^merged, as they are at Point of Rocks, and^St. Johns's Run, between Cumberland and^Martinsburg.
LUCKYESCAPE.
TwoChildren Saved from Drowning- la^the Yellowstone.
Livingston,June 1.^j Special to t! ^^Independent. ]^ Clara Young, the little^daughter of City Marshal George Young,^while playing on the bank of the Yellow^^stone river, this afternoon, missed her foot^^ing and fell in the water, but was rescued^by her father before drowning. Her six-^year-old brother Tommy, who had seen his^sister fall, waded into the water to get h^r.^and was himself nearly carried away, b-it^regaining the bank immediately ran for^bis father and showed great intelligen e^and presence of mind in guiding him to^the scene of the accident The girl was^probably kept on top of the water by the^force of the current, as she had floated a^full quarter of a mile before being rescued.
Stoekslagrerto Step Dow..
Washington,June 1.^The resignation^of T. M. Stockslager, commissioner of the^general land office, tendered March 6 last,^was to-day accepted by the president, to^take effect June 90.
ANAWFULSECORD.
EightThousand People Believed to^Hare Perished in the Pennsyl^^vania Deluge.
Eight Hundred Unfortunates Only^Escape a Watery Grave to be^Burned to Death.
PassengerTrains Waiting for the^Waters to Subside Swept Away^by the Torrent.
Thousandsof Anxious Relatives and^Friends Besieging the Newspa^^per Offices.
Scenesof Suffering and Stories of^Heroism Almost Be^^yond Belief.
TheDamage to Property Runs Into^the Millions, Yet All is Not Yet^Known.
Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars^Given by the Generous for the^Relief of the Suffering.
SanoHollow, Pa, June 2, 1 a m.^^The first accounts sent out of the Johns^^town disaster are far below the wildest es^^timates placed upon the extent of the ca^^lamity, and instead of 2,000 or 3,000, it is^probable the list will reach 8,000. It is now^known that two passenger trains and two^sections of an express on the Pennsylvania^railroad have been thniwn into the mad^^dened torrent and the passengers drowned.^These trains were held at Johnstown from^Friday at 11 a. m. and were laying on a^siding between Johnstown and Cone^^maugh. The awful torrents came down^the-narrow defile between, a distance of^nine miles, and with a fall of S00 feet in^that distance, sweeping away the villages^of South Fork, Mineral Point. Woodvale^and Conemaugh, leaving but one building^standing, a wooden mill. where^but an hour before bad stood^hundreds, and dashing on with^the roar of a cataract and the speed of the^wind upon the fair city in the foothills.^The railroad tracks bound the town at^the base of the mountains on the north.^Here is where the trains were standing^when the tide of water, likeacatapult, can e^down upon them with such a rush and re^^sistless force that the heavy trains were^overturned and swept down the torrent^and lodged against the great stone viaduct,^along with four locomotives from the^Johnstown round house, the heavy ma^^chinery and ponderous frame work of the^Oautur mill, the accumulated debris of^more than a thousand bouses, furniture,^bridges, lumber, drift and human beings.^The low arches of the stone viaduct were^choked up immediately, and the water^backed over the entire level of the valley^upon which the city stood to a depth of^thirty-eight feet. In the great^sea thus formed thousands of^people were struggling for life-^Strong men were made sick at the sight, as^the flames crackled and roared amoug the^dry timber of the floating bouses. Human^bodies were seen pinioned between the^house roofs, locomotives, iron beams, and^freight, passenger, pullinan and baggage^cars, the greedy flames licking up with^haste their diet of human flesh. The scene^was horrible beyond all description.^The infant a few days old to the wasted^form of age were burned before the eyes of^the beholders, and no rescue from their^fate was possible. Strong men turned^away with agonized expressions and wom^^en shrieked at the horror of the scene.
Thedead have been computed at not less^than 8,000, and the number may even ex^ceed this estimate. This would seem^incredible, but until the waters^ghail have abated and the work of remov^^ing the dead from this tremendous mass be^finished. It will be impossible to tell how^many lives have been lost.
Thescene to day was one of the most^heartrending possible for the imagination^of man to conceive. The accumulated^drift, gorged up at the viaduct to a height^of forty feet, took fire from the upsetting^of stoves or lamps.
anawful sight.
TheAssociated Press correspondent was^the first man 'o cross to Johnstown proper by^means of a bucket suspended from a cable.^Once over he found the scenes magnified^In their horror. Here were t je ruins of the^residences of the cities' most wealthy and^intelligent people, here were found the^bodies of the most prominent citizens and^those of their entire f am lies. Cinder, Mar^^ket, Main, Locust and Washington streets^had been swept clean and bare of si^buildings of whatever character, and^their inhabitants seemed to have^fl-d into the streets at the first warning of^the drummer and rushed to their deaths:^for those who remained in their houses^had an opportunity to flee to the upper^stories and where the houses were frame^they were fl .ated from their foundations^and many were saved. The hotel Hnlbert,^a brick structure had sixty-five guests and^sixty three of these were killed by the fall^Ing in of the floors and walls. The Morrel^Liberty school bouse, Alma hall, the gen^^eral stores and offices of the iron company^and one other building are all of probably^2,000 buildings that have not been floated^from their foundations or caved in. The
stoneviaduct is forty feet high^from the river bend at low^water and over this the water^rushed in a resistless flood. ^^.. this, or the^west side of Bessemer, and the nail mills of^the Cambria Iron Co , although warned to^flee to the hillsides, many of the men, rest^^ing in fancied security, loitered about the^hills and were engulfed instantly. To-day^their bodies are strewn along the Cocr-^raaugh, Riskiminatis and Allegheny rivers^and are being caught as far down the ('bio^river as Rochester. Below the mills at^Cambria, a suburb, in which district reside^probably 2.000 people. The scenes here^are nut a repetition of other parts of^the flood washed city. At St- Columbea^ehurch, a new structure which had^been flooded to the depth of six feet in the^auditorium, the water and receded and the^floor was covered with a slimy ooze to the^depth of seven or eight inches. On boards^stretched along the tops of the pews were^thirty bodies which had been snatched^from the stream by Father Thomas Darlin^and some of bis parishioners whom he bad^impressed into service. While in the aw^^ful presence of the dead the Associated^Press representative ssw Joseph Smith, a^man of extraordinary size and strength,^enter. He said not a word, but quietly^went from corpse to corpse, lifting^stained and mud covered coverings of the^dead. At last he came to the corpse of a^child about 6 years old^his daughter. He^looked at the swollen and blood stained^features and then with a voice of most un^^utterable agony cried, ^my Maggie, my^little Maggie'^ at the same time pressing^the inanimate form to his bosom and giving^expression to alternate earessings and^gesticulations of grief. The man took his^child and went with it to what had been^bis home. He placed it besides those of^his wife and two other children, all of^whom had been drowned.
Itis impossible to narrate the many pa^thetic incidents that occurred on all sides.^At Morrelleia forty three bodies were^laid out waiting to be identified. Eight of^them were children, one that of a child^which a physic ian said had been born while^the mother was fighting for ber life in the^raging flood.
AtNinevah, nine milt s down the stream,^10H bodies, mostly women and children,^were laid out in a sawmill, and additions^were being made by wagon loads at a time,^which were being picked upomthe meadow-^over which the great tide had surged with^the fury of a demon. Many were found^with their bands clinging tenaciously^to the brancl.es of trees and shrubs.^In one case a young couple were found^locked in each others' arms. In another^case a mother was found with a child^clasped in each arm and held closely to her^bosom. There is no possibility of tellujg^just who bas been lost, as thousands are^missing. The survivors, many of whom^tell of most thrilling escapes, seek the^banks and gaz^ with a stupor born of par^^alysis of their mental faculties resulting^from the fright and horror to which they^have been subjected.
Thenumber of people who are visible^from the banks are so few in contrast with^the population of the various little bor^^oughs which constitute the city that the^question, ^Where are these people^^ is^asked on all sides. The impression is^gaining that the disclosures yet to come^where the gorge collected, and which is^now burning over an area of several^acres, s yet more ghastly. The^awfulness of the scene defies language to^depict, as It does the imagination to con^ceive. Without seeing the havoc created^no idea can be given either of the area of^the desolation or of the extent of the dam^^age. The people of Johnstown are actually^starving. Men who were yesterday worth^half a million dollars are today penniless,^suffering for the necessaries of life. A^loud cry of distress is being sent up from^the entire city for relief from suffering.
Millionscannot repair the damage, and^the desolation covers miles of territory.^The number of bodies thus far tecovered is^about 500. How many may be beneath the^great bed of fire, underswept by the raging^torrent, the uncovering of their bodies can^alone determine; but from all appearances^there are thousands. The agoniz-d cries^and lamentations of friends who have not^been able to learn any tidings^of their loved ones is deplora^^ble and pathetic. When a form^is seen to drop down deeper into the flames^from the burning away of the supports^shrieks fill the cir Hka a wail from a lost^soul. The condition of the streets is one^of unparalled desolation. The thorough^^fares in the most densely populated parts of^the town are denuded of the stores which^once were the pride of their Inhabitants:^trees have been robbed of their branches,^Aieir trunks standing bare and broken, or^are uprooted and swept away. It is not an^exaggeration to say that not a single struc^^ture is now left within the confines of the^city as a place of habitation, and all must^be torn down and rebuilt. The gorge has^so obstructed the sluice way of the viaduct^that the water does not recede as fast as it^otherwise would.
children,Pearson Fisher, wife and six chil^^dren.
Justbefore reaching Sang Hollow, the^end of the main line of the Pennsylvania^railroad, is a signal tower, and the men in^it told stories of what they saw so piteous^I could not listen to half of it and command^my attention. Here are some little odds^and ends of happenings they told me of:^A beautiful girl came down on the^roof of a building which was swung^in near the tower. She screamed to the^operators to save her, and one brave fellow^walked as far out into the river as he could^and shouted to ber to guide herself into the^shore with the aid of a plank. She was a^plucky gin, and stood upon her frail sup^^port in evident obedience to the command^of the operator. She made two or three^bold strokes, and actually stopped the^course of the raft for an instant: then it^swerved and went out from under her. She^tried to swim ashore, but in a few seconds^she was lost in the water. Something hit^her. for she lay quietly on her back with^ber face pallid and expressionless.
Menand women ia dozens and in pairs^and singly, children, boys, big and little,^and wee babies were there in the awful^procession, drowning, gasptng, struggling^and fighting desperately for lite. Two men^on a tiny raft shot into the swiftest part of^the current: they crouched stolidly, looking^at the shores, while between them,^dressed in white and kneeling,^with ber face turned heavenward,^was a girl 6 or 7 years old.^When she came opposite the tower she^turned her face to the operator. She waa^so close they could see the big tears on ber^cheeks and her pallor as of death. The^helpless men on the shore shouted to her^to keep up her courage and she resumed^her devout attitude and disappeared under^the trees of a projecting point a short dis^^tance below. We could not see her again,^said the operator, and that was all of it.
Doyou see that fringe of trees^^ said^the operator, pointing to the place where^the little girl had gone out of sight ^Well,^we saw scores of children swept in there.^I believe that when the time comes they^will And almost a hundred bodies of chil^^dren in there among those busbea.
Justabove New Florence is the little^town of Ninevah. It waa here that 1 fouud^the first charnel house^low dead were^found there, the larger porportion of whom^were women. Here it was that the awful^work of the freshet could be realized.^What had been fertile farms looked like^worn out brick yards, (treat trees bad^twen twisted and torn like weeds and the^broken household goods of hundreds of^homes lined the shores for miles. Thieves,^tlose who steal from the dead and unfor^^tunate, had been busily at work robbing^tru iks, boxes and artiolee of furniture, and^there is nothing worth taking left except^lumber. Every now and then ghastly out^^lines could be seen in the water being^swept down stream.
Identifyingthe Dead.
Florence,Pa,, Juae 1.^0 p. in. ^ it ia^now thought the loss in the vicinity of^J hnstown will be about si 1.000,000. C. W.^Hoppenstall, of Pittsburg, distinguished^himself by his bravery yesterday afternoon.^He was a messenger on the mail train^which had to turn back at Sang Hollow.^As the train passed the point where the wa^^ter was full of struggling people a woman^and child floated in near tne shore. The^train was stopped and Hoppenstall jumped^i ito the wateund in two trips saved both^mother and child.
Ofthe dead nearly sixty have been iden^^tified, among whom were James McMillan,^superintendent of the Cambria Iron com^^pany, his wife, four children, and daugh^^ter-in-law, John P. Lin'on, s leading law^^yer, bis wife and five children. Mrs.^Thomas Keerlen and two children,^j )hn Nolan and seven of his family.^Dr. George Wagoner, wife and three chil^^dren, Frank P. Bowman, wife and two
i'amengernDrowned.
Pittsburg,June L^A Oreensburg^special says: The first section of the day^express which passed here at 9 o'clock was^lying between Johnstown and Sang Hol^^low yesterday afternoon when the waters^came down. The flooi cut one of the cars,^containing about fifty or sixty passengers,^loose and it was carried away, and it is^supposed the passengers perished. A few^of the occupants of the other cars, it is^thought, escaped, but it is doubtful. S. M.^Bell, of Lvrjbe, was the conductor, and^escaped by the assistance rendered him,
Aspecial train was chartered bv the^newspapers to carry provisions, medicines^and clothing to the nearest possible point^to Johnstown. A railroad conductor who^arrived early this morning said: ^There^is no telling how many lives are lost. We^got as far as Bolivar and I tell you it is a^terrible sight. The body of a boy waa^picked up by some of us, and there were^seven bodies recovered altogether. I do^not think anyone got into Johnstown, and^it is my opinion they will not get in very^soon. No one who is not on the ground^has any i^i -a of the damage done. It will^be at least a week before the extent of this^flood is known, and 1 think many bodies^will never be recovered.
Adispatch from Ninevah says: There^appears to be a large number of people^lodged in trees and rubbish along the line.^Many are alive. Rescuing parties should^be advised at every station. Another tele^^gram from Nin^vah said that up to noon^175 bodies bad been taken from the river at^that point.
Inthis city today there was but one^t'pic ot conversation and that was the^Johnstown deluge. Crowds of eager^watchers all day long beseiged the news^^paper bulletin boards and rendered the^-^.-^^eta impassable. Many of them had^^nds or relatives In the stricken district,^and ^Names,^ ^Names,^ was their cry,^but there were no names. The storm^which had perhaps swept away the lives^of their loved ones had also carried away^all means of communication and their^vigil was unrewarded. To show the state^to which the telegraph is reduced, it is suf^^ficient to state that it is not yet known^whether the telegraph operator at Johns^^town is dead or alive. The nearest point^to that city which can be reached^to-night is New Florence, and the^one wire there is used almost con^^stantly by orders for coftins, embalming^fluid and preparing special ears to carry^the recovered dead to their homes. Along^the banks of the now turbulent Allegheny^were placed watchers for dead bod'es, and^all wreckage was carefully scanned for the^dead. The result of this vigilance waa the^recovery of one body, that of a woman.^Seven other bodies were seen, but could^not be reached owing to the swift moving^wreckage by which they were surrounded.^Measures for relief were promptly taken.^The mayors of Pittsburg and Allegheny^City issued a call for a mass meeting, which^was responded to by throngs of Pittsburg's^wealthiest men. At 1 o'clock p. m. 960,000^was in hand and at 6 o'clock the sum waa^swelled to 1100,000.
