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PfTTSBURGH, p/ Copyright 1889 8v years back, caused u greater loss of life, ?Ttf ioHnsitowiv but the destructiou of property was slight in comparison with that of Johns¬ town and its vacinity. For eighteen hun¬ dred years Pompeii and Hevculancum have been favorite references as instances of unparalleled disasters in the annals (d the world; hut it was shown by an iirti- cle in the New Y’ork World, some days FRIDAY', JULY" 5, 1889. ago, that the Conemaugh valley’s whelm¬ ing tide that broke from the accursed dam wrought greater ruin than tlu- ashes and THE GREAT CALAMITY! lava of Vesuvius—that the Conemaugh water avalanche was more startling and VASTNKSS OF THE DISASTER ruinous to life and property than the ava¬ NOT COMPREHENDED. lanche of red-hot lava that poured upon, those cities with their teii thousand in¬ Unparalleled Destruction of Eife and Prop- habitants. , erty_Four Thousand People Drowned But what of the scene itself — the and Millions of Property Swept Away^ sweeping away' of strongly-built houses, Our ^isasterl How tell of it, bow por- the engulfing of hundreds upon hundreds ■i''i tray it, or even bow can it be faintly de- —the thousands of men, women and chil¬ ' , scribed? Whose mind can comprehend dren who were hurled with an irresistible , “ it, and whose vivid imaeination can paint force into tlie swtdliug flood to be crushed ;■?' it? The pen is not yet made to write up or drowned. Their cries of anguish could ' its general features, much less to put the not be heard amid the deafening roar of .' fearful details on paper;' nor has the the angry water, or if heard by those in .brush been manufactured to place it on their immediate vicinity fell upon ears of Wcanvass. In some iemote age when addi- others as lielpless as themselves—the dis¬ ^tional aids and facilities for petformiiig play' of pent-up energies being utterly :2;8Uch a work, or when some one with mi¬ deaf to the wails of the feeble and the im¬ raculous genius for describing unparal- precations of the strong. ^'led marvels shall be born, the story Never can we forget the trying ordeal of •fhnstown’s destruction may Ijechroni. that sorrowful Friday afternoon and cled. But until then the full horrors of night. Little did we think when prepar¬ the kinetic energies of the Pittsburgh ing for Saturday morning’s issue, that the sporting club-lake on the south branch of matter being set up then would fail to be (' the Conemaugh creek, will remain unde- put upon the press. Though the rise in scribed. both the Conemaugh and Stonycreek was Already many able pens from all sec¬ backing the ivater up Washington street tions of the country have been called into and closing around the Democr.vt ofiice, -.requisition in an effort to give to the oul- and causing a suspension of traflic and ■. side world some idea of the fate of the travel, not for one moment did anyone in (Jonemaugh valley, but with all that has the office or press room dream of any been so well written the half has not been more serious damage to the town other told. In trying to grasp the magnitude of than that occasioned by former overflows. th.e mighty death-dealing and property- Remembering the flood of two years ago, destroying wave that struck the towns we thought at four o’clock the water lying on the banks of the little stream, on would soon recede, hence gave very, little the ill-fated Friday afternoon of May 31, thought to it. one is confronted with the inadequacy of But at about five minutes before four an words to do anything like justice to the alarm was sounded, and running to a subject. The vastness of the disaster is window in the east end of the building really too great for a finite mind to grasp. we were appalled at what our eyes be¬ ' ■ Has it ever had an equal? In the held. A huge wave, seemingly almost as United States certainly never; in the high as the surrounding hills was rolling world’s history, since the days of Tloah, down upon us—surging, foaming, roaring possibly, yes. At most it can be sately and filled with buildings, wrecks,of build¬ said it is only rivaled by one or two ca- ings, large ti’Pte, and logs;- witli scores ■‘’■ophies in human history. The over- and scores of men, women and children e Yellow river, in China, a few |i;i

- ' T'~'' A clingiiig"to wreck^^matteras they were * -ffl were swept down the river, sonuj lodged swiftly aud ruthlessly carried along. against Uie stODf btifljxf*. otlinrs buried Above us, below us, around us we saw beueHth a mass of rnbhi.sli, and still oth¬ building after building torn in the twin¬ ers covered up in tlie siiud. kle of an eye from thtir foundations and flow the heart sickens in calling up falling in cn-ushed masses in some instau- some of the many familiar names of t’ne ; ces, and in other cases tumbling forward, town. (Janied to their unlooked-for and : backward, then turned on their sides and untimely end we mi.ss them on every I anon whisked with the velocity of lightn- hand. Some of tlie noblest of earth have j ing upside down, and hundreds hurled to been ruthlessly nmnhered among tlie I death in a moment, and others carried hated reservoir’s victims. I along amid the wreck of matter down A.s to details, we have ludtlier the heart toward the stone bridge. Then when the nor the will to add any to this article. ^ current changed, houses, parts of houses, We can only say, at this time, with the ! stables and wrecks of stables, shops, of- data at hand, that the number of the dead ! flees, cars in countless numbers were will not fall much below lour tliousami: I tumbling, twisting, creaking on every aud the property destvoj'ed may run from I side of us. South Fork, Mineral Point twenty to twenty-five millions. ' East Conemaugh, Franklin, Woodvale, Conemaugh borough, the upper and lower j THK STONK lUllUGi:. ends of .Tolmstownliad by this time con- tributed to the mass of matter and the i It Certainly Saved Many Lives. . hundreds of unwilling floaters that were On that fatefi.l Friday afternoon g j surging all through Washington and DKMuciiAT reportei was at woik in the Franklin streets. Ever and auou the 13. ^ line of his duty in Cambria and Millville j <&0. depot building, in which the Dhmo- boroughs, and when the waters of tlie CKAT was published, would tremble and reservoir struck this place, was on t!ie I shake from top to boltom as logs, trees, river bank at the Peunsylvania Railroad j and buildings would strike it. Station. From the point on Prospect liili ; Fearful as was the scene of the whole to which he fled, he had the best possible I night, it was not until daylight of Satur- cliance to note the ell'ect of the .stone ' day did we comprehend, and then only i bridge on.the waters, and as there seems measiireably, the e.xtent of the wide¬ to be much diversity of opinion on tliis spread devastation. Where was Johns¬ Sdhject, his conclusions are Jieie given : town? Where, Washington street? Where, Had it been an iron bridge, or had the Franklin street? Where was Coneman-li bridge given way with the first rush of borough? Where. Woodvale? A lew ' the waters, all the hotises that were wrecked buildings stood on the .snnili end I floated from their moorings would have of hraukhn, and .some straggling ones been drawn into the current and carried could be seeu along the l.illside hi' Coue- with great force tlirougli the opening J maugh; but of Woodvale nothing but the tVhen the second heavy wave ctiiiie, tl^ wreck of the flouring mill and woolen fac. water would have been drawn off some-J tory \\as left; and as to Washington what, and it would not have been forced- street it was completely wiped out. save quite so high up across the town. Bed¬ the wrecks of the B. & O. building and ford and Levergood streets, and part of the Company stoic. the lower side of Jackson street would I Ubere stood Imndieds of dwellings, i probably have escaped from total de¬ with well-detined streets and alleys, now struction. Prom Clinton street down I nothing but a barren w :iste of scoies ol however, and out to the Stonycreek river I acres of gMonnd wa.s to be seen; while the destruction would have been com¬ ! other pcriions of flie town eontaiiicd huge plete. All of the buildings on Main, piles of crushed houses, aud hundreds ol \ ine and Lincoln streets now standing, mutilated dead bodies. The debris all including the Post-office, Banks, Alma I along Franklin, Locust. Jlaiu and otiier Hall, and the churches would have been streets was piled up llfieen and twenty swept down the stream, and the many feet—over wliieli. around which sUieken hundreds and thousaud.s of people who men aud women were climbing in search floated up and across the streams and of loved ones. I were rescued, would have been drawn in, Wl.^e are the lost? Some of them to the fearful vortex and dashed to death. The embankment of the railroad too, i , \-:rVe quickly worn away, and the . four feet deep; Many people AM to mills of tile Cambi'ia Iron Company places of salety. but many more prefer- ■would liave been almost ruined, as ■with¬ ' leil to remain in their houses, their pre¬ out doubt the Steel Works and other vious e.\perieiii:o %■.itli Idgli water here i shops near the river would liave been Imving been Inal they were salest there. swept away. A.11 of Cambria City Would Slioniv after uoou the following di-palcli ' have been swept as clean as Woodvale. Was receiveil at tiie Peiiiisylvania Kail- and the greater part of Morrellville would I road tower, and was telephoned over have been destroyed. Five thousand town, comiiiuuication by way of Lincoln more people would have been drowned luidge liaviiig been cut off. “Reports and much more property destroyed, al¬ from Coiiemaugli Lake via South Fork at though the rubbish would all have been 12:10 say the water is ruuniug over and carried away. People in Kernville and the dam may give way at any moment. the Seventh ward would not have been Notify the people of Johnstown at ouce flooded as they were, and the few lives to be prepare i fur ihe worst.” Tiiis was that were lost in these sections would sigiieU (Ji'erator, ” but as reports of the have been saved, but a fearful compensa¬ dam breaking were always current when i tion for this would have been made by we h;ul high water people laid become the total destruction of the lower part of used to such talk and were not easily the town, and all its people. alarmetl. At aiiyrale, it was the expert euce of tiiose who made an etfort to waru^

The Refuse. the people, that the matter was treated "Some steps should be taken to prohibit Aiih iudilfci ence. A second message was the depositing of the refuse on the river received at 2:44 which said the dam was banks. What we want now is to widen breaking and tiie warning was circulated i our streams instead of making them nar¬ on a feiv of the streets, but the people had rower, and much of the stuflf that has not tue time no • the opportunity ibeu to been deposited on the river banks must be gel o u. removed. It would certainly be wise for On Iron street and Millville an organ¬ the borough ofBcials to take some cogni- ized eifort was being made to relieve wnce of the matter. them \\ iien the flood came. In Cambria there were no meaus at hand to aceoinplijh much, while up town people witii THE FLOODr iiorses ami wagons were bu.sy taking those out who wanted to go. Communi- i cation hetweeu Cambria and Millville was j perfect by meaus of the Pennsylvania How It Swe})t The Talley. stone bridge, aitliough the water was i over touriee:: teet high at the bridge all afternoon. Tnat side was cut off from i

HOUSKS FLOAT Ur THE STONYCREEK Johusiowu, e.xcept by way of the Wood- LIKE STEAMBOATS—TERRIBLE vale bridge, lire Lincoln bridge, and tlie UltnKAL.S^ CF THOSE WHO bridge back of the company store being WERE ENGULFEH. standing, but submerged. The Frauklin ' For years the people of Johnstown have street bridge was all right. The Poplar talked ol the possibility of a break in the street bridge, Che Campauy’s toll-bridge*, South Fork reservoir, and many a one has ai Cambria.and the Ten-Acre bridge w’ere pi'ophi'sied the result. On Friday after¬ swept aw’ay shortly after eleven o’clock noon, May olst. at nearly four o’clock in tlie forenoon. It w’as the highest wat¬ the wiitirs c^auu-, and the result is so er yet known in the town anil still gradu¬ awful that it can never be adequately ally risiug when the real flood c.ame, ff pictured, por correctly detailed. which we will not atteuipt to tiescrihe iii I From ten o’clock fl'bursday night to full, but note its apjiearance as seen from I ten o’clock Friday forenoon an incessant a point on Prospecr above the Peunsj lva- rain fell and esirly Friday the streams be¬ nia R.-iilroadlStatiou. gan to oviutlo a' tiieir banks. The water i First came a lot of debris, bridges and rose during lue day, and at noon nearly j houses, and as they struck the Company’s the wliole town was submerged, the | bridge, which was wegihted with cars of i water on Fraukliii street being about metal back of the Company store, the cur¬ rent was deflected and pushed out above the store aud across*W%siilngton street. I ing the round house and over thirty en¬ Here the first houses in Jolmstowu bor- ' gines had been swept away. ough wore taken under. A few moments Thousands of people who were in their after, a mighty volume, seemingly ten houses were swept bodily away, while feet high, the top covered with floatiirg many hundreds made their escape in the debris, houses and people came rushing flood. down the valley. Everything was For over ten minutes all the water was swept before it and all Iron held in Johnstown, the stone bridge andQ stieet with the e.xcepiiou of a few the embankment of the Pennsylvania houses a'ong the railroad were at once Railroad forming the breast of a huge res¬ submerged. It was impossible to take in ervoir. At last the water began running the whole of the awful scene. The Gas over the embankment which was quickly Company’s worlts squirmed and toppled worn deeper and the water began to flow over, and almost the same instant the over, and down through the yards of the Opera House collapsed, the Cambria Iron Company’s mills. By this I Mansion House floated away time a huge pile of wrecked buildings had and was submerged, and on looking been jammed against the stone bridge, toward Conemaugh borough everything aud as the water began to flow over the was seen to be moving. The main cur¬ embankment, many buildings that had rent came on down along the river bed , come to a standstill, were drawn toward stveeping everything, and when it came to i this place. At this time the view from the point, the debris clogged the arches | the bank above the station, at Prospect at the stone bridge. The water was held Hill was heart-rending. Floating timbers, here, and the current was forced back, roofs, and sometimes whole houses, carrj’ing houses and everything with it up ; freighted with human souls were drawn Stony creek street. The first rush of into the vortex, and the people dashed to waters, which followed the course of the death before the eyes of their friends on stream, was about five minutes in advance ' the bill, who were powerless to help them. of the second great “ tidal wave.” When ■The swift current had not reached the this came the whole bed of the valley houses on Iron street, next to the Penn¬ was filled twenty feet deep, and the sylvania Railroad, and when the embank¬ water taking a straight course made a ment gave way they were the first to go clean sweep of everything from Clinton over. As many of the inmates had been to Jackson streets. At the Stonycreek taken out, they were standing on the hill, river, it struck the up cuiTent and added painfully watching the other members of its momentum to the onward their families, as they were Dome to course of the stream now on the their swift death, and the heart-rending back track. Hundreds of houses at cries of parents aud children, sisters and this time were seen floating up stream brothers, added to the terror of the awful _ and everything before them were taken scene. along, until the force of the waters was The water had been too deep in Cam^* spent and the houses gradually settled bria City, on Front, Chestnut and Broad ' streets, all afternoon for the people to get down. The force of this current is best out. and when the overflow' occurred tlie known when it is told that the Unique people were .it the inerey of tl»e pitik-ss Rink was picked up and carried to Sandy- torrent. Over half the borough was vale Cemetery, and other houses were swept clean and the people with it al¬ carried far beyond. After awhile the though the floatinai debris was so thick waters receded somewhat and here that many managed to pick their when the waters settled down it was \vay across and laud along the river found that Woodvale was swept clean, farther down. But little damage was also Conemaugh borough to Railroad done at Coopersdale, and many people street, not a vestige of the Gautier mills were rescued there as they came down on being left. All of Washington street, and tiie drift. Thus in less time than it has from Jackson street to Clinton street, taken to tell this story, four thousand Bedford and Levergood street a clean souls were hurled into eternity, tens ol ! sweept was made. Up through the millions of dollars worth of property weie SeTenth ward, and in Kernville the dam¬ destroyed, aud thousands of other people age was great. All of East Conemaugh - were in the flood aud not drowned were and Franklin On the low grounds, includ¬ rritjuicui.. -- - u * tn iusccurt places for from twelve to 1 al and complete it is difficult to say what Iwonty-t'our hours before they were res¬ part of the town and its environs suffered cued. During this time many suffered most. ihe agonies of a hundred deaths and the A stranger viewing any one of the flood- instances of narrow and thrilling esc .pes swept spots would necessarily mark it as could not all he mentioned were columns the successful candidate for the sad dis¬ used, and the great horror and suffering tinction-concluding nothing could be j of the survivors are so well known tliat worse. But on going further and seeing we will not attempt to de.seribe them. more he would be soon' convinced of his .Vll through the night those who had error. Say that his first point of obser¬ escaped death suffered the most feaifu! vation was on the South Side, the appear- i agonies. As the whole town was under ance of Haynes, Somerset, Moriis and , w\ter to a depth of from fifteen to thirty Napoleon streets, in Kernville, would im- feet, and as the houses and other places press him with the idea that the fl^d where they had taken refuge were con¬ spent all its fury there, but crossing stantly being moved and shaken, no one Stonycreek to the Johnstown side, and i felt secure in ins or her position. To add casting bis eyes down along River, to the horror the piles of wreckage at Vine and Lincoln streets, and out Frank¬ the Stone bridge took fire, and all through lin to Washington, this thought would be the night, the lurid gleams of the flames immediately dispelled. Then coming on made people fearful that their place of foMain street and gazing upon the ruined refuge would also fall a prey to the fiie. buildings up to Clinton,the ravages of the Then the shrieks of the wounded and dy¬ avalanche would be seen to be so in' ensified ing, which could be heard on all sides as to force tlie conviction that it is idle to were terrible. At the Stone bridge many even try to discriminate, and this cohvic- jWho were entangled in the ruins and tion would be confirmed as be turns down (could not escape, were burned to death. Main and looks at Market, Walnut and Timely and Efficient Help. I Union streets. These, with Chestnut, Where so much good work has been | King, Potts and Conemaugh streets, and promptly performed it is difficult and all around and about the Point, are left might appear invidious to discriminate ; with little more than vestiges to tell their | but the service rendered by the various locations or boundaries. ' church organizations is worthy of being Looking across the Conemaugh creek noted: and among such societies that into what was known as the First ivard was active in relieving tlie ueedj' was that of Millville borough, nothing, not even a vof the Presbyterian church, under the wreck, save the school house, is left to wise direction of Rev. Dr. Beale, its pas¬ indicate that even a house, shop, office, tor. Telegrams and letters poured into store or stable ever stood there. Then 'him from all sections of the eastern part of turning up Washington street that was this State and from New Jersey and New crowded in the south side with houses York, asking for particulars as to the from Walnut, past Market and Franklin, wants of the people; and boxes of food, up to Clinton, not a solitary former clothing, and even bedding were sent to building of any description is to be seen; him as soon as railroad facilities permit- while on the north side, clear back to the 'ited. A room was then secured at the cor Connemaugli, the wrecks of the Company ^'ner of Main and Adams street, which was offices and store and part of the B. & O. ^put in charge of Mrs. Dr. Beale, Mrs. railroad depot are all that are left to tell /Jones and Miss Duncan, of this place, the sad story. / Miss Graham of Wilkinsburg, and Mrs. Tlien, as the stranger turns down Clin- / Dr. Marchand, of Irwin, who distributed lou. a few dilapidated edifices tell of the I edibles, wearing apparel, etc., to multi. ..nuut losses along that thoroughfare; and

^ Judes of every name, grade and profes- 1 reaching the point intersected by Main 'sion who were left in destitute circum. ' and Bedford streets, and looking at the stances. wide waste up Bedford and out tlirough Connemaiigh borough, that was so thickly I OUR WASTE PEACES. crowded with buildings, he yields to the One month and six days have elapsed conviction that here the havoc wrought since the fateful visitation of the contents I by the engulfing wave e.xerted its de- of th.e reservoir, and the horrors of it are inon-like powers. Could ruin be more still loo manifest to forget it even for a / 1

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point of view, our stranger has no heart But luild. Let him wead his vvetirj to think of, much less to try to estimate steps over, around and about the wreck- the number of human beings that was so ; a!?e that intervenes in his course, on up rapidly carried into the regions of that the Conjiemaugh river, and as he reaches undiscovered country from whose I the site of tlie large Gautier Works, that bourne no traveler returns.” were a quarter of a mile in Jength, he is furnUhe.i with an expressive commen- CLEARING UP THE TOWN. taiy upon the ternldy deslrueiive force

of the great body of water that swept Only 600 Men to be Employed After To- down lue now desolated vtilley. Morrow—A Johnstown Man Should be Put In Chargp. I i'^issiugover the now quiet Connemaugi, into what was the neatest, prettie.'-t Itoi- Another important step was taken last ough of the valley—Woodvale—and see¬ night by those having the matter in ing nothing but a cleanl3'-swept surface of charge of cleaning up the town. Colonel sand up to the ruins of the flouring mills, Douglass, the chief engineer in charge •uid from there on to the upper end noth, resigned, and after to-morrow all the ing but rocks ami stoues, resembiiug the present contractors and their present I bed of a widespread and dried-up river force of men will be withdrawn. The I he would be staggered when informed the work will be continued hereafter, bet long street was formerly lined with sub¬ only five hundred men will be employed. stantial dwellings and cottiiges; and that" General Hastings will also leave, as his the upper end had contained the large presence is required elsewhere, but he stables and sheds of the Street Railway will visit the town once a week, and over¬ Company. These, with all the cars and see the work. The sanitary corps will eighty-nine head of horses,’ were all car- direct operations, and a local engineer will ried away. be put in charge. All the work will he From heie up to East Conemaugh, past ’ under the supervision of one contractor, the fair ground, which like the upper end and with his force of five hundred men it of Woodvale resembles the bed of a large is expected that two months will be re¬ river, with nothing but large boulders c.x- quired to complete the necessarv work. posed to view, the scene is one strongly In this connection w-e have one sugges¬ testifying to the power of the maddened tion to make to General Hastings, and water. At East Conemaugh all buildingg that is, that the contract be given to a on the low ground, including the large Johnstown man. We have men here who and massive roundhouse, were all gone. ' have lost their all, who are fully compe¬ Ot the thirty locomotives swept away ten tent to take charge of five hundred men, or twelve of them are lying down along¬ and w'e doubt not that thev would handle side and in the bed of the river, some par- them better than any foreign contractor. I tially covered up with sand and debris Being acquainted with the town, hecould brought down from along the railroad as I direct his forces more eflEeci i vely, and cer¬ ; far up as South Fork. tainly would not make the mistake that By this lime our stranger would con¬ other contractors have done of shoveling clude “ eye had not seen nor ear heard’' and hauling away part of a m.ot’s lot. Let of anything in the history of the world’s us have a Johnstown man t >r ibis work. great disasters that surpasses in extent of General Hastings, and thtieby render a destruction,or in the magnitude of horrors benefit to the people of the tuwn, as wel^ Conemaugh valley’s visitatiou. as to the State. But if not too foot-weary and over- ' surfeited with harrowing sights we would The Board of Inquiry—Arraii;;i rv for Dis¬ tributing the Relief EmuU. suggest that he should retrace his steps- The work of this board is a ditlicult one, and go down into Cambria City, where he and should be prosecuted witii the utmost I would find only a few lonely, crushed and care. Messrs. W. H. McCrccry and S. S. , ruined buildings—the remnants of Broad, Marvin, of Pittsburgh, J. B. Kremer, of Railroad, Chestnut and Front streets.’ Carlisle, and Judge Cummin, ( f Williams- 1 Three hundred and sixty-five houses, ! nort, members of Governor L. aver’s Com¬ j stores, shops and saloons were deslroyed. i mission, were in town yesteulaj' and ex^ I Fully satiated with his hurried inspec- | emined the work tbe Board here is doing. tion of the flood’s ravages^in a property j The full Commission, with Governor v^haii-inan, will sit at Cresson , Tuesday, and consider a plan for the Some steps should be takeu at once to dis^ibution of the vast fund that has have permanent bridges erected across been contributed for the relief of our peo- 'our streams, and tbe borough officials ^ ole Tbe distributi m of this money is a should move in the ^ V wTll be 1 difficult task, and there are many sugges¬ Civil Engineers from Philadelphia will be I tions on the subject. It is hoped hat the here on Monday, and it is j Commission having this responsible work recommendation may be made to the iu charge will give the matter senqu^ State authorities on the subject of bridges. considei-ation. and arrive at some cquita. There has been no road bndge.to Cambna ble basis for distributiom__ since tbe flood, and ^^^^^oTe I is experienced on this accoun . P A^WordOratuitouHly to our Mo. chants and there who have orders for portable Other JiusinessMeii. houses cannot get them ax;ro8S the river. It is uot probable that many, if any, of

them can pay dollar for dollar they Tist of the Dead. owe ; and nearly all are receiving lelte s A complete list of the known and un¬ of co.idolence from most or their crecli- known dead, found up to this date, la lors with assurances that farmer accounts urinted on the second and third pages, .ni-ht stand and orders would be filled for^new supplies, this in some in- THE AWFUL LIST! slances mav result satisfactoril j , o an ounce of prevention is better than a the bodies of the dead, know> pound of cure," it is suggested that the and unknown, of ouk gkea CAEAMITY. Setter and saferlway would he to settle all claims on some definite basis, before The Most Complete List yet E"l»'>*Eed making new purchases.^_ Many are Yet in the Bums, and Many WiU Never he Found. give the money now.

Fourth Ward Morgue. If reports are trustw orthy at least three Mich-ews, Joha. John street, at Point. and a half million of dollars have been •ifexaS.SaVenhy her mother June contributed for relieving tbe necessities of Johnstown’s unifortunates.. ™ _ _ i_ fT'KiThis Cl onmsum itif i;o|^\®WllUam,^“c^olorea%TO^ at Hulheit not diverted into chan lels never content- plated by the donor- would go far to af¬ fording relief to the absolute needy ; and i .frt Ho4e; taken charge ol hy K. of P. ana if handed over at once would do a thou¬ ""Sir cTrle'sT^^^^^ Treasurer C. I. sand-fold more goo I than if held for months. Ought not the proper authori¬ Ko. 317 Apple ties of town see to it that the relief fund be properly and promptly applied. ^Tiuiord, Mrs. PUzaheth E., Hulhert House, Vilditional aiorgue Items. ’"Som^Tmi.y^Hulhert House, hu.led in The body of Miss Lizzie, daughter of Grand View. Godfreid Hoffman, was found near the Benshoff, J. Q. -Vi Morrell Institute yesterday evening. »?tne‘ SSer"'oi “ Ho word had been heard yet this morn¬ °iii5s°Tshumafe 0£ Johnstown, In her arms; ing from the relatives of John Donnelly, '^^Sowm Lksziefhuiied at St. John’s. who was killed yesterday, and the em¬ Brown, peter, Woodvale. Bums, Peter. Woodvale. veteraus. ployes of the morgue will take charge of Beheke, Charles, PrivateJ.nh >. T. ^eler.ms. remains. The coffin was handsomely dec¬ Barrett, James or James Levrts. orated by Oliver Badger and the other Camphell. Peter,^C. K desman, ^ujed at Iim- Dert Housed’body shipped to Posey. Slatei & Co., employes. . , v The body of a female was found back of Sulka’s Hotel this forenoon. It is de¬ Ca“mr°ThtSk''H,‘®CoSaugh borough, scribed as follows: Female, unknown, weight about 100 pounds, height 5 feet 6 Th«.»u?ler.Pa. inches, button shoes, gum rubbers, two S^De“lla. hurled in Sandy vale. iTold ear-rings, chased. washing MISS Jennie wens at thel HuAit House: sent to shlppens- P'Marshall; c: a., cl\lFehglneer, drowhefTat Duig, Pa. I Hulbert House. T.. lost at HulDert House; ] MCAullffe, Laura. ^ 1 McGuire, Lawrence and Kate ^ ^ Dody taken to Mercer for burial. McCullough, Laura, buried at St. John s. Dull, W. F. I McGlnley, James, ex-pollceman, C. B. , Dillon, James, Somerset. MCKinstry, Annie, Grand View June 9th. McNally, Pat. st. John’s, June 9th. i lidS^’samuel B., policeman. McIiIn#y;‘Mrs., dressmaker. McKeever, Mrs. Mary. I 'Vo^vale, supposed. MtSay, jSs,'of Haves, Murray & Co., Phil¬ i \nTiie 'NO ?45 Pearl street. adelphia klUed at Hulbert House; found stand- ■ ffe^leMlss Anna, of somerset county. ins erect in debris; body sent. ... * VrOm\PlS6r* MrS. Dr* J&DiCS J* Marshall, M llllam,. harness maker; body sent

^Mhyifew, Joseph, burled at St. John’s. Nathan, Adolph, dry goods and notions; body shipped to Philadelphia. Neaiiy, Mary Ellen. Neary, Kate, St. John’s, June 9th, Morrellviue. I Nightly, John. Gwens, Daisy. ‘ ilcllnef aillle, domestic at No. 259 O'Co^mli’ luss, sister of Patrick, Washington

307 Main’Street; buried on Prospect. **'pSod, WllUam H., Gautier street, buried in Fleck, Leroy, card, Andrew. piSan^^alter and Fred, sons of Dr. S. C. Po-_^ land,’dentist. Gra^Taylm^burled in Sandyvale. Greenawalt. Kosa, couuemaugn borough. Po-wlu!rowkLNo. 141 vine street, and two^ 1 f^flo'pTjv Swhite stripes, red wooleh stocKlngs, button Rhodes, .M j's. bipcoln ' shoes, white drawers, red undershirt with darK Roberts, Mrs. Millard ' red sleeves, possibly taKen from other shirt, Roebric, G. (Johnson .street Rail Company) sandy hair, buttons on UQdierwaist, red and B'Y.-i ak, Freddie white. Shuulaker, daughter of J. .M. (8 yeai-s) Boy, age 9 to lO, blue waist with white dotted Smltn,-Mrs. J. L. figures, pants blacK base with white stripes; Sper.lue, John, Cambria Knee pants, blac* stocKlngs, long red drawers, sp ers, -Mrs. L E. ($5 gold-piece tor breast¬ blue strings^ pieces ot leather and tin whistle In pin and $2.50 gold-pieces for ear-rings) pocKet, brown necKtle with white dots. swank, Mrs. Neff J. and 4 chlldi-en. Woman, igo pounds, blue calico dress, very Swank, Jacob small crescent figures, white and blue barred swank, Mrs. Jacob, Bedford street ^ apron, red and gray stripes on top of stocKlngs, Stult, .Ml'S. Wesley, Woodvale ' balance blacK; has never been a mother, lull Voeghlley, Mrs. I set teeth, very even. White, .Mrs. John, and two daughters—Misses ! Woman, age 18 to 20, garnet cashmere waist Ella and .Maggie. with large blacK and gray dress, buttons bronze Will, .Mrs. Elizabeth and leal shape, buttoned shoes, blacx stocKlngs, Wesieytuff, .Mis. heavy dars hair; has been a mother. Zinimerman, Morgan UNKECOUNIZED. ! Bodies Recovered on the Kernville Side Woman, about thirty years of age, black balr, List of bodies recovered on the South brown eyes, calico dress, one ear-ring—star, with Side: ruby In centre. IDENTII'IED BODIES. woman, very tall, black hair, calico dress, oak Afcers, Alvar, of the firm of Akeis & Baumer. i leal breast-pin with three small white sets. Alexander, J. G. Woman, large, about 45 years of age, thought Arthm-, Mrs. William. to be German. Baker, Mrs. Nelson, widow. Woman, small, dark hair, face pitted by Bantley William. smallpo-K. Bryan, tVllUam. ■Boy, about 12 yeai'S of age, black hair, brown Bowman, Luther, 8 years. eyes, knee pants, white waist with suspenders. Bowman, Nellie, 1.3 years. Woman, red and brown calico dress, pearl but¬ Brady, .John, Esq. tons. black stockings, thin gold rings. Brennan, Mrs Edward, Woodvale. Wonmn, light gray hair, black calico dress Bryauv William I with white spots, two pairs of stockings—one Cope, Miss Ella. : pair black and red, gold ring with octagon cor¬ Cunz, child 01 Prof. Bernard Cunz, 6 years. ners. Craig, J. .1. Woman, young, about 24 years, shoit light Craig, Mrs J. J. hair, huff calico dress with short bars and dots, Cooper, Otho, colored. new button shoes, engraved gold-band rlng.ruby Coodee (or Kloeger), worked for H. Martin, glass ear-rings with Greek cross In centre. wire mill. Man, large gray side whiskers, dark clothes, ! Davis, Mrs. Walter. paper collar. Delaney, Mrs. L. W’. Man, led moustache, congress gaiters open- Dyer, Mis. faced silver watch, hunch of keys. English, John. .Man, black hair, heavy laced shoes—wore ah fvans, Mrs. Ji. and 3 children. overcoat. vans. Mis., Vine street. Boy, about 10 years old, brown hair, black Fink, Mrs. knee pants patched on both knees, new button Fisher, John H., Esq., wife and 3 children, (o shoes. wit: Mrs. ;Margaret| J Fisher, Miss Maggie Boy, about 12 yeara old, brown hair, gingham Fisher, George Fisher, Baby Fisher, and servant waist, black knee pants, Jei-sey jacket. girl, name unknown. Boy, about 12 years old, blue calico waist, Fldley, Elvira, Hooveisvllle black coat and pants, button shoes and gums. Forkes, Jlrs Fiachei Boy. about 12 years old, light hair,black pants, Gageby, Mis Robert H J mixed coat, toy pistol In pocket. Howe, Thomas J Boy, about 7 years old, pleated waist, knee Hamilton, Miss .Tessla, Bedford street stockings, low shoes. Halleran. Miss Jiay Boy about 7 years old. No description. Heffley, Ed, Stoyestown Girl about 9 years old, brown hair called Hite, Mrs. Larrj dress, earrings with white glass sets.’ cut In Howe, Mrs. Gertrude, Railroad street two at the waist and only the upjier part of the Howard, James body recovered. Hooker, Mrs. John Girl about lO years old, short hair, gingham Humphreys, 'William apron, barred flannel skirts, black ribbed stock¬ Kinney, Mrs. (elderly) ings gum shoes. Koontz, Jirs Ann Baby about 3 years old, pleated dress, red Kohle, .Mrs flannel skirt, worsted .stockings. Levergood, Mrs. Jane, widow of Jacob Baby about 18 months old. Llchtenberg, Rev., of the German Lutheran Baby about 13 months old, gingham apron. Church, and wife. Woman, band ring, broken, gold, engraved i Lovell, Mrs. Same one pair buterriy ruby earrings, new shoes, two Llndle, Mary psitohes of goods McClelland, Mrs. George . MSfa; ga years, light hair, two nickels and one Musser, Charles -'three'C'lht piece, collar button, .scarf pin steel Murrell, John’s child. chain Nixon. Mrs. Robert H. The body of Mrs. Would*-a!X)iit 30 years old, plain band ilno- Nixon was foun.d near Unique Rink, and was bu¬ slipper rled on Sunday at Grand View. W oman, ralrldle aged, set false teeth o-oid Owen, -Moses and 3 children band ring, Susiples of clothing, blue calico dress Palmer, yirs (old lady) iiai'b'al ga.s key,- seveuiy-ilve cents, gum nipme Potter, Mrs, Woodvale Woman, heavy black Ualr, blue caHco dress, Parke, William, his sister and child, and his bar'eJ flannel .skrrf, earrings mother, widow of the late John Parke. » oin;tn, 30 years old, go-ld ring, set with two Pike, Miss Fannie holes 111 it Pike, S Bowen .Man, aged 30, sinali-'pin with figure 6, sacred Pike, W \V heart Pike, M' W, Jr woman, about 22 years, piece of paper mark¬ (iuUm, Miss Ellen ed “Nannie Eagler. Huntingdon, Pa,, in care Rainey, .Mrs W R of F B Cook,” breast pte,. collar button with Rainey, Parke set Ryan, Maggie Woman, about 24 years, very heavy black Ream, /idoiph hair, earrings, hali'pln, garnet dress' Ream, Mrs., tVoodvale Woman, about 21 yeai'S of age,-ring marked Reese, wiaasor “R O, 1S8G” Ree^nn|^^^^^„^ Woman, skeleton only, burned-at factory Wo.iian, age 24, black hair, black Jersey jacket, knit skirt! Bittner, A Ji. ” w oniiuV, ay:e 3i>, two gold rings;- breakfast Baird, Charles. shawl, l);uc calico dress, black hair Bowers, Geoige. Woman, ago earrings with wbtte’set, neck¬ Bare, Mrs. tie’. calico dress, weight 100 pounds, two rings, Bridges, Emma. 0. e enrgaved ‘M E’- . , _ Bates, Annie, draft $60 First Xatlonal Bank*; boy. age 13 yeare, short pants, glnghaia apron, Racine, vvis. dark blue suit Bertha Knorr, .lackson street. Young m.in, black clothes, short hair Coleman, Jessy. Woman, 40 years, calico dress, gingham Creed, David. apron, breast pin, two rings with clover leal Dulg, Alex. pearl center ^ ^ Kins. M llllara. Boy 12 years, short black pants and coat, old Emma Knorr. buttoned shoes, brown hair, blue calico Gre.er, Ann. Chinaman, gold w'atch, 39 cents in pennies, Griffiths, Mr. Given, Miss Jane. {5.15 In coin, one key , , ■\ian about 50 j'ears, pocketbook containing Given, Benjamin. {•’'tBincoin bunch of keys sacred heart, sliver Harnlsh, Blanche, sent to Dayton, Ohio. w'atch and watch chain wlih charm Harvey D Williams. Boy about 5 years, red and black woolen HeckmaQ, -Frances,' domestic for John Hender¬ skirt striped white and blue barred gingham son. apron, red and white dotted caUco dress Johnson, John. Jones, Mrs Alice. Two unidentified men and three John, son of James Reese, Conemaugh street. women were sent from the South Side Klntz, Mary. Lamhi’lskl, John. Station to the Fourth Ward Morgue, where Lambrlski, Kate. descriptions of the bodies may be found. Layton, Mrs William. Miller, George. Grand View Chapel Morgue. Mui-phy, Mary. WomaiBi, 35, large, apparently Irish, long a.u- McClarren, Samuel. bum hair, dark blue eyes, 5 feet 6,175 pouims, Ylc.4neny, Miss. one earring, was Identified as JVirs MuUen. but yicConaughy, Wallace, blown up to-day out of afterward said not to be her. wreck at stone bridge; Identified by receipt in Woman, 60, German, large, 5 feet 1, 130 his pocket from W J Rose & Son; only part of pounds, brown hair, gray eyes, hazel features, tody: large set ring; no clothing. pocket book, medal, spectacles and school case. McHugh, Mrs D A, East Conemaugh. Girl 15 4 feet 8, 90 pounds, brown hair, hrown Oswald, .Miss. v'es ’nose rather long and straight, mole on Phillips, John, son of Robert Phillips, aged 13; ..eft side of chin, no Jewelry. Second ward, Johnstown. " potter’. Ml’S. ^ j Phillips. Mrs Robert, First ward, Johristown. Woman blue figured calico dress, red striped Paah. Elizabeth. wool petticoat, brown hair, ears pierced, 2 Roland, Rand. scapulars, five medals, porous plaster on breast, Roland, Emma. straw hat with white ribbon. Thomas, Sylvester. Woman, 30-, 5 feet 6, dark hair, brown wals^ ; Tohash, child of Mrs. black striped ball wool goods, skirt gone, red Varner, Ella. 'and black wool petticoat, red and white merino Wagoner, Lizzie. hose, noieweliry. . Wolford, A. Boy. 9, 4 feet 2, Ught hair, hrown coat, brown Welsh, James. tnd black checkered waist, black twilled shirt, 1 Williams, N J. and long Mack wool hose. „ White, Mary P. Boy, 17, seems to be brother of the above, dressed alike enly pants same as coat. UNIDENTIFIED. Woman, SO. medium size, dark hair, blue Woman, 45, fair complexion, brown hair, gray chintz dress with white figures, white hose. eyes, 125 pounds, 5 feet 4, black-set pin, calico Uebtenberg. Mrs Kev, from Adam street. dress, red underwear. Bov 10, light hair, brown red wool pleated Woman, 50,100 pounds, 6 feet 4, gray hair. waist.’ black twilled pants, white and black Woman, 60, 180 pounds, 5 feet 8, blue calico mixed barred, patch on both knees long black dress’ slate pencil and door key. ribbed merlm> hose, red knit woOlen underwear^ Man, 45,180 pounds, 5 feet 10, purse and one Female, medium, aged 40, height 5 feet 5 small key. Inches, weight 150, biwn hair with tinge of Girl. 7, no description. red and a lew gray, light brown eyes, features Ylan, 40, 190 pounds, black whiskers, white broad, nose slightly snub, kept Jewelry, rings check shirt, all underclothing gone but shirt. and piece ol dress. ^ Man, burned beyond recognition. Female, supposed tO' Ise Mrs Ott, Put none of Boy, 12, black hair, 85 pounds, 4 feet, found in famUy came to identify; Jewelry kept, earring. Charles Murr’s store. Female, hlght 5 feet 2 Inches, aged 33. light Man, supposed to he Dr. George Wagoner, $57 hair, blue eyes, features rather sharp, dress tom Oh person. ^'Female silk waist, black casbmere skirt, Woman, 35, dark hair, blue Woolen dress, low- brown bair, large scar over right eye. scar on laced shoes, plain gold hand ring on third finger, arm, ring, initials CRtoTK; burled imder gold carved ring on third finger of left hand, name ol C K Kotb. large key mended with lead. Boy, 12 years, brown liair^ white calico waist Twenty-four childi’en, all unknown. with black circles, short pants, dark twilled Three women. casbmere hose, long black, with white stripes. Girl. Boy. 6years, hlght 4 feet, hrown hair, check- Woman. gingham apron, two Jackets, sltlrt, brown wpol- Ylan. en hose, long black red knit underclothes, hut- Woman. Girl. i bight 5 feet 2 Inches, black dress, Two unrecognizable bodies. ' open goods, red skirt, flannel drawers, white Six children. aM black flannel with patch on each knee, well Girl, 12. Ught hair. ! worn, black wool hose, dark brown hair. Gin, 12, light hair, blue striped waist, Female, mark of rings on three fingers of left dress button shoes. ' hand white and blue check calico dress, large Man, 40, light hair, black pants, white shirt-, features, hrown hair, white and blue ridged blue vest, carved gold ring on third finger of hose, black cloth sack. - left hand, one small key, Girl about 7 yeare of age, only half of body, Woman, supposed to he Mrs. John B. Clark, earrings with glass settings, at police headQuar- 130 pounds, 5 feet 6, gold ring and filled ring on second finger of left nand. Ters, brown hair, drab dress with white and Child, supposed of John B Clark. black diamonds. Woman, 25, 135 pounds, 5 feet 6, black Millville Borough Morgue, at School House. ear drops, two black hair pins, gray skirt with S, IDENTIFIED. * red stripes, bluestoklngs, button shoes, piece of the Holy Mission around her neck and a heart Abler, Louisa. Abler.^Georgia. Sjade^Of clothjAgnus

-r ■ (■ •S ■ ' black hair, 200 . 6 »eet, blue Female, 5 f^ 7^ l^es,. 140 Qbiia^, purple ,ea shirt, rea unaerwei pants, work- Bkirt with red boiler, red 'undevjfc'ear,”rtn) pair lig shoes, pocketbook...lents. cont" stocKlngs, one ^^^hlte cottonvoihet-woole* plain Tjoy, black hair, 90 pound?, 4 feet, dark gray gold ring on first finger, left hand, gold band na'ntVwi.ii small black stitpes, button shoes, ring on third linger, left hand, press alternate- red ,4irt wlldi white sulpes, pleawd coat,of blacK and red with black iloimces, ear-drops with bliiCK sets, cloth gaiters,, bbie calico waist, or 4*supposed child of John B, Clark; Female, age 23, 5 feet 9 inches, IGO pounds,. Man ^50 safw Hair and beard, 6 feet 4, 180 blacK hair, cheexered apron, red dress, red- DO^ds clothing’roarlced "0 U, 1869J’ one -ring striped stocKlngs, blue Mother lluhoard with on third finger of ICtt hand, 11“^ white spots, red and blacx striped sxlrt.thlmble. blue vest and pants, in- Female, age 55, 5 feetyinches. 140 pounds,blue brush knife, pencil, red stocklnp^, ,!'■ calico waist, light calico dress, ^vlth dark dia¬ pockets open-fiiced slltsif watch, heado, vs ash- mond spots, brown and white jflngham apron, ington with fiord's firayir,-! 0 o F pliL_ gray skirt, with white stripes. Woman, 45. woolen iWi-itVllaljnel skirt, 195 Female, age 16, 4 feet 6 inches, darx blue dress with light blue sleeves, gam boots, btacx laflfght complexlo:Svifet1*l4alr, 70pounds, stocKings, Agnus Det In poexet. Female, age 17, 5 feet, 1.30 pounds, light com¬ ^ >ldie’ilo'ht complexion. 4 54ei;..0!j'pounds, liilie plexion, green cloth dress, blue (fliecKered apron waistf’At barred knee pasr.-.-blie-b acK rib¬ and white apron under, gold ring with red set. bed stockings, button shoes, r.i'.ent h^eel. lace waist over top of dress. Female, :ii>. ii-5 pounds, s ifc'tt 4, blue cohco Female, age 4o, 5 feet 10 incises, l-ld pounds, dress, star figure brown skirt, 2 i^uds on skirt, light complexion, brown eyes, striped dress, small coin purse and 2'> cents, platband ring. plain gold ring, black heavy cloth jacket. -Male, aged i year, calico dress strtiped blue and Female, age 43, 5 feet 4 inches, light comptei- white red flunacl skirt. lon, dark hair, dark dress and coat, gold watch, Female, aged i5, light complexion, ?*ii pownds, open face, with shot chain, blank book. 5 feet 3. brown dress, black stoCiilngS, rio-. ^ Female, age 35, 5 feet 6 laches, I6O pounds, shoes, ear-drops. ^ ^ ^__ light brown hair, two rings on left hand, one Female, 22,140 pounds. 3 feet 7, light complex¬ \rith amethyst set and one plain marked “ M. J. ion, dark hair and eyes, black alpaca dress, white H.” underskirt, brown ribbed stockings, no shoes. Female, age 20, 5 feet 4 inches, 125 pounds, Female, 35,135 pounds, 4 feet lo, dark garnet light complexion, dark brown eyes, pocket-book dress, white stockings,No, 5shoes, no valuables. containing $4.3.53, small plain gol 1 ring, thimble. Female, 40, 140 pounds. » feet, hair dark and Female, 5 feet 4 inches, ia5 pounds, light com- . very loDff, bUi-^ ribbed Jersey, blade dress, plexlon, auburn hair, black dress, blue under¬ white and blacH jEig’lped skirt, lady’s hunting skirt, barred under-dress, blue and white apron. case gold watch tjm chain. . Female, age 6 month-;, 2 feet 6 Inches, 25 Female, lO, 3 feWs. 75 pounds, light halr.shoes pounds, light complexion, black and white and one gum shoe, ribbed stockings, red flannel slrirt, white dress. underskirt, flannel drawers, tHf>WB dress, ear- Foot of female, black stocking, high button j shoe. A^l'e 45, light complexliou, 130 pounds. 5 feet 9, Left foot of female child, black woolen stock-, white stockings, pocket-book, gold; rifig, pocket- Ing, high button shoe. knlte. Female, age 45, 5 feet 2 inches, 140 pounds, Female, 4 years, light complexion, lO- pounds, light complexion,hair gray,ear-drops, of strange 3 feet,-cardinal jacket, barred underclothes, gold pattern, in lull pregnancy. 1 Female, age 38, 5 leet 1 inch, 145 pounds, Ughf • Male, age 18 months, light hair, 30 pounds, 3 complexion, dark hair and eyes, right hand de- : feet, white dress and plaited skirt. formed, striped calico dress. Male 15 years, 5 feet, lOO pounds, black hair, Female, age .35, 5 feet 1, i:!0 pounds, light com¬ dark blue suit, blue and white striped shftt,.red plexion, dark hair, low shoes, dark woolen flannel underclothing. ^ ^ ^ stockings, dress of woolen goods, small dlamoad . Female 6 months, white dress (red dotted), figure, pocket-book containing $6.10. white flannel shirt, red woolen stockings. Male, age 8, 4 feet, 50 pounds, light complex¬ Female, age 13, hlght 4 feet 3, weight 75 ion, blue waist, light barred knee pants, blue- pounds.-auburn hair, blue and brown striped viinrk ribbed stockings, button shoes, patent skirt, white underclothing. „ heel. Female, unrecognizable, sandy hair, red flan- Female, age 30, 5 feet 4 Inches, 115 pounds, Q6l df^SS*' blue calico dress, star ftguie, brown skirt, two Female, age il years, 90 pounds,, hlght 4 feet, bands on skirt, small coin purse—20 cents, shoe brown hair, blue-and-whlte bordered handker¬ buttoner, plain band ring. chief, purple suit, black-and-white- striped flan¬ Male, age 1 year, 2 feet 6, 40 pounds, calico nel skirt. . ^ dress striped blue and white, red flannel skirt. Male age 12,- hlght 4 feet 3 Inches,75 pounds, Female, age 15, 5 feet 3 Inches, 90 pounds, brown’ hair, black overcoat,, short sack coat, light complexion, red flannel dress, barred red dark knee pants, blue-and-whlte striped-shirt, and black, black and white barred undercloth¬ button gaiters, long black stockings. ing. black stockings. No 5 shoes, band ring, fig¬ Female, aged! 60, hlght 5 Ifeet 6 Inches,. 160 ured on outside, crescent pin set with billUauts Bounds, black hair mixed with gray, fair com¬ and star in center, ear-droirs. plexion, black waist, black-and-gray striped Female, age 22, 5 feet 7 inches, 140 pounds, skirt red flannel underwear,, canton flannel light, complexion, dark hair, black alpaca dress, draw’ers. heavy knit stockings. . . white underskirt, red waist worked, brown rib¬ Male age 10 years, 60 pounds-, hlght 3; feet 4 bed stockings. inches,’brown hair, red calico waist, dark knee Female, age 4.5, 5 feet 9 inches, I5(i pounds, light complexion-, blue-black dress, figured ^^Female, age 18 to 20, hlght S-feet & inchesj.ioo waist, white underclothing. Bounds, auburn hair., greem-aaid-purple striped: Female, age-30, 5 feet, 140 pounds, blue calico, dress white underclothing two pairs stocKtnra,. dress with white spots, woolen cloth waist, one biacK, other blue; high gum boots, similar barred, gray and black, wlfite muslin under¬ to men’s. clothing, large ring. Male, age 8,4yeet, 80 pounds;, buttoned shoes,. Male, almost burned up, 2 watch keys and 1 blacE stockings, gray woolen eoat, blue- calico door key, small purse, handkerchief. waist, red and blacx striped shirt. Female, burned beyond recognition, 5 feet, 115 Male, age 6, 3 feet 9 inches, 40 pounds, dark pounds, sma 11 gold ring. brown hair, White shirt, light twilled clothi Female, age 25, 5 feet 4 inches, 160 pounds, drGSs. spotted eloth dress, gray and black striped flan¬ Female, 33, brown hair, button shoes, nel skirt, black cloth Jei-sey, covered buttons, white underwear, gold ring, cameo setting with two gold rings. full figure of woman on. Female, age 15, 4 feet 6 inches. 1(X) pounds, fair Female. 6 feet 6 inches, 160 pounds, browns hair, blue and white barred calico dress. hair darK blue dr -ss, bine and gray striped: Female, age 30, 6 feet. 135 poinds, dark hair, I skirt white woolen underivear, wart on left plaid cloth dress, two gold rings, ear-drops. ^ shoulder, scissors, tape, poexet-boOK containing; Jlale, aged 25, 5 feet 9 Inches, striped brown $7.35, lead pencil and pocKet Knife. and yellow overalls, striped drawers, large Female, age 5 to 6, 4 feet, .30 pouods,.light hair,. pocket-knife, 5 cents. Burole coat with small blhcK stripes, red and Male, aged 40, 5 leet 8 inches, dark hair, blue blacK cheexered SKlrt. blue dress, with small wool shirt, $4;^ stars, buttoned shoes, brown stocFlngs. " 15

r Female, age“^.Tteet e'incUes, 130 John W. t black wool mitts, black cloth Jacket, SoW I (figure ol woman on set), one ear drop—^tnei , JonekiJEtor. ’ Jottes, Kwaard. - ! '^*Female, B years..4 feet, hair long and brown, Jones,! JWBies.-' plaid dress, be]|-^ ,pa two buckles, high button Keedy. Mrs Mary. Keiiuafnfto Alice, tiee Cnivtaty. Female, SL'^ears, 5 feet 6 inches, 130 pounds Kilgore, Alex. red and black barred flannel, blue skirt, diess with white pearl buttons. Leslie, Woman, .5 feet 4 inches, 150 pounds, scapular Lewis, Ortl. Leveigbod, Miss Lucy. ! ^*?lale,°i|\ears, 60 pounds, 4 feet 6 Inches, Lucas, Mrs, Mai-ta, coloredL ' brown hair, striped waist, brown and white MansOel^- ’ woolen knee pants, twilled blue cloth, Morgan, Martha, i Female, 150 pounds, 5 feet b inches, false Morgan, Catharine. Murphy, .John. ^^Male 150 pounds, 5 feet 9 inches, black and' Murr, Ctoarles. white barred flannel dJ'awere, door key, tobacco Myers, Johia. pipe, watch chain, Myers, Mrs Catharine. Male, 5 feet 9 Inches, 150 pounds, red flannel McDowell, Mrs Agnes. drawers, leather boots, pipe, pocket knife. McDowell, George. Female, age 17, sleet 3 inches, 115 pounds, McHflgh, JohnL. wlilte and black barred flannel skirt, blue and McKee, John C. W. white barred gingham apron, black stockings. Nixon, Knusaa. Female, age 13, 4 feet 6 inches, 75 pounds, Overheck, W H. black stockings, buttoned shoes. Owens, 'Anna. Bones of female, aged lO years. Owens, Mrs Mary Ann. FenlS'UJ. g feet 6 inches. 140 pounds, dark Owens, Thomas. I brown hai/'; mouther shoes with cloth tops, right Owens, 'WUllam: L. & 1 foot and leg u^forDicd. Parsons, Mrs Eva May. Bones sex unknown, age about 18 months. Peyton, Campbell Bones' sex unknown, age about R months. Peyton, Georglana Female 5 feet 6 inches, 150 pounds, brown Peyton, Julia hair dark blue stockings wUth White soles, but- Peyton, John W. 1 toned shoes with red patent leather tips. Potter, Joseph, Sr. Fimajr age 12, Wacs and red barred flannel Prosser, .Miss Bessie Prosser, Fanny. **F^ale^^OO pounds, black huff, blue' and Rodgers, Patrick and wife white striped sklrt, striped calico dresS. Rose. Harry 6. Female age 9, 3 feet 8 inches, 50 pounds, but- Rodgers, Mrs Mary B. toned shoes, red knit skirt, maroon dress. Ross; Joseph, (first man drowned) Female 5 feet 6 Inches, 125 pounds, black and Schultzeldlck. Gottlieb ■white stripedsklrt, brown dress with small steel Schellhammer, Lawrence Schatz, E. j stripes, laced cloth gaiters. Sharkey,. Mary P. E. K. Station Mogi-ue Siebert, Henry The morgue at the Pennsylvania Rail¬ Smith, Hettle H. Spitz, Walter L. road Station tvas in the ladies’ waiting Stophel, Mrs Margaret room wliere the bodies were coffined and Such, Homer mciiared forideulihealion. The unknown Surany, David Suter, Homer ' were taUmi to the Peelorville School Thobum, Thomas House, afler which they were interred on Thomas, E. W. Tross, Mrs Margaret the hill. Tucker, Liliand J. .Abler, Lewis. Vinton. JIargaret, daughter ol Mr E .1 Vinton, Ab,er. (leorge. ol Jeannette, on a visit here. O.irkiey, Viola. Wlllbower, Mrs Bertha, died in Prospect Hos- Blschof, ’1 homas. I pltal. Blougb, Emanuel. Williams, Mrs D J ".over, Solomcn, Williams,- Bf’dley, ihouias, Wilson, Dr J C Buejauan, Jobn s.. Young, WllMam, Co. C. Fourteenth Regiment, Burkhart, .Mi-syioliie. N. G. P., aged 30, lair complexion, hair black, .1 Christ/, Mrs, supposed. hazel eyes, 160 pounds, 5 feet 8, blue military Christy, .Andrew c. suit, shot himself. Connors, -''Irs ji'ury. Zeller, Miss Rose Davis, Frank. [ConiinJiea onjhircl pagf.l Davis, fflarv' . ^ . , Delbel, Henry, Woodvale. I [Continicf‘af7'om second page!] Dhi ew', Mrs Me ry. ! There were many more unrecognizable Dlller Isaac. Dtller, .Mr.s .M arlo.u. bodies at the morgue. The larger num¬ Dlller, Kev .Alonzo F. ber of them having been burned at the Dinant, Lola. debris at the stone bridge. Dov\ney, Mrs Maiy. Downs, 'I'homas. Peelorville Atorgiie. Downs, Ml'S Catharine. IDENTIFIED. Duncan. Mrs Dr J C. Rodgers, Mrs David Eck, Ella M. Brinton, Margaret Fagan, Patrick. Owens, David Fa"".!!! Mrs Larrick. .4grey,- Fagan 2 daugUt^^ m, one 13 years, the other six Unknown. mouThS. badly burned. Tucker, Reuben. Fislier, IRoah. Hurst, Nattle Flt/.harils, Mary. Salunty, E (jeddes, Paul, supposed, Hellenberger, Airs E tieddes, Cieorge. McCune, John L Gromley, Lily. Hicks, Ella, Woodvale. Hager. Miss. Abler, Lulu House, Mollle. Thomas, Airs E in morguei. Helsel, George. Hellrelgeh -Miss DNIDENTI.>''IED. Hennekamp. Samu» E. years, fair complexion. Hite, Einanuiel or Samuel. Howe, Mary A. Hurst, Barry. 16

ilerht browri iiair, ui^iiT IflOuir) lte^41nclies, cal¬ ico dress, reft unfterivdaT, Wlackoloth laced shoes. Klnfy. Mrs Catharine Male light hair, weight about 160, hlght about Eamviskl. .Mi-s ■ ' 6 feet 7 laches, had'oa Jlght ijsrred pants, had Kamvlskl. John comb In pocket seventy cehts; bunch of keys, Eamviskl. Airs (Ko 2) two pocket-pieces. .. Eane. ,rnhn Female, aged 46, vevy iojag black hair mixed Lambert, Mrs Ann. 53. Cambria with gray, weight less tffia® lOO prunds, hlght Llghiner, James and wife about 6 feet 6 inches, black striped waist, black McAneny, Kate 14, Cambila dress olalu gold ring third Anger left hand, red McCann. John, Johnstbwn .undefweai', bflick stockings, five ijennleS tn McConaughy. Mrs James P., .Johnstown purse, bunch of keys, iilack ball ear-drops. Madden, Mamo B'emale, complexion white, hair brewn, eyes Mozo. Thomas black weight about 75 pounds, hlght about 4 Mon everde, C and 2 childn-en feet 3 Inches, had on brown dress tvlth red Madden. John pleated front and cuffs, ear-drops with small Malcolm, Cora b ills attached. Morgan, .'ir Male, complexion dark, hair dark weight 190, McConaughy James P died after the fiood hlght 6 feet 9 inch'-s. large seal ring on little Nalnbaugh. Henry ftngef. ten ceni s In '.Uuiiey. Nix, Frank Male. 14 to Hi years, l yes brown, weight m New, Frank sounds, hlght abou' 4 feet 9 inchess high button Nltch, John P and child, Cambria shoes. Nixon. Ailss Emma, 17, Woodvale Female, of Club House, age about IT, complex- Overdorf, Isaac ion1 fair, hair bl a ek. eyes brown, weight about 116 Overdrt, J it pouLUlrf, lilgilt 5 5eei. w inches, clot black dress, Ovrdorf. Jacob plain hoop ring on left hand black set. Oiler George O'Neill, infant child of Burgess O’Neill, Cam¬ 8t. Coluinba I^Icivgue, Cambria. bria. Pheley, Barney St. Coluinba’s Cutliolic Church in Cam¬ Plummer, Alvin bria borough, was used as a morgue, Pennlnger. Mrs. and the bodies lioguu to arrive tliere on Ross, Berkshire Ross, John Saturday after the flood. The following Rlle.v, Mary, 10, Cambria were received tliere : Riley, Frank, 15, Cambria Allbe ter, Sirs Schnell. Mrs, 65 Alt, Mr George. 60, Cambi-ia Slick, Josephine Bagley, William Sharpler, Jacob, Jr Berkeblle, Mahlon Sharpler, Jacob, Sr Barkley, George Shewer, George Briscoll, Jessie Shewer, Neal Bonson, Charles K Stlnsman, Joseph Brady, John Stern, Bella Bishop, Julius Skinner, John Boyle, I homas, 8, Cambria Smith, William Cooper, Mrs (colored) Skohaugh, Mrs Coe, John Smith, John CaUahan, Mrs Frank Smith, Robert Cush, Manuel Smith, Mrs Thomas Cush. Joseph Smith, Mrs John Cush, Joseph Smith, Alls Cush, J Ban Tomb, Charles Crlg, Annie Wise, J, and boy, Cambria Couthamer, Mr Wise, Annie, 4. Cambria Crlg, Catharine Wise,-. 10, Cambria Cush. Mrs Patrick, Cambria Wise, Airs Alartln Cush, Mrs Patrick, Sr wmiams. P Bunn, Miss Maiy A., Prospect Wine, Alart Davis, Mr Worthington, Airs R and child uavis, Thomas Warom, William Eldrldge, Pennell, Morrellvllle Yocum ^Samuel Edwards. Levi Youst, Edward and boy Evans, Maggie Evans, Daisy • UNIDENTIFIED. Fogarty, Thomas Female, light complexion, dark hair, two gold Frank. Katie rings on fingers, one with set and the other with Fredlnan, M W the inscription “WIU to Alary,” age 21, ear¬ Fink, Mrs Mary rings. Fisher. Annie Five children, not described. i Gollghter, Thomas Unknown, not described. : Garter,- W'oman, not described. Hass, Mrs Woman, had plain gold ring with inscription Bays, Michael, child “S. T. Howe,” and one ring with red set, ear¬ Howe, Gertie, Johnstown rings with set, dark hair, 125 pounds, 5 feet 4 In Henning, Mary hlght. Henning, John M'oman, not described. Hough, Mrs Alan, gray beard, 1.50 pounds, 5 feet 6 high. 65 Holmes, Mrs Eliza or 70 shears, found June 9th. Holtzman, Joseph Girl, age 7. Harrlgan, Ella Girl baby. Hessler, Annie Girl, weight 50 pounds, 8 years. Howe, L S Girl, 40 pounds, 3 feet 6 inches high. Herman, E AYoman, 185 pounds, hlght 5 feet 8, 3 rings on Johnson, '(rs-Tohn hands, two on left and one on right. Johnson, John Unknown, 120 pounds, 5 feet. Johel, Joseph M'oman, supposed to he Mrs Purse. Kirby, William Johnstown Two children. Kratzer, Virs Henry Girl, aged 7, fair complexion, light hair, 50 Kane, ./ohn pounds, hlght 4 feet 3, small spotted apron, red Enable, Leonard flannel shirt, blue dress. Enable, John Woman, dark hair, brown eyes, 160 pounds, 5 Eelly, Charles feet 6 inches high, gold ring on left hand, brown Eeelan, Mary and husband check apron, blue calico dress, barred flannel Keelan, Frank skirt heavy woolen stockings, no shoes. Eeelan, Edward Girl 9, light hair, 75 pounds, hlght 5 feet 4. blue goi a.rs. Mrs M , . , , ^ bai-red gingham apron, blue dress with red -^|ing, MrsST ■ ■: , I hraid on bottom. ^^n'y, MrsMary.::'^^^^^^ ■yV t y. ' Woman, 26, dark eyes, dark hair, hlght 5 feet 6. dark blue dress, blue skirt, bl^ woolen stockings. . popds, iilght 5 fMt 6,'three Ams or Elm^ Mary, Cambria. hand—two wltli sets, one plain. Arns or Elraji. ICllllam, Cambria. Raab,- s^rtlt ^demit? Hood, sloes and stockings, |» Benson, child ol R. Baird, Charles, Canilbila. H’ Hair, Prown eyes, 150 pounds, Bare, Mrs and child. Hlack basque, check apron, gold Bridges, Emma,,Cambria. hand, white cotton underwear. Boyle, Charles. Girl baby, 2 months, dark eyes. Bernhelser, Koss. 2l..,Hlght 5 teet 7, 150 pounds, red Brawiey, George. dress, blue calico overskirt. ^ • “ Benson, child of K., . Woman, supposed Mrs George Alt. of nambHa. Bowser. George, Bedford county. Boy, 15, dark hair, gray eyes, hlght 5 feet. Coleman, Jessie. Sourhside. Boy, 4. Craig, Christ and child. Cambria. Girl, 8, weight 60, blue calico dress. Coll, Mary. Cope, Mrs Ahlum. Minersvllle Morgue. Culliton, .Mrs Frank. The Minersville Morgue was in the old Davis, 'ihomas S (“ California Tom.”) hose house, and was opened on Saturday Ding, Alex. Locust street, Johnstown, Dixon, David, Iron street. following the flood. Mr. David Teetor, Dowling, Miss M E, Johnstown. Mrs. Bartlebaugh and Mrs. Napoleon had Dowling, Mrs Catharine. charge of it. Ths following bodies were Davis, .Mrs. Evans, Maggie. received at this Morgue: Featherman, WM. Barley, Nancy. Fink, Mary. Blair, Mrs, Woodvale. Fisher, Ignatius. Davlg, Willard. Fendra. uibler Enrle. Davis, Susan. Fisher, Miss, Cambria. Drue, Mollle, daughter of Harry. Fisher, Emma. Edmonds, Nancy, conemaugh street. Franke, Jessie, Washington street, Johnstowiu Evans, Mrs. Fisher, Aug. Evans, Lake Garver, Mrs. Evans, Maggie. Grady, Mrs Abbey. Evans, Mrs, and child. Gallagher, Thomas. Evans. Mamie. Garveu, Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Peter, and chjld, wife of Chief Gregor. Ann, Cambria. Fitzpatrick, of Cambria. Grifflth,-. Foust, Cooney, woodvale. Helner, Mrs .August, Cambria. Greenwalt, George. Cambria. Hessler, Andrew. Halney,-, painter. Harris, Mrs N, Illines.-, Insurance agent. Hayes, Mary. Huston. Miss. Hess, William W. Kellev, lUrsJamesM widow of ex-Pollceman .Tones, child of Officer Jones. Kellev, of Cambria. Johnson, John. Kidd, Mrs Sarah, M'alnut street. Jenkins, Thomas. Lewis, Mrs Ananlah, Iron street. James, child of Jack. Matthews, Thomas. Johnson, Mrs John. Morgan. Minnie. .Tohllt, Joseph. Murphy, Kosy. Klrlin, krank. Jiurphy, William. Klrlin, Edward. Murphy, Mary. King, Mrs J L. Osterman,-, Cambria. Klntz, Catharine. Rodgers, (iracle. daughter of Mr. Patrick Rod¬ Kane, Mary, Cambria. gers. iron street. Kathers, A, child. Cambria. Robertson. Thomas, Woodvale. Keland, Frank. Sharkey, ehivi of .Neil Sharkey, Johnstown. Klner, Lizzie, Cambria. 1 shuUz. Jo.seph, River street. Klntz, Mrs Mary, Cambria. smith, .Mrs .Maggie, wife of P. M. Smith. Lambrlskl, John, Cambria. 'Ilioburn, Jennie. Lambrlskl. Mrs Kate. Cambria. Thoma.-. son of .Mrs Jenkln Thomas. Llnlnger, Mrs. Tho.i.as, -Mrs jeiikin, Conemangh street. Lambrlskl, Mi-s Mary Thom IS, John Lambrlskl, Miss. Tomb. G C, Morrellvir.e. Llnlnger, Mrs. UNKNOWN. Mcciarren, John. Clilld, 6 months. jMcClarren, Cora. Child. 1 Mickey, August. Man, about 23, light hair, smooth face, weight Miller, George, Cambria. 175 1 Murphy, Mary, Iron street. Woman, Ls, fair, dark hair, cheeks prominent. I McAneny, Miss, Cambria. M'oman, 30, long face, black hair. McLane, John. Man, Polander, heavy build, sandy moustache. McLane, Cora, supposed Glri, 14, fair complexion, black hair. Morgan,- Boy, 3, light coinjilexlon, light hair. Myers, Charles \S Oman, 35, full face, light hair, light com¬ Nadi, Frank plexion, Newell August Boy. 10, light complexion, long sandy hair. Nue, Elenore BOV, 10. light complexion, short sandy hair. Oswald. Miss, Johnstown Girl, In, light complexion, dark hair, dark Polk, John, Railroad street eyes. Purse, Mary M, Johnstown Boy, 10, light hair, light complexion. Reese, Sarah Woman, supposed to be Mrs. Patrick Madden, Schubert, C T, editor FreiePi-esse sandy complexion, gray hair. Sheldon, H Boy. Stern, Bella Smith, Mrs Thomas The bodies not taken charge of by rel¬ Shaffer, Jacob atives and friends were interred on Ben- Schlffliauer, John Strauss, child of Charles shoff’s Hill. Benjamin Goughnour was Stelnley, Mrs, Cambria in charge of the work. Stewes, Lewis, Conemaugh borough MorreJlville Morgue. Tokash, Mrs and child, Cambria Thomas, Jenkln Those received at Morrellville were laid 1 Thomas, Sylvester, Cambria in a field near the railroad until indent!- ‘ Temple, Leroy Thomas, John fled, or coffined and interred. The fol¬ Thurn, Levi, Conemaugh borougu lowing is the list: Iinmoen Cal Ams or Elms, Nicholas, Cambria. _. Varner, Ella Vltner. A J.jjar s-i-i lulbert Bryan. , Waf^ouer. Llz/'l6, -jifonstowii Welsh, James, CfcJOgbrla ?4 Miirked Fmuk^Afithony. Jto^n jo“5 nf^u\ mi.stake. as Frank is as _

2fi_glionwlskl, Camlnla. . , : . SSS' 4uS B*e" W H B »t» » mcme. 27—Mrs thmkey. wis Worthington,- 40 li‘'lit mustache. Wler, Frank. gdZwoman’, 15, hair light, plain eaiTlngs. 1 Yousl, Eddie UNIDEKTIFIKP. Man 20 black hair. TjHwuman, -lo.“2 gold filled teeth. Two women. Three children. I^Ma“‘>5-44v^Ugmmus iZwoman', 18; hair light, ^laln earrings, one Wam’^gray heard under chin, about 65 or VO irears.' 150 pounds, 5 teet 6. Man 21 sandy hair, light mustache, TWO hodles-sex unknown. t^'woman 15 large mouth, llgh^alr. fgZwonmn: light hair, plain earrings, small Dora o“oTp“ipei-from coi-pse found at iflne- veh. ®^3g-Sw,' 15, hair light, watch. Eleven bodies. 4o—woman, 20, hrown hair. tiZwomfn, 22. hrown hair, left Incisor broken.

T3^°Woman,'^“uU and slender, light hair, fleshy. Child,uniiu, 2^4 years. tv„» ^’^^utn'^tsVavy gray beard, long eyebrows. Following are the names of some of the ^Wom:m »). h^wn hair earrings with sets. dead who are not recorded on the morgue IrwZm; 50, light hair, silver and gold ri nsrs lists 47— Child. 4 months. . T pitcnbersrer. Mrs John, of Vine street. 48— Wom.in, 30, tall, brown hair. Leltenberger, Miss Nancy, Vine street. 49_jirs tiev 1) nV Jones, Johnstown. so—Child, 16 months. SI_w'oman, 60, brownish graj hail. 52-woman, 20, full face, light hair. 53_Woman, 50, full lace, giay hair. Jacob Sr, found at Nineveh. stwoinam 4M;athoUc, full face, hrown hair, There were sixty-three unknowm dead gold ring. at this morgue. Also Kti—james Holtzinan. . A iurv of inquest was held here, it was _wornan. 18. lig'lit brown liair, eaiilng^, Ajury m i_q Newell, Samuel composedd 01of C/narieb ^-i ^^^’^.Woinan, 18, brown hair, supposed Maggie E. Crissman, Sheridan Heesey, j Mangus, ' HH. H. Wentworth,wentworm, George Gates, woman 30, light brown hair, gold ring. -»*■_ T^wiAfl Tla'tnrlflnn. It. three extras, Messrs. James Davidson, G. eiZairl, 8*1 supposed Sarah Wlnser. A. Grumbling and Levi 62— Sarah Mingle. ^ry met June Ist, viewed the bodies 63— Girl, 5. 64— Girl, 5. took some testimony, and adjwrned to 65— Boy, 9. meet at the call of the foreman. 66— Boy, 6. 67— child, 7 months. At Ninevah—Westmoreland Side. 68— BOy, 4. 69— B03,4. red hair. A large numnernumber oiof bodiesuuuico was»*ao taken 70~Chlld, 2. from the river on the Westmoreland side 71—Child, 1. at Ninevah. An acre of ground was pur¬ 73— Man, 35, smooth face. >“3_Supposed tv alter Jones, son of Simeon chased by the authorities of the county Jones of Washington, Pa., or .Johnstown. for a cemetery for the flood vicpms and 74— .Man, 20 Philip smith. to be used as a burying place ^or^®' 75— woman, 35. 76— woman, 19, black hair, ring. vah and vicinity, from Mr. Samuel Hill. 77— ]i!an, 40, red hair and mustache, supposed It is on a hill to the left of the railroad lomg west. The victims of the flood are '^^8?_Large woman, .35, gold ring, left hand. fnterred in three rows, each body being 79_w Oman. 35, black hair. 8i>-=-Boy. 10, gray eyes. dcsiffnated by a head-board, bearing its 81— woman, 25, hrown hair and rings. 2rSr and""such .information about the 82— Girl, 3. , ^ : person as could be obtained. The follow¬ 8;i—w oman, 30, black hair. | 84— Man, 40, sandy hair and moustaclm. | ing is the list: 85— w’oman, 22, dark brown morocco belt. 86— Girl, 7, light hair 1—Katie Fritz, Jolmstown. 87— Boy, 3, sandy hair. n_-vjocr^e Fritz, joliustown. 88— Boy, 9, dark hair. i-Wiss H Golde, jotinstown. 89— Boy, 9, light hair. j_AT'irv \il06ttGr, 90— Gin, 4, light hair, full face. tjacob keetz. Conemaugh borough. 91— Gill, 4, light hair. tiSles Oswald, Johnstown. 92— Girl, 4. dark hair. vUvirs H Vlerlng, Johnstown. 93— Boy, 2, light hair. g_Thomas Clark, Johnstown. 94— Girl, 2. red hair. g—Mre Fltzharrls. 95— Boy, 2. light hair. io—I'nknown woman. 96— Boy, 12. iaZMlss^eiuiie'GreenwOocl, Cambria, 97— Boy, 4, light hair. itllrs Master, or Miss Maser, conemaugh 98— Boy, 5. light hair, 99— Boy, 5. light hair. . itreet, Johnstown. 100— Boy. 7, light hair. •tj_Mrs Just ]\lcC8.-nn. Coruellson, Johnstown, 101— Child, 5. Johnstown. 102— Gin, 4, yellow hair. lellu^i^-d Mrs Kenry Saylor, -mnnsr, 103— Glrl baby. itluXTyears, red hair. 104— Boy, 5. iK-tariV Shettenhelm. Camhrla. 105— Boy, 10. 1!)—Mrs iiegnau, camhrla. -j: 106— Boy, 8. 107— Woman. 18, dark hair. .. _ i!lIliatl£E\-ans!uon,sti^^^ : j^ - w,: . ) lOS—Boy, 0, llglit lialr. i84_Glfl, 10. black hair, lull face, 109— Boy, fi, llgUt hair. lys—Girl, 14, two rings, one with 3 hearts and 110— Child, 8 mos, found with Jirs Niche. one with 3 sets. 111— Boy baby, 8 months. 186—Boy, 15, hair Up. 112— Child, 1. l87_Woman, 45, Ught hair, 180 pounds. 113— Man, 25, black hair, smooth face, 188- Mr Hamer. 114— Boy. 189— Samuel McClarren. 115— Girl, ‘-Gussle,” 20. At Nineveh—Indiana Side. 116— Chlldf ,s months. 117— Child, 2, dark hair, brown eyes, supposed On the Indiana side of the river at Kin- John Thomas' clilld. eveh the following bodies were recov¬ 118— Baby, 6 mos, gold band ring on third Un¬ ered: ger of left hand. 119— Joslah Kidd, Johnstown. Ams, Mrs, or Airs Elms 120— Child, 3 months. Atkinson, John, Cambria 121— Child. 8 months. constable, Mrs, Cambria 122— Mich Dolan. Craig, Catharine 12.3— Girl, light complexion. Grtffln, AIlss Mary, .Johnstown l24^Boy, 4. supposed to be Andrew Baker’s “Hester,” Cambria, six toes son. Hirsh, Ed 126—Man, weighs 250, bald, 50. Hirsh, Harry 126— Woman. 45, and child, gold pin, dark hair. James, Benjamin 127— Woman, 18, dark hair and small gold ring. Johnston, David, Johnstown 128— Baby. 3. Keelan, Mrs, Cambria 129— Baby, 6 months. King, Airs J L 130— Boy, 11. Kintz, .John, Cambria 131— Girl, 10, brown hair. Lambrlskl, Mrs, Cambria l:32-Glrl, 10. Lambrlskl, child of John, Cambria 133— Boy, 2, yeUow hair. Maltzle, Airs Joseph 134— Girl, 1. Aiarks, William , ^ 135— Woman, 55, Catholic, gray hair. Aieyers, Bernhard, Jersey City Heights, N J 136— Girl, 4, dark hair. Alurphy, Airs Al J, Brunswick Hotel, Johns¬ 137— Girl, 4, blonde. town, 138— Woman, 22, black hair. Riley, Ailss Kate, Cambria 139— Henry Wagner, Cambria. Bchittenhelm, Tony 140— Girl, 5, light hair. Smith, Airs or Airs AIartin 141— Woman, 30. brown hair. Stlnely, Airs Mary and baby, Cambria 142— Baby, 4 mos. sweltzer,-, Cambria 14.3— Girl, 8, brown hair. Wise. Airs, Cambria 144— Child. 2. About fifty were not identified here 145— Man, P O S of A badge, band ring on lit¬ tle linger. At Franklin. 146— Child. 4, reddish hair. 147— Maggie Greenwood, Cambria. Boyer, Solomon 148— Child, 2 mos. Constable, George 149— Child, 2K, light hair. DevUn, Ailss, niece of Dr M ilson 150— Man, 25, brown hair, supposed George Kelper, Airs John and child Subllff, Crawford county. Leech, .Airs and daughter 151— Alan, 55, stubby beard, dark hair. Loudenstein, Ida 152— Mrs Evans. Cambria. Aims, AVllliam 153— David J Johnson, mine boss, Johnstown Koblna, Airs and two children or David Allstlda, of Indiana county. Bubrltz, Peter, wife and daughter 154— Girl baby, 2 weeks. Wilson, Dr Ji'and wife 155— Boy, 12. Unknown man from house of Mrs Skelly 156— Woman: 20. At Mineral Point. 157— Woman, 60, false teeth, wore truss. Mrs James Finley and daughter 158— Baby boy, 18 months. Mr Abe Byers and mother 159— Woman, 20, " I HS.” and cross on head- Samuel page and family board. James Wilson 160— Woman, right wrist badly scarred and Air Gi nmbllng, AVife and five chlldi-en crippled at one time. Air Kohler 161— EUza Struston, of Norristown. 162— Girl, 14, black hair, scar on face, red and Additional bead—South Side Alorgue. black sklit, striped stockings. identified. 163— Woman, 50, supposed a Miss Griffin 164— Large woman, 55, supposed Mrs John' Os¬ Mrs. George Hager. wald. UNIDENTIFIED. ■165—Girl, 14, Slight build, brown hair, large front teeth. ’ ® Woman, age thirty years, blue calico 166— Man, 65, supposed William Owens dress, calico wrapper with brown and 167— William Schry, Woodvale, white spots, blue stockings, light brown , 168— Girl, 12, supposed daughter of Jacob Bop0. 169— Boy, 6. hair ■ _ 170— Woman, 40, dark hairt 5 feet 4 high, ging¬ Girl, four years, light hair, red alpaca ham apron. o .& dress, blue barred gingham apron, white ; 171— Woman, 35, black hair. buttons, spring-heel buttoned shoes, | 172— Woman 35, black hair, fuu face. pleated underskirt with two inches of Many of those in the above list have edgings. been lifted from their temporary resting Baby, eight months old, white muslin place and taken charge of by relatives and dress, brown bib. friends. Woman, middle-aged, gingham apron, 17,3—Man, aged 50, sandy moustache and goa¬ tee, bald head. i woolen stockings, delaine dress with 174 -Man, 30, brown hair, cut short. metal buttons, ear-rings, five-point star 175— Woman, 30, very fair, golden hair. i with white glass in, flannel undercloth- 176— Woman, 40, full face, sandy, hair, cut In upper Up, weight, 220. ing. 177— Boy, 4. Boy, 7 years old, blue suit, barred flan¬ J78-Man 50, supposed Richard Worthington, nel skirt, black and white barred flannel .LjgjHWoman, 25, rings and earrings. waist with round pearl buttons, spring- 181— Woman, breast-i)ln, wore large-spotted heel shoes. waist. Woman, 50 years, calico dress, red and 182— Boy, 5, sandy hair, check waist and rib¬ wfliite spots, gingham apron, all toes off j bed pants. left foot except small one, legs deformed, 183— Boyj[,_sand.v hair. I Two feet, sex unknown. '■ probably by rheumatism, feet tied up as Male, 7 years, 65 pounds, blue waist I though sore. Chinaman, necktie with gold pin, in¬ with white stripes. - ■ laid with different colored enamel. Female, age 7 months. Boy, seven years, blue flannel skirt. Female, age 4 years. Body burned beyond recognition, sex Millville Morgue. unknown. . . IDENTIFIED. Female, burned beyond recognition. Henry Pritchard, Market street. Female, burned beyond recognition. Peter L. Lacy, Woodvale. Female, 155 pounds, buttoned shoes Winnie T.. daughter of John T. Harris. and gum rubbers, $7.81, gold ring, with Mrs. James Murtha. garnet set. Child of James Murtha. Male, $6.31, silver open-faced watch Infant of J ames Murtha. and chain, three keys, pocket knife, bone Frank, son of James Martha. tooth pick, receipt from Charles S. Ruth Jajnes Murtha. to party named ^huner or Shnor. Maggie R. Riffle. Foot, lace shoe, light stocking and Jacob Hamilton. drawers. Bertha Knorr, Jackson street. Female, 140 pounds, nlack comb, 5 John, son of James Reese, Connemaugh cents. street. 1 Child, sex unknown. Frank J. Daily. I Foot of male, about No. 7 man’s shoe. Rose Ann O’Conners. I Male, 160 pounds, 6 feet 5 inches, gold Francis Feris. I ring, cameo setting, pocket knive8,bunch Minnie Linton. of keys, door key, 38 cents. Annie Lenhart. Male, 5 feet 9 inches, 150 pounds, red Luther Wertz, Hollidaysburg, Pa. flannel drawers, leather boots, pipe, Mrs. George Heiser, Washington street. pocket knife. _ Daniel tiammer. No. 329 Railroad Female, age 17, 5 feet 3 inches, 115 . street, Johnstown. ' pounds, white and black barred flannel Maud Connery, Railroad street, Johns¬ skirt, blue and white barred gingham town. apron, black stockings. Rosie Carroll, Railroad street, Con¬ Female, age 12, 4 feet 7 inches, 75 nemaugh. pounds, black stockings, buttoned shoes. Harry Keedy, Cinder street. Bones of female, aged 10 years. Harry Cover, son of Benjamin Hinch- Female, 5 feet 6 inches, 140 pounds, mau. dark brown hair, leather shoes with cloth John D. Ross. tops, right foot and leg deformed. Lewis Jacoby, Broad street, Cambria. Bones, -sex unknown, age about 18 Harry, son of Gottfried Hoffman. months. Gustave Schmitz, life insurance Bones, sex unknown, age about 8 agent. months. "Gottfried Hoffman, Washington street. Female, 5 feet 6 inches, 150 pounds, Female, dark brown hair, black Jersey, i brown hair, dark blue stockings with' green and brown striped wool dress, blue white soles, buttoned shoes with red and white striped skirt, $7.26 in money, patent leather tips. one old foreign penny. Subsequently Female, age 12, black and red barred identified as Mrs. Morris Woolf. flannel skirt, green dress. E. Vincent Webber. Female, 200 pounds, black hair, blue ' Potts, Jane. and white striped skirt, - striped calico Ressler, John R. dress. DNIDENTIFED. Female, age 9,3 feet 8 inches,50 pounds, Female, 5 years,plaid dress,wool goods, I buttoned shoes, red knit skirt, maroon barred red, brown, and green, blue and dress. white barred gingham bib, small chased Female, 5 feet 6 inches, 125pouud.s,' gold ring. black and white striped skirt, brown dress Female, brown hair, mixed with gra}', with small steel stripes, laced cloth gait- red skirt, black Jersey, black dress, can¬ I ers. ton flannel drawers, buttoned shoes, breast Feet of female. 1 pin. i Male, 8 years, 65 pounds, 4 feet; p inches, I Female, dark blue wool cloth dress, | knee pants, blacked ribbed lace shoes, blue waist, black coat. 1 button shoes, red skirt with six inch check at band, $25 in paper, $1 68 in silver. Female, unknown, died at hospital, . Female, age 9, black and white barred check marked J. McK. No. 1,698, pocket- flannel skirt. book, no money, pocket-knife. Female, dark hair, blue spotted calico Female, 155 pounds, 5 feet 6 inches, dress, small ear-drop. black hair, wool underskirt, red, brown, Male, 150 pounds, 5 feet 8 inches _but- and white barred, cotton undershirt, I toned shoes, white-handled knife, cigar striped white and red, black cashmere smoker, one nickel, small piece steel dress, with black glass buttons, oval- , shaped plain gold ring with “ J. L. B.” chain. Male, 3 years,49 pounds, 3 feet 6 inches. engraved inside. Female, 12 j'ears, 80 pounds, 4 feet Female, 115 pounds 5 feet, dark hair, plaid dress, red, blade, and blue barred, J inches. __ .. ‘ ■ TS* Woman, with child partly born, 140 ^ 1 gray and wliite jacket Irimmcl -witn pounds, 5 feet 4 inches, hrilliaut eardrops, \ ■woolen lace, hair black, small brea.-^' pin. blue chintz dress with yellow and white" • j Female, buttoned shoes, black dress, flowe:'s. velvet collar, black bullet shaped but- ! Six charred feet of - adults, with bunch tons, red skirt with rulHe, blue and white : of ke3’s. ring stockings, long black lace lie or Boy, 12 years, 4 feet, knee pants. scarf, upper and lower false teeth, plain 1 Male, 190 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches, gold ring, small leaf pattern ear-drops. j clothes partly removed and in stocking Female, red and black striped skirt, | feet. blue cloth wrapper, buttoned in front, i Female, 10 j'ears, 75 pounds, spring buttoned' shoes, black stockings, heavy heel shoes, blue and brown barred wool, black cloth coat. waist black and red, barred flannel skirt, Boj% about 10 years, button shoes, high button shoes. spring-heel, black rib stockings, black Female, 120 pounds, 5 feet 6 inches, and gray mixed knee pants. heavy plaid jacket, with black marble¬ BcTdy, 6 years,no means of identification. shaped buttons. Girl, 6 years, 50 pounds, 4 feet 6 inches, Male, about 50 years, 170 pounds, 5 button shoes, spring heels, red flannel feet 8 inches, leather bools, red skirt, light calico dreSS, small gold ring. flannel drawers, blue drilling overalls, Girl, about 18 months, red flannel skirt, white wool socks, gum coat, silver open- red and white barred calico dress. faced watch, Elgin movement, silver Male, 150 pounds, 5 feet 9 inches, gold j chain, leather coin purse, 10 cents, bunch ; hunting-case watcb, chain with charm ' of keys, scapular around neck. i attached, one wire sleeve supporter. Girl, age 6 years, 4 feet, 40 pounds, but- ! Female, about 10 years, dark brown ton shoes, blue stockings, and white hair, 65 pounds, scapular around neck, barred cotton dress, brown hair, plaited blue and white check bid, brown figured with ribbon, brown and white barred calico dress. apron, blue and yellow striped cloth dress Boy. 8 years, button shoes, red, white and red flannel dress, white underwear, ' and blue waist, square pattern, black embroidery trimming. corduroy coat, black and gray mixed Boy, 3 years, white muslin skirt, dress pants. wdth brown wool waist, brown white, and Girl, aged about 10 years, black and blue plaid skirt, coat of brown cloth, red ring wool stockings (home knit), same as dress waist, with large white j white dress, trimmed with embroidery, pearl buttons. and light calico with black figures, red Boy, 8 years, knee pants, high button and white striped skirt, buttoned shoes, spring-heel shoes, red underskirt, black ear-drops, enameled black with blue set¬ stockings, striped pants. ting, home-knit lace collar. Boy, 12 to 14 years, black corduroy Girl, aged about 12 years, weight about coat with two pleats down the back, dark 65 pounds, blue calico dress with white barred pants, blue calico -waist, with ! dots. white flag flgures. Boy, aged about 3 years, butto-n shoes, Male, 5 feet 9 inches, leather boots, tin blue calico waist wit h small white vines, or nickel match-safe, silver hunting-case red flannel shirt. watch and gold chain, watch charm rep- Boy, aged about 6 years, high button resentir-g surveyor’s compass, leather shoes, with heel, black and gray striped spectacle cases, gold spectacles, door knee pants. key, upper false teeth. Boy, aged about 13 years, blue calico remale, 5 feet 6 inches, about 135 waist with white dots, white-handled pounds, black jersey, blue calico dress knife, mixed wool knee pants, one Cloth ■with white spots, red -woolen stockings, slipper flowered, receipt to Kobert Bos- home-knit red flannel skirt, white skirt, sert from George T. Swank in payment gum garters. of Daily Tribune one month, dated May Boy, 12 years, about 60 pounds, 4 feet 1. 1889. _ 4 inches, brown and gray striped knee I There were many more unrecognizable pants, blue coat. jhodies ;it the morgue. The larger num- Boy, 12 to 14 years, 100 pounds, 4 feet !ber ( f them having been burned at tlie 6 inches, brown cloth shirt with small debris at the stone bridge. pleats in front. Poelorville Slorgue. Girl, years, buttoned shoes, soles IDENTIFIED. well worn, red cloth dress, red flannel ' Eoclgers. jtrs David skirt with blue and white check waist Brinton. Miirgarec attached. Owens, David Agrey,- Female, buttoned shoes, lower teeth D iiknown. false, black and gray striped woolen Tucicer. Keutrea. skirt blue calico dress, with white sjiots. Hurst, Xactle Saluniy. B . red shawl, white handkerchief, white and Helleuberger, Mrs E ■ red striped skirt, brown and white barred McCuiie, .loliii L gingham apron. Hicks, Ella, w-QOdvale. j AiDier, Lulu r Male, hight 6 feet, weiget 180 pound.^. ' UlLomas, -urs E in morgue. no clothing. .] Girl, aged about 10 years, button shoes. ; j spring beel^^d dress trimmed with lace. Korars, Mrs M I rXIUENTIFIED. King, Mrs ST /iiale. age about 45 ^eavs, fair complexioB, Klnty, Mrs Maiy Kinty. Mi'S Catharine Kamvlski. '..us Kamvlskl, .John "Mai© - 5 feet 7 iiiClieR, bafl on ligUt barre-l pants, bad Kamvlsl.l. .N rs (Xo 2) comb lu poC!-ei seventy cents, buiiob of Iceys, Kane. .P hn two poclceL-pieces. ,, , , . . L.ambert, Mrs .-\nn. .5.8, Cambria Feuiale, aged 45, very long black bair mixed LlghMier. James and wife with gray,Veig it less than 100 p-unds, blgbi McAneny, Kate 14. Cambria Mccann. .John, Johnsth'ivn McConaugh.'.', Mrs James P., Johnstown Madden, .>lame purse buncb of keys. bln.ck ball ear-drops, Mozo. '1 homas ■Fernale complexion white, bair brovrn, ej^es Mon everde. C aid 2 childrren black weight about 75 pounds, iilgbt about 4 Tv Madden. .John feet 3 Inches, bad on browm dress with red Malcolm, Cora pleated,trout and cuffs, ear-drops with small Morgan, .'.r b .lls attached. McConaughy James P died after the flood Male complexion dark, hair dark, weight 190, Nalnbaugh, Henry hl'J-ht 5 feet, 9 incb^p, large seal ring on Uttle Nix, Prank ling'ur'. ic 1 ceu-S ia ni >iie3'. New, Frank Maie it to iii yeai-s, ■ yes brown, weight 70 Nltch, ,)ohn P and child, Cambria sounds’, bight abom 4 feet 9 inchess high button Nixon. >:l.'is Emma, 17, Woodvale Shoes. Overdorf, Isaac Feionle. irs Karah, Walnut street. Jones, child of Officer.Jones. ' Lewis, .Mrs .Ananiah, Iron street. Johnsou. John. >.:i'.tthewti, Thomas. Jenkins, Thomas. Morgau. .Minnie. James, child of Jack. t.ui'pUy, Kosy. Johnson, Mrs John. Murphy, William. Johllt, Joseph. Murphy, .Mjr.v. Ririin, -rank. Cstcniuin,-, Cambria. Kirlin, Edward. Kodgxrs, evade, d.uighter of .Mr. Patrick Kod- King, Mrs J L. gers. Iron street. Klntz, Catharine. Bobei-isn;i,immas, Woodvale. Kane, Mary, Cambria. suiirke,’.-. fliii'i of .sell sh ur-ey, Johnstown Karhers, A, child, Cambria. siiiiir/,, J.i'eph. Klver street. Keland, P'rank. Suittii, \ rs ..oiggie, wife of p. M. ymith Klner, Lizzie, Cambria. j hobnrn, .lemiie. Klntz, Mr.s -Mary, Cambria. hU'i'ua.s, son t't .Mrs .Tenkia Thoma.s. Lambrlslci, John, Cambria. 'j lio ■ as. .'crs .ii'Q -.in, couem.angh street jMmbrlskl. Mrs Kate. Cambria. 'I hum s, .Tohn Linlnger, Mrs. Tumi', G C. MoiTe’lvil'e. LanibiTskl, Aii-s Mary r.S'KNOWN. Lambriski, Ailss. Child, fi mont hs. Linlnger, Mrs. Child. MeCTarren, John. __iMau, aoout 23, light hair, smooth face, weight MeCTarren, Cora. 175 Mickey, August. Woman, ’S, fair, dark h. ir, cheeks prominent Miller, George, Cambria. Woinai’. ;in, long face, black hair. Aiurphy, .Maty, Iron street. Toin, t'oiauO.e!'. heavv build, sandy moustache McAneny, Miss, Cambria, (tiri, 14, lair comple.vlon, black hair. itclane, John. Buy, 3, .iaht complexion, light hair. McLane, Cora, supposed ■..Oman. :W, tuU face, light hair, light oom- Morgan,- pl '.vlon, Myers, Charles BOV. JO, lla-ht complo.xlon, long sandy hair Nadi, Frank Boy, dyh' cwuplp.viou, short sandy hair Newell, August Girl, lo, light comple.xlon, dark hair dark Nue, Elenore eyes. Oswald. Miss, Johnstown Loy. 10, ll.vht hair, light complexion. Polk, John, Bailroad street Woman, supposed to be hrrs. Patrick Madden Purse, Alaiy M, Johnstown sandy complexion, gray hair. ’ Reese, Sarah Boy. Schubert, C T’, editor FVefe I>resse Sheldon, H Tiie bodies not taken charge of by rel¬ Stern, Bella I 1 atives an 1 frieads were infeired on Ben- Smith. Ml’S Thomas slioff’s 11 ill. Bcujamiii Goughnour was Shaffer, Jacob I Schlffhauer, Jobn in charge of tiiework. Strauss, child of Charles Stelnley. Mrs, Cambria ^ i:j—Mrs .1. er. or .'.riss -.rascr, conemaugh ytewes, Lewis, Couemaugh borough street, Johiisi'.'V' n. Tokash, Mrs and child, Cambria 1,1_\irs J list .ueCaun. Thomas, Jenkln „ , 1-s \'i’s vn.'i'icle cornellsou, johnstown, Thomas, Sylvester, Cambria rt;_suppi'sea -\.is 1 -ei.ry Saylor, Johnstown. Temple, Leroy j7_po‘; 4 vcars, red hair. Thomas, John IS—!.aiT.y shevtenhelm. cambna. Thurn, Levi, Conemaugh borough I'l—.MIS beguaii. Caiiibr.a. I'nmoen, Cal •ri—ii'-ini .oodi'orJ. Varner, Ella Evans, lion street. Millville. Vltner, A J. Cambria ^ Ituibei't Eryan, .Market street, .Johnstown. Wagoner. Lizi^ie, Johnstown • a—'irs John eTiiiber. Welsh, James, Cambria 4—Marked Fiau. Anthony, .Janslon Louse, b“t n”' ake, a ^ Frank is a survivor. Welsh. Thomas, Cambria Johns' owi,, ■ Williams, W J. Linlon street, Johnstown 05_,Miiu. _shonwiskl. Camhila. wfiren,’ whim! tlkenV R B Bates to Kacine, ^7_.sirs shlnke.v. Wls _.nau, 45. ^ , Worthington,- 29-Man, 40, light mustache. Wler, Frank. a>-\Voiuari, -c, hair lljHt, plalu earrings, i Youst, Eddie rijio*. UKIDENTIFIED. 8?—Man. 20, blaek hUUe. . , ^ ,• t,* hair, fair complexion, about 5 teet 4, rather 4;.^_\\oniaii, 25, tall and slender, Uglit lialr, fleshy. Child, 254 years. ®‘'!iJ^!!uf,' r’3!^heuvy g:'ay beard, long eyebrows. Following are the names of some of the 45_W om’ai 2(1. brown hair earrings with sets. dead who are not recorded on the morgue 4i;_\voman; 5J, light hair, silver and gold rings. lists: 47— Child, 4 months. Leltenberger, Mrs John, of vine street. 48— •woman, :to, lah. brown hair. Leitenberger, Miss Nancy, vine street. 49_Mrs i.ev D v\" .loiies, .lohustown. Williams, Joseph. 50— Child. 16 months. Schaffer, Fred, found back of St. Josephs 51— V Oman, uii, biowalsh gray hair. church, boarded with John Stormer, C B, buried 53—\v Oman, 20, full face, light hair. at Singer’s. ^ 53_-Woman, 50, full race, gray hair. Sheetz, Jacob Sr, found at Nineveh. 5.1_jirs MC.eueny. 3r>—woman, 40, catholic, 'iUll face, brown hair, There were sixty-three unknown dead gold ring. at this morgue. Also one colored man. 56—James b'oltzman. A jury of inquest was held here. It was 57._\4omaii, 18. light brown hair, earrings, ’ (Catholic.) , composed of Charles Newell, Samuel 5S_Woman, 18, brown hair, supposed Maggie Mangus, E. Crissman, Sheridan Hessey, H. H. Wentworth, George Gates, and *^59?!1 Woman 30, light brown hair, gold ring. 60— Gin, lO. three extras, Messrs. James Davidson, G. 61— Girl, 8, supposed Farah Wlnser. A. Grumbling and Levi Edwards. The 62— Sarah .Mingle. ! jury met June 1st, viewed tlie bodies 6:4—Girl, 5. 64— Girl, 5. took some testimonv, and adjourned to 65— Boy, 9. 60—Boy, 6. meet at the call of tlie foreman. 67— child, 7 months. \ At Ninevah—AVestmorelaiid Side. 68— Boy, 4. 5(i_Bo> , 4. red hair. ■ Alaro-e number of bodies was taken 70— Chilu, 2. from the river on the Westmoreland side 71— ChUu, 1. 72— Man, 35, smooth face. at Ninevah. An acre of ground was nur- 73— Supposed Walter Jones, son of Simeon i chased by the authorities of the county Jones, of Washington, Pa , or Johnstown. hfor a cemetery for the flood vicUms and 74— Alan. 20 Philip smith. 75— ^Woman, 35, to he used as a burying place 76— '.vomnn, i;i, "ol.ick hair, ring. vah and vicinity, from Mr. Samuel Hill. 77— .Man, 40, red hair and mustache, supposed It is on a hill to the left of the railroad Jacob .Miller. 78— i.ai'ge woman. .35, gold ring, left hand. eoin--- w'est. The victims of the flood are 79— '.1 Oman. 35, blucK hair. interred in three rows, each body being 80— Boy, 10, gray eyes designated by a he«d-board^ bearing its 81— M Oman, 25, brown hair and rings. 82— Girl, .3. number and such f foMnw 83— M Oman, .30. black hair. person as could be obtained. The follow¬ 64—Man, 40, sandy hair and moustache. gS—M Oman, 22, dark brown morocco belt. ing is the list: 86— Girl, 7, light hair 1_Katie Fritz, Johnstown. 87— Boy, 3, .suiidy hair. ‘i-i'.anirle Fritz, Johnstown. 88— Boy, 9, dark hair. 3- 'm1ss H (totde. Johnstown. 89— Boy. 9, light hair. 4— viarf Albeiter, cambrla. 90— Girl, 4, light hair, full face. tiacob Sheetz, conemaugh borough. 91— Gl: 1, 4, light hair. (1—Charles (.iswahl, .lohnstu'wu. 92— Girl, 4, dark hair. 7^>irs 11 viertng, Johnstown. 93— Boy, 2, light hair. 8—T houias Clark, Johnstown. 94— Girl, 2. red hair. 9_Mis bilzharriS. 9.5—Boy, 2. light hair. in—T nknovfn y.'.oman. 96— Boy, 12. 41_\i I'H i* , . 97— Boy, 4. light hair. w.^'Yiss Jennie crcenwood, Cambria. ftS—Boy, 5. llgu; luilr. >'/■ upper Up, weight7330. y9—Boy, \ ligh: hair. ; 177—Boy, 4. 100— Boy, 7, light hair. 101— Child, 5. n^mn^ 50, supposed Richard W’orthlngton. lC9-Glrl, 4, yellow hair. r 180—Woman. 25, rings and earrings. 103— Girl baby. 104— Boy, .5. 181— Woman, breast-pin, wore large-spotted 106-Boy, 10. ■ - waist. 106— Hoy, 8. 182— Boy, 5, sandy hair, check waist and rib¬ 107— y\ Oman, 18, dark hair, bed pants. 108— Boy, I), light hair. 183— Boy, 3, sandy hair. 109— Boy, 6, light hair. 184— Girl, 10, black hair, full face. 110— Child, 8 mos, found with ifrs Niche. i 185—Girl, 14, two rings, one with 3 hearts and 111— Boy baby, 8 months. one with 3 sets. 113—Child, 1. I 1.86—Boy, 15, hair Up. 113— Man, 35, black hair, smooth face. ' I 187—Woman, 45, light hair, 180 pounds. 114— Boy. 188— Mr Hamer. 11.5—Gin. ‘-Gussle." 20. 189— Samuel .McClarren. 116— Child, S months. At Nineveh—Indiana Side. 117— Child, 2, dark hair, brown eyes, sunposed John Thomas’ child. I On the Indiana side of the river at Niu- 118— Baby. 6 mos, gold band ring on third fin¬ i eveh the following bodies were recov¬ ger of left hand. ered: liQ_joslah Kidd, Johnstown. 120— Ghlld, l months. A ms, Mrs, or Mrs Elms 121— Child. 8 mouths. Atkinson, John. Cambria 123—Mich Dolan. Constable, Mrs, Cambria 123—Girl, light comple.xion. Craig, Catharine i34^Boy, 4, supposed to be Andrew Baker’s Grtftin, Miss Mary, .tohnstown son. •’Hester,’’ Cambria, six toes 125— Man, weighs 250, bald, 50. Hirsh, Ed 126— Woman. 45, and child, gold pin, dark hair. liirsh, Harr.v 127— Woman, 18, dark hair and small gold ring. James, Benjamin 128— Baby, 3. Johnston, David, Johnstown 129— Baby, 6 months. Keelan, Mrs, Cambria 130— Boy, 11. King, Jirs J L 131— Girl, 10, brown hair. Klntz, John, Cambria 132— Girl, -.0. Lambilski, Mrs, Cambria 133— Boy, 2, yellow hair. Lambrishl, child of John, Cambria 13-l^Glrl, 1. Maltzle, Mrs Joseph 135— Woman, 55, Catliollc, gray hair. Marks, William 136— Girl, 4, dark hair. y:eyers, Bernhard. Jersey City Heights, N J 1,37—Girl, 4, blonde. Murph.v, Mrs M J, Brunstvlck Hotel, Johns¬ 138— Woman, 22, blaclt hair. town, 139— Henry Wagner. Cambria. Blley, Miss Kate, Cambria 140— Girl, 5. light hair. Kchittenhelm, lony 141— Woman, 30. brown hair. Smith, Mrs or Mrs Martin 142— Baby, 4 mos. Silnely, Mrs Mary and baby, Cambria 143— Girl, 8, brown hair. Stveitzer,—’■.Cambria 144— Child. 2. Wise, Airs, Cambria 145— Man, P 0 S of A badge, band ring on lit¬ About fifty were not identified here. tle finger. 146— Child, 4, reddish hair. At Franklin. 147— Maggie Greenivood, Cambria. Boyer, Solomon 148— Child, 2 mos. Constable, George 149— Chlld, 2>4, light hair. Devlin, Miss, niece of Dr Wilson 150— Man, 25, brown hair, supposed George Keiper, Mrs John and child SubUff, Crawford county. Leech, -Mrs and daughter 151— Man, 55, stubby beard, dark hair. Loudensteln, Ida 153—Mrs Evans. Cambria. Mills, William 153—David J Johnson, mine boss, Johnstown Hoblna, Mrs and two chUdren or David Mlstlda, of Indiana county. Kubiitz, Peter, wife and daughter 164—Girl baby, 2 weeks. Wilson, Dr J c and wife 155— Boy, 12. L’nknown man from house of Mrs Skelly 156— Woman; 20. 157— Woman, 60, false teeth, wore truss. At Mineral Point. 1.58—Baby boy, is months. Mrs James Finley and daughter 159— Woman, 20, “ I H.S.” and cross on head- Mr Abe Byers and mother board. Samuel Page and family 160— W'^oman, right wi-lst badly scarred and James Wilson crippled at one time. Mr Gi nmbllng, wife and five cblldren 161— Eliza Struston, of Norristown.' Mr Kohler 162— Girl, 14, black hair scar on face, red and black skirt, striped stockings. Additional Dead—South Side Morgue. 163— Woman, 50, supposed a Miss Griffin. IDENTIFIED. 164— Large woman, 55, supposed Jlrs John Os¬ wald. Mrs. George Hager. ■165—Girl, 14, Slight build, brown hair, large UNIDENTIFIED. front teeth. Woman, age thirty years, blue calico 166— Man, 65, supposed William Owens 167— William gchry, Woodvale, dress, calico wrapper with brown and 168— Girl, 12, supposed daughter of Jacob Bonn. white spots, blue stockings, light brown ' 169—Boy, 6. hair 170— Woman, 40, dark halrt 5 feet 4 higb, ging¬ ham apron. Girl, four years, light hair, red alpaca 171— Woman, 35, black hair. dress, blue barred gingham apron, white 173—W’oman 35, black ball’, fuU face. buttons, spring-heel buttoned shoes, Many of those in the above list have pleated underskirt with two inches of ; been lifted from their temporary resting edgings. place and taken charge of by relatives and Baby, eight months old, white muslin friends. dress, brown bib. 173—Man, aged 50, sandy moustache and goa¬ Woman, middle-aged, gingham apron, tee, bald head. woolen stockings, delaine dress with 174 -Man, 30, bro’wn hair, cut short. 175—Woman, 30, very fair, golden hair. metal buttons, ear-rings, five-point star ” sandy hair, cut In < with white glass in, flannel undercloth- 26

dress, small ear-drop. Male, 150 pounds. 5 feet 8 inches but^ ' Boy, 7 years old, blue suit, barred flan¬ toned shoes, white-handled knife, cigar*,; nel skirt, black and white barred smoker, one nickel, small piece steel j waist with round pearl buttons, spnng- chain. „. ^ Male, 3 years,49 pounds, 3 feet 6 inches. ***Wo*man, 50 years, calico dress, red and Female, 12 years, 80 pounds, 4 feet while spots, gingham apron, all toes ott 9 inches. left toot except small one, legs deformed, Two feet, sex unknown. probably by rheumatism, feet tieU up as IMalc, 7 years, 65 pounds, blue waist with white stripes. *^^Chfnaman, necktie with gold pin, in¬ Female, age 7 months. laid with different colored enameh Female, age 4 years. Boy, seven years, blue flannel skirt. Body burned beyond recognition, sex MUlvlUe Morgue. unknown. . . IDENTIFIED. Female, burned beyond recognition. Female, burned beyond recognition Henry Pritchard, Market street. shoes ; Peter L. Lacy, Woodvale. Female, 155 pounds, buttoned with Winnie T., daughter of John T. Hams. 1 and gum rubbers, $7.81, gold ring Mrs. James Muitha. - garnet set. , Male, $6.31, silver open-faced watch | Child of James Murtha. , Infant of James Murtha. I and chain, three keys, pocket knife, bone tooth pick, receipt from Charles S. Ruth Frank, son of James Murtha. J^mes Murtha. ^ to party named Schuner or Shnor. Maggie 11. Riffle. Foot, lace shoe, light stocking and Jacob Hamilton. drawers. Bertha Knorr, Jackson street. Female, 140 pounds, clack comb, o John, son of James Reese, Connemaugh cents. I street. Child, sex unknown. Frank J. Daily. Foot of male, about No. 7 man’s shoe. Rose Ann O’Conners. Male, 160 pounds, 6 feet 5 inches, gold Francis Feris. ring, cameo setting, pocket knives,bunch Minnie Linton. of keys, door key, 38 cents. Annie Leuhart. Male, 5 feet 9 inches, 150 pounds, red Luther Wertz, HoUidaysburg, Pa. flannel drawers, leather boots, pifie, Mrs. George Heiser, Washington street. poc^t knife._ Daniel Hammer, No. 329 Railroad Female, age 17, 5 feet 3 inches, 115 street, Johnstown. pounds, white and black barred flannel Maud Connery, Railroad street, Johns- skirt, blue and white barred gingham f‘town. apron, black stockings. Rosie Carroll, Railroad street, Con¬ Female, age 12, 4 feet 7 inches, 75 nemaugh. pounds, black stockings, buttoned shoes. Harry Keedy, Cinder street. Bones of female, aged 10 years. Harry Cover, son of Benjamin Hinch- Female, 5 feet 6 inches, 140 pounds, mau. dark brown hair, leather shoes with cloth John D. Ross. tops, right foot and leg deformed. Lewis Jacoby, Broad street, Cambria. Bones, sex unknown, age about 18 Harry, son of Gottfried Hoffman. months. Gustave Schmitz, life insurance Bones, sex unknown, age about 8 V agent. months. \ "Gottfried Hoffman, Washington street. Female, 5 feet 6 inches, 150 pounds, Female, dark brown hair, black Jersey, brown hair, dark blue stockings with i^reen and brown striped wool dress, blue w’liite soles, buttoned shoes with red ^nd white striped skirt, $7.26 in money, patent leather tips. one old foreign penny. Subsequently Female, age 12, black and red barred identifled as Mrs. Morris Woolf. flannel skirt, green dress. E. Vincent Webber. »Female, 200 pounds, black hair, blue Potts, Jane. and white striped skirt, striped calico Ressler, John R. dress. DNIDENTIFED. Female, age 9, 3 feet 8 inches,50 pounds, buttoned shoes, red knit skirt, maroon Female, 5 years,plaid dress,wool goods, dress. barred red, brown, and green, blue and Female, 5 feet 6 inches, 125 pounds, white barred gingham bib, small chased black and white str iped skirt, brown dress gold ring. witli small steel stripes, laced cloth gait¬ Female, brown hair, mixed with graj', ers. red skirt, black Jersey, black dress, can- Feet of female. (ou flannel drawers, buttoned shoes, breast Male, 8 years, 65 pouniis, 4 feet 6 inches, pin. knee pants, blacked ribbed lace shoes, Female, dark blue wool cloth dress, blue waist, black coat. button shoes, red skirt with six inch check Female, unknown, died at hospital, at band, $25 in paper, $1 68 in silver. check marked J. McK. No. 1,698, pocket- Female, age 9, black and white barred book, no money, pocket-knife. flannel skirt. Fgnrinle. dark hair, .blue spotted calico __ . Female, 155 ])ouik1.s, o feet 6 inches, false, bliick 'and gray striped woolen Dlach hair, wool iiiulerskirt, red, brown, skirt blue calico dress with white ?o, i, and white barred, cotton undershirt, red sh.iwl, white handkerchief, w; un i striped lyhite and reil, black caslimere red striped skirt, brown und white hunv ■ dress, with black Mule, iiight 6 feet, engraved inside. weiget 180 pound- no clothing. h einale, 115 pounds 5 feet, dark hair, Girl, aged about 10 years, button she - plaid dress, red, black, and blue barred. spring heel; red dress trimmed witn I-,e Woman, with child partly born, 140 ' -^ UWiJJ, X*±v gray and white jacket tiiiiimed will, pounds, 5 feet 4 inches, brilliant eardrops, wimlen lace, hair hiuci;, small breast pin, blue chintz dress with yellow and white flowei's. jlemale, buttoned shoes, black dress, velvet collar, black bullet .shaped but¬ Six charred feet of adultsj with bunch of keys. tons, red skirt with ruffle, blue and white ring stockings, long black lace tie Boy, 12 years, 4 feet, knee pants. scarf, upper imd lower false teeth, plain Male, 190 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches, gold nng, small leaf pattern ear-drops. clothes partly removed and in stockino- feet. ° Fenuale, red and black striped skirt, blue cloth wrapper, buttoned in front, Fernale, 10 years, 75 pounds, spring buttoned shoes, black stockings, heavj' heel shoes, blue and brown barred wool black cloth coat. waist black and red, barred flannel skirt,’ high button shoes. Boy, about 10 years, button shoes, spring-heel, black rib stockings, black Female. 120 pounds, 5 feet 6 inches, and gray mixed knee pants. heavy plaid jacket, with black marble¬ shaped buttons. years, no means of identification. (jirl, 6 years, 50 pounds, 4 feet 6 inches', Male, about 50 years, 170 pounds, 5 button shoes, spring beeis, red flannel feet 8 inches, leather boots, red skirt, light calico dress, small gold rino*, flannel drawers, blue drilling overalls 1 Girl, about 18 months, red flannel skii° white wool socks, gum coat, silver open- red and white barred calico dress. faced watch, Elgin movement, silver Male, 150 pounds; 5 feet 9 inches, gold Cham, leather coin purse, 10 cents, bunch hunting-case watch, chain with charm ox keys, scapular around neck. attached, one wire sleeve sujjporter. Girl age 6 years, 4 feet, 40 pounds, but¬ ton shoes, blue stockings, and white 10 years, dark brown hair, 65 pounds, scapular around neck, barred cotton dress, brown hair, plaited blue and white check bid, brown figured with ribbon, brown and white barred calico dress. apron, blue and yellow striped cloth dress Boy, 8 years, button shoes, red, white and red flannel dress, white underwear, embroidery trimming. and blue waist, square pattern, black corduroy coat, black and gray mixed Boy, 3 years, white muslin skirt, dress pants. with brown wool waist, brown white, and Girl, aged about 10 years, black and blue plaid skirt, coat of brown cloth red ring wool stockings (home knit), lame as dress waist, with large white pearl buttons. white dress, trimmed with embroidery, and light calico with black figures, red button and white striped skirt, buttoned shoes, -pnng-heel shoes, red underskirt, black dockings, striped pants. ear-drops, enameled black with blue set¬ ting, home-knit lace collar. black corduroy Girl, aged about 12 years, weight about ^ mat with two pleats down the back, dark 65 pounds, blue calico dress with white ! jarred pants, blue calico waist, wdth dots. I -vhite flag figures. Boy, aged about 3 years, button shoes, i Male, 5 feet 9 inches, leather boots, tin blue calico waist with small white vines ^ nickel match-safe, silver hunting-case red flannel shirt. ’ , vatch and gold chain, watch charm rep- ^ •esentu'g surveyor’s compass, leather' Boy, aged about 6 years, high button ! pectiicle cases, gohl spectacles, door shoes, with heel, black and gray striped iey, upper false teeth. knee pants. 1 hemale, 5 feet 6 inches, about 135 Boy, aged about 13 years, blue calico i .ounds, black jersey, blue calico dress waist with white dots, white-handled nth white spots, red woolen stdekiuo-s, knife, mixed wool knee pants, one cloth ome-knit red flannel skirt, white skirt, slipper flowered, receipt to Robert Bos- um garters. sert from George T. Swank in payment i of Daily Tribune one month, dated May i Boy, 12 years, about CO pounds, 4 feet 1. 1889. ^ m’ gray striped knee ants, bine coat. the BKEIAKING OJP TBtE DAM. Boy, 12 to 14 years, 100 pounds, 4 feet Unsuccessful Efforts to Save It-Stoi-j- of the Engineer Who Saw it Go. Girl, years, buttoned shoes, soles eh worn, red cloth dress, red flannel The following account of the breaking nrt witu blue and white ciieck waisi of the dam,^ from the lips of John g! tlaciied. Park, Jr., a civil engineer who was en¬ shoes, lo^er teetli gaged on the grounds of the South Fork f ■ club: •‘On Thursday night the dam was in over three hours’ warning. ^ perfect condition, and the water was not “As I rode back to the dam I expected witliin seven feet of the top. At that almost every moment to meet the lake stage the lake is nearly three miles long. coming down on me, but the dam was j It rained very hard Thursday night I am still intact, although the water had reach¬ told, for I slept too soundly myself to hear ed the top. At about 1 o’clock I walked it, but wlien 1 got up Friday morning 1 over the dam. At that time the water could see there was a flood, for the water was three inches deep on it, and was , was over the drive in front of the club gradually eating the earth on the outer , house, and the level of the water in the face. As the stream rolled down the lake had ris6n until it was only four feet outer face it kept wearing down the edge below the top of the dam. I rode up to of the embankment, and I saw it was ; the head of the lake and saw that the merely a question of time. I then went ^ woods were boiling full of water. South 1 up to the club house and got dinner, and Fork and Muddy Run which emptied into when I returned I saw that a great deal | the lake were fetching down trees, logs, more of the outer edge of the dam had , cut timber and stuff from a saw mill that crumbled away. The dam did not give , was up in the woods in that direction. way. At a rough guess I should say that! This was about 4:30 o’clock. When I re- there were 60,000,000 tons of water in that urned Coh Unger, the president of the lake, and the pressure of that ^nss of dub, hired twenty-two Italians, and a i water was increased by floods from two lumber of farmers joined in to work on ^ j streams pouring into it, but the dam he dam. Altogether thirty men were at I would have stood it could the leyel of vorK A plough was run along the top the lake have been kept below the top of if the dam, and earth was thrown in the of the dam. But the friction of the iace of the dam to strengthen if. At the . water pouring over the dam gradually same time a channel was dug on the west wore it away from the outer face until md of the dam to make a sluiceway there. the top became so thin that it gave way. There was about three feet of shale rock “The break took place at 3 o'clock. It through which it was possible to cut, but was about ten feet wide at first and shal¬ then we struck bed rock that it was im- low, but now that the flood had made a possible to get into without blasting. gap, it grew wider with increasing rapid¬ When we got the channel opened, the ity, and the lake went roaring do-vn the water soon scoured down to the bed valley. That three miles of water was rock, and a stream twenty feet wide and drained out in forty-five minutes. The three feet deep rushed out on that end of downfalls of those millions of tons was the dam, while the weir was letting an simply irresistable. Stones from the dam enormous quantity on the other end. * and boulders in the river bed were car¬ Notwithstanding these outlets, the water ried for miles. Trees went down like you kept rising at the rate of about ten inches might cut a mullein stalk with a swish of an hour. • j t your cane. It was a tenible sight-to see “By 11:30 I had made up my mind tiiai that avalanche of water go down that val¬ it was impossible to save the dam, and, ley already choked with floods getting on my horse, I galloped down Unger was completely prostrated by it the road to South Fork to warn the peo¬ .. and was laid up at the club horse sick ple of their danger. The telegraph r" V from his experiences.j’ . tower is a mile from town, and I sent two men there to have messages sent to Johns¬ "It he Democrat. town and other points below. I heard that the lady operator had fainted when FRIDAY, .lULY r>. 1889. I she had sent off news, and had to be car- I ried off. The people at South Fork had iaCv uTe t'eople i'e I a.i.l Ootned > . 'I tUo Coiiiuiissaries. ample time to get. to the high grounds, 1 The call for help which went up fron ' id they were able to move their furm- ' '-fe the survivors of the great disaster oi i'la. ire too. In fact only one person was 31 1889, in Johnstown and vicinity wa rowned at South Fork, and he while at- responded to by the people of the who! impting to fish something from the flood ^■ country in such a m inner, tor chrii 3 it rolled by. It was just 12 o’clock ‘ 'JK ti-an charity and liberality, to stand ui rhen the telegraph messages were sent paralleled in the history of thejvorlc ut, so that the people of Johnstown had iji’lie lar^e contributious of food, clotiiing- can not be obtained, the holder retains tlie jind lioiiseliold supplies sent here are bo¬ ticket, the articles supiilied having been stricken off. ng faithfully and impartially dTstributed among the needj’. This distribution is i' The household goods are distributed by

DOW so thoroughly systematized that to the ! receiving the applications for articles deserving poor tnese supplies are easy of ' needed, and, if after proper examination access and to the imjiostor public exp'os- ' the applicant appears to be entitled to re¬ ure is reasonably sure. The manner of lief. the goods are delivered at such distribution may prove interesting to many plac's ns are designated, umi a receipt contributors who are unable by reason of taken therefor. distance to come and see for tliemselves. A complete list is kept of nil such per- The city and adjoining tovvns are divid¬ I sous as hold tickets, together with the ed into proper Commissary districts, number of person.-^ comprising the family which the distribution is made. For ex¬ l and the number of persons lioused who ample just opposite the Feii'isylvania I were flooded out as also of all persons re¬ Railroad passenger depot, is Commissary ceiving household supplies. No. 3, known also as Prospect Hill Depot, Lent. Cot. bpangler, now As¬ fuis Commissary is in charge of Lieut. \V. sistant Commander General of Penns}'!- T. Richardson, of .Malianoy City. Pa., as¬ vania, took charge of tiicsupplies on June sisted by Commissary Seargeant D. E. 2d all was confusion and e.xcitement, and Brindle, of Carlisle and R. IS, iMagee, ' it was impossible to systemetize the dis- Quarter Master Seargeant, of Wightsville, j tribution at once, but a few days brouglit and an efficient corps of assistants. The order out of chaos and when depot No. contributious are sorted out at the 3 was placed in charge of Lieut. Rich¬ ■ailroatl stations and a portion sent ardson, who is an experienced grocer, it ere for distribution. The Commissary was fortunately placed in the hands of an lamed is so divided that there energetic man possessing rare executive :s separate apartment for gro- ability in this direction, and through eries. meat, bread, flour and other pro- w liose efforts this commissary has gained isioas, as well as for boots and shoes, the respect and admiration of tiie wliole cuts clot'uing, ladies wea r and lumse community. old goods. Diily distribution being The File Limit Orclinaiioe. lade from each department. In the gro- This outrageous ordinance should be ery and provision department of Lieut, wiped out at once. It has been, and as '.icli'.rdion’s commissarj', tickets are long as it remains as one of our bomugh iven to siicii persons as are entitled to laws, will be against the prosperitj' of elief, these tickets have the name, res- .Johnstown. It discriminates nnfavoriibly lence and number of persons in the fam- against our own people. It will prevent and the days of the inonih heginning improvements, and drive those 'vith little dth the 12th and ending with the 30th of means from our city. Poor pev)ple are not une. The holder of the ticket is entitled able *0 erect brick biiilrlings, but many of ) receive provisions daily for tlie num- them can put up comfortable and hand- er of persons named upon presentation j some wiioden .stnictiires. Tim enforce- : the ticket. When the provisions are I ment of the “lire limit ordinace ” will - ipplied the date is punched out and only benefit the grasping land sharks from j othing more can be gotten on the date abroad. | esignated. Cambi'ia li'oii Conipuiiy. ^ In tlie clothing department a competent The old chestnut—one that iias plaved an is in charge of the passage way who its part in the tiifairs of men for ages, that ^certains the present and former resi- “corporations iiave nc souls,” is com¬ mce of the applicant and such facts as pelled by current events to take a back e necessary to detesmiue whether or not seat. Not only have the banks of Phila¬ e relief should be extended. If the ap- delphia, in proffering the loan of a mil¬ icant is entitled to assistance lie or she lion dollars for the relief of the flood given a ticket upon wnich is written a .swept districts of the State, given it a ijt of articles wanted, wffiich the holder black eye. but the noble stand taken by Ikes from department to department, the aiitaoiitie.s of Cambria Iron Company til all the articles are obtained, when [ in encouraging its thousands of emploj’ee.s cticket is lifted. In case all the articles yifl* t he proInise of a 3© 1

and ia iitfording immediate rclnf to Ibe The Coiumhtsaries. suffering; throws the .old threadbare say¬ A large'amouut of suffering has beeu ing square on its back. Its officeriS here- relieved by the prompt and efficient wor with Mr. James McMilleu, Cyrus Elder, of those in charge of the different Com. Esq., John Fulton, Esq., and others, and missaries, and General Hastings and his Mr. Powell Stackhouse of Phil:i.delphia, Quartermasters are highly complimented have done very much to re-ass u re our for the manner in which they performt people and inspire confidence; and the ibeir work. The Commissary at the sta¬ assurance that the Wire Mills will be re¬ tion under the charge of Lieut. W. F. built at the earliest .possible moment has Richardson, was probably the largest and bad a wonderful effect in bouying up the it was well kept. F. J. Snyder, Esq., of .spirits of our hundreds of artisans. Clearfield, Pa., deserves especial c.ed t 'f Beal K state. for his faithful work here, as he gave over But little real estate has yet been on the three weeks of his time for which he market, owners being undecided as to would take no compensation, and in what to do. The flood has undoubtedly addition contributed freely to those in caused a boom in real estate at Moxham, need from his private purse. Capt. m. and it IS said that very few lots are for TlCuhn has charge of all the Commis¬ sale there any more. saries now, and everything is moving %

Uiii’ Interests. along all right. Nearly every department of the Cam- Flood Incidents. : bria Iron Company is again running full They are simply multitudinous; mauy i time, and the Johnson Works are also in 1 of them not only ptariling ’ full blast. The department of the Jolm- ous and, if not so well verified, would ■ son Works which was recently removed seem impossible. Columns upon col. from 'Woodvale, is also in full blast, and Ins eol be printed, and still t«

,1 onr people are nearly all back at theii regular employment. And yet it is only and hair-breadth escapes could he gatl - ■ five weeks to-day since the great flood. ered up by the many thousands, as aU • -ho were saved out of the- seething mass The Unidentified Dead. of matter that rolled down the Conemau The bodies of two .girls were recovered yesterday, one behind the M. E. Church, to the stone bridge, and then f i, the Stonvereek over into KeinviH . and one back of the Morrell Institute. ,aved ia'a miraculous manner. _ Neither was identified, but pieces of the But while so nany real incuienis could clothing of each was preserved. Great be added to those already in print, theic care is taken in this respect by Ender- Pt. auueu for pubUffiimJ so taker Henderson and any article that will is certainly no excuse i i - nmch that has no foundation " \f likely lead to identification is preserved, and in each case a piece of clothing to¬ Lilly smff pers ab,>ui hanging and snooting o | gether with a careful description of the was the result of lively ued T l)0(ly is recorded and numbered. U,e “great avenger,” so styled, exited I The *10 Kellef Money. in the minds of oortam reporters.

The Finance Committee yesterday sent Biifao r out checks to the sufferers at South Fork, V Moi-saa I5m.>i<>yed iCiUed - I fi > Dies at th« Hospit-vl. Mineral Point, East Conemaugh, Frank¬ About seven o’clock yesterday m >• am lin, Conemangh borough, and John'stown, Fourth ward, for the payment of $10 to was mangled by a west-bouu.l t.ei,.. each. To-day they expect 'to complete that he died fe.’ train and injured so bad.y the work aud all who are entitled to re¬ ^^-■ij,,,i„gthe forenoon. He was taken lief will find their checks in tlie post-office ..“ . , , ui- Ip rs were bitheut the Hospital but hi-, to-morrow. 'Fhe checks are on the First off, and Dr. W. B. Bowman who wa^ National Bank and they will be cashed by that institution. A rigid examination work^ was made of the lists, and quite a num¬ mL knew where be was from, ber of persons wlio had registered were ■ lieved that he was from noy, e ] decided not to be entitled to rel ief. Oth¬ ■'' He had been wo.ao.,^working ^ some t - ^ er cases are under consideration, and Lucl said th|^. some of tliem may yet be allowed. r)-.

mhre easily does it beconie the prey' of Tork police force. Uodcriaker Heuder-- the thieves anil robbers. We have trust¬ Jon telegraphed to tlie Chief of Police in worthy authority for saying that arm fulls, Tew York, and if nothing is heard from' basket fulls, and even wagon loads of (lis relatives lie will be buried hereto-iiay. household and store goods have been ear.^ Tho.s. Rnfner wiio was taken to the lied into the country by these low-lived Hospital on Tnesihiy ilied yesterday, and vagabonds, that infested the town ever his body was taken in ciiarge of by rela¬ since the Hood. A farmer—an honorable tives and interred at New Florence- and honest fanner—living some twenty' miles from town being asked if he had T:4<* VVoi ic ill ( :its i^ul U) r»'ork. been in Johnstown since the wasliout, re¬ Although there has at no time been a plied he had not, nor did he wish to large force of men employed in Cambria go Uiere in view of so many of his neigh¬ borough, miicli urogress has been marie bors tiragging ahmit how many' things toward cleaning nii that town. For the they had picked up—enough, they said, past two weeks only twenty men liave to supply them wuh goods for the ne.xt been employed, although the citizens have year or so. appealed for more help, and tliey have Another class but a little less criminal ■ lieen pi'omised sixty men time and again. are the relic Imr.lcrs. While honorable I I As the men have not been sent, thepeople exceptions, people who willingly pay : are beginning to feel that undue dlscrimi- liberally' for all they get are found among | atioD is used against tliem. them others of them pilfer everything | The borough officials, hoivever, are they can quiety lay hold of. j alive to their duty, and at a meeting of Since writing the above one of our 1 Council on Wednesday evening they de¬ ]\Iaiu street ineTc-hauls says two ladiex j cided to ask General Hastings for picks, were in his slioc store on Idoiiday forenoon i shovels and other tools, so that they could when one of them w-ts detected in steal- j put loafers to work. Accordingly yester¬ ing two pairs of shoes. A friend from | day about a dozen vagrants were arrest, Somerset laid a light, overcoat, worth j ed, and as they'were unable to pay' their, $25.00, on a desk in'.ir a front window in 1 tines, a guard wa- placed over them with our office, which was stolen in broa 1-day ; a sliot gun, and they Vvfereput to work on light. the streets. A squad of militia under the In view of the nuiny complaints of thisi! lead of the local police, paraded the, kind from every part of the town, should \ streets during the day and arrested every there not be hetii r police reguhuions ? ''1 idler they saw, and the effect of this radi¬ Or shall the towm be given over to tiie cal treatment will no doubt prove bene¬ thieving hordes ? ficial.__ Tlie New iSloj es on tlie Pnrk. thikvixg itA,sc.y.T-s^ The blocks of two sjory frame buildings Where? Highi here in Johnstown. erected by the State ou the Public Square, Who? Not common sneak thieves—not are in six sections, each section ontain- well known jail ihrds ; nor do they be¬ ing six rooms or thirty in all. At 2 o’clock, long to the much abused Hurts. But un- Thursday afteimoon they were aliotteil to fortunat(;ly belong to a class who aspire p our business men as follows : to be rrmkoned among honorable and hon¬ Fronting on .Main stieet—Kradle, drug¬ est people. W here are they from ? Not gist; John Vi. 0 wens, grocer ; .Mrs. M. many of them from town, but from coun¬ S. Maloy, grocer : Seth .E. Phillips, dry try districts in tliis and adjoining coun¬ goods; J. jM. Po.ckler, milihu'.ry : Goo. ties. Are they poor, and is it poverty' Keiper, dry roods; E. T. Sehoff, dry that drives them to commit acts that goods; Emil E. Boll), drygoods; .Mrs. should land them, one and all, into the Danges,' millinery : E. C. Loreutz, hoots Penitentiary? No; but on the contrary' and shoes; 11. 'P. DeFranci', druggist. they are men and women who live well Park Plai'O—.Mi.s. Leilenhergv, <;o:.I'ce- and have plenty. tionery; Kranii-r Bros., paper: AV. A. They belong to a class of human vul¬ Kraft, jeweka ; irukins A C-.'.. jewelers; tures who s*eem to think that the more a J. W. Stevenson, jeweler; Mrs. Susan community looses, the more it should Young, jeweler; ;dr. Adoliih Euekhard. loose; and the greater its sufferin jeweler; Irwin iluricdge, sialionerv: Frank Devlin, grocer. Locust. —Cxi-ot K. Siu'yock, liu- be surprising if in the midst rjf the -gi? nei'; T. G, btew u|'t &'Co..., grocers; J. D. excitement some mistakes had been made’ <1 ' Ei.iwards xS; I'o.^ lx ots and shoes; T. E. l)ut in general the work has been well Morgan, music siore ; Singer Sewing Ma- done. All valuables found on tbe bodies ij cliiac Couipaiic; VV. W. Porch, music ; were turned over to the committee on ,1. P. I'>ailrv, g;v.i-,cr ■; K. G. Mlilcr. gi'o i valuables. ec: : iJ. i i'-' . I' liggist. E:':iiiUiiii I -G. A. Z,!U'uicrinan. druggist; Ivricgcr, grocer ; L. Eaumtfi’, grocer'; <■. .I>. t.'over, grocer ; J. M. FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1890. Yr'iing, giucer; Gliaihs Brown, grocer, T. (!. Davis, grocer ; J. B- ■''l.ticr, drug-

Tire vdYices up-sfairs wcia* not all ta.kr'i’, THtOlOFlHEFW rhuic being more than ^•.,ougll ro su[)ply

all apjilica.nts. TOTAt. NUMBER OF VICTIMS TWENfT- --- TWQ HONOREO. 'IL >i« In tiie organiz ilioii of tlie Fourth ward

school house morgue, next to U:e Rev. D. The Only Approximately Correct Ulst Yet J. Beale, D. D., Ghairmaii of the Gom- Given to the Public—Names of the Lost, raitiee on Morgues, too much credit can. ■With Residences, Ages, and Places of Burial as Nearly as Could be Ascertained not be given to Mr. .William Cover, of lliis from an Exhaustive Search of Public and city, and Mr. James Russell, uadertaker, Private Records and All Other Sources of Braddock. The carriers, the washers, of Information Available—The Figures the midei-takers, the police, the drivers as We Find Thera 8,300—East Sad Chap¬ ter In Over a Year of Tragic History. and the clerks did difficult and faithful work, receiving, preparing for burial, de¬ scribing and recording and sending ou^ The time has come for the publication of 301 bodies. the crowning chapter in the history of the 'I'he Pre.sbyterian church i-norgue at¬ flood. tended to about 190 bodic.s. Dr. Jessoii, Fourteen months ago yesterday, on May of Kiitanning, was in eJiarge most of tlie 31, 1889, the mighty waters from the broken trim;. Reservoir far up in the Alleghenies swept The morgue at Keruviile, South and down the Conemaugh Valley and destroyed Napoleon sUeefs, -was conducted by A. its habitation^, leaving untouched only the L. Davis and Dr. Wagoner. There were houses which skirted the hill-tops. passed thi’ongh this morgue 153 bodies. Fourteen months of agonized waiting it Besides these there have tieen large ; has been for many whose dear ones are still morgues at Cambria City and Moircll- lost to them, although the search for the vijle. aggregating sevei'al liundred bodies. missing dead has scarcely for a day been in¬ The Millville morgue, alone is now terrupted, and many bodies have from time open, ami Mi'. John Henderson is in to time been found. charge of it. About 400 bodies have, been But there 'comes an 'end to all things, and fecyived here. now that the organized search is about to 'i'iie labors of those in charge of these cease, at least for the present, we take this dead houses have been most difficult and opportunity of giving from the records, pub¬ delicate. All proper elforts have been lic and private, supplemented by original ir - made to identify the dead. To this end vestigations in every possible direction, what u;Ost bodies are embalmed and kept for must be accepted as the most authentic list of public view tor several days. So correct the lost that will ever be compiled. were tlie entries of the unrecognized tliat ; There are doubtless errors which the dote Dr. J. C. Duncan, from the description i individual reader here and there will see. given in one of the morgues two weeks \ We have found many as we have gone along, after the death of his wife went to the | and have corrected them. But, approxi¬ grave where a female answering to the ; mately, the list is correct, and^its great value description of ,hi8 wife was interred and j will be appreciated at a glauce. -upon uncovering the grave he recognized the deceased as his wife. It would not ' We not only give the names of those known i

I be lost, 80 far as oy great labor they could Plot,” thus leaving room for 53 more victims, ^ ascertaioed, but the names of those who i one of whom was found last evening, on the ;ere identified and of those who are still river bank in the very heart of the city. lissing—buried in the “Unknown Plot,” The Tribune gets its total as follows : jith its rows of over eight hundred gleam- i J Grand View. ^34 j Sandyvale. <9 g white stones, maybe, or still uncovered Old Catholic (Conemaugh Borough). 17 the heaps of debris which yet fill and line , Liower Yoder. 13t , lie rivers. We also give the former place of ,i Public Plot (Grand View). 115 isidence, the age, cemeteries wherein burled - St. Mary’s. "3 German Catholic. 43 hen known, and other facts such as the No Cemetery Record. 197 sader is most anxious to learn. Day Express. 34 From this presentation it will Iwseen that Miscellaneous. 95 he whole number of victims was 2,187 : Not Known to be Found. 974 number buried in private lots in Urand View Total.2,200 Cemetery, 434 ; number buried in Sandyvale What is meant by “Not Known to be Cemetery, 78 ; Lower Yoder Catholic Cem¬ Found” is, for instance, that a man etery, 134 ^ St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, 73; ■JL 4 has lost his wife and has never recover¬ Old Catholic Graveyard in Conemaugh Bor¬ ed her remains. Her body may have ough, 17 ; German Catholic Cemeteries, been found soon after the flood, and Sandyvale and Geistown, 48; and Public may now lie in the “ Unknown Plot ” at lot in Grand View (bodies identified, but Grand View, but neither he nor anybody else iiever recovered by friends, owing largely to ■j knows so. So far as the “Unknown” go, errors in the Morgue records), 116. Beside ■ they cover the long list of those not known the above there were lost from Day Express ^ to be found, but they are not to be consid¬ and the remains taken to the homes of the ered in making up the count. They are, victims, 34 ; there were taken to different indeed, unknown. parts of the country, as dislgnated, 95 ; the Glance over this page and see combinations bodies of 197 others were found and identi¬ of letters peering at you like eyes. One fied, but the place of burial could not be sweep will bring the faces of a hundred ascertained; and there were found, without friends into view, revive a hundred the bodies afterward being identified, 763. memories. These are in the “ Unknown Plot” in Grand GK^D VIEW CEMETERV. View. The number in the list of those [Burled In private lots In- Grand View.] / “ Not Known to Have Been Found ” is 974, Alexander, Arailia K., Broad street. * Andrews, John, Sr., 57, John street. which is 203 more than the number in the Arthur, Mrs. Alice, 29, Water street. Bantley, William G , 36, Third Ward. “ Unknown Plot,” so it is safe to conclude Bantley, Mrs. Ella, 30, Third Ward. A that there are not very many more than two Bantley, George L., 6 months. Third Ward. Barbour, Mrs. Mary. 23, Woodvale. hundred bodies yet unrecovered. The list of Barbour, Florence, 4, Woodvale. Barley, Mrs. Barbara, 56, Woodvale. persons found but not known where buried, Barley, Nancy. 29. Woodvale. is, after an examination of all the records Barley, Viola, 9, Woodvale. Beam, Dr. Demon T., 55, Market street. available, very unsatisfactory, b*ut it is prob¬ Beam, Charles C., 4, Market street. Beam, Dr. W. C , 35, Locust street. able that in many eases the friends of the Beam, Mrs Clara,|32, Locust street. victims took charge of the bodies, interring , Beckley, E.E., 23, Main street. Bending, Mrs Elizabeth, 48, Locust street. them in private lots, so that the authorities Bending, Jessie, 24, Locust street. Bending, Katie, 15, Locust street. could not record them. Beneigh, John 0.. 65, Cambria. Secretary Kremer’s report, which contained Benford, Mrs. E. E , 63, Sulbert House. Benford, Marla, .34, Hulbert House, no names nor other such information as we Benford, May, 26, Hulbert House. Benford, Louis, 30,'Huibert House. here give, placed the number of the lost at Beusboff, J. Q,. A., 62, Somerset street. 2,142, and the number yet missing at 391, Benshoft, Arthur, 27, Somerset street. Bowman, Nellie, 9, Haynes street. bat he counts the 391 in his total, which he Bowman, Charles H., 7, Haynes street. Bowman, Frank P., 3-3, Woodvale. gets as follows : Found and identified, 1,115 ; Bowman, Emma, 2S, Woodvale. found and not identified, 636 ; missing, 391. Brinkey, Dr J. C., 28, Franklin street. Brinkey, Elmer, 26, Hulbert House. We give the names of 2,200 people who are Buchanan, John 8., 69, Locust street. Buchanan, Mrs.Kate J., 63, Locust street. known to have been lost, and our work shows Buchanan, Robert L., 20, Locust street. 1,219 found and identified. The number of Connelly, Maud, 6, Franklin. Constable, Philip E., 61), Broad street. dead in the “ Unknown Plot ” alone—763— Cope, Mrs. Margaret, 65, Conemaugh. Cope, Ella B,, 28, Conemaugh. ! is 127 more than the Secretary’s report gives Cooney, Mrs. Elizabeth. j of the number found and not identified, Davis, Mary Ann, 40, Woodvale. Davis, Thomas 8., 59, Locust street. j There are 816 markers in the “Unknown Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth. .. . Har^J, Winu^.^i. Ma^ket^str^^^ ,»ivls'll^s:'Basin727, MUlville. HaSI: faralb Harris,Haynes, Walter3 b 22! Horner street. Davis, Eliza M. Haynes, Uanra C., zu, Franklin street. Mrl^Cora B.'. 25, Water street. Hennekamp, g.’ 2 ’Franklin street. Davis, William E. KlKm^; Ti:^, Lincoln street. Davis, Willai^ vj. ieule, 29, Vl«e.ire... ,

George lefj’obus street. ^ Helsel, Ge g . somerset street. H ite, Mm^ ^enry 30, Conemaugh. Ho^steiOyGen y, w Market street. DKon, “''“'.JK P^Lomst elreel. Hoffman, 43, Market street. Hoffman, Mrs. Mary, ^ ^^eet. K g' E mSo“. V« Hoffman, BeHha, street. ^ Hoffman, ^^nni , lb, street. Hoffman, jo, Market street, i Hoffman, street. “?'"t4S%o?£‘5S«r.... , Hoffman, ’4^’j,i:arket street. Drew, Mollie, , 2S, Wood vale. Hoffman, He , SverrMrs'K\than%t, Somersex street. Hoffman, Fred^L ma ton street. Eck Mary Ellen* ^ S°f“=“k^s Ann|2 , conemaugh. hIS Mrs. EUzabeth, 80, Lincoln street. ISIS Hotel. iS Uniia, 18, conemaugh. Hollen, Chiles street. Evans, Mrs. WilBam t., o>^o Howe, Ph^ •> n gnion street. Evans, Maggie, ^ KlS;MS3e“fe:ijbtou Evans, ^ate, 5, I^wis ^ ^ street. Evans, Mrs. street. I Evans, Maggie, V^e|treex. Hughes, Fvan, H;otel. Evans, l:^a'^®'®’'^\hs Vme street. gSS^hreys,; WUliai^ If Levergood street. i irnlfe. MSeffe'Vlb...... ) Evans, Mrs. A.nn. -treet. Jacobs, L®J'^,t|’nS3?42?Main^street. ' ivaSI’ Hei&t, 3. Vine street. Jones, Mary J. .,0in street : Ivani: Pearl, 1, Vine street. Tnnes Heuben, 1, Main sxreei. Evans, Lizzie. jlSes’ James, ^2, Conemaugh. jlSfs:Anh,AConemaugh. Jones, Mrs. W. W. V ionfs’ MrfMary A., p, Pearl street.

&.«««■ Fisder, Maiy J.. < m.,in street. \ SKSIl-ls-..,

V Eisher Franli, 9 mouths. I Flick Leroy Webster. ICeyser, Mrs. John. 1 FOX, Martin ^L ^'gg^®rJ^^s"^i^-gton street. Marv L , 52, Main street. J Frank, John, Sr .53. '^ jjjSgtoQ street. ■ ^''^^^’Katifw, Washington street. KranlTj ivatie, » WQcViiutjton street. Frank, “mma, H, Washm^■ Kirkbride, ^e-L^bn, 33, „? gj. Block. Kirkbride. Mrs. Block; R.|StrickTMrs.’A. G 45. Millville. Kirkbride, Lmda, 8, Ha„M^ street. l^^gln’Edre wfconemS s^eet. \ Fredericks, Mrs. Saral^A. i- F?fufe'ie^26?Conemaugh.

' ■ Mr?-"iStr^er TrlShSlr Srine'fs inonths; Main street, ffiby Mm. Rebecca, 74, Jackson street. ^ r4a...'ebv Sadie, 27, Jackson street. 'Mr^MarV. Markp street. afit^hVr Frol. 0. E-, 34, Main street. Glila-her! Lizzie, 29,_Maln street. LCb%rkfMrs.’Barbar^'^^^^^ Gard'Andrew, Jr., 25, Main street. Set George, 47, Woodvale. Geddes, Marion, 17, Woodyaie.

gfmoleM^tKarMri lmrkTP IVtrS Iwi^'rfiarBvt unionUIAAvU street,at GilSole,g; XnthonyTs.AlthonyTs. Union streeLstreet, r'limore Llewelyn, 6, Union street. I' ggllS’ WuTy®wTllv. 4. Union street.street, gi mole Clara, 2,’Union street. 1 Golde Mrs. Henry, 32, Walnut street. S.,' Leitenberger, Mrs^gah,os, rTrilfin Mary, 47, Walnut street. hSSl Mary K.;33, Washington street. 'I’iS sfreet! i^lirenberllr! Fliza ImnUt^n^j^c^^TO, Bedford street. I.enUart, Samuel. 08. L!ibf?“tln street. goiSiitnn Jessie 30. Bedford street. Knun;Slra;24.Bed^^^^^^^ Lenhait, Mrs. j 3^ Aiinion street, TTnmilton. Alex. Jr., 3i, Locust street, ^“hllt’ F^ma^l’ 17, Clinton street. i HimiltoS: Mrs. Alex., 30, Locust stree,t. fclShlrt! M;;13, Clinton street. i Hamilton, Marion, Locust street. ' TTamilton, Louther J., _ i Hammer, George K., 19, Moxham. S|ffS^io^e‘&^dford street. ■ Harris, Mrs. William T. i Harris John, 3, Market Street. Harris! Margaret, 47, .Market street. Harris. Wm. L.. 23,_Ma£ketmtreet^^^^ uton, Minnie, 20, Lincoln street, Ripple, Ja'^kTOn,^, A pple alley. ^ ti!, Mrs, John, 74, Morris street, Roberts, Howard J , 59, Walnut street. ewellyn, Mrs. Margaret, J7, Walnut street, Roberts, Mrs. Howard J., 60, Walnut street ewellyn, Sadie, 8, Walnut street Roberts. Otis, 23, Walnut street. . , -®wellyn, Herbert, 3, Walnut street. Roberts, Mrs. Lucinda H., 81, Main street. , iilewellyn, Pearl, 1, Walnut street. Robinson, Thomas, 60, Woodvale iiiUckhart, Louis, 89, Main street. Rodgers, Mrs. D. L, '.juckhart, Mrs. Adolph, 26, Main street. ^dgers, Mrs. Rose, 48, Millville. Ludwig, Charles. Roland, Louis, 31, Conemaugh, ■Ludwig, Henry G., 34, Bedford street. Roland, Lizzie, 29, Conemaugh. iUdwig, Mrs. Kate, 35, Bedford street. Roseusteel, James M., 50, Woodvale. ^ langus, Martha. Rose, Harry G., 29, Locust street. ^ larbourg. Dr. H. W., 56, Market street. Roth, Mrs Kate, 27. Bedford street. ‘i loDowell, Geo., 29, Pearl street. Roth, John, 38, Potts street. IcDowell, Mrs. Agnes, 33, Pearl street. Schoif, Mrs. E. T.. 32, Clinton street. dcDowell, Lilly, 3, Pearl street. Schotz. Mrs. Elizabeth, 63, Union street. (K vIeDowell, Georgia. Scuolz, AuDie, 23, Union street. I McClelland, Mrs. Jennie, 31, Sherman street. Schotz, Jennie, 21, Union street. |tj..»lcConaghy, Mrs. Kate, 68. Schubert, C. T., 39, Stony creek street. j, McConaughy, James P., 72, M'^alnut street. Seibert, Henry, .58, Woodvale. I McConaughy, Mrs. Caroline M., 65, Walnut, Shaffer, Jacob, 47, Cambria. f McConaughy, Wallace, 25, Wa'nut street. i Shulteis, Henry, 26, Potts street. McConaghy, Robert W. Shumaker, John S., 11, Locust street. McKee, John, 21, Bedford street. Shumaker, Edith M., 7, Locust street. McKinstry, Mrs Mary C., 45, Hager Block. Shumaker, Irene G., 5, Locust street. McKinstry, Annie R., 14, Hager Block. Shumaker, Walter S., 2, Locust street.- Merle, Elmer E. Slick, George R., 60, Stonycreek street. Moore, Mrs. Charlotte L. Smith, Mr., 54, Cambria. Meyers, Mrs. Elizabeth, 55, AVashlngton street. Smith, Mrs. Sarah, 72, Walnut street. Meyers, Mary, 24, Washington street. Stremel, Julius R., 21, Washington street. Meyers, Mrs. Catherine, 31, Millville. Streum, John, 63, Locust street. Meyers, John, 3, Millville. Stufft, J. Wesley, 37, Woodvale. Miller, Jessie B., 16, Somerset street. Stufft, Mrs. J. W., 39, Woodvale. Morgan, Mrs. Charlotte, 49, Millville. Suder, Homer, 7, Millville. Morgan, Martha, 13, Millville. St. John, Dr. C. P., 32, Hulbert House. I Morgan, Minnie, 4, Millville. Stophel, Mrs Maggie, 21, Baumer street, 1 Murr, Charles-, 41, Washington street, btophel. Prank Earl, 4, Baumer street. f Murr, Maggie, 14, Washington street. Stophel, Bertha, Hulbert House. Musser, Charles, 23, Main street. Swank, Mrs. Ella, 29, Main street. Nixon, Mrs. Elizabeth, 39, Woodvale. Swank, Jennie, 15, Bedford street. Nixon, Emma R , 16, Woodvale. Swank, Jacob, 61, Bedford street. Nixon, Eddie, 8, Woodvale. Swank, Mrs. Catherine, 57, Bedford street. Noro, Kate. Swank, Maud, 11, Napoleon street. Owens, Gladles, 5 months, Conemaugh street. Swank, Fred B., lo, Bedford street. Owens, Thomas, 10, Conemaugh street. Swank, Susan, 8, Napoleon street. Owens, William, 65, Market street. Swank, Mrs. Neff, 31, Napoleon street. Owens, Annie. Swank, Samuel, 5, Napoleou street. Owens, Mrs. Mary Ann, 31, Conemaugh street. Swank, Edna, 3, Napoleon street. Owens, Mary, 8, Conemaugh street. Statler, Mrs. Amelia, 51, Park Place Oyler, Mrs. Mary R , 27, Woodvale. Staller, May, 23, Park Place. Oyler, John R., 6, Woodvale. , Statler, Frank E , 17, Park Place, Parke, Mrs. Agnes J., 56, Bedford street. j Teeter, Mrs. Mary, 8.3, Locust street. Parke, William E., Bedford street. ] Tittle, Cyrus P., 53, Broad street. Parsons, Mrs. Eva M., 23, Locust street. ! Tradenick, Edward, !8, Union street. Penrod, William H., 59, Conemaugh. Turner, May, 15, Main street. Peyton, John W., 65, Clinton street. Tyler, Jno. T., 29, Stonycreek street. Peyton, George A., 19, Clinton street. Thoburn, Thomas, 17, Millville. Peyton, Marcellos K., 16, Clinton street. Thoburn, Jennie, 7, Millville. Peyton, Julia F., 13, Clinton street. Thomas, Mrs. Mary A., 39, King street. Phillips, Mrs. Jane M., 68, Market street. Thomas, Ida, 7, King street. Pike, William W.,50, Haynes street. Unverzagt, George, Sr., 67, Main street. Pike, William W., Jr., 15, Haynes street. Unverzagi, George, Jr., Main street. Pike, S. Bowen, 10, Haynes street. Updegrafl', Samuel, 15, Woodvale. Poland, Walter, 5, Market street. Viering, Mrs. Louisa, 38, Conemaugh. Poland, Frederick, 3, Market street. Viering, Lizzie, 20, Conemaugh. Potter, Joseph R., 63, Woodvale, Viering, Henry, 14, Conemaugh. Potter, Mrs.tiarab, 59, Woodvale. Viering, Herman, 1, C-'nemaugh. Potter, Nora G., 17, Woodvale. Vinton, Margaret, 14, Jeannette, Pa. Pot ts, Miss Jane E., 47, Walnut street. Von Alt, Mrs. Catherine, 80, Washington street ’ Powell, Richard,! weeks. Vine street. Wagoner, Dr. George, 63, Market street. Powell, George, 1}^, Vine street. Wagoner, Lizzie, 20, Market street. ‘ Pritchard, Henry, 62, Market street. Wagoner, Mrs. Mary D. I Prosser, Fannie, 22, Market street. Wagoner, Frances E , 18, Market street. Prosser, Bessie, 19, Market street. Wagoner,Cora M., Marketstreet. Prosser, Maria. Wenner, Carl, 32, Locust street. Purse, Mary L., Market street. Wenner, Mrs , Locust street. Raab, George, 44. Clinton street. Wenner, Mary, 1, Locust street. Raab, Mrs. GeorgA88, Clinton street. Weaver, Mrs. Sue D., 27, Market street. Raab, Norma, 16,C inton street. Weaver, Martha B., 15 months. Market street Raab, Lizzie, 24, Washington street. Weakland, John W., 30, Napoleon street. Raab, Kmiiia, 20, Washington street. Werry, Thomas Albert, 17, Chestnut street. Raab, John C. > White, Mrs. Mima. Raab, Ella. White, Mrs. Ella, 34, Union street. Rainey, Mrs. Lizzie L., 25. Bedford street. White, Mrs. Margaret E. Rainey, Parke, 1}4, Bedford street. White, Mary P., 20, Market street. Randolph, George F., 26, Beaver Falls. White, Maggie, 3i, Union street. Reibert, Juliu«, Washington street. Wild, Jacob, 72, Main street. Reese, Warah, 10, Conemaugh street. Wild, Mrs. Jacob, 58, Main street. Reese, John, 2, Ccnemaugh street. Wild, Bertha, 16, Main street. Reese, Mrs. J. W. Williams, Maggie 26, Lewis alley. Reese, Samuel. Williams, Joseph M , 22, Conemaugh street. Reese, Idris, 3, Vine street. Williams, William J., Union street. Reese. Gertie. Reese, Mrs. Mary D., 74, Market street. Repp, Mrs. Catherine, 26, Sherman street. »T US/AJ I A VA V. AXOlX y UX.f Xj li ClXl O Rhodes, Link, 26, Somerset street. Worthington, Mamie, 7, Conemaugh street. Rhodes, Ellen, 20, Somerset street. Worthington, Annie, 4, Conemaugh street. R.hp^s. Clarence, 10 months, Somerset street. _Y_oung, Katie. ' ~ ij>ji|g^jU|[)___ ’ ' llUtii- •*" TfrrriP4?. Levergooa sireel. Browm, Pel&, 66, Wo^vale. 'iiuni’, Frank, 16, Eevergood street. ; Browa, Thomas, 21, Woodva.e, Youn"' August, ‘i'^, Main ^ i Brown, Emma, 20, Woodvale. 6 Brown, Gertrude, 17, Woodvale. Byrim, John, .32, Hulbert House. ByrdP, Ella, 24, Hulbert House. Canbli, Mrs. Bridgei, 70, Conemaugh. Carroll, Thomas, 30, Conemaugh. SAKDWAIiK CBMEXEK"^* Can-oil, Kosp, 20, Conemaugh. Clark, Mrs. J. B., 39, l onemaugh. Abler,Abler August.Mrs. LiOUisa,.31, r^nemau-h.OonemauoU. Croplu, Daniel, 50, Vine street. iblfr Oewge, U, ^ouemaugb Cullen, James, 55, Cambria. ■Raidwin. George, 6?, Apple auey. Cullen, Mrs. Ann, 60, Cambria. KS Bishop Charles, 45, Woodvale. > Cullen, Mrs. Alice, 48, Cambria. Brindle, Mollie, 25, Conemaugh. e,l8Sllln:tv ' ^.yUiWLL, iSSlI;kH-UAJAVe, lo:}P-v, J ^^piTed, Clark, John. Cush,r*nch Mi’rMrs. Ann,Ann.;vS. m, Cambria Davis. ''■ Cush, Daniel, 33, Cambria. Davis._^ Cush, Joseph, 19, Cambria. Davis. , Cush, Mrs. 'IT.lie, 2', Cambria. Eberle, Joseph, 63, Conemaugh. Dailv, Mrs. Ann, 6'), Locust street. Forbes, Mrs. Rachael, 38, Pearl street. Daily, Frank, 30, Locust street. Forbes, Harry B , 10, Pearl street. Deguan, Mrs. Mary, 60, Cambria. Fredericks, Mrs. Annie E , 78, Vine street. Dowtas, Mrs. Cathe(iue,-55, Millville. Gray, H. Taylor, 37, Woodvale. Downs, Marv, 32, Millville, Gallagher, O. F, Do wins, Katie, 28, Millville. ^ . Gallagher, Mrs. C. F, Dowllug, Mrs. Catherinp, 42, Market street. Greenwood. Dowling, Mary E., 21, Market street. Green wait, Mrs. Dunu, Mary Ann, 25, Prospect. Greenwalt, child. Eatif;. Mary, 22, Woodvale. Given, Jane, Millville. kvrick.’Mr’s. Peter, 28, Cambria. Giver, Berj. F., Millville. Fi'.zpaDick, Ella, 6, Cambria. Greenwood, Jennie, 17, Cambria. Fitzpatrick, Mary, 3, Cambria. Greenwood, Geo , 55, Cambria. ritzharri.s, Christ,42, Franklin street. Hammer, Daniel, Railroad street. Fitzharrls, Mrs. Margaret. 40, Franklin street Hitp '- Quinn. Ellen. Fmnl^l^.sgpet. ■binn, John, Franklin street, Weinzlerl, Louis, JT, Cambria. aiey, Frances, 15, Cambria. Iley, Gertrud!*, IS, Cambria. ,Iley, Mary, is, Cambria, OLD ciTHOLIO GRAVEYARD. llofters, Mary, 17, Millville. (Coneinaugh Burongh.) Ilaigers, Tatt. Akers, Alvar, 54, Upper Yoder. ■tOK ers, Mrs. Susan. tVigere, Jane, child. Coad, Mrs. Mary,.57, Washington streeL ‘ t. an, John, 55, Washington street, Coad, John, .59, Washington street. ! ilvan, Mrs. John, 50, Washington street. Conrad, William, 26, Woodvale. . iSyau, Maggie, 14, Washinglou street, Hal eran, Mrs. Mary C., 30, Washington street. ftyan, Mrs. Mary, 73, Washington street, Hannan, Eugene, 14, Woodvale. ^agerson, Catherine, 4, Railroad street. Howe, Abner. B.a-’-erson, Agnes, 2, Railroad street. Lynch, John, 27, Conemaugh. Ila^erson, Thomas, 6 months. Railroad street Ijynch, Mary, 16, Conemaugh. 'hiarkey, Mary, 4, Washington street. May hew, Jennie, 18, Woodvale. •Inuiger, Mrs. Mary, Cambria. Mayhew, Joseph, 16, Woodvale. Slick, Mis. Nancy, 55, Fourth Ward. Mayhew, Annie, 12, Woodvale. 'lakaes, Mrs. Teresa, 31, Cambria. Mayhew, Earnest, 9, Woodvale. Takacs, Mrs. John, 21, Cambria. Mayhew, Harry, 6, Woodvale. Tokar, Mrs. Dora, 23, Cambria. Mayhew, James. 3, Woodvale. Tollar. Mary, 4, Cambria. McKarley. Mrs. Mary. Tokar, Annie, 1, Cambria. Nugent, Mis Mary Jane, .50, Hager Block. Taylor, Frances. Quinn, V^incent, 14, Maiu street. Wehu, Mrs Laura, 29, Conemaugh. Webn. Annie, 4, Main street. ST. MARY’S CEMETERY. Wehn, Mary, lulant, Conemaugh. (Lower Yoder.) Wehu. Joseph, 4, Conemaugh. Wheat, B'rank, 28, Clinton street. Banyan, Mrs. Rose. 36, Cambria. Belz er. Mr?. Agnes« 38, Ciimbna. Boyle, Charles. .Sr., 45, Cambria. GER’lSAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY. Bovle, klar.v, 12, Cambria. (Sandy vale.) Boyle, Charles, 3, Cambria. Boyle, Thomas, 7, Cambria. Brind’e, Mary. Brotz, Pancroiz, 55, Cambria. Geis, Mrs. Abbey, 24, Salina, Kansas. Brotz, Mrs. Lena, 50, Cumbria. Geis. Richard P., 2, .-salina. Kansas. Brady, John. 53, Franklin street. Hable, John, 29, Conemaugh. Brady, Mrs. Julia, 50, Franklin street. Hoffgard, Conrad, 18, Clinton street. Cobv, Elizabeth, Cambria. Holtzman, Joseph, 35, Woodvale. Culliton, Mrs. Teresa, 23. Cambria. Horne, William J., 21, Conemaugh. Deitricb, Mrs. Amelia. 23, Cambria, Horne, Emma J.. 22, Slormer street. Fish, Lena, 17, Cambria. Hornick, John P.,26, Conemaugh. Fisher, Ignatius, 59, Cambria. Hornick, Mrs. Amelia, 2.5, Conemaugh. Fisher, Margaret, 14, Cambria. Horton, Joseph, Sr.,Sr, Woodvale. Fleckensteiu, Mrs. Ann, 25, Cambria. Keifline, Mrs. Catherine, 56, Conemaugh. Fleckensteiu, Regina. 2, Cambria. Maloy, Manassas 45, t.lintoi street. Gerber, Mrs. Margaret, 41, Cambria. Malzi, Jacob, .34, Wa-hington street. ir Gerber, John C., 45; Cambria. Murtha, James, 65, Conemaugh. Gerber, Rose, 8, Cambria. Murtha, James, 28, Main street. Gerber, Vincent, 6, Cambria. Murtha, Mrs. Barbara, 24, Main street. Hanki, Edward, Cambria. Murtha, Frank, 6, Main street. Murtha, Flora May, 4, Main street. h Hecker, Mrs. Christ, 58, Cambria. Murtha, Lily, 1, Malu street. Heider, Mrs. Ella, 24, Camorla. Oswald, Charles, 44, Third Ward. 5 Heider, John Leo, 6 months, Cambria. Oswald, Mary, 19, Third Ward. Hesbler, Mrs. Fedora, 29, Cambria. Quinn, Vincent P., 16, Main streek. Hessler, Mary, 10, Morrellville. Ripple, Maggie B , 27, .Merchants’ Hotel. ’ Hessler, Joseph, lU, Cambria. Roblne, Christina, 25, F'ranklin street. Hirsch, Eddie, 3, Cambria. Sarlouis, Sophia. - Just, Magdalena, 29, Cambria. Schnurr, Charles, 49, Conemaugh. I Just, William, 9, Cambria. Schnurr, Robert, 27, Smith alley. | Just, Eddie, 4, Cambria. Schry, Joseph, Sr., 78, Woodvale. ’ Kintz, Mrs. Mary, 26, Cambria. Schry. Mrs. Joseph, 68, Woodvale. Kihtz, Katie, 19, Cambria. Shelltiammer, Lorentz, Kintz, Mrs. Mary, 25, Cambria. Shellhammer, Patricius. Knoblespeice, Maggie. Schaller, Joseph, 62, Woodvale. Koebler, Mrs. George, 60, Cambria. Schaller, Mrs. Joseph, 62, Woodvale. Kropp, Katie, 21, Cambria. Schaller, Annie, 24, Woodvale. Lambert, Johanna, 19, Washington street. Schaller, Rose, 21, Woodvale. Lambreski, Kate, 12, Cambria. Werberger, Prof. F. P., 70, Locust street. MacheietzSy, Stanislaus, 10, Cambila. Voegtly, Germauus, 62, Conemaugh. Martinades, Mrs. Mary, Cambria. (Geistown.) Miller, Mrs. Annie M., 46, Cambria. Miller, George, 65. Cambria. Rubritz, Peter, 65, Franklin Borough. I Miller, Eddie, 3, Cambria. Rubritz, Mrs. Margaret, 56, Franklin Borough. Miller, Annie, 1, Cambria. Rubritz, Maggie, 20, Franklin Borough. Nich, Mrs. Margaret, 30, Cambria. Schiffhauer, John, 62, Washington street. Nich, Frank, 6 Cambria. Stenger, John, 12, Main street. Nich, John, 4, Cambria. Stenger, Leo, 3, Main street. Osterman, Joseph, 38, Cambria. Stelgerwald, William, Conemaugh. Q,uinn, Mrs. Terry, 26, Railroad street. Stf Igerwald, Mrs. Mary, 38, Conemaugh. Schnell, Mrs. Fidel, 68, Cambria. Stelgerwald, infant, 1 month, Conemaugh. Schnell, Mrs. Margaret, 60, Cambria. Schnell, Mrs. F., Cambria. ' PUBLIC PLOT. Schmitt, Mary, 31, Cambria. [Known to have been found, but bodies Schmitt, George, 4, Cambria. I Schmitt, Sophia, Cambria. never recovered by friends, and buried in Pub¬ 1 Shmltt, Frederlcka, Cambria. lic Plot in Grand View Cemetery.) Shmitt, Mrs. Hortena, Cambria. Arthur, Earl H., 8, Water street. Shmitt, Leo, Cambria. Baker, son of Andrew. Slnlnger, Mrs. Mary, Cambria. Bohnke, Charles. Sarlouis, Mrs. Barbara, 4s, Cambria. Bopp, sou of Jacob. Sarlouis, Mrs. Peter, Cambria. Bopp, Katie, 9, Broai street. 1 Snell, Mary, 13, Cambria. Brlcker, Henry. I Stinely, Mr^. Mary, 85, Cambria. Burns, John. Stlnely, Kate, I2, Cambria. Barbour, Harry L., 16, Locust street. Stinely, Joseph, 5, Cambria. Barker, Mrs. Susan, 28, Woodvale, Weber, Mrs. Tresa, 43, Cambria. Behnke, Charles. _ Weber. John. 4. Cambria._ - ___ '■rt. joiilsa, 17, Coneinaugli. Wagnor, Henry\ Cambria. :r, Mrs. Annie, 39,Conemaugh. Warsing, Jane, 24, Coopered.^,!", ley, George D., 17, Cor. Union and Vine sts. M Warkeslon, Miss. .man, Mrs. Martba, 36, Woodvaie. Welnzierl, Mrs. Mary, 38, Cambria. ennan, Mary, 16, Woodvaie. Wearn, Willie, 6, King street. jrennan, William, 12, Woodvaie. Walford, Frank. Brennan, Lewis, 10, Woodvaie. Will, Elizabeth, Conemaugh. Brennan, Arttiur, 7, Woodvaie. Brennan, Franli,3, Woodvaie. Bro,vn, Sadie, 22, Woodvaie. P.4S3ENGER8 ON DAT EXPRESS, Bruhn, Claus, 58, Conemaugh. [Those marked ? bodies never found. Those Bryan, Win. A., 45, Mansion House. Campbell, Peter, 40, Conemaugh. found lived at the places named, to Casey, William, 48, Cambria. ■ places the remains were taken.] Cornelison, Maggie. Bates, Mrs. Annie, Delavin, Wls. Craig, Thomas A., 32, Market street. ? Brady, Mrs. J. W , Chicago, Ill. Craig, Mrs. T. A., 30, Market street. Bryan, Elizabeth M., 20, Philadelphia. Craig, Christ, 45, Cambria. Christman, Mrs. A. C., Dallas, Texas. Craig, Annie, 13, Walnut street. Day, John R., 60, Prospect, Md. Cunz, Lydia, 6, Napoleon street. Day, Mis.v, Prospect, Md. Cunz, Robert, 4 months, Napoleon street. Ewing, Andrew,’Snow fchoe. Pa. Dillon, James, 35, Napoleon street. ? Feustermaker, Victor, Egypt, Lehigh County, Downey, Mrs. Mary, 55, Pearl street. Harnlsh, Blanche, Dayton, O. Dudzik, Andrew, 28, Cambria. ? Hemingway, Fred, and wife, Kokomo, Ind. Eager, Annie. King, Mrs. J. F. Eck, Mary Ann, 37, Woodvaie. ? Lyon, E., New York. Eck, Lily, 12, Conemaugh street. ? McCoy, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Ann R., 70, Union street. ? McCoy,- Elsaesser, Andrew, 16, Conemaugh. ' ? McCoy,- English, Joseph, 24, Railroad street. i Meisel, Christ, 32, Newark, N. J. Fagan, Matthew, 40, Millville. I Mlnich, Kate, Fo.storla, Ohio. Fagan, Mrs. M., 38, Millville. ; Pauison, Je'^nie, 20, Allegheny City. Fagan, Monica, 12, Millville. ? Phillips, Frank (poner), Jersey City Fagan, Daniel, 10, Millville. Rainey, Mrs. Sophia, 64, Kalama;lalamazoo, Mich. Fagan, Clara, 3, Millville. Ross, John D. Fagan, Thomas, 1, Millville. Schrantz, George, Pleasant Gap, Pa. Faloon, Mrs. Ann E., 63, Pearl street. ? Shelly, W., Newark, N. J. Fichtner, Mrs. Tillie, 33, Main street. Shick, Cyrus, Reading. Fiddler, Elmira, Bedford street. ? Sible, Mrs., Springiown, Bucks County, Pa. Fiddler, Eliza J. Smith, Mrs. H. K., Osborn, Ohio. Fockler, Herman, 21, Franklin street. Smith, R. vVardweli, 3, Osborn, Ohio, Griffin, Miss Mary. Stinson, Eliza, Norristown, Pa, Hamilton, Mary, 33, Bedford street. ? Swaney, Mrs. Mary A., 67. Hanki, Mrs. Teresa, 40, Cambria. , Swineford, Mary A., St. Louis, Mo. Hause, Mollie. ,. Swineford, Mrs. Ed., St. Louis, Mo. Hellriggle. Chas. Tarbell, Mrs. Farney, 32, Cleveland, Ohio. Hellrigle, Mrs. Lizzie, 30, Woodvaie. ? Tarbell, Grace, 7, Cleveland, Ohio. Henry, William, 34, Cumberland, Md. ? Tarbell, Bertie, 5, Cleveland, Ohio. Hocker, Mrs. John, 72, Somerset street. ? Tarbell, Howard, 2, Cleveland, Ohio. Hop Sing, Franklin street. Weaver, Beneval, Millersburg, Pa. Hurt, Charles, London, Eng’and. Woolf, Jennie, Chambersburg, Pa. Irwin, Maggie, 22, Hulbert House. Johnson, David, 45, Conemaugh street. Jones, Mary, 14, Main street. MUCELLANEOPS. | Kast, Clara, 17, Clinton street. [Bodies taken to places named in sub-headsi Keene, Katie, 16, Union street. Keinxstoel, Samuel. 30, Market street. for burial. The place named in line with ? Larimer, dames, 45, Somerset street, name of individual is where they were lost' Lee Sing, Chinaman, Franklin street. from.] Lucas, Marla, 50, Conemaugh. ( Madden, Mrs. Mary, 47, Cambria City, LOYSBURG, BEDFORD COURTY, PA. j Mack, August. Aaron, Mrs. H. B., 29, Railroad street. ! McClarren, Cora, 8,Cambria City, Aaron, Flora, 10, Railroad street. BL.YIRSVILLE, P.C. i Mcuue, Mrs. Alexander, John G.,45, Woodvaie. i Melden, Richard. ] Maley, Henry. Alexander, Mrs. John G., 45, Woodvaie, I Mosser, Mrs. Mary, 65, Conemaugh street. Brown, Emma, 20. Mullen, Margaret. McLaughlin, Mrs. Julia, 60, Cambria. Oswald, Mrs. Miller, Robert, 22, Sixth Ward. Owens, Mrs. Pike, Fanny, 19, Haynes street. Oyler, John.R. WILMORE, PA. Phillips, Mrs. Eliza, 48, Union street. Belter, Mathias, 3, Clinton street. Reese, Mrs. Lizzie, 30, Conemaugh street. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Reese, Annie, 7, Vine street. Butler, Chas. T., Hulbert House. Reidel, John C., 60, Conemaugh. Carlin, Jonathan, Hulbert House. Rich, Mrs. Charlotte, 45, Stonycreek street. Cox, James G., Hulbert House. Roberts, Mrs. Jennie, 18, Somerset street. Clark, W. H. L , 50, Hulbert House. Rosenfelt, Solomon, Washington street. De Walt, Chas. B., 36, Hulbert House. Savior, Henry. Dorsey, John D.. Hulbert House. Schnable, Mrs. Conrad, -35, Baumer street Lichtenberg, Rev. John, locust street. Schittenhelm, Anton, Cambria. Llchtenberg, Mrs. Schittenhelm, Anton Jr., Cambria. Murray, James, 50, Hulbert House. Shumaker, Mrs Jaine.s M., Locust street. Nathan, Adolph, 40, Main street. Overbeck, William H., 38, Main street. Skiba, Mrs. Stainslous, 32, Cambria. Spitz, Walter L., Hulbert House. .Skiba, Joseph, 4, Cambria. Woolf, Mrs. M. L., Jackson street. Smith, Ralph, 11, Woodvaie, LOUISVILLE, KY. Smouse, Jennie, Hulbert House. Marshall, Chas. A., 34, Hulbert House, ' Stern, Bella. BRADDOCK, PA. Strauss, Moses, 77, Vine street. Cadogan, Mrs. Mary .4., 46, Millville. Strauch, Henry, 50, Conemaugh. Cadogan, Ann, 25, Millville. :1 Smith, Willie, 1, Cambria. Young, Mrs. Kate, 34, Market street. Surany, David Young, Samuel, 13, Market street. e.i Thomas, John T. PITTSBURGH, PA. Till, Arthur, 27, Market street. Creed, David, 60, Washington street. Unverzagt, Daniel, 66, Washington street. Creed, Mrs. Eliza, 55, Washington street. Unverzagt, Mrs. Daniel, 62, Washington street,! Creed, Maggie, 2t, Washington street. Vlering,Mrs. Fisher, Moses, 24, Mansion House. White. Mrs. John, 76, Union street. Sweeney, Mrs. Ann, 70, Conemaugh. ■' ■■■ ' ■ ■ ■ . -. ^ — ■S' ■- BBNSnOFF'S, CAMBKIA COUNTY, PA. Custer, WUliain H., 85, Alillville. STEUBENVILLE, OHIO. NO CEMETERY RECORD. Davis, Frank B., -lO, Main street. Davis, Frank, infant. (■Bodies found, but not known where burled. MEKCEK COUNTY, PA. Adams, Henry Clay. De France, Mrs. H. T., S2, Hulbert House. Alberter, Anna, 22, Cambria. SHIPPENSBUBG, PA. Amps, Nicodemus, 42, Cambria. Diehl, Carrie, 30, Hulbert House. Amps, Mrs. Teresa, 32, Cambria. Wells, Jennie, 22, Hulbert House. Atkinson, John, 72, East Conemaugh, NEW YORK, N. Y. Baer, Rosa L., 17, Grubbtown. Dow, W. F., Hulbert House. Bagley, William, Morrellville. HOLLIDAYSBUKG, PA. Baird, Charles. Fitzharris, John, Sr., 97, Franklin street. Baker, Mrs. Nelson. PHILIPSBURG, PA. Baker, Mrs. Mary, Woodvale. Eskdale, James, 42, Woodvale. Baker, Catherine, 70, Market street. Eskdale, Mrs. James, Woodvale. I Baker, Agnes, 68, Market street SOMERSET, PA. ,Barley, Myrtle, 11, Woodvale. Gaither, Harry, 18, South street. ! j Barley, Mamie, 7, Woodvale. Houston, Minnie, Hulbert House. 'Barley, Eflie, 5, Woodvale. Hurst, Nathaniel, 15, Washington street. j Barley, Laura, 6 months, Woodvale. BERLIN, PA. [ Barrett, Jas., 27, Franklin st, St. Charles Hotel. Garman, Grace, 21, Washington street. Berg, Mrs. Marion, 24, Woodvale. PITTSTON, PA. Berkebile, Mahlon, Morrellville. Groff, Nellie C., 20, Hulbert House. I Blough, Emanuel, 22, Bedford street. LEECIIBURG, PA. I Blough, infant. School alley. Hill, Ivy, 6, Washington street. Bowersox, Frank, 22, Market street. Jack, Jennie. Boyer, Solomon, 62, East Conemaugh. COVER’S HILL, CAMBRIA COUNTY, PA, , Bradley, Thomas, 42, Conemaugh. Hinchman, Harry, 4, Woodvale. Bruhn, Mrs. Anna, 45, Portage street. Long, Samuel. Bunting, Mrs. Caroline, 4-5, Woodvale. Shaffer, Fred, 21, Conemaugh. Burk, Mrs. Matilda, 38, East Conemaugh. DERRY, PA. Burkhard, Mrs. Mollie, 36, Woodvale. Jackson, H. A., 36. Carr, Alexander, 36, East Conemaugh. CUMBERLAND, MD. Carr, Sissie, 2, East Conemaugh. Katzenstein, Mrs. Ella, Hulbert House. ' Christ!^ Andrew C., 50, Woodvale. Katzenstein, Edwin, Hulbert House, Clark, Thomas, 42, Union street. k HARRISBURG, PA. Cole, John, Cambria. t Kels, Charles A., 26, Conemaugh. Connors. Mrs. Mary, Millville. ■ Weber, E. Vincent, 26, Woodvale. Cooper, Otto, 8, Kurtz alley. F , Weber, Mrs. Florence, 25, Woodvale. Cojper, Mrs., 38, Kurtz alley. F BUTLER, PA. Couthamer, Mr. Bonner, Mrs. Ann, 21. Coy, Mrs. Sarah, 46, East Conemaugh. K Kenna, Mrs. Alice B. ■ Coy, Newton G., 16, East Conemaugh. Ifl'' HUNTINGDON COUNTY, PA. Craig, Mrs. Catherine, 40, Walnut street. if McDivitt, Mattie, 32, Water street. I Crowthers, infant, 3, Chestnut street. 1.: HEADRICK’S, CAMBRIA COUNTY, PA, Cummings, Amy, Somerset street. ■ Allison, t lorence, 12, Texas. ' Davis, Frank, 8, Woodvale. Beck, William J., 30, Woodvale. I Davis, Mrs. Philip, 60. Beck, Mrs. Blanche, 29, Woodvale. Wilson, Dr. J. C., 53, Franklin. Davis, Mrs. Thomas S., 55, Market street. Delaney, Blrs. C. W., 59, Conemaugh street. Wilson, Caroline E., 52, Franklin, I Dlmond, Prank, 36, Conemaugh. QUAKERTOWN, PA. Dimond, Mrs. Ann, 64, Conemaugh. Smith, Mrs. J. 1., 34, Hulbert House. Doorocsik, Mrs. Annie, 28, Cambria. Smith, Florence, 9, Hulbert House. , Doorocsik, Miss, 6, Cambria. Smith, F’rank, 7, Hulbert House. Doorocsik, Mary, 4, Cambria. Smith, Infant, 4 months, Hulbert House. Dorriss, August, 64, Conemaugh. Wilson, Charles H., 45, Hulbert House. Doubt, Mrs. William,'63. Cambria. ARMAGH, PA. Dougherty, Mary. 16, Cambria. Young, Sarah C., 66, Court street. Eberle, Lena, 14, Woodvale. BEAVER FALLS, PA. Fails, Dolly F., 15, Union street. Leslie, John S., 30, Levergood street. Fers, Frank, 23, Millville. YPSILANTI, MICH. Fink, Mary E., 17, Conemaugh street. Richards, Carrie, Hulbert House. Fisher, Wolfgang, 33, Main street. Richards, Mollie, Hulbert House. Fisher, Noah, East Conemaugh. BALTIMORE, MD. Flegle, David G. Goldenberg, Henry, 54, Lincoln street. Flegle, Miss Annie. Hoopes, Walter E., 30, Woodvale. Flinn, Mrs. Mary, Bedford street, Smith, Mrs. Alice M., 29, Woodvale. i'ogarty, Thomas, 51). GREENSEURG, PA. Forrest, Frank, 12, Locust street. Kilgore, W. Alex., 52, Washington street. Foust, Conrad, Woodvale. Montgomery, Alex., 55. Stonycreek street. Gardner, Rose, 20, Prospect. SL- SEWICKLEY, PA. ? Gill, William, 7, Prospect. 5. Little, John A., 43. Hulbert House. i Gillen, Laura, Bedford street. BANGOR, PA. Gordon, Susan L., 62, Hager Block. Llewellyn, Mrs. J. J., 27, visiting at J. T. Llewel Greenwood. Mrs. Rose, 33, Conemaugh lyn’s. Gromley, Lilly, 19, Mineral Point, Pa. SOUTH FORK, PA. Gromley, J. A., 14, Mineral Point, Pa. Mullin, James, 21. > Hallen, Charles E., 33, Millville. JERSEY HEIGHTS, N. J. Harris, Mrs. Mary T., 48, Walnut street. Myer, Bernhart. Hartzeil, Mr., Market street. ROME, N. Y. Hecker, John, 10. Cambria. Richards, John O., 70. Heckman, Piancis, 25, Main street. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, Heffley, Edward, 22, Somerset street. White, Mrs. Ale.x., 42. Heine, Henry, 26, Cambria. INDI.ANA, PA. Heine, Mrs. Lizzie, 25, Somerset street. Ziegler, James B., 24. Herman, Edward, Cambria. READING, P.A, Hess, William B., 55, Millville Fedlman, W. M., 56, Main street. Hipp,Hinr>_ Elizabeth■RH'zahAf h P.,^0,P on Mainrv,roi» street.d BLOUGH’S, STONYCREEK TOWNSHIP, PA Hitchins, Mrs. Cordelia, 35, Market street. Blongh, Samuel, 40, Market street. Hornick, Agnes, Broad street. Blough, Sophia, 38, Main street. Howe, Gertrude, 13, Railroad street. Blough, child. Main street. Hughes, Mary, 7, Che-tnut street. SCALP LEVEL, PA. Hughes, Mrs., 64, Union street. Owens, William L.. 11, Market street. James, Lena, 26, River avenue. Owens, Daisy, 13, Market street. James, Ma^ie,^!, River avenue. NICHOLSON, PA. ^ Rosensteel, Mrs. J. M., 35, Woodvale. Rosensteel. Kay Halstead, 18, Woodvale. .ins, Airs! ^sa^i), Somers^street, Welsh, Thomas, W, Cambria. ai, Joseph, Third Ward, Weinzierl, LOuis, 41, Cainbrla. ohnsoh, John M., 40, Union street. Williams, Elanor, 7 months, Lewis alley. Johnson, Mrs. John M., 38, Union street. Williams, Mrs. Margaret, 27, Conemaugh street. Johnson, Mrs Oliver, 22, Conemaugh street. Wild Mrs. Marg*dret, 80, Conemaugh. Jones, Maggie, 29. AVillower, Miss Bella, Somerset street. Kane, John, 45, Union street. Willower, Bertha, Somerset street. Kane, Bridget, 20, Market street, Wissinger, Mrs. Catherine, 47, Morris street. keifline, Mary, 4, Conemaugh. Yost, Charlotte, 16, Pine street. Kelly, Charles, Millville. Kunkte, Lizzie, 21, Washington street. Laban, Mrs. Teresa, 50, Cambria NOT KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN FOUND. Leech, Mrs. Barah K., 60, Franklin. Abele, Katie, 21, Main street. Leech, Ali«e M., 18, Franklin. . Abler, Lulu, Woodvale. Lingle, Mrs. Alary J., 44, Pearl street. Alberter, Teresa, 3, Cambria. Long, Samuel, 60, Vine street. Alexander, Mrs. Alartha, Mam street. ■ Lotz, Conrad, 64, isherman street. Allison, Mrs. Jane, 45. Pittsburgh. Lyden, Mary, 20, Merchants’ Hotel. Alt, John, 65, Conemaugh. Alanevai, Clarence, 17, Lincoln street, Alt, Teresa, 20, Conemaugh. Alann, Michael, 41, South Fork. Alt, George, 60, Cambria. Marozi, Mrs. Mary, 42, Cambria. Ait Mrs. Ann, 75, Cambria. Alarshall, Wm. H , 23, Clmton street. Amps. Alary, 11, Cambria. Maurer, John, 77, Alorris street. Aubrey, Thomas, 45, Conemaugh street. McAuliff, Laura, 16, Wood vale. Backer, George, 27, Conemaugh. McDowell. Geo., 2, Pearl street. Baker, James. 22, Woodvale. McGuire, Mrs. Mary, 45, Walnut street. ' Baker, Catnerine, Alarket street. McHugh, Mrs. D, A., 45, E. Conemaugh. Baker, Lydia, 20, Woodvale. McHugh, Gertrude, 16, E. Conemaugh. Baker, Nancy, Alarket street. McHugh, Jno. L., 14, E. Conemaugh. Baker, Richard, I, Woodvale. McNally, Patrick, 42, Prospect. Baker, Mellville, 11, Woodvale. Mecke, August, 51, Cambria. Baker, Derouda, 5, Woodvale. Melczer, Frederick, 28, Cambria. Baker, Dolly, Woodvale. Miller, Kobert, 5, Napoleon street. Baker, Clara, 17, Woodvale. Miller, John A., 25, Cambria. Banyan, John, 7, Cambria. Miller, William, 44, Franklin. Banyan, Albert, 4, Cambria. Mingle, Sarah. Banyan, Theodore, 2, Cambria. Monteverde, Alary, 11, Washington street. Barbour, Howard, 7, Woodvale. Monteverde, Hmelia, 7, Washington street. Barbour, Johu F., 3 months, Woodvale. Morran, James A., 53, Somerset street. Barbour, Mrs Sarah, 59, W.oodvale. Nau, Katie, 20, Bedford street. Barker, Edward, 27, Woodvale. Neary. Mrs. Kate, 34, Bedford street. Barker, Clara, 2%, Woodvale. Neary, Mary Ellen, 11, Bedford street. Barker, infant, 1 month, Woodvale. • Hoblesplece, Maggie, 14, Alor^llville. Bartosh, Mrs. Hannah, 39, Cambria, Nugent, Mrs. Mary Jane, 60, Hager Block. Bartosh, Frank, 14, Cambria. O’Connell,-, Cambria. , Bauraer, Airs. Eliza, 68, Woodvale. • .O’Conner, Rose, 20, Locust street. ■ Beam, Roscoe, 2, Locust street. O’Neal, John, 19, Wood alley. ^ ' Beecher, Mrs. Jane, 44, Woodvale. Oswald, Appahmarian, 12, Cambria, Beecher, Mary, 23, Woodvale. Page, Emma, 11, Mineral i^int. Beck, Alfred, 6. Page, Herman, 6, Mineral Point. ■ Beck, Roy, 3. , j. , Palmer, Mrs. .1. H., 76, Napoleon street. Beckley, Mrs. Mary, 48, Woodvale. Partech, Mrs. Josephine, 59, Wood vale. Benson, Mrs. Bessie, 2:1, Cambria. Phillips, John, 15, Union street. Benson, Flora, 3, Cambria. Rausch, John, 44, Daisy town. ' Bare, Mrs. Repp, George, 5 months, Daisytown. ■ -i Bare, Infant. Roblne, Eddie, 2, Franklin. Barkley, George. Robine, Willie, 9 months, Franklin. Barnes, Andrew, Conemaugh. Rodgers, Patrick, 52, Millville. • Barron, Anton. Rodgers, Grace, 5, Millville. ’ Barron, Mrs. Rodgers Mrs. Mary, 50, Millville. Benson, Cora Bel:e, Cambria. Ross, Joseph, 30, Conemaugh. Berkey, Henry S., 45, Clinton street. •?; Roth, Annie, 5, Cambrm. Beske, John, 7, Cambria. , Rowland, Emma, 32, Market street. ‘ Beske, Joseph, 5, Cambria. Rowland, Ran, 16, Market street. ‘I Beske, Frank, 3, Cambria. Satnen. Mrs. Annie, 25, Cambria. S Beske, Lewis, 1, Cambria. Samen, John, 4, Cambria. 4 Betzler, Frank, 9, Cambria, Samen, Annie, 3, Cambria. i T Betzler, Katie, 7, Cambria. ^ Samen, Mary, 3 months, Cambiia. Bishop, Julius, 55, Cambria. Schmidt, Mrs. Frederick, Cambria. Schmidt, Hortense. Bla?r,\lfred, Woodvale. Blair, Oliver, 25, Woodvale. IchSitz.’Gustave, 33, Clinton street. Blair, Alfred, Woodvale. Schittenhelm, Max, Cambria. ' I Blair, Emanuel, 12, Woodvale. Snyder, Mrs. Annie, 31, Woodvale. 1 Blair, Bosana, 10, Wwdvale. Spareline, John, 64, Railroad street. i Bloch, Mrs. Bose, 54, Conemaugh. ' Smith, Mrs. Maggie L , 38, Woodvale. . jSSl Bloch, Annie, 26, Conemaugh. Smith, Addie, 13, Pearl street. Bloch, Minnie, 15, Conemaugh. Smith, Philip, 16, Walnut street. '»*■ Bloch, Emma, 13, Conemaugh. Smith, Mrs. Amelia 32, Cambria. ■ ■ Boehler, Barbara, 7, Conemaugh. Smith, Mrs. Mary, 52, Conemaugh. ■ Boehler, Annie, 9, Conemaugh. , Smith, PhUip, 16.£oneKiaugh. ■ Bogus, William Slick, Josephine, 20, Woodvale. Blough, Mrs., First Ward. Sutliff, George, 25, Somerset street, Bopp, Naomie, 7, Broad street. 'Stern, Bella, 1, Washington street. Stewart,-.Second Ward. looseu’EdmMtfMarket street. Spicsak, Mrs. Annie, 27, Cambria. Tacey, Peter L., 20, Woodvale. M lSwIox.Tfs!’EW:&l.et street. Trindle, John M., 39, Nineveh. ^ bSwwIox, Cordelia,’3, Market street. Trawatha, Mrs. Annie, 60, Conemaugh, Bowman, Jessie, 4, Woodvale. Thomas, Mabel, 6, Market street. Bowman, Blanche, 2, Woodvale. Thomas, Edward M., 71, Woodvale. Boyer, Emina, 17, Woodvale. Uhl, Mrs. Ludwig, f, Peter street. Boyle, Rose, 6, Cambria. Valentine, George M.. 42, Market street Boyle, Bridget, 4, Cambria. Weisz. Mrs. Martin, 46, Cambria., Boyle, William, 2, Cambria. ^ Weisz, Jacob, 13, Cambria. i Bovle, Joseph, 8 months, Cambria. Weisz. Jacob. Braden, Patrick, Millville. Weisz, Isaac, 6, Cambria. Bradley, Mrs. Elvira, 39, Conemaugh. ; Weisz, Anna,.4, Camtola BrawleyMaggie, 4j^ Hmon street. Kf- xuuiiOsT Jacob, 3,,Cambrla. Bmwleyi Koberi J* 4, Uulori street. »;■ Dluhos, Mary, 3 months, Cambria. Brkwley, John. „ Dolny, Mike, Cambria. Bmnnan, Mrs. Mary Ann, 48, Wopdvale. Dorillia, Mrs., 30, Cambria. Brennan, Mary Ann, 23, Woodvale. Doiillia,-, Cambria. Brennan, Ellen, 19, Woodvale. Dorllila,-, Cambria. Brennan, Jane, 16, Woodvale. Sk Downs, Willie, Millville. Brennan, Agnes, 13, Woodvale. :if Dudzik, Mike, 21, Cambria. Bridges, Mrs. Jane, 64, Market street. Dudzik, Albert, 21, Cambria. Brindle, Vincent. Early, Mrs. Ella, 59, Woodvale. Brlndle, Frank. Eck, Ellen C., 6, Woodvale. Brindie, Rose. Eck, Edna Marie, 1)4, Woodvale. Brinker, Henry. Eck, John B., 38, Conemaugh street. Briney, Matilda,,25, Woodvale. Eck, Dora, 7, Conemaugh street. Brockner, Samuel, 28, Conemaugh. ,> Eck, Mahon, 2, Conemaugh street. Brown, Mrs. Magdalena, 53, Cambria. Edmonds, Nancy. Brown, Lizzie, 15, Woodvale. Edwards, Roger, 55, Millville. Brown, Mrs., Conemaugh. Edinger, Annie, 19, Millville. Buckhard, Mrs. Elizabeth, 50, Woodvale. ■ Elder, Mrs. Cyrus, 49, Walnut street. Buckhard, Charles, 19, Woodvale. i Elder, Nannie M., 23, Walnut street. Buckhard, Mrs , 63, Woodvale. Eldridge, Pennell, 39, Morrell ville. Buckley, Mrs. Mary, 48, Woodvale. Eldridge, Mrs. Sarah T., 71, Woodvale. Burket, Frank, 14, Washington street. Eldridge, Mrs. Sallie, 27, Woodvale. Burket, Blair, 8. Eldridge, Clara, 3, Woodvale. Burkhard, Howard, 12, Woodvale. Eldridge, Annie, 1, Woodvale. Burkhard, Gussie J., 5, Woodvale. Elsaesser, Constantine, 44, Railrokd street. Burkhard, Charles C., 2, Woodvale. , „ . . Elsaesser, Mrs. Prances, 41, Railroad street. Burkhard, Mrs. Catherine, 85, Mineral Point Elsaesser, Charles, 13, Railroad street. Burns, Peter, Woodvale. Elsaesser, Adolph, 11, Railroad street. Butler, John, 51,81 John street. Elsaesser, Maggie, 10, Railroad street. Butler, Robert, 40, Millville. Elsaesser, Bose, 4, Railroad street. Butler, Mrs., 70, Millville. Elsaesser, Mary, 1, Railroad street. Butler. Annie, 17, Millville. English, John. Butler, Fannie, 14, Millville. Etchison, Samuel, 37, Hulbert House. Butler, George, 11. Millville. Evans, Evan B., 50, Woodvale. Butler, Mrs. Sarah. * i Evans, Susannah, 16, Woodvale. Byers, Mrs. Catherine,46, Mineral Point. Evans, Mrs. Mary, 55, Main street. Callahan, Mary, 22, Locust street. Evans, Annie, 26, Millville. Callahan, Mrs Frank, Locust street. Evans, Jennie, 13, Millville. Carr, Mrs. Mary, 42, Woodvale. Evans, Susannah, 9, Millville. Carr, William. 7, Woodvale. Evans, Idris, 3, Millville. Carr, Patrick, 22, Cambria. Evans, Walter, 8, Vine street. Carr, Mrs. Sarah, 20, Cambria. Evans, Albert, 12, Conemaugh. Cartin, Mrs. Thomas, 46, Woodvale.- Evans, Elizabeth. .9 Cart,in, Frank, 5, Woodvale. Fairfax, Mrs. Susan, 94, Somerset street. Christie, Mrs. Lizzie, 46, Woodvale. Fairfax, Mrs. G. W., 38, Somerset street. Christie, Daisy, 19, Woody.ile. I Fedorizen, Mlklosz, Cambria. Clark, Thomas, Jr., 9, Union street. ; Fenlon, Patrick, 70, Conemaugh. Clark, Annie, 5, Union street. ’ Fendra, B. H. Clark, Hamilton. ^ ^ ; Fenn, John Fulton, 12, Locust street. Coad, William, 12, cor. Market and Washmgton. Fenn, Daisy, 10, Locust street. Cleary, Alice, Cambria. Fenn, George Washington, 8, Locust street. Conrad, John, 21, Woodvale. Fenn, Virginia, 5, Locust street. Constable, Mrs. Sarah E., 48, Broad street. Fenn, Esther, 1)4, Locust street. Constable, Clara, 16. Broad street. Fentiman, Edwin F., 19, Main street. Constable, George, 39, Franklin. Fees, Frank, 23, Millville. Cope, Ahlum, 70, Conemaugh. Flchtner, Carrie, Stonycreek street. Costlow, Michael, 70, Locust and Union streets. Ficntner, Annie, 21, Main street. Costlow, Zita, 6, Woodvale. Fiddler, son of Jacob, Cambria. Costlow, Juniata, 2^, Woodvale. Findlay, Mrs. Phoebe, 58, Woodvale. . . Costlow, Regina 1, Woodvale. Findlay, Robert 17, Conemaugh. ■ Craig, William, 8, 314>4 Walnut street. Fingerhute, Mary, 18, Conemaugh street. Creed, Kale, 26, 200 Washington street. Flngle, Mrs. Mary. Creed, Mary, 16 Washington street. Fink, Samuel P., 4.^, Conemaugh street. Crown, Thomas, 51, Conemaugh. Fink Mrs. Mary, 39, Conemaugh street. Crowthers, Samuel, .30, Cambria. Fisher, John, 60, Cambria. Crowthers, Mrs. Verna, 27, Cambria. Fisher, Johanna, 19, Cambria. Culleton, George F., 1, Chestnut street. Fisher, Kate, 9, Cambria. I Culleton, John F., 2, Chestnut street. Fisher, Eddie, 7, Cambria. Cummings, Mrs., Somerset street. Fisher, George, 3, Cambria. Cummings,-, Somerset street. Fisher, August. Cunz, Mrs. Catherine, 37, Napoleon street. Fisher, William. Cunz, Edward, 12, Napoleon street. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Catherine, 40, MUlyille. Cunz, Gussie, 3, Napoleon street. Fitzpatrick, Eliza, 15 mouths, Cambria. Curtin, Johanna. Fitzharrls, Mary J., 16, Franklin street. Cush, Annie, 17,112 Railroad street. Fitzharris, Sarah A., 15.1 ranklin street. Cush, Thomas, 1)4,116 Railroad street. Follng August, Cambria. Custer, Mrs. Emma J., 27, Bealord street. Foster, Mrs. Margaret, 64, Woodvale. Curry, Robert. Foster, Maggie, 29, Woodvale. Darr, weorge F., 28, Millville. Frank, August, 26, Washington street. Davis, Martha, 18, Woodvale. Prank, Lena, 15, Washington street. Davis, Ada, 15, Woodvale. Fritz krs. Matilda, 26, Horner street. Davis, Mrs. Ann, 60, Locust street. Fritz, Jane, 2, Horner street. Davis, Mrs. Mary, 54, Locust street. Fritz, Lily, 1, Horner stoet. Davis, Della, 22, Locuststreet. Gaffney, Mrs. Ellen, 26, Cambria, Davis, Evan, 16, Locust street. Gaither, Willie, 15, south St. Davis, Reese, 13, Locust street. Gardner John. . Davis, Mrs. Mary D., 55, Millville. Geczie, John, 47, Cambria. _ Deible, Harry. Woodvale. Geczie, Veronca, 37, canibria. Delhi, Mrs. Mary, 40, Conemaugh. Geczie, Stephen, 8, Cambria. Delaney, Charles, 18, 51 Conemaugh street. Geczie, Annie, 4, uambria. Devlin. Melissa, 12, East Conemaugh. Geczie, August, 2, CambCa. Dick, Cornell, 17, Cor. Locust and John streets. Geczie, Belle, 3 months, Cambria. Dill, Robert, 26, Woodvale. Geddes, Mrs. George, 40, Woodvale. Dill, Mrs. Robert, 26, Woodvale. , Geisel, Julia, 9, Cambria. Dill, William, 7, Woodvale. Geisel, Rolla, 9, Cambria. Dill, Harry, 3, Woodvale. : Geraldan, Mrs., 17, Conemaugh street. Dlnkel, Adam, 50, Conemaugh. ' Gillas, David, 66,^&mbrm. Dlshcmg, Lizz^_, 22,_Unioi\^sU-eet. _ .„A^ r ji, CorarMiirvnie7_ "Hopltfnsriiilizabeth, 4, Conemaugt '^•'^" ’ ’ vrlass, James, 45, ^ « ... Gromley, Emanuel D., 9, Mineral Point. Burst, Mrs. Minnie, 60, Washington street. Gromley, Emma B , Mineral Point. Hurst, Emtly, 10, Wasbington street. „ V Hager, Mrs. Mary, 62. Washington street. Hammell, Margaret, 14, Washington street. ' Hagerty, Mrs. Mary J., 36. School alley. Illis, Daniel, Cambria. James, John K., 8, Main street. Hagerty Kate, 12, School alley. James, William, 10, Market street. Hagerty, Stella, 8, School alley. James, Mrs. John. Haight, Annie, First Ward. James, Benjamin, Third Ward. Haltie, Miss. Janosky, M'S. Lena, 27, Market street. Haldiman, Hy, Woodvale. Jenkins, John, 20, Upper Yoder. Hammers, George. Jenkins, Harvey, 6, Vine street. Hammiil, Mrs. Catherine, 70, Cambria. Jenkins, Thomas, Third Ward. Hamilton, Lou. Jenkins, Mrs. Thomas, Third Ward. Hannan, Mamie, 22, Woodvale. Jenkins,-- Hanekamp, Mrs. Louise, 28, Lincoln street. ' Johns, Mrs. Josephine, 32, Woodvale. Hanekamp, child. 7.i Johns, Richard, 14, Woodvale. Harrigan, Mary L., Millville. Johns, Silvie, 11, Woodvale. Harris. Johns, Stephen, 5, Woodvale. Hart, May, 9, Market street. Johnson, Mrs. David, 40, Conemaugh. , i Harkey, Wiliiam G. Johnson, Geraldine, 17, Conemaugh. ■\ Hess, Mrs. Johnson, George, 17, Union street. 7 ;, Haugh, John, Conemaugh. Johnson, William, 15, Union street. ' Hayes, Thos., 10, Cambria. ^ Johnson, Gertrude, 13, Union street. Hayes, Annie, 5, Cambria. ‘ii Johnson, Lottie, 11, Union street. Hayes, Agnes Gertrude, 3 weeks, Cambria, '.r Johnson, Dotlie, 7, Union street. Heckman, Miss, 18, Cambria. ■i Johnson, Frederick, 4, Union street. Heidenthal, Mrs. Mary,38, Woodvale. Johnson, Lulu, 3, Union street. Heidenthal, Joseph, 14, Woodvale. Johnson, Ellen, Hulbert House. Heidenthal, Annie, 12, Woodvale. Jones, Mrs. Alice, 65, Millville. Heidenthal, Phoebe, 10, Woodvale. Jones, Mrs. Rachael, 41, Main street. j Heidenthal, Bertha, 6, Woodvale. Jones, Ella, 11, Main street. Heidenthal, Alfred, 2, Woodvale. Jones, Sa^'ah, 8, Main street. Heingard, Annie, 22, Woodvale. Jones, Abner, 6, Main street. Heine, Joseph, 1, Cambria. Jones, Ida, 3, Main street. Heine, Amelia, 8 months, Cambria. Jones, Thomas, 6, Conemaugh street, Helienberger, Miss E. Jones, Elmer, 2, Conemaugh street. H.ellreigle, Chas. J., 28, Woodvale. Jones, Mrs. Jennie, 50, Woodvale, Henahan, John,, 40, Cambria. .Tones, Williams, 17, Woodvale. Henahan, Mrs. Mary, 24, Cambria. Jones, Amanda, 40, Woodvale. Henahan, Mary, 7, Cambria. Jones, Pearl, 9, Woodvale. Henahan,Calherene, 4, Cambria. Jones, William, 4 months, Woodvale, Henahan, Frances, 1, Cambria. Jones, James, 19, Pearl street. rV Henderson, Thomas, South Fork. , Jones, Charles, 16, Pearl street. Henderson, Robert, 6 months. Main street. Jones, Emma, Second Ward. Henning, John Jones, Walter B., 7, Main street. Henning, Mary Jones, Mrs. Margaret, 65, Llewellyn street. Hickey, Stephen, 9, Conemaugh. Jones, Rev. E. w.,56. Vine street. Hicks, Miss Ella, Woodvale. Jones, Mrs. Rev. E. W., 55, Vine street. Himes, Charles C., Conemaugh street. Kane, Mrs. Lidia, 44, Union street, Himes, Mrs. C. C., Conemaugh street. Kane, Ellsworth, 18, Union street. Himes,) ■ - Kane, Laura, 15, Union street. Himes, V children. Kane, Willie, 12, Union street. Himes,) Kane, Dollie, 10, Union street. I Hinchman, Franklin, 2, Woodvale. Kane, Lester, 2, Union street. j Hirsch, Henry, 10, Cambria. Kane, Emma, 21, Prospect. : Hookenberger, Ann, JNapoleon street. Kane, Mrs. Ann, 60, Cambria City. Hoffman, Mrs., Mary, 69, Conemaugh. , Kast, Mrs. Charlotte, 43, Clinton street. Hoffman, Joseph, 10, Conemaugh. Kalor, Mrs. Philapena, 67, Conemaugh. Hoffman, Mary, 8, Conemaugh. Kalor, Jamaues, Hoffman, Peter, 78, Market street, Kalor, Jane. Hoffman, Frank C., 11, Market street. Kaylor. Hoffman, Sehna, 3, Market street. Kay lor. Hoffman, Lena, 19, Washington street. Kaylor. Hoffman, George, 12, Washington street. Kaylor. Hoffman, Crlssie, 9, Washington street. Keedy, Clavi 5, MillvlUei Hoffman, Albert, 4, Washington street. Keelan, Mrs. Catherine, 55, Cambria. Hoffman, Walter, 2, Waslngton street. Keelan, Daphne, 13, Cambria. Hoffman, Stella, 6 months, Washington street. Keelan, Edward. Hoffman, Fred. W., 42, Conemaugh. Keelan, Frank. Hoffman, Mrs. Jennie, 40, Conemaugh. Keene, Mrs. Elizabeth, 60, Union street. Hoffman, Lena, 19, Conemaugh. Keenan, Mrs. Jane, 26, Washington street. Hoffman, Henry, 65, Conemaugh. Keiflein, Philamena, Conemaugh, Hoffman, Mrs. Mary Ellen, 55, Conemaugh. Keis, Mrs. Caroline, 24, Railroad street, Hoffman, Stewart, 24, Conemaugh. Kels, infant. Railroad .street. Hoffman, Mrs., Conemaugh. Kehoe, Thomas, 24 South Fork. Hoffman. Kelly, Mary M., .30, Millville, Hoffman. Kelly, Mary C., Millville. Hoffman. Kelly, Maggie, 17 'days, Millville. Hoopes, Mrs. Maria, 25, Woodvale. Kelly, Mrs. Ann, 45, Cambria. Hoopes, Ernest, 5, Woodvale. Kelly, John W., 24, Cambria, Hoopes, Allen C., 6 months, Woodvale. Kidd, Mrs. Jenny, 35, Wa,lnut street. Hopkins, Hannah. 40, Locust street. -k'y.'" IJSSrjttTTr" - -- - Meyers, Joseph, 70, Cambria. idd', Laura, 5, Walnut street. Meyers, Lizzie, II, Millville. iilKore, Mrs. W- A., 48, Washington street, Meyers, Annie, 9, Mlliville. 'ligore, Jessie, 15, Washington street. Meyers, Stella, 7, Millville. ■'ilgore, Fred, 12, Washington street. Meyers, Charlie, 5, Millville. • ’ligore, Alex., 9, Washington street, Meyers, Philip, 1, Millville. irnpel, Mrs. Christ, 43, Clinton street. Mlchalitch, Mrs. Mary, 38, Cambria. aAlnder. Thomas, 40, Moxham. Miehalitch, Martin, 6, Cambria. ^ing. Mrs. James, 48, Broad street. Mlchalitch, Mary, 3, Cambria. • King, Katie M., 24, Broad street, Mlchalitch, John, 2, Cambria. tfint? James, 5, Broad street. Miller, Lizzie, 11, Woodvale. Kinney, Mrs. Margaret, 31, Washlngton street Miller, John, 1, Cambria. Kinney,-, 4, Washinging street. Miller, Mrs. Sophia, 45, Cambria. Kinney, Agnes, 10, Washington street. Miller. .John, 8, Cambria, Kintz, Teresa, 24, Cambria. Miller, Mary, 12, Horner street. Klnley, Jane, Bausmari alley. Monteverde, Mrs. Maria, 40, Washington stieet Kirkbride, Fannie, 11, Hager Block. 4 Monleverde, Joseph, 5, Washington street. Kirkbride, infant, Ha^r BIock. Monteverde, Eleanora, Washington street. Kirkwood, Finley, 19, Conemaugh, Moore, Melda, 20, Main sireet. Kirlin Mrs. Thomas, 32, Conemaugh street. Moreland, Mrs. Margaret, 48, Quarry street. Kirlin! Willie, 2, Conemaugh street, Morgan, Gertie, II, Millville. Knable. John. Morgan. Mrs. Mary B., 66, Conemaugh street. Knahle, Leonard. Morgan, Miss, Conemaugh. Knox, Thomas, 54, Somerset. Keohler, Mrs. Philomen, 87, Conemaugh. Moser, Heinrich, Cambria. Keohler, Wtt*., 16, Coneniangti. Moschgat, Amelia, 22, Bedford street. Mullen, Mrs Mary, 65. Conemaugh street. Kraft Mrs. Maggie, 37, Walnut street. Mullen, Mrs Margaret, 47, Prospect. Krtn, H^rmaurri, Walnut street. Mumma, Mrs. Eliza, 26, Washington street. Kraft, Frederick, 10, Walnut stieet. Murphy, Mrs. Kate H., 48, Park Place. -Murphy, Mrs. Maggie, 34, Brunswick Hotel, Kunkte, Katie,' 19, Washington street. Murphy, John, 10, Brunswick Hotel. 1 ambreslii, WiUi6, 2, Cambria. Murphy, Clara, 8, Brunswick Hotel. Lavelie, Miss Mary, 31, Broad street. Murphy, Genevieve, 6, Brunswick Hotel. Lavelle, Kate, 24, Broad street. Murphy, Blarlin F., 4, Brunswick Hotel. Lavel e Sallie, 18, Broad street. Murphv, Maggie, 2, Brunswick Hotel. Lavl le Mrs. Mary, 58, Broad street. Murr, Stella, 16, Washington street. ' Lavelle John F., 8, Conemaugh street. Murr, i rederick, 11, Washington street. Lavelle! Kdgar K., 4, Conemaugh street. Murr, Nellie, 6, Washington street. Lavelie, Frances a ., 6, Conemaugh street. Murr, Frida, 3 months, Washington street. Laystrom, Mrs , 30, Uhion street. Nadi, Frank. Layton, infant. Broad street. Nainnaugh, Henry. Lewis, Mrs. Lizzie, 28, Lewis alley. Nayuska, Mrs. Hannah, 65, Market street. Llchtenberg. New, Frank. Lichtenberg. Newell, August. i^l^^fneL fames. 23, Cambria Newman, Banheim, 68, Washington street. Lightner, Mrs. Mary, 21, Cambria. Nich, Peter, 30, Cambria. Nioh, William, 2, Cambria. Lightner, Eddie, Nich, Lena, 23, Cambria, Llewelyn, Ann, o, V\ alnut street. Nich (infant),nnfa.nt.k fJarnbvia.Cambria. Lohr Julia, 17, Bedford street. Nix, Frank, Cambria. Lonaensteln, Mrs. Ida, 27, Franklin. Ludwig, Charles E , 30, Kailroad street. Nixon, Fannie, 5, Woodvale. Neice, Conrad. r Luther, Michael, 40, Cambria. O’Brien, Mrs. Sarah, 60, Millville. Madden, Willie, 12, Cambria. O’Brien, Mrs. Ellen, 31, Millville. Maloy, Mrs. Ann, 35, Millville. O’Brien, Mrs. Ca therine, 55, Millville. Maloy! Jane, Hulbert House. O’Callahan, James, 70, Millville. O'Callahan, Mrs. Bridget, 68, Millville. M artln .^EdwMd , 48, River O’Callahan, Miss Ella, 25, Millville. Martin, Mrs. Catherine, 40, Millville. O’Connell, Edward, Cambria. Marlin, Mary, 18, Millville. O’Donnell, Mrs. Julia, 26, Washington street. Martin, Ann, 7, Milivi.'le- O’Donnell, John, 2, Washington street. Martin, Celia, 7, Millville. Ogle, Mrs. Hettle M., o2, Washington street. Masters, Margaret. Ogle, Minnie T., 32, Washington street. Masterton, Miss. Oberlander, Robert, 35, Locust street. Mayhew, Annie, 12, Oberlander, Mrs. Robert, 30, Locust street. Mayhew, Earnest, 9. Woodvale. Oberlander. Mary, 2, Locust street. Mavhew Harry, 6, Woodvale, _ O’Lilv, Catherine, 20, Cambria. McAteer’, Mrs. Jane, 38, Cambria. O’Neill, James, 2, Cambria. McAneny, Sarah, 7, Cambria. Oswald, Eulaliah, 9, Third Ward. Osterman, Mrs. Victoria,31, Cambria. McclSn Mrs. John, 30, Railroad street. Osterman, Conrad, 4, Cambria. Mcctnn! John, 31, Railroad street. Osterman, Joseph Jr., 6, Cambria. Afp( iann. infant. Railroad street. Osterman, Mary Ann, l)^, Cambria, MeClarren, Mary, 13, Cambrk. O’Shea, Mary, Second Ward. McClarren,iMCUiarreu, Philip,iruixip, i%.i/o. Cam.bria . Owens, Mi S. Mary, 62, Market street. MoConaghy,^ w y-s. . . i_ _ T-r_Harry _'R/r M., a6, Main street. Owens, John, 12, Conemaugh street. McConaghv, Frank A., 2, Main street. Owens, Amelia, 6, Conemaugh street. McCoy, Mr., Railroad street. Owens, Willie, 4, Conemaugh street. McGrew, Oscar, Conemaugh. Owens, Mrs. Elizabeth, 37. McGuire, Constantine, 48, Woodvale. Pfeifer, Charles, 30, Woodvale. McGuire, Ann, 19, Woodvale. Pfeifer, Ella, 21, Woodvale. McGuire, Chriotian, 17, Woodvale. Pheog, John, Conemaugh. McHugh, Kate, 19, Cambria. Phillips, Mary, 16, Union strret. McKeever, Mrs. Mary. , ^ , Phillips. Grace, 1’-', Union street. McKlm, Mrs Polly, 65, East Conemaugh. Phillips, John, J , 14, Market street. McMeaiis, w illiam, 33, Conemaugh street. Phillips, David. 12, Market street. McPlke, Bosle, 4, Cambria. Phillips, Bichard, 10, Market street. McVey.Llzz e, 24, Franklin. „ Phillips, Mary, 8, Market street. McWilliams, Busie, 13, Pittsburgh, E. E. Phillips, Evan, 6, Market street. Melczer, Robert, 35, Cambria. _ Pipple, Mrs., f ourth Ward. Meiczer, Mrs. Johanna, 30, Cambria. Plummer Alvin. Melczer, Aibert, three weeks, Cambria. ;-v. Pollocks, Louis, 19, Cambria. Me'czer, Mary, 4, Cambria. Polk, John. Melczer. John, 2, Cambria. Potts, Mrs. Mary, 29, Market street. Merle, Mrs. George, Washington street. Powell, Mrs. Reese, 74. Main street. Merle, Mrs. Ida,29, Washington street. Prat,-Cambria. Merle, Nettie, 5, Washington street. Pratt,-Cambria. Merle, Elmer, 2, Washington street. Pritchard, Mrs. Henry, 48, Market street. Meredith. Mr. ^probabl^ duplicate). Howell, 9, Market street, Shorper, J acob. .oaard, Alice, 5, Market street. Shorper, Jacob, Jr. j , f'rltobard Rachael 3, Market street. Silverman, Moses, Second V7aid. ! Price, Mrs. Abe, 29, Millville, Seigmund, Mrs. Matilda, 52 Woodvale. Progner, Samuel, 23, Conemaugb. SeilSund Mrs. Carolina, 28, Woodvale. Prosser, Mrs. David, 68, Ualob street. Seigmund, John, 20, Woodvale. Pukey, Julius. 23. Cambria. Singer, Mrs. E. H., U“,ionport, Ohio. Pukey. Matilda, 1, Cambria. Siroczki, Mrs. Mary, 30, Cambria. Raab, MoUie, 18. Clintou street. Siroczlji, Mary, 7, Cambria. Raab, Bertha; 13, Clinton street. Siroczki, Annie, 4, Cambria. Raab, Katie, 3, Clinton street. Siroczki, Lizzie, 2, Cambria. Raab, Mrs. Minnie, 24, Washington street. Skiba, Annie, 6, Cambria. Rawn, Mrs. Henrietta, 63, Oonemaligh. Skiba, Sophia, Cambria. Ream, Mrs. Mary, 34, Woodvale. Smith, Harry, 5, Woodvale. Ream, Joseph, 10, Woodale. Smith; Hattie, 4, Woodvale. Ream, fUBe May, 6, Woodvale. Smith, infant, 3, Woodvale. Ream, Cora, 1, Woodvale. Smith, Alice, J., 2, Reanaus, Gussie, 17, Woodvale. Smith, Clarence, fa months, Woodvale, Ream, Frederick B., 23, Third Ward. srnitVi Gcorsr© A.., 3;^, Pesiri strGfet. Ream, Amelia, 20, Third Ward. Smitb’ Mrs. Jennie, 36, Pearl street. Recke, Mrs. Alex., 29, Washington street. Smith, Charles, 7, Pearl street. Reed, Charles Smith Alum, 4, Pearl street. Reese, Susie, 14, Millville. Smith, Eflie, 9 months. Pearl street. Reese, Sarah, Woodvale. Smith, Mrs. Mary, 21, Cambria. Reese, Mrs., 70. ^mith, Mollie, 22, Cambria, Reidel, Mrs. Teresa, 66, Conemaugh. Smith, Mrs. Ann, 55, Cambria. Reilly, Timothy, 27, Mi.lvllle. Smith, Francis, 3, Cambria. Reynolds, Mrs. Elizabeth, 40, Woodvale. Smith, Charles, 1, Cambria. Reynolds, Idella, 14, Woodvale. Smith, John M., 38, Millville. Ressler, John. Smith, William, 9, Millville. Reynolds, Columbia, Conemaugh. Smith, Mrs Mary, Third Ward. Rhodes, Frank. 2, Somerset street. Smith, William, Third Ward. Rich, Harry, 16, Stonycreek street. Smith, Esther, Third Ward. Richards, Mrs. Margaret, 40, Union street. Smith, Charles, First Ward. Rifide, Mary C., Cambria. Smith, Richard, First Ward. Riley, Mrs. Bridget, 40, Cambria. Smith, Frank, hirst Ward. Riley, Annie, 8, Cambria. Snyder, Polly, 14, Woodvale. Riley, Katie, 6, Cambria. Snyder, William, 8, Woodvala. Ripple, F.mma, 24, Bedford street. Snyder, Annie, 6, Woodvale. Ritter, Katie, 20, Cambria. Snyder, John, 3, Woodvale. Bitter, Sophia, 12, Cambria. Snyder, Patrick V., 5 months, Woodvale. Rodgers, Mary, Hulbert House. Snyder, Hollis, Woodvale. Rodgers, Mary G., 19, Woodvale. Snyder, Mary. Rodgers, Mrs. Mary, Water street. Snyder, Annie. Roland, Lizzie, 5 months, Conemaugh. Snyder, John. Roose, John, 31, Haynes street. Snyder, Mary E. Rosenfelt,- Snyder, Harrison V. Bosenfelt,- Speers, Mrs. L. E. ... Rosenfelt,- Spenger, Mrs. Catherine, 56, Stonycreek street. Rosenfelt, ■ Spenger, Edward, 16, Stoaycreek street. Bosenfelt, • Spoiler, Mrs. Rosensteel, Matilda V., 19, Woodvale. Spoiler, Lee. Roth, Albert, 8, Cambria. Stansfield, James C., 30, Woodvale. Roth, Mary, 6, Cambria. Stansfield, Mrs. J. C., 25, Woodvale. Roth, Sebastian, First Ward. Stansfleld, Ralph, 9 weeks, Woodvale, Ruth, John. Steckman, Fred, 42, ('ambria. Rowland, Mrs. E. J., 64, Market street. Stewart, Watson, 60, Pearl street. Ryan, Sadie, 16, Washington street. Stewart, Mrs., 70, Walnut street. ' Ryan, Gertie, 3, Washington street. Stews, Louis, Walnut street. v'Ryan, Mary, Third Ward. Stinely Annie, 4, Cambria. Hagerson, Mrs., 96, Millville. Scinely, Infant 4 months, Cambria, Salenty, E. stork, Casper, 43, Walnut street. Sample, Mrs. Catherine, 63, East Conemaugh. Stork, Mary, 33, Walnut street. Sarlous, Grace, 16, Cambria. Stork. John, 20, Walnut street. Savage, Mrs. Bridget, 76, Woodvale. , Stork, Lizzie, 14, Walnut street, Salev, Joseph, 50, Millville. Strauss, Charles s., Conemaugh. Shaffer, Mrs. Mary, 43, Cambria. Strayer, Katie, 22, Market street. Shaffer, Carl, 19, Cambria. SJrayer, Bertha, 14, Market street. Schanvisky, August, 10, Cambria.. Stroiio, Henry, Conemaugh. Sheier, Mrs. Kate. 49, Conemaugh. Stuff!’, Vera, 10, Woodvam Sherer, Emma, 24, Conemaugh, Stuff!, Earl B , 8, Woodvale. Sherer, Mary, 11, Conemaugh. Stufft, Lula B , 6, Woodvale. i Schiff hauer, Frances, 19, Washington street. Stuff!, Elda M , 3, Woodvale. Schittenhelm, Wllmena. Stufft, infant, four m ntts, Woodvale, I Schmitt, William J., 7, Cambria. Slider, Lizzie,.ih Millville. Schmitt, Mrs. Augustina, 38, Cambria, Suder, James, 5, Millville. Schmitt, August, 8, Cambria. ■ Sullivan, Mrs. Catherine,55, Millville. Schmitt, Anton, 2, Cambria. Swank, Leroy, 4, Main street. Schmitt, Annie, 1, Cambria. Swank, Miss, Morris street. Sehmitz, Ferdinand, Cambria. Sweitzer, William, 35, Morrellville. Schmitz, Gabriel, 50, Conemaugh. Temple, Leroy. Schmidt, John L., Cambria. Thoburn, John, 40, Millville. Schonhardt, Victoria, 56, Conemaugh. j Thoburn, Mrs. Flora, 36, Millville. Schultz, Mrs. william, Clinton street. I Thoburn, John, Jr., 10, Millville. Schultz, Clinton street. I Thoburn, Harry, 1, Millville. Schultz, Clinton street. Thomas, Tydvil, 19, Millville. Schultz, Clinton street. 1 Thomas, Mrs. Annie E., 5i, Napoleon street. Schultz, Clinton street. 1 Thomas, Mrs. Ann, 41, Woodvale. Schultz, Josfeph, First Ward. Thomas, Albert E., 17, Woodvale. Schweitzer, William, Conemaugh. ; Thomas, Vivian D., 15, Woodvale. Schweitzer, Catherine E., Conemaugh. Schurtz, Peter, 38, Conemaugb. Thomas, James Roy. Thomas, Sjlvester. Seibert, Mrs. Elizabeth, 56, Woodvale. ' Thomasberger, Fannie, 42, Conemaugh. Schaffer, Howard, 21, South Fork. 4'homasberger, Nellie, 13, Conemaugh. Shea, Mrs. Mary, 30, Locust street. Thomasberger, Charles, 11„ Conemaugh. Sheldon, H. Sherman, Mrs. Ann, 35, Market street. ThuiTn, Levi. ■ Totas, Jacob, Cambria. i ^in^y. Mrs.. Second W 1 Totas. Sonhia. Cambria. 1 I- - - Bs, Michael, Cambria. TWO MOBB BODIES FOUND. &s, WavrecK, Cambria. William 8. "ss, W. J. Sr., JH, Woodvale. One that of a Young Uady and the Other of Katie, ID, Woodvale. a Child. .'ross, William, 17, Woodvale. 'I’rosF, Conrad, 16, Woodvale. At a point in the Stonycreek between the TroB.“, Charles, 16, Woodvale. Tross, George, 9, Woodvale. foot of Lincoln and Main streeU Tuesday Tros-<, Louis, 7, Woodvale. Tro.ss, Edward, 6, Woodvale. afternoon some men in the employ of Mr. Tuckr-r, Mrs. Margaret N., 4i, Woodvale. I. E. Roberts discovered a b^y. TucSer, Lillian G., 18, Woodvale. The search gang under William Mingle Tucker, Mabel, 6, Woodvale. Tynan, Michael J., 49, Oonemaugh. was notided and dug the body out of the Tynan, Mrs M. J., 47, Conemaugh. ground. It was found to be that of a woman. Unvrrzagt, Lulu, 26, Washington street. The body is described as follows : No. 662, Vallance, navid, fto, Conemaugh street. Vallance, Mrs. Sarah, 66, Conemaugh street. female, bight about five feet seven inches, Vallance, Annie, 21, C.memaugh street. dark brown hair (platted and tied with rib Valentine, Mrs Carrie, Market street. bon), dark cloth jacket with metal clasp on Valentine, Alexander L., 14. Market street. Valentine, Annie May, 11. Market street. collar and gutta percha Valentine, Burr, 7, Market street. dress buttoned on the back with metal but¬ Valentine, Howard, 4, Market street. tons, two pairs of black stockings (the ou.er Valentine, Ruth, IK, Jlarket street. Varner, Viola, 12, Cambria. nair ribbed), spring heel buttoned^oes. Varner, Sarah, 10, Cambria. ^ The body of a child was found Wednesday Varner, Ida, 7, Cambria. I about 4 o’clock p. m. on the south bank of the Varner, Eila, .1, C.4.mbria. Stonycreek River, a short distance above the Varner, infant, six weeks, Cambria. Veilh, Mrs. Carrie, 52, slouycreek street. ■ Franklin-8tre:t bridge. It was taken to the Veith, Emma, 14, Htouycreek street. ' morgue and a description recorded as fol¬ Voeghl y, Mrs. lows • No. 563, child (sex unknown, buu eup- Von Alt, Henry, Clinton stree,. Wagnor, Mrs. Henry, Cambria. ! posed female), white barred muslm apron Wiignor, Frank, Cambria. ■ made with yoke, brown or wme-colored cash- Wagnor, John, Cambria. Walker, Conrad, 27, C iuton street. mere dress with white pearl ^ W’alker, Ida J , 22, Conemaugh. gray flannel skirt, with brown canton-flannel Wal er, Mrs. Ann, Alum Bank, Pa. waist, white muslin drawers. .v . Ward, Ella, Cambria. This body has been identified as that of Warren, Edward, 28, Millville. Waters, Thom- s J., 15, C.memaugh. Annie, daughter of Thomas J. and Annie Watkins, Mary .1 , 22, Wa hington street. Llewellyn, who lived before the flood at No. Wearn,Mjs. hiiscilla, 66, Walhnt street. W< arn, Richard, 30, King street. 4 Walnut street.___ Wearn, Mrs. EIIh, 27, King street. XMifi JS-l ODD FINANCE COMMITIEE, Wearu, Myrtle, 3, King street. Weaver, Joseph H , 19, Woodvale. Weaver, Margaret J., Second Ward. Summary of the Doings of the Committee Webber, Christian, 31, Woodvale. Up to This Time. Wehelco, John, Cambria. Weiuzai I, Annie, 13, Cambria. The Clerk of the local Flood Finance Weiuzarl, Martha, II, Cambiia. Committee—James N. Rea—has furnished Weinzarl, srrah, 7, C tmbiia. Welnzari, Mollie, 5, Cambria. for publication an abstract of the operations ' WMnzari, John, 3, Camnria. of the Committee since its organization. Weinzarl, George, 4 mouths, Cambria. Welsh, Hosa, 10, Cambria. The Committee was appointed at a meeting White, Annie., z3. Market street. ^ of citizens held at the Fourth-Ward school White, Raymond, 4, Youngstown, O. house on Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock—the Wickersham, Richard 'v, Wilson, Mrs. Lavina, 38, Conemaugh. day following the flood. As originally consti¬ Wilson, James, 33, Mineral Point. tuted the Committee consisted of James Me- Wilson, Henry, 58, Millville. Millen, George T. Swank, W. C. Lewis, John Wilson, Mr , Cambria. Wiseman, Charles,26, Conemaugh. D. Roberts, Howard J. Roberts, and Cyrus Wiseman, Emma, 4, Conemaugh. Elder. Later, the discovery being made that Wiseman, August, lb Conemaugh. Howard J. Roberts was among the drowned, Witz, Sarah, Third Ward. Wolf, Anthony, 24, Cambria. his son Dwight was appointed in his place. Wolf, Albert, IK, Cambria. The latter, however, soon resigned, and Mr. Wolford, Andrew, Conemaugh. A. J. Moxham was substituted. Subsequent¬ Wolford, Conemaugh. ly Mr. Tom L Johnson was added to the 1 Wolford, Conemaugh, Wolford, Conemaugh. Committee. ' Woren, fe’chard. Walnut street. For the first few days after communication ' Woren, Mrs. Richard, Walnut street. was opened up, contributions were sent direct - ' Woren, Wiiiie, 6, Walnut street. 1 ; wor^n -, child. Walnut street. i to this Committee, but after the organization - child, Walnut street. of the State Flood Commiasioh most of the Woren, Mrs. i'rlscilla, 60, Walnut street. Woren, Miss, 24, Walnut street. money found its way there. Woren, Mrs. Thomas, Walnut street. A considerable sum, however, amounting Yocum, Samuel, Third Ward. ' in the aggregate to $356,821 27, came into Yosi, Laura, 18, Grant street. ' Yost, Lottie, Jackson street. the hands of this Committee. Of this about '■ Young, Mamie, 12, Broad street. $260,000 has been expended, and the rest ia ' Young, Katie, 10, Broad street. yet on deposit to the credit of the Committee. Youst, Mr. The contributions came from every State Youst, Eddie. Zell ar. Rose. and Territory in the Union, as well as from nearly every country in the world. Some of Zimiermin, Milton, ®lty Zimmerman, Morgan, 11, Young s alley the sums were quite large, and the smallest Zimmerman. Owen 14. amount received from any source was from ^ Commissary Depafiment. jg boy, who ieht*iive cents, accompanied Bridges jj a letter stating that he had collected this in pennies among his comrades, but the police Total...#258,707 53 of his town had ordered him to quit before The large item of $40,863 05 charged to he got any more, as others who were author¬ the Fire Department includes the purchase , ized were taking up a fund. Of the States’ of new engines and supplies and the expense Pennsylvania leads the list with a total of of keeping up the department last summer. ; $81,592 38. A few of the other largest are ;; The $28,598 11 charged to the State was paid j Onio, $60,918 93 ; New York, $52,425 09; out for work done in the first few days after the ' New Jersey, $41,468 53; Massachusetts, flood, and should properly have been repaid $19,355 44 ; Minnesota, $14,810 67. Of by the State under the operations of the New York’s contribution $41,363 22 came Board of Health, but no such arrangement from the City of New York, and the re¬ was ever effected and it does not seem now . as if the amount will ever be turned back mainder from other parts of the State. into the treasury of this committee. The Of this the New York Herald is credited charge to the Commissary Department is with the largest amount from any one source', chiefly for provisions furnished, as the State being $30,303 44. The Mail and Express Commission kept up the expenses of that sent $10,000, and the remainder was from department, and the charge to bridges is smaller contributors, including a check from itemized as follows : J. Gould & Son of $50. A total of $2,501 59! Poplar street bridge.S 2G3 84 was received from the British Possessions, Franklin-street bridge. 410 88 while $24 came from England. Of the other Woodvale bridge. 609 24 Lincoln bridge. 2,761 20' cities whose remittances were above the Cambria bridge. 2,833 21 average the following are credited : Washing¬ ton, D. C., $8,880 55; South Bethlehem,. . Total to bridges.80,978 35 . $8,818 75 ; Pittsburgh, $7,803 58 ; York, by j An Auditing Committee, consisting of York Daily Publishing Company, $2,284 80* Messrs. Trautwine, Baumer, and Storey, has and Philadelphia, $2,720 24. Of course it is been appointed, and when they file their re¬ not to be inferred that this gives any idea of port an authorized statement will be made of the amount contributed for the sufferers by the receipts and disbursements of the Flood these places, but it only shows the amount Committee. _ sent to the Flood Finance Committee here. Very much more in many eases was sent to FIGURES OF THE FLOOD the State Flood Commission. A few contributions were received in such shape, either no name or address being KEPOKT OF SECKEXAKT KKEMEK. M given, that they could not be acknowledged. (Among such was $8 21 which Mr. A. J. " Moxham found in a bag of beans, and almost II one of the smallest, aud certainly the most Total Cash. Contributions to Flood Sufferers, suggestive, was ten cents enclosed in a letter! $4,116,801 48—Total Number Drowned, signed “The Widow’s Mite.” The separate 1 g,148—Where the Money Came from and amounts of this kind, which are credited to How Distribution Was Made—Interesting fW “unknown” contributors, foot up $36 56, Besume of the Great Belief Work. |*fV) and are as follows : * t Found iu bag of bean's.S 8 21 S Cash. 2 50 The report of Secretary Kramer, of * Cash. 10 00 Cash. 1 00 the Flood Relief Commission, appointed An Old Mechanic. 5 00 Alert Base-Ball Club. 4 2o to distribute the funds contributed for the A Friend. 100 relief of sufferers in Pennsylvania by the The Widow’s mite.. 10 Johnstown is credited with having con¬ flood of May 31 and June 1, 1889, has tributed $92. All of this but $1, which was just been made public. Mr. Kremer gives a cash, was turned in by about half a dozen brief sketch of the destruction wrought by the rersor.s who received credit for work done flood and the incidents leading up to the or¬ ■bout their own premises or somewhere.^ From the morgues $3,146 40 was received, ganization of the Commission. He states /\nd from the sale of corn, which was sent that there was distributed by the Commission J,£ere and could not be used, $1,463 63, and in the Eastern part of the State, outside of tifl'om various other sources small amounts Cambria County, $241,408 68 in cash and ^ were received, making, as before stated, a I grand total of $356,821 27. $5,066 68 in supplies. In these Eastern Among the chief items of expenditure, set districts seventy-eight persons were drowned, down under general heads, are the a correct list of them being furnished by the i Ten-dollars a-head distribution.$lW,pw TO Fire department. o’Yao S Commission. The total cash contributions Office expenses.. Ten-dollars-a-head registration and to the sufferers, so far as the Commission has houses. been able to obtain information, amount to Lumber Department. $4,116,801 48. Mention is made of the work Kecovering valuables. f ' I Board of Inquiry. at Johnstown under Gen. Hastings, of the commissary and clothing departnaents, shel¬ '4 ter, furniture, transportation, aid societies, Advanced the State .28,59»_u receivea as large a proportion oT the tuna as the care ot the sick and^ injured, burial of was required by their circumstances, and to the dead, general relief, and the drowned, such no further payment was made. At a * OTER TWO THOUSAND DROWNED. meeting of the Commission held September The most careful investigation, continued 13th an appropriation of $1,600,000 was made to the present time, shows the number of for distribution in the Conemaugh Valley, drowned to be 2,142. Ninety-nine families, fixed proportions being designated for the numbering from two to ten members each, several classes. This is known as the final were entirely washed away. Of flood widows distribution. there are 124, and 198 widowers. The THE MONET DISTRIBUTION. orphans and half-orphans reach the number The number of statements on file amounted of 665. There were found and identified to 6,229. Class one received $1,200 each, l,n5 bodies; found and not identified, 636 ; i missing, 391. class two, $900 each, class three, $500 each, class four an average of 30 per cent., and class While both the Commission and the Chil¬ five about 10 per cent, of their respective dren’s Aid Society of Johnstown received losses. To class six no payment was made hundreds of letters from persons willing to because it was unnecessary. The Johnstown adopt such children, but one case has been Board of Inquiry revised this work, reducing reported of actual adoption. The rumber of the amounts to some extent, but not mate¬ males lost was 923, of whom 498 rially. The amount received by the widows were found and identified, 252 found was $183,281, and the sum of $108,500 has and not identified ; the female lost num¬ been set aside for their children ; for the ber 1,219, of whom 617 were found care of children made orphans by the flood and identified and 340 found but not iden¬ tified. $119,616 88 has been set aside. The amount of loss in the Conemaugh Valley, as sworn to The sex of 44 persons who were found by claimants, reached the sum of $9,674,105. could not be ascertained, Johnstown’s quota Added to this, the loss on corporate, church, of dead was 1,114 ; Cambria City, 360 ; Wood and borough property of $2,107,600, runs the vale, 270 ; Conemaugh borough, 167 ; Mill total up to $11,871,605. ville, 116 ; South Fork, 5 ; Mineral Point, 16 HEAD MONET AND LOSSES PAID. Franklin Borough, 17 ; East Conemaugh, 13 , The number of persons who participated in hotel guests and railroad- passengers, 63. the several distributions, with the total Forty-nine of the dead were under 1 year old ; amounts received by them, is as follows. 136 from 1 to 5, and 11 from 5 to 10 ; 343 As to the first two items the list is not com¬ from 10 to 20 ; 313 from 20 to 30 ; 209 from plete, it covering only those from whom 30 to 40 ; 173 from 40 to 50 ; 135 from 50 to the Commission has official statements : 60 ; 102 from 60 to 70; 36 from 70 to 80 : 6 Number. Amount. from 80 to 90. The ages of 425 could not be Received “ bead money ”.4,616 $ 148,890 ascertained. Furniture and houses. 735 147,S71 “ First distribution ”.3,7.39 416,472 DISTRIBUTION OF THE FUND. “ Final distribution ”.4,892 1,660,495 Various plans were proposed to the Com¬ Head money only. 308 . mission regarding the distribution of the Head money, houses, and first distribution only. 502 . fund, all based on information more or less To the claimants as a whole there were accurate, and all providing for giving a paid average percentages as follows, these specific sum to each of certain persons by being calculated on all losses, as shown by the classes, regardless of loss and based only on sworn statements and including those which their necessities, and a percentage on the were but a small proportion of the assets of property loss of others, arranged also by the claimants as well as those which com¬ classes. This general system of classification prised their whole possessions : was adopted and kept in view all through the Per work, but it was found that there were so L/Oss. Paid. Cent. many cases in each class that required ex¬ Persons losing le.s than 5500.® 503,958 $ 430,721 774 ceptional consideration that it finally became, Persons losing $.500 and to a large extent, an adj'ustment in each case less than 51,000. 676,037 401,399 593 based upon many and important considera¬ Persons losing $1,000 and less than $2,000. 832,934 346,687 416 tions. The opinions of the members of the Persons losing $2,0 0 and Commission and of those active in the work less than $;3,00U. 709,.310 229,873 324 were modified by experience. Persons losing $3,t00 and over. 0,020,594 962,823 150 THE DETAILS CHANGED. Not included in above... 871,216 791,060 While the general principles were main¬ tained,the details were changed several times ; Totals.$9,674,105 $2,378,285 but as each change was to the advantage of The total amount charged on the books of the more helpless part of the community the Commission to recipients is as follows : Head money.$ 148,890 criticism of the delay occasioned was Houses and lurnlture. 147,851 disarmed. On July 8th the sum of $10 per Mouth Pork distribution. 4,.557 capita was paid to each person who had suf¬ First distribution. 416,472 fered loss by the flood. Final distribution. 1,669,495 A board of inquiry consisting of Johnstown Total.$2,378,285 citizens classified the sufferers into six classes, Of the above amount 5,095 persons re¬ the first three being based on their necessities ceived from $10 to $99^js d'-he former amount only and the last three on their losses. On was recmved by 289 pErson^$20 by l79, $35 by the first distribution $416,472 were paid out. 110, $50 by 208, $25 by 316, $30 by 134, $100 As in the distribution of the $10 per capita, by 147, $150 by 129, $200 by 150, aud $300 so it was found that many persons, by the by 119. Four hundred and twenty-one per- payment made under first distribution, had . 8 receive^^ over $l,o6b« thre.e received w^ of cases wereTounff toT)e utterly unre ir $6 000. each,; t,wo,t$3,130 tfrb, $2;§gP; liable because of the exaggerarted values given three, $»,580; nine, $2:500 ;• 4w6, $2,200;'«!9,-9nn.' in them, and with all the care taken misbakes two, $2,160; two, $2,1^.; three, $2,’110 have doubtless been made because of an im- two, $2,080, and two, $2,000. oroper presentation of circumstances. GENERAL SUMMARY. The receipts of the Commission were a-s A general summary of receipts and ex¬ follo'vs: From Governor Beaver, $1,236,- penditures is as follows: 146 45 ; from the Philadelphia Relief Com¬ RECEIPTS. mittee. $600,000; from the Pittsburgh ^lief Contributions sent to Go'^ernor Beaver.$1,236,146 45 Committee, $560,000 ; from the New York From the Permanent Belief Com- Relief Committee, $516,199 85. A total of mittee of Philadelphia... 600,000 00 S2 912 346 30. The expenditures in the From the Pittsburgh Belief Com- mittee. 560,000 00 Conemaugh Valley were^$2.592,936 68 ; ,n Prom the New York Belief Commit- .. the State, outside of the Ctmemaugh Valley, tee. 5ib,isa so S246 475 26; general and office expenses, Total receipts...$2,912,346 30 $5,728 89, or a total of $2,845,140 83. The expenditures. Commission has $67,206 4/ in cash in its Expended In the Conemaugh Valley, including expenses (of this sum hands. checks, in number 29, to the SOCIETY CONTRIBUTIONS. amount of $8,670 have not yet The many charitable and social organiza¬ been presented to the bank for tions of the country sent special contributions paymeBt)...S2,592,yaD bo Expended in the ’State outside the for their fellow members. There were sub¬ Conemaugh Valley.■■•••• 246,475 26 scribed and distributed by them in addition Expended for general and office ex- to supplies, amounts as follows, as was learn¬ penses. &,72S »» ed from reports fijom officials of the organ!- Total expenditures.?? Balance. 6^,205 47 Independent Order of Odd Fellows.$ 60,016 69 EXPENDITURES IN CONEMAUGH VALLEY. Masonic orders.. 49.(12 Id L The following is a classification of the ex¬ Knights of Pythias. 30,4/0 81 .| Boyal Arcanun...... ^. ^ penditures in the several localities as shown Grand Army of the Bepubllc.... 21,879 02 in the books of the Commission : Junior Order ol United American Me- Expended for supplies.5 ?? ...... JLojOyZ dv j r Paid for labor. 43,931 11 Knights of the Golden Eagle. 9,852 65 Paid for buildings, rent, and labor _ Knights of Honor. ».9o9 '91; on buildings. 179,033 87 Knights of the Mystic Cham... 6,151 30 I Paid for the burial of the dead, in¬ Senior Order of United American Me- \ cluding the purchase of the plat, 30,485 41 chanics.... ] Paid for the transportation of flood Improved Order of Bed Men. 4,8^ m : sufferers. 17,176 16 Patriotic Sons of America... 5»2 /O Paid for freight, express charges, _ Improved Order of Heptasophs. 3,266 80,.: and telegrams. 10,128 14 Woman’s Belief Corps, Grand Army ’ Paid for printing and stationery, 674 10 I oftheBepublic. Paid expenses of ofiices at Johns¬ I Bed Cross (in addition). 1,769 531,. town. 7,774 00 t Women’s Johnstown Belief Corps of t Paid attorney’s fees. ■ 98 97 i Pittsburgh...!..... Paid expenses of the First National I Military Order of the Doyal Degion.... 1,200 ou , Bank, Johnstown. 750 42 Ladies of the Grand Army of the Be- ! Distributed special sums. 2,071 85 public. m Distributed sums specially appro¬ ' Sons of Veterans. til priated by the Commission. 2,675 00 Union Veteran Legion. 624 55 Amount appropriated for a hospital 40,000 00 Appropriated as an “orphanfund” 119,616 88 Total...8249,180 06 Distributed cash, “first distribu¬ Attached to the report is an appendix show¬ tion”. 416,472 00 ing that contributions came from forty-six Distributed cash, “final dlstribu- tion ”. 1,660,495 00 States and territories and fourteen foreign Tiotal expenditures in the Cone¬ countries. maugh Valley. 2,592,936 68 Total amount expened outside the ; Conemaugh Valley. 246,936 26 Getting Her Pa’s Consent XJeneral expenses. 5,728 89 A tale is told of the great flood of June, 'i- Including the amounts which did not pass 1889, which devastated the Susquehanna through the Commission’s hands (with those valley at the same time the Johnstown ca¬ that did), the various States and Territories, lamity occurred. A well to do resident, with District of Columbia, contributed whose house stood close to the river, had a $3,601,517 80, and the foreign countries beautiful daughter to whom a handsome $141,300 98. The largest contributions were young lumberman had been paying suit. from the following States.: California, $93,- For some reason the wooer did not find 142 42; Connecticut, $63,014 75 ; District of; favor in the father’s eyes, and he was fOT- Columbia, $43,357 07; Illinois, $206,986 85; hidden to communicate with the girl. He Massachusetts, $265,646 12 ; Michigan, $66,- continued his toH and patiently bided his 681 27 ; New York, $911,761 05 ; Ohio, time. A- few days before the flood he start¬ $200,243 02 ; Pennsylvania, $1,183,403 84 ; ed up the river to assist in bringing down Rhode Island, $42,998 77. Of the foreign the raft. The raft was duly started, but countries England contributed the largest the water continued to rise to .such an ex¬ amount, $42,909 89 ; Germany’s share was tent that it was deemed advisable to tie $37,065 36, and that of Prance $26,052 33. up This was found to be out of the ques¬ UNRELIABLE STATEMENTS. tion, as the flood had covered the “snub¬ Mr. Kremer says that the labor involved in bing posts,” and so the raft drifted on, car¬ deciding the claims and awarding amounts ried by the current. was very great, and was attended with many Scores of untenanted houses were passed, difficulties. The sworn statements in a num- i "• and they finally epjiroached thehomeof the young man’s sweetheart. As kl59^ain s&^ The iq- drew near they saw the whole fantily i^de in Bandy vale Cemetery at the roof frantically beseeching for rescue. 2 o’cloclk Bl^day afternoon. Messrs. William Aided by the current the crew guided the Masterton, Henry Mayer, John Morley, Eman¬ raft so that it just scraped the eaves of the * house, and with one accord the victims be* uel Louther, Charles Hager, and Otis Koberts. gan to leap upon the modern ark. The were the pall bearers. lover, however, seeing that his sweetheart The funeral services werebonducted by Eev. was safe, grasped a pike and refused to let the father on board, shouting: L. McGuire, of the First M. E. Church ; Eev. ‘Will you give me Mary? Will you give J. J, Hays, of the Second M. E. Church; Rev. me Mary?” The old man’s face depicted J. Franklin Core, of New Florence ; Rev. R. wofully the inward strife between preju-' A. Fink, D. D., of the English Evangelical dice and self preservation, but meanwh) the raft was slipping past, and a momen Lutheran Church, and Rer. James A, Lane, hesitation would be fatal. “Take her,” he yelled—the pike was withdrawn and he leaped aboard—“but,” he continued, “if I ever get you in a hole like that, Bill, I’ll drown ye.” The couple were married at Lock Haven. •—Philadelnhia Times.

WEDNESDAY.MAY 13, 1885. THE LAST OP THE INDIANS.

WinUlM mCIiAT TITTLE. More Interesting Reminiscences of ( At 4 o’clock on Friday evening last William,3 the Long Ago. son of Mr. John S. Tittle, died at Cleveland, Following is the concluding chapter of Ohio. For several years past the young man the historical narrative in relation to North- had been ailing from pulmonary troubles and I ern and Northwestern Cambria County, the being possessed of a delicate constitution the last one having endedjwith a reference to , disease made a steady progress. No efforts Fort Hill: or means were spared by the parents and i THE SaVEK r’NKS. friends to procure the best known medical as¬ To the northward of h,..:. Hill, and about sistance and to snrround him with every pos* a quarter of a mile distant, on land now sible comfort. He attended school nntil owned by Mr. John Wir ner, on the Mud Lick Branch, are traces of tliree drifts or I through failing health be was obliged to give caverns, signified by the name of “ The ' up his studies. His intellect was bright and Silver Mines,” but it is doubtful if an he was of a pleasant companionable nature. ounce of silver has ever been taken from The advantages of travel and change of cli¬ them, although some of the early settlers claim that they were worked for ore, whi- mate ware offered to the sufferer but without they think was smelted at the fort. On,, avail. After an extended visit to the West these drifts is above a twenty-inch vein ^ the deceased was accompanied by his mother coal, and two are underneath. on a trip to the Pacific Coast and they re¬ Mr. William Dishart once went into the up¬ per drift, and found above the coal about two mained for several months in California. inches of a yellowish slate. Mr. George The visit there resulted favorably and the Bolt once went into one of them a distance young man’s health seemed greatly improved. of fifty feet, and found it a difficult matter to The change was only temporary as abont two get out again, as he had not room to turn. Mr. William Burgoon pointed out what he months ago his condition became so alarming says was the earth work of a dam across the that bis friends decided to place him under run, under which he once found timber cut the care of Dr. Saulsbury, who makes a speci¬ by an axe. Mr. James E. Neason, of Al¬ alty of long diseases, at a medical institute in toona, once had a shaft sunk down to the upper drift, through a vein of limestom Cleveland. For a time there|was reason to hope above the coal, but was obliged to stop on| that the treatment would prove beneficial but account of water coming in in such a strou; finally a change for the worse set in and all stream as to require the use of two pumps to chance of recovery had passed. His parents keep it out. lie found a drift or opening of* about twenty inches in bight, which he were with him during the latter part of his believes to have been formed by the action illness and his sad death is a source of heart¬ of the water, and saw a substance which hea felt regret, not only to thsm, but to many- took to be some kind of mineral, which be others who held the deceased in great esteem, sent away to have tested, and was informed that the matter was iron pyrites. i The remains were brought to this city on Sat- The existence of precious metal in the ' urday evening and were taken to the^esidenoe Valley of the Clearfield has long been ■ -AS- believed by some of the older inhabitants. m from several hints given by Indians of the - --V ' ' existence of silver in that region. It_ is the* mountains to meet Weston on his fe- j thought, too, that lead of a good quality turn, and, at the headwaters of the Blacklick, I exists. were suddenly met by two of Weston’s Felix Skelly, who, along with a Mrs. Tories, who begged hard for their lives and ' Elder, was made captive by the Indians in i made known the true state of affairs, when the Valley of the Juniata in 1780, related I all turned back, but when near Loretto had j that when his captors came to the Clear-1 to camp for the night. fields, being scarce of bullets, they sent out The next morning two of the party— I a couple of their number, who, after a named Gersham and Moses Hicks—started short absence, returned with lead, which i out to shoot some game for breakfast, and they ran into bullets. succeeded in killing a fine elk, which they ] An Indian once told Mr. James Maloney, , were in the act of taking it 'to the camp the father of Mr. J. H. Maloney, of Ash when they were surprised and captured by ville, that an Indian mile above Ashville, on a party of Indians and taken to Detroit, the creek, is a good vein of lead ore ; one, from which place they did not return until but not so pure, at Ashville, and another a the close of the war. j mile below, but no person has ever found Search was made for them by two parties, either of these, although a Mr. Wilt once ' one of which found the elk, which was found a stone in the creek with traces of taken to camp and roasted, but, the other lead on it, which he melted off with a having had a brush with some Indians, heated poker at the house of Mr. David j returned, when, fearing the presence of Trexler. a larger body of Indians, and being in an ; But whether the Beaver Dams are rich in almost famished condition, the volunteers precious minerals or not, they undoubtedly gave up the search for their missing com- . comprise one of the richest localities in the rade and returned to their homes, but not | State. The soil is alluvial, and capable of before they visited the house of a Tory producing anything grown in the temperate named John Hess, in Tuckahoe Valley, ^ zones, the only drawback being that it is whom they took to the woods and, bending j said to be subject to early frosts. Cran¬ down a hickory sapling, fastened the limbs berries and hazelnuts grow wild, and thou¬ around his neck and let him swing ; but, his sands of acres of these bottoms would contortions being so horrible, they cut him make as good cranberry marshes as can be down. j found anywhere. ^TIRRING SVENT3 ON THK KITTANNINO TRAII- This relenting from their purpose appears ^ IN EARLY TIMES. to have converted Hess, for he thereupon I have already alluded to the incursions told what he knew about the plot, joined of the French and Indians across the moun¬ the Rangers (a company of Continentals tains by way of Kittanning Path, and the that was scouting along the line of Bedford expedition of Col. Armstrong against the and Westmoreland Counties) and afterward I Kittanning forts when Captain Jacobs was did his country good service. I [killed in 1756. During the Revolutionary War, there was I ^ One of the most stirring episodes was a a fort at Frankstown, and another at; proposed incursion of Tories and Indians Fetter’s, now Gaysport. These forts were during the Revolutionary Wjtr, in the spring garrisoned by Cumberland County Militia, of 1778. At that time there were as many under command of Colonel Albright and '^'^ries as Patriots in the Juniata Valley, Captain Young, stationed there to watch ^ESpi^der of whom was John Weston, of the Kittanning Path and protect the settlers Valley. Weston, with thirty-four | from the incursion of the Indians. This ^rs, left his home at night, traveled' they signally failed to do, owing, it is ssid, , vfound Brush Mountain to avoid being to the inefficiency or cowardice of Colonel i seen, entered the path, and proceeded.to Albright. To make up for this defect, a 1 the British fort at Kittanning, to pilot In¬ small party called the Bedford Scouts, f dians and Tories in sufficient numbers to under command of a Captain Boyd, started invade the settlements as far east as Lan¬ on the Path to watch the Indians, who were caster. Stealthily they proceeded on their seen at Hart’s Sleeping Place. journey until within a few miles of the fort, This was in June, 1781. They were sur¬ when Weston sent a couple of men .shead prised at Sugar Run and some eight or ten to announce their coming. of them killed, among whom was Captain One account of the affair that foliow'ed is j Boyd. The survivors fled to the forts. ' that a party of Indians came out to meet I Albright, who had refused to allow any of j Weston’s men, whereupon Weston ordered f his men to leave the fort to join the scout, his followers to present arms, and, the Incli- f although many of them wanted to go, now ans mistaking this action for treachery, ' dallied about sending out a party to bring ( poured a volley into them, which killed in the dead or to pursue the savages, when many, among whom was Weston himself, Tommy Coleman and one of the Beattys when the survivors fled in consternation, gathered up a few friends and followed the back toward the settlements. trail as far as Hart’s Sleeping Place, but In the meantime the Patriots, having without overtaking the Indians. learned from a friendly Indian—Captain This was the last incursion of the In¬ Logan—a Cayuga chief who lived at dians during the Revolutionary War, and it Chincklaclamoose, of the expedition of the is the last historical record we have of the Tories, formed a party under command of Capt. Thomas Blair, cf Path Valley, crossed steady.'"'Me was not aflhcted'with any disease, ^exploits of these mea ; but it is said that but died purely of old age, being re\X X cUi C.'i • - =• - • • :uid Others; al-.o to the "I'oriagc Iror'V( W'ork'i, Aeina i'-on k.'ork-, Indiana Iion^' 1 : L-'O' ):>ra "o v/Mich r:'x. ■ 'V Work:;. je: ines -'ml sij;natiires oi' many o? the OJa- tiDnrd and is .si.j'wn ns ■ oslma;,':: iho vcsulcnis of Ebensbhr ‘COi. w’. i. rhir -I'. ifciwTt'i \ulio lia.'.'e’I'nt;!r,ni4 ..i'liX-;•jG '1’'''''/ ' >-.vdl :.xok is the proportyproperty of ‘rr . o. j ®'i^ker:-er andana was ke^ikepi duviu^dunu^ l.ici:-. pj;'\G(. foaai of W. K. kip a IMajor Jolin ThompS'-r; was [ll'O kis. .1 Holiida-.: prietor of the hotel now known as the Fenlon, F sn., Ebcrsbm.y Cambria.House, J. &.A. Bender,.prn- ir. I utt. of Geo; an prietqi^r-^I-t-dr'd f ery ordinary book and destination, Cincinnaiti, IS v.'omcl not present a very fo.vora’^le s.p- in tlie year 1850. pearance lieside its more ostentatious The book says that F. hi. IF brethren of to-day, but the contents tell f 'Benj. Campbell, of Pittsburg, an that when the driver’s horn on t!|c stage | )ohn Thompson and J. P. Tit ,ip: was heard coming into the town, prepa- ' ; spent three days on Laurel Run trout rations w'cre made to receive .guests and- fishing, catching 1500 trout; w'C infer from never uselessly. ihis that the fish liar was abroad in the There is very little in th^ book, but laud even in these davs. .tlie names, residences and destinations Uid.er date of "Tues-lav, 20th januar of’ the guests, but occasioi|ally _ some! 18 ;2” we find the fo’dowm; loiterer-vviUr a scribbling pripensity lias “ Vv'^.H. Burr, ;. ’v’d. Sir.’-nimn, rr-nort'.;' written a line which is suggestive ef thej Dr. R. M. Jackson, G'M.L.Xo.ss'u.’u l-.k-s. times and may when coupled w ith an S,Kossuth, Mrs. Pulkzky, Mrs. Mosscn-'l old name bring up some recpUections ’burg, Capt. Eetholomen, C.apt. Gen-fl the mind.s of some of our old' r citi/ens. ; chench,Capt.Colaspa, Capt. Messenburg,| The days of the old Porta' ;e Rail r, ad I Dr. Loglia, Messrs. Hagmck, Sptilhock, are recalled by such inscrip ions as“Jd§. Nanghety, Pulzeky, hlosany, Maggry McConnell, Plane No. g, P. R. R.” Thos. Lavents, and the committee ai>- "Akx Wdiite, Plfine No. ii, P. R. R.” pointed by the state authorities to see ,and “R, M. Jackson, Plane No. 8, A. P. them through the state and pay ihe-.r ex¬ iR. R.” penses; Judge Gilles, B. A. Shaffer and On the 25tlt of October, 1849, 's re- S. D. Kanis.” cord. 'i; “Dick Ashcraft, the great and Gen. Kossuth was the great Himgariaa Chest Creak."' A Pood patriot and though unsuccessful in his of roniiniscenses will be recalled by the attempt to establish a Republican form rnenti rn of this name tolhc mind.s of ■ gov :rnment in his country, he some .of' the older citizens of the n.. rdi, much toward it and benefitted the cciv for Ashcraft was.indeed as the host had ditionof the people greatly. On this' .added to his name, “the mighty' hunteti account the people of the United Statesja and niany are the tales told of him *to Sadmired him and welcomed him heartily this day. On one occasion he had Irecni. wherever he went during his tour_ in summoned as a witness on a case at - this country. An incident in connection court, and though he had started from ^wvith his trip to Ebensburgis recalled-by i' Lis home on the Chest Creek’ he did not; rthe old register andwill bcrcmemberedbj.y'; reach here on the day set or the tr:A ’ the older people. The day of their af-j The case was postponed until the r.-n. rival here wa.3 a bitterly cold one, thb'i da-y ai.d late in the afte'Tuacn Dick ap I^Hhermometor being do'.vn to 21 degrceiide'''’'• peared c-arryiag his '.■usfy Adel ri;ie ; n- there 'was a very deep snovz online ’..taring on his shoulders anrn iiniv.cns! .i ground and in it the noted party stuck pantiier. Pie told in court how' on his; ^some three or four miles from Ebens- way he had run across the track of thei" *burg. The driver came to town and a largest pa.nther he had ever seen and S ' oarty started out from the hlansion ininking to soon overtake it had followed "•M House and succeeded in extnactmg them the 'track luiiil night, and that determin¬ ‘"M and bringing them to town a-rfe, but half ed to kill that panther, he had campcil ei* frozen. A great many of t’ne cou .ilr-y r.'jt Wi.ler a tiee .;nd taking up the track ipJople had turned out to help mal ; lie iu the n'.orrdng followed it to its dea'.h. road and all being eager to see th; His story was received with uproariot^ foreign party, went to the ; otel, where appla'c.sc by the crowd and tire J'juge , rr. rtter of course, they had to stay for a smilingdy p.djourned court until all hani meal vith the rescued ones, for v’hich ccihd y-iiPji to the he.-ilth of "J'>ick Asn-’o the Committee pail the bill, which in all C!-fi, the mightv ht’.rtcr,” ? amounted to yico.oo. “Kosst'ilh's Day" 't'.'e :■ ' It no.ire tlie names of 'i ih-rt'uv" IS still referred to by old Ebensburgers Mo re, ell":; Ivloom o.ad Gim. Id. 'Uis the coldest ever known in this place. of Scr;::h '-.'alie'/, and Master Tl'oo:^3 tThe old patriot still lives at the age of McNamara, i-Iollidavsburg.’’ Also, some jniiiet'v odd years in rctirtmeni in his of the officers of the Cambria Guaidsy i beloved country. Capt. C. H. Pleyer, Lieutcn.'uit John Ifi Or, Tuesday,hMareh^it-, ■b4: Gi;’en, Col. R. L. Jolmston.’' y the iraraes of oin'er. Mi!it.\ --Ocn. jlw. 'Me- JCtKiS^ht. M. n. I-lAGEriHAtf'." .li!.;!. -,-, Ja?. P. Bura, Esq., T YUoaier irom the same pen on the Col. M, iiassOxT Adj. Kittcll, Ebonsburg, 'dd^iture of a partv of-gentlemen on a '.-J.K- G - :crai, W. .A., Stok^, Greens- , pleasure trip to Hollid.aysburg; i'hc a.',n; Si are ericlo-ct.l with Ihe not for those who have left us- ' .;il r ' p. s.” iCi -i-s to Ihcy have gone to the County of Blair, • li’ . . ^ -h.ou- h e’jn. Siokes 10 Aijoy themselves they’ve bereft us 'APS ;y;a isio. rable (Ms-baGiau; i; j To, dance with the ladies fair.” iosed by black litres I The drink h.abit seems to have had full ibil vv-..n; v.-;it!.ca by >en. Stokes, of West- 'I,moi'eli'.rd , C'^ uaty.”' Isway over the majority of the able men •jot that day, as there are records of : On Tuesday, July i?t, 1S5T, ars entered Inumerous “julep parties,” “dead drunks.” (the nain-ss of the Doniocialic nominee.; J tull I^"s_ and the receipt of “two y.vho tvere n.;t: in;;led, presu mr.bly, I barrels of first class whiskey at Pl;rne No. 'day; “Jebii Kean, Assembly; V-'in. Kit-: ■-t IS even recorded and a party led bv itell, Prrul’onui iry; Re, se J. Lldyd, Asso- the editor W. B. Sipes, organized to go jciati' Judge; ti. V-'. Easly, Judge; Wm. henceforth and look into the report I Tai a.er, Coiarnissioner; Robt. Kamillon. On Tuesday, jMay 13, 1853, the Cam¬ Auditor.” bria County Medical Society met at the An entry on Sunday, July 20, 1851, aiansion House. Those in attendance records tl’.e date of the visit from Wis- were Dr. Sheridan, Johnstown; Dr. Hay, con.sin of Sam Young, -vvho tvas frozen to Johnstown; Dr. Howe, Summit, and Dr death in C.alitornia last winter, and con- McKee, Summit. c:r.-i:.g whom The Mountaineer A six-inch snow is noted on October 2a pufihTed an article last spring. ; [1853. • , Tl'.e n.inie.': of the ceiebrai.ed lawyer On April 2, 1855, the proprietor took .A. ,.iian, Havrv Vrhite, Col. M. iCnarge of the Moimtain House, then k- ■ S. Rhev, A.. J. Rliey, Te. ; Known as the “Myers property” and now i, JOj:-. 1 ' d'-n, S. S. ih.’ir. Geo. C.i ■!V.by J. B. Denny. This fact, we , '.'0 Collijis’, Noons, KIoso..? suppose necessitated the purcha.ce of a i... fou:v:'ur rd Cr:--^! ; '-. new register, or at least the one at hand U... oerts, Ava'. h E .; IS, Evan i.s Cl it off short and we, as well as yonr- 't. Tiahir -Ion, HarrisOniz .->cJt, are left to rea.lize the changes pro- R ■ K H. h Roberv,|| j uuced in the thirty-seven years intervea- Y- di' v - d|, bliss ; ing. .y.J' hyG.H.J.RG.o.tsr'j wJio r-.-.,n prei'-pi. ccurts. Capt. L "w*. . 1 Ci iC;: Sri. 0,.'- C..V: i H ' Imj; 1: I'C K5, \V. j >. Sipcs, fini 'Or cf “.'Vi 01'a- 1 A ;■! D. ::: ocv,-i A. C. Ml ilen, ; ’.eg!.', .er ■j ’.1 K Clinion R i'oncs, Hon. I- iiCii' -j'iOI , ^udiana Gfic rn-e :M. ^ I / X. / - X and lad'.. and man-.' other 3 of the oi d-tin ers are recorded in this book. ' It to p-i’olish them w-ardd req' '.ire too THE OLD UNION,^Ht'AVEYARD^ rn iichR oao'J r\i d ti'-a rjlHps not ,e » .aC - ■■ r oa. Report ofau At^mpt~to be Made on **' iiC ■ A 1 ^ \-lOO ’■ i-h 10 I, is the Part of the Johns Heirs to Re¬ '■ th - lx :t Lhat Kal -- j Oi nston jorify in tr.. iiorouy*'. and claim the Plot. what Oi- ee he aspired A gentleman called at the office of Mayor Rose this morning and informed him that a - rch 1852—Sunday rumor is in circulation to the effect that the Mairu h.w ind-:'fliiiie- Hty is making an effort to sell the old -•rou., re, c>f uS Union Graveyard. He stated to the Mayor ii.g fran; '.he that he is husband of one of the lineal descendants of Josefih Johns and that The gold level recently Stephen Stutzman had called to .1;. - mve .-tnu: V the town. see him and his wife and had stateAjto theEa- ■ ■Aiih ;;g i.)i the Ebcusburg." that the city is about to take the action mentioned ; that Stutzman further said S‘.nqu'-lu,nna plank road was inj ; that the city had no right to sell the prop- ® operation and many of the young men of^ , erty and could give no title to it, and that the ■ the towm worked on the engineer corps. .Johns heirs should unite to reclaim the plot, ? followii'g in the register from the j Stutzman, he also said, urged him and his pen of M. D. MaGcelian, Esq., shows ' wife to_ sign a paper consenting and agree- , ing to join in a contest against the city for 1 |.durn to have been tiie very wag he is possession of the ground. re^roited by those who knew him; The Mayor informed the gentleman that ^Reader ’tis ten o’clock; the hour at there is no truth whatever in the statement nlch liquor begins to operate and that the city is endeavoring to sell the rsiness to •.voigh . upon the Cvulids. property and that no such step has been I thyself to thy vi: gin conch and let ; spoken of or contemplated. This seemed dsleep cover thee like a garment. j tojiatisfy the caller, and he said he would ' iiave uotmng W roposed con- ' mdre—in an effort to r«;Iaim the itest. which would now, of course, very , valu¬ The original grantgraveyard is in able, as it is in a location suitable for resi-i fifth paragraph of-jlfe -charter of the dence purposes. town of Conemaugh as execlated by Joseph Any such attempt as that indicated would, of course, meet with vigorous opposition on Johns on November 3, ISOOj'and reads as the part of the Mayor in the interest of the follows : The said Joseph Johns hereby further gives - .people, for it is maintained that, although and grants the inhabitants aforesaid, free and |interments have long since been prohibited clear of all incumbrances whatsoever, a con¬ in the burying ground, the plot has never venient spot of ground at the upper end of the said tract of land, not less than one acre, ^been diverted from its original purpose, but for a burying ground for the Inhabitants of , *is now, as it has all along been, devoted to the said town and neighborhood, which said human sepulture—the resting place of many spot of ground shall be mutually determined ' on, surveyed, and laid off by the said Joseph citizens. Beside, it is held that the-Johns Johns and the several purchasers' of lots in heirs have no claim whatever to the prop¬ the said town, or such of them as may th'ere erty, even though it should transpire that be present, on the first day of May next. the people have forfeited the grant. This In accordance with, this grant, the citizens jjOpinion is based on the fact that Joseph met on the day fixed and agreed upon the '.Johns, after making his gifts to the town, plot that has ever since been known as the isposed of all his remaining interests to “ TTtilnnUnion Graveyard.”frrn.vevard.” It is in the First eter Levergood, so that if any person or J Ward and is bounded by Market, Chestnut, ersons other than the city have a claim to > and Stonycreek streets and Cherry alley, he plot it is the heirs of Peter Levergood. lit contains three full lots and part of another, and embraces almost an acre. From 1801, when the first burials were made, until in the early sixties, interments tnnfingtion continued. Finally, when the plot was lied with graves, the CouncU of Johns¬ •AL TYHURST..EDITOR. town Borough passed an ordinance (see codified ordinances, 1883, chapter XXIX, TERMS: .$2.00 A YEAR. p 172-173), prohibiting any more burials in' t under a penalty of not less than $5 or THUESUAY, JAN. 19, 1882. more than ?)25. From that time until the Great Flood the Borough of Johnstown maintained the OF FIRST SETTLERS^ "I fence about the graveyard and made, from Early Formation of Townships and | ,2 time to time, some repairs. In the flood the f fence was swept away and also all traces of The First Assessments Made in j b the graves in the enclosure. After the incor- The Regions of Huntingdon. I r poration of the city a wire_ fence was erected around the plot, and so it stands to¬ BY PROP. A. li. GUSS. day. I Some years ago, when the subject of a public hospital first began engaging public The Juniata region, extending frorn attention, the Union Graveyard seemed to the Kitt.ochtinny or Blue Mountain to be a favorable location, and there was talk the Alleghenies, and from the Mary¬ of -.rjing it for that purpose. It was evi¬ land line to a line running neaply from| dent, however, that, in order to secure a Selinsgrove through Milesburg, was perfect title to it for that purpose, all those i who might lay claim to it as heirs—by pur¬ first purchased from the Indians July chase or otherwise—of Joseph Johns, must 6, 1754. Settlers, however, had been ; join in a surrender of their real or alleged f intruding

'i, 'V waters of Wills creek from the Juni¬ a. adjoining John Gammill; 2,000^ ata to strike Dunning’s mountain in Woodcock valley; 8,000 a. on' through Lun’s Gap. Thomas Coulter, Frankstown waters; 600 a. on Sh constable.” ver’s creek. “ Bedford.—Bounded by the above Benstead, Alexander 300 a. on Little- east line and Dunning’s mountain to Juniata. the gap of Morrison’s Cove, and from Brad}'^, Capt. & Company 1500 a. on thence to the top of Tussey’s moun¬ Little Juniata and Shaver’s creek. tain, joining Barree township so as to Bouquet, Col. heirs, 300 a. in Wood¬ include Morrison’s Cove, and from the cock valiey and 1,500 a. in Trough end of Morrison’s Cove cross by Creek valley. Frankstown to the Allegheny. John Brady, John 2 h. 2 e. 1 Cochran, constable.”_ Clark, Daniel 200 a. adjoining Whar¬ ‘^ Barree—Bounded by Dublin, Col- ton & Pollock on Frankstown iiaine and Bedford townships as al¬ waters. ready mentioned, and along the Alle¬ Clark & Peters, 400 a. opposite Fred gheny, until a line struck from thence Founders. ■ to Jack2§ mountain, so as to include Caldwell, Charles 200 a. 20 ae. 2 h. 2 Jhe wat^ of Little Juniata and Sha¬ c. ver’s and Standing Stone creeks. John Duffield, Edward & Co., 1600 a. Foresee, coiistable.” Dunji, William 100 a. 10 ac. 2 h. 2 c. In the mehintime Tyrone (Perry) Elliott, James & Co., 6000 a. unwar*- was divided, forming Toboyne and ranted, in Point valley. Eye, so'that now, in 1767, we have Finlay, Samuel 300 a. on Frankstown ■ fourteen organized townships on the waters; 300 a. on Shaver’s creek. ■ new purchase as parts of Cumberland Joshua, John 100 a. 10 ae. 2 h. 2 c. county. Gamble, John 600 a. at Clover creek. It is probable that the regions em¬ Gamble, John 400 a. 20 ac. 2 h. 2c. l*f braced in the Court order of October, negro. ’ 1767, were prior to this time erected Hunter, James 50 a. at the Canoe^j into a township called Bedford. There Place; 300 a. adjoining Capt. Find¬ is an extensive assessment at Carlisle, lay’s Frankstown waters, in the Commissioner’s oflice, of Bed¬ Hare, Jacob 100 a. 10 ac. ford township for 1767, which em¬ Irwin, Eobert, jr., 200 a. on Shaver’s creek. braces lands on Trough Creek and . k the lands of Dr. Wm. Smith, at Hun- Johnston, James heirs, 50 a. on Franks Ltingdon. I could not take time to ex- town waters. v ■ amine it critically, nor to cull settlers Lakens & Little, 500-a. 40 ac. Shaver’s r who lived on the grounds of the pres- place ; .400 a. below Frankstowh i.j[' I ent county of Huntingdon. 800 a. oif’Canoe Eun. f For the year 1768 assessments were Lowry & Starrett, 200 a. at Canoe made for all these townships, and cop¬ place. ies of them were discovered by me at McNitt, Alexander 200 a. 10 ac. on Carlisle. I took the trouble to copy Shaver’s creek. the list for Barree township for 1768, Means, Hugh 200 a. in Water Street: and the “residenters” for the few sub¬ valley. j sequent years, and have written the Mifflin, Samuel 2,000 a. on Standing' above sketch by way of introducing Stone creek. these lists to the readers of the Mitchell, John, Waggoner, 200 a. in Globe. It will be observed by the Woodcock valley; 40 a. Totman’s above defined boundaries that Barree Island (Entrikin’s.) comprised the greater part of the Peters, Eiehard fiev’d. 1400 a. present counties of Huntingdon and Pollock, James tavernkeeper, 100 a. OH Frankstown waters. Physick, Edmund 400 a. BARREE TOWNSHIP, 1768. Proprietaries (heirs of Wm. Penn) [Contractions : a stands for acres ; 1600 a. above Water Street;; 16000 1 ac for acres cleared ; h for horses ; c a. on Sinking valley; 3000 a. iB I 'or cows ; s for sheep ] Woodcock valley; 3000 a. on Sha¬ Allan, George 600a. on Shaver’s creek. ver’s creek (Manor Hill.) Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, 16,600 Eenkin, James 200 a. above Franks- ^ a. on the heads of Little Juniata; 600 town. Montgomery, John freeman. ■rat, James 200 a. at the Beaver Prigmore, Joseph 100a. lac. 3h. 3c. 33. Wms. ks, William 100 a. 8 ac. 2 h. 2 c. Parker, John freeman. [th, Kev. Doctor, 600 a. above Eoberts, Joseph 300 a. 4 ac. 2 h. 2 c. ,Vater Street; 1400 a. at Standing Eisle, William freeman. itone ; 1500 a. on heads of Crooked Shirley, William 20 a. 13 ac. 2 h. 1 c. Saunders, Benj; 250 a. 10 ac. 4 h. 2 c. Shipper, Ed. 1500 a. on heads of Juni¬ Thompson, Samuel 150a. 12ac. 2h. 2 c. Wilson, John 100 a. 10 ac. 2 b. 3 c. 2 8. ata. Simpson, John Paxton, 300 a. on Dit- Weston, John sr., 150 a. 8 ac. Weston, John Freeman. tle Juniata. Totman, Joseph 100 a. 10 ac. unseated. White, Anthony freeman. Trent, William Capt. 300 a. joining BARREE, 1770—ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS. Starret; 100 a. joining Duffield, Anderson, Samuel 125 a. 22 ac. 3 h. 5 Canoe Eun. _ . . c. 4 8. iVallace & Company, 600 a. joining Anderson, Daniel freeman. Gamble & Co., Frankstown branch ; Beebougb, Jacob 100 a. 3 ac. 1 b 5000 a. on east branch of JuniatM. Forsyth, John freeman. 1500 a. and 6000 a. recovered of a ; Forshe'ar, Solomon freeman. Elliott, east branch of the waters of Guthrie, Hugh freeman. Juniata surveyed by Eobert McKin¬ Kelly, Jacob freeman. ney ; 1500 a, adjoining Capt. Brady. Kelly, John freeman. Ward. Edward Major, Wards claim Kilgore, Dash freeman. 300'a.; 1500 a. on Trough creek. Leaney, Daniel 2 h. 1 c. Wilson, John 150 a. 15 ac.’2 h. 2c. Little, James 3 b. 2 e. Woods, George 200 a. in Woodcock Morgan, Eichard 300 a. 6 ac. 2 h. 2 c. valley. Ealph, David 100 a. 2 ac 2 h. 2 c [Total acres cleared 153. Think, Smart, William 100 a. 4 ac. 2 h. 2 c. once, of the days when there were but Stoner, Philip 100 a. 15 ac. 2h. 2 c. tenlittle holes in the woods in all this Shaver, John freeman. region, extending from Hopewell to Shoaf, Boston 100 a. 10 ac. the head of Stone Creek, and from BARREE, 1771—ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS. 5idelon2 Hill to the Allegheny moun- ■e Busher, Samuel 300 a. 6 ac. 1 h. 2 c. 5s. id •in !] Bowers, John 700 a. 13 ac. 2 h. 2 c. BARKEE, 1769—RESIDENTS. Beech, Walderen, 100 a. 2 ac. 1 h. 2 c. I.nderson, John 100 a. 8 ac. Bubout, Matthias freeman. ■i':. -■ Brady, John house and lot, 2 h. 2c. Caldwell, Charles 150 a. 10 ac. 1 h.l ®radv, Samuel house and lot, 1 h. 1 c. Cross, Cornelius 50 a. 2 ac. 1 h. 3 s. ialdwell, Eobert 100 a. 10 ac. 2 h. 2 c. Clark, Walter 100 a. 7 ac. 2 h. 3 e S 2 g China, Joseph freeman. _ ■Ialdwell, Charles 200 a. 12 ac., 3 h. 2 Heather, George 200 a. 10 ac. 3 h [ c. 4 8. Hartsock, Peter 2 h. 2 c. pampble, Cleary 20 a. 5 ac. Ih. 1 c. Hicks, Levi 400 a. 6 ac. 1 h. 1 c. parnaban, John house and lot, 2 h. 1 c. Igo, Peter 1 h. 2 c. 1 C. lean, William 50 a. 6 ac. 2 h. 2c. Keygar, Anthony 40 a. 2 ac. 1 h )ewit, Paul 100 a. 3 ac. 1 h. Minor, Thomas, poor, 60 a. 1 ac. 5 s. Dunn, William 100 a. 15 ac. 2 h. 2 c. 68. Moore, Levi 100 a. 9 ac. 2 h. 2 c ^ygo, Daniel 80 a. 1 ac. 3 h. 3 ser¬ Murray, William 2 b. vants, 1 negro, Oulery, David 20 a. 2 ac. 1 h. 1 c. Pi'igmore, Jascph 150 a. 5 ac. 2 h. 2 c. i^'lora, James 2 h. 2c. r'riggs, Eobert 100 a 4 ac. 2 h. grist mill. Faunder, Frederick 100 a. 10 ac. 2 h. 2c. Petticoat, Dorsey 1 b. 1 c. Gosnel, Mordecai single freeman. Eannels, George 1 h. 1 c. Hair, Jacob 150 a. 24 ac. 4 h. 4 c. 2 8. Pickets, Edward 300a. lOac. 2h. 2c. -.3. Hampson, James 40a. 5ac. 2 h. 3c. 5s. Shilling, Christopher 2 h. Henry, James freeman. Sullivan, Cornelius renter. Jackson, George 50a. 6 ac. 1 h. 2 c. 4s. Tipton, Edward renter 1 h. .Johnston, William 100 a. some im- Vaunce, Thomas 2 h. 1 c. ; Whitston, Michael 100 a. 2 ac. 1 h. 1 c. ;W ' provement, 1 h. 1 c. till Long, John freeman. Wilson, James 100 a. 5 ac. Moore, Zebulon 100a. 20ac. 2 h. 2 c. 3s. I The lists of land owners are quiU \ lengthy. Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith has j 1500 a. on Crooked creek ; 200 a. at i Big Spring ; 100 a. on James Creek 200 on Standing Stone creek, opposite James creek. The latter seems im conflict with our geography. Capt. James Patterson owns 2^60 a. “opposite; mouth of Juniata”—probably thej Raystown Branch. James Elliot had 150 a. “on Musmita Bottom." . j. A LOCAt HIST^BIC.Alb SKETCH.^^ In 1771 Bedford county _w«^to*med, - -i^ and embraced Bafr^' and Dublin; The First White rtejBiale Child Bert townships, so that, aftor this yoai' thej ia Johnstown. assessmejects, 'I ,j^/feserved, are at Bed-; During the latter part of September last,! ~ ford-'' I" have oeen told they are not ;the Tribune, in noting that Mr. J. C./' found. Huntingdon county was’ Burkhart, of Zearing, Iowa, was visiting, -i formed in 1787, and the lists for 1788 friends and relatives in this vicinity, stated. - and subsequently are preserved in the That he was a son of the late Catharine Commissioners’ oflSce. The above Burkhart, who lost her life in the Johnstown jaaraes afford ample material for com- Flood of May 31, 1889, and who was the ,tneut and reflection, but at this time i first white female child born in Johnstown. .cannot indulge. Along with this, a brief history of some of the incidents of her life and family [ %' connections may be of interest to our readers. ' Mrs. Burkhart was a daughter of the late Cj^CVT. Hon. Abram Hildebrand, one of the first Associate Judges of this county under Judge Young, the first Judge of Cambria <§)ayC(_, (Pe/L^ < y^^ County, and was born on April 9, 1804, in this city, then composed of possibly a half ly An OM li^^Rai'Js; Gone. dozen settlers and their families, and, so far as is known, she was not only the first I The old house in the East Waid on the white female child born here, but the ‘first ■property of Mr. Evan E. Evans has been white child born in what is now the City of ■razed to the g:round. It was a log house_, Johnstown. The second white female child ^covered with boards and was^^^very old born here was Lucinda Proctor, in 1807, building having been erecmtt^bsut 90 who afterward became the wife of Judge years ago by Jobn Lloyd;^^tlier of our Evan Roberts, and also lost her life in the townsmen, Messrs. John and Abel Lloyd. Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889. Sev¬ Its first days is beyond the recollection eral male children were born here, though, hying/ and the first ' of aay, p.erson now between the births of Miss Hildebrand and i '^news coivceining itsthat waca^^btain is Miss Proctor. i ‘' that in'i8t2 and loil^ before Tt was the Mr. Hildebrand immigrated from Lan-, reeteivwho had a residence of one Isaac caster County to this city about the year' wagon-maker’s shop on tlis _ gr junds, 1797, and resided in different localities now J.! where many of the old mechai*fics learnt embraced in the City of Johnstown for trades. It was afterwards occupied by several years, and subsequently purchased Rolland Williams, a wagon-maker. The the tract of land on which East Conemaugh j East Ward was then the business portion 'isnow located, where he erected a grist mill; of Ebensburg, all the stores and shops ■ and a saw-mill about the year 1823, which; being in that end, excepting the store of were considered important improvements in,' Owen McDonald. this neighborhood at that time. These mills i The house trow occupied by Hon. A. were operated by him for a number of years j A, Barker is also one of the old-timers, and then sold to Mr. Daniel Uaber, who' and it is also built of logs. It was built afterward sold them to Mr. William Hnber, P after the Evans house and was for many and_J William Huber in turnfnrti disposed ofnr' years a miblic inn, run bv Johnston Moore them to Mr.-Butterbaugh. and others. It is said of this house that The old grist-mill building was finally re¬ Daniel Boone, the great Kentucky hunter modeled iuto a dwelling house and store celebrated in history, once stopped there room, and some of our older readers would on his way over the Alleghenies. not need to allow their memory to run back The two old stone houses in the East more than twenty or twenty-five years to Ward are also relics of our town’s earliest themselves trading for or purchasing days and stand as monuments to the see Kentucky jean, blue drilling, or check hardy pluck and perseverance of the shirting, over the mercantile counters in the pioneer settlers. They were fine man¬ old mill building. _ ^ sions in their day. The old log house which the ■! udge built i and lived in at East Couomangh remained his pants similar to another H ; the Flood, when it was clemolis'aed. Here showed him. and that he was on the h'liit Ijjaud there the town is dotted with old apple it Mr. Burkhardt never knew whether he W trees, which were once a part of his orchard, found the button on the return tr^ or not. rtl On the saw-mill the Judge cut the lumbeilumber About the year 1829, Mr. ei‘son for the section boats on the _ old canal. 1 chased a tract of woodland m Although all traces of the mill itself were Township, about one mile from ^jwiped out of existence many years ago, yet - village of Vinco is now located, erected a 7 jthe dam remained intact, with the exception Ihoust and stable upon lof a small break on the north side, until a and commenced improving the land. _ t here jfew years before the flood, and the entrance were but two houses at that time on to the race, with its timbers, could plainly the Ebensburg Road between the old turn¬ be seen until the time of the Flood._ pike and the farm of J’-*-® , /'fu., Mr. Hildebrand was the father ot twelve Roberts, now belonging to the hens of Jw children, six boys and six girls, six of late Jacob Angus.viz : Samuel s ai a . whom had blue eyes and six had dark eyes, John Benshoff’s. Here they continued to Catharine being the youngest and among the reside and improve their land, under almoT dark-eyed ones. A. number of the older insurmountable difficulties children were grown up and had left home during the earlier years, until Mr Buuv- •prior to her birth, and she never saw them, hart’s death, which occurred on July 1 , but all preceded her to the unknown world 1872, at the age of seventy-five yeais ten at an extremely old age ; George, one of months and seven days. the younger boys, and the only one of the Very often, while the children were small, children left beside herself at that time, ithey did not have a change of clothing, and jdying in East Taylor Township, on Decem- on Saturday evenings, after assisting he (Iber 19, 1877, at the age of ninety years two husband some in the fields and <^ing he months and four days. household work in addition, Mrs. Biukhart The Judge himself died at an old age at would strip the children, put them to be., the home of his son John in Huntingdon wash and' dry their clothing, mend it, County and is buried there. His wife met and have it ready for the children to put her death by blood-poisoning, caused by on clean on Sunday morning. _ , accidentally running the scale of a sunfish, Ten children were born to them, viz . I which she was cleaning, under the nail of one Abram, Joseph, John, Samuel, : I of her fingers, and was buried in the old Keziah, Mary, Jane, Lovina, and ^otje. j Union Cemetery in this city. Altogether, Abram, but a young man m his tee... They were a family of extraordinary lou- when the Mexican War broke out, wa -^^ J gevity. . to enlist in company with some of 1 Among the residents in Johnstown during ciates, but his father opposed u. ’ iMiss Hildebrand’s early days were the when on his way to the Lintons, Hamiltons, Proctors, Shepley ' where he had been chopping cord ^e. Priestly, George Bheam, and the Lever- ' met his friends on their way goods. decided to go with them ^esP’te ® About the year 1824 she was united in opposition, and when on h’^ I’lem marriage to Ephraim Burkhart, a young wrote back to his parents lutoiuiing t.iom man employed by her father to erect the; what he had done. After serving abpiit a grist mill, and whom he afterward employed year and a half in the army he was slr'ckon as miller. After their marriage they re¬ lith the measles, taken to the bospM sided in a siMill log house near the mill for was in a fair way for recoveiy , but waen^ about four years, Mr. Burkhart still contin¬ ithe army startediojake the City of Mexico uing in the capacity of miller, and a num¬ ihe wanted to join it, f _ fospiul, he ber of persons, now advanced in years, by the Captain to remain at the hospua , who were but mill boys then and came to follow^his company andparticip t d the mill over rugged roads iu cold and ^ rainy weather, can testify to the cheerful and hospitable disposition shown by Mrs. Burk- a. s: taking them into her house and seat¬ ing them before her wide chimney, with its blazing wood fire, where they were warmed and had their clothing dried before again facing the elements on their return trip. While at this place, Mrs. Burkhart cooked' : gagVd in the lumber business in the townee the meals'for the surveyors when laying out ;;, Hhe old Portage Railroad, i '"Sa met lie f "£“f’u;.hS One of the incidents related by Mr. Burk¬ )bv a boiler explosion at , hart, which happened while he was em¬ I Works at Mineral ^id ^igiueer ployed as miller, was as follows : 'Icepted the oc- A young man by the name of Goughnonr ; about a mouth bctoie me came to the mill one day, got his grist, and returned home, a distance of about two '“MOTtetie lie .i.eor James See.ebwgi miles, over muddy roads. When he got ihome he discovered that he bad lost a button off his pants, and forthv/ith took his ^ back tracks on foot in search of it. When - " he again turned up at the mill Mr. Burkhart ^ .resides there. _ _ Mked him what was the matter, and was iiuj^ id that he had lost a pewter button off® / Mary went to Iowa many years ago, anclH has since married Mr. Georgy James, who If now resides in Rock Falls, Illinois. From,.L ' Jane was the wife of Mr. Abram Byers and residsd at Mineral Point on. May 31, .1889., and perished in the Great Flood on that rnemorable day. '’F&Z-zc. fltjovinia is the wife of Ed. Muller, for¬ merly of this city, but now a resident of Scalp Level. Date Charlotte died in infancy. ‘After Mr. Burkhart’s death, and his I.ocation of Patton. estate had been settled up, Mrs. Burkhart moved with her son Joseph to Adams y^atfcon is geograpl^ally the centre of Township, taking with her sufficient furni¬ ■Northern CambrW; being equidistant^ ture to furnish two rooms in her son’s house, from the boundary lines of Blair, Clear- ^ which he had placed at her disposal, she preferring to continue keepi.ng house and field and Indiana counties, and almost; - , have her own bed, table, etc. She remained the same from a latitudinal line drawm ^ ^ here until 1879, when s’ue decided to quit through the centre of Cambria. It was , housekeeping, and went to live with her located by A. E. Patton, of Curwens-^; , daughter Jane, who then resided in Jackson Township, her husband—Mr. Byers—being i viUe, and was named for his father, Gen. ? t engaged there on one of the saw-mills as 'John Patton, who has for many years, ’ sawyer, and she remained with them until ■been one of the most successful business her death. men of the interior of the State. Gen. Some time during the winter of 1879-80, in walking out she fell on the ice and frac¬ Patton, in 1883, came into possession tured one of her arms near the wrist. The 6,000 acres of land through Bard & Cas- fracture never united perfectly, and her arm Isidy, on Chest creek. This was purchas- was partially disabled for the balance of her led from him by his son, A. E. Patton, life. About the year 1880, Mr. Byers, her son- ‘and 6,000 acres more secured, making in in-law, purchased the old homestead and aU 11,000 acres in an almost unbroken moved thereon, and Mrs. Burkhart was tract, and all good coal and timber; thus again installed on the farm where she property. Mr. A. E. Patton associated j had spent forty-three years of her happiest existence. In the spring of 1887, Mr. with him Hon. Jas. Kerr and Gen. Geo.. Byers sold the homestead again, and, after Magee, who represents the New York ; living in several different places in Jackson ;Oentral interests. Since the purcha^. Township, moved to Mineral Point in the fall of 1888, where Mrs. Burkhart, with her *it has been the ever present ambition of ^ daughter Jane, perished on that memorable; jthe Junior Mr. Patton to develop hLsj 31st of May, 1889 at the age of eighty-fiye fvast holdings. To do so, it was neces-j years one month and twenty-two days. Isaryto build and operate a railroad Mrs. Burkhart was a remarkably stout old lady, having been blest with almost perfect , • Itwenty-flve miles in length from Ma-; health all her life, the only sick spell of any jhaffey to Patton. To get the proper; -- consequence that she had, being a very iparties mterested, the Vanderbilts, wasj severe attack of pneumonia in the fall of la big undertaking, and one that requir¬ 1888. Her complete recovery from this was attributed by the physician in attend-, ed executive ability, persistent energy ^ ance principally to the careful nursing of and untiring real. Conference after her daughter Jane. She had a wonderful conference was held with them and memory, and could entertain friends for jtheiragenfa before any definite arrange- ^ mburs relating in her pleasing way, incidents of early Johnstown and vicinity, and had it ^ .ments were made, and when it was at^ not been for that awful calamity, she would last decided to make the extension, the ' ■ no doubt have lived to see the century mark ■ opposition of the Pennsylumiia was so , of e.vistence before death overtook her in a great that it became necessary to com-j natural manner, near or over which age her brothers and sisters were when called away. promise matters, which was done by, She was a consistent member of the Chqrch the Pennsylvania company building the , of the Brethren for more than fifty years. road through to Cresson and granting, the Beech Creek running privileges,^,

so that the latter’s trains run through to' . Patton, their terminus in Cambria coun-; ty. This was practically as good for the Patton company as though Beech Creek • owned and operated the line exclusively. Its course is along Chest creek and Bru-- . t ' baker run, and ascends the mountains'' ■ * jing kept rignwm from tth ill ,u , ‘;^ugh a wild and picturesque country I is stiU goj ig on, while about 200honse^W. Patton, and thence to Cresson, 22 ; stores, (Is and offices have been com- Jes south, where connection is made pleted. ith the beginning, and since' y-ith the Pennsylvania Central. The the be ;ng, everything has taken on 'rojejjting and building of a railro^ a_ subst^ appearance and there is an whrough this section of county did air of permanency about, all of which much more than to afford facilities for is frilly justified by the industries in ac¬ developing the property m question, tual operation, chief of which is coal though that was the one thing to pro¬ mining. The tot summer about all the mote the enterprize. It put new life 1 labor employed was upon town im- l into a territory where the people before jprovements, but in the year 1893 the moved in the grooves of primitive days. proportion has been away up in favor There was no town of any pretentions lof mining. Not that improvements along the direct line between Clearfield did not continue unabated, but because and Johnstown, and men endowed with the opening out of the mines gave room ordinary acumen readily perceived thp,t for increasing numbers of men_- ithe stretch of country would develop land support such a town. Patton had the “puU.” First, the advantageous llocatlon, and second, the interest of men who are an immeasurable power in the I commercial world. The Begrinnlng of Patton. The owners of the Patton lands form¬ ed themselves into a company known as the Chest Creek Land and Improve- • , YALUABLE HISTORY. ment company, with Mr. John Lang, ^ of Corning, N.-Y., as president. Land ; ^ County and Joins > toivn jCainbria was leased to mine operators to produce-^, r* Sixty Years Ago. on a royalty and then the beginning of*;, Wriiten for tfie Johnstown Tribtm a town was at hand. Before that ^e» ^ ' In ararrold vofume entitled *; A Gazetter lof the State of Pennsylvania, by i;;mnaoinas site Ottihe. town was ‘ 1 Gordon, printed at Philadelphia m 32, i,^a A mill owned by a man f purchifiitl I‘ copv Olof -whichWUiVJU thebUSi writer--1 had was here and is still here, and the Pa^ ifor a “levy”^121 cents—at a public sale ton hotel and five or six o^ierJio^^ jof the personal effects of. a ciHzeu of Mifflin Igtood along the public road south of the 1 County, who was about to pud pp s.akos iund “ go West ’’—probably to Ohio-m - ..e i^senttow, and the se^^^^ent ^ : spring of 1846) we find many inteicsUrig 'Lown as Marks’ Mills. There w^ no i facts about Cambria County in tee iuree l^stofflce nearer than CarroUto^^- I pages devoted to the county by the author IS the spring of 1891. [^h® L seen by him at that date. Soma of tii ese facts, we believe, will prove roteresting iissued an * mail , reading to many inhabitants of t.ambi a, March 20, of that year, and the first mad Countv in these later days, ano, tor .he r; wSsent’out Aprill4, B. A. Mellonpos^ formation and entertainment ot so- . , master. The mail came tn-weekly over¬ we propose, with your permission, to r- pro duce some of the most striking an t ^uggitst- land from Ebensburg, and so continued ive of these statements through the eolui- ^til the railroad P^B^enger ®®rvi^ lof the Tribune. The present reaide>"S - ^ put in operation about the 10th of Au- Ithe City of Johnstown, with it; immeiwe 1 manufacturing enterprises and vaited im us- ^'rhe Chest Creek Land and Im^ove- 1 tries, will be especially struck wi.h th- merely casual and incidental mr:n-er u, Iment company engaged Mr. . _ ■ which the hamlet of that date is mentiorcJ iBrown, of Huntingdon, a yoimg man by the compiler of the Gazetteer. e of experience in civU and nuning engi¬ was not even certain about the name ot L: . neering, as superintendent, who came embryo city, and called it “ Johnsontow’' But we anticipate. . , i .irPat£nAprm,1892. Tbeto«*^ After reciting with precision the . istoricj,. , ,cut away from the town site and m fact that Cambria County was formed^ from Brown laid out the streets and the tot Somerset and Huntingdon ^CounMc; .ly^ r^- ' sale oflots took place Apr.21,eighty- It Act of the Legislatuie ol March 26, J.” ^ the author proceeds to give in detail Ibeing sold the tot day. Buildmg fol- geographical position of dhe county, ' 'lowed, the company completmg a con¬ 1 boundaries, territorial limits, area, venient office buUding in June. Build- .which we omit as not essential !o our p en- eut purpose. He then adds :__ Bj the above qfcp 'Act-, it'wtKlI^ 4 ire' vidad, that the piara^for hol> been prepared.” which the author excepts from the list I j : The Cambria County reader will note that since his book was printed : ’ll our author transposes the title of the-old “ Almost every species of timber abounds! . Slate railroad across the mountain, calling on the mountain, except the white-oak, it “the Railroad Portage,” instead of “ the lire various species of pine predominate,' Portage Railroad,” as we who “ were to the but on the Laurel Hill, chestnut, red andl manner born ” used to cail it. Or did tuf rock-oak are very abundant. Some of the- transpose it ? _ . The next and 1^ mention of Johnstoi^i ..H'iug' liriet senteuce, Sla^aite^irfere it not history : -jirin^pal^^P^hs are Ebeusburg,a|f »l6wn, Muttster, and Eoretto.’’ ^ .„^fy^thi8,''^d' nothing more.” y- Allegheny range fifty years ’illpermit Ihe local rcadtv lo niake his ^ capitalists were few. comparisons between the Ebensburg • Cambria, Huntingdon, and Mifflin Coun¬ hiShnatowa of tp-duy and the Munster ties composed the Seventeenth Seriatorial adifioretto of the authcii ’s time. From his District; Cambria and Somerset in con¬ ,.>n%

i- nf these figures in connection fMlh t¥e statements preceding -Ihem will? r- eveal many curious facts and surprises, ant( suggest many inquiries. They will not only From, show how very small we were only sixty years ago, and how little known—how scarcely dreamed of—was our vast mineral wealth, but when read in the light and - .£3zv] knowledge of the present development, apd. of the immense industrial enterprises of our day and generation, how rapid -has been Date, that development, and how grand has been the advance and achievements of the moun¬ tain county, and especially the growth of A l.AND|||^K GON^ her inland city, which, in the days of Mun¬ A House Known to the Early Settlers De¬ ster and Loretto, was without even a name ! stroyed by Fire. It will be noted that, according to this j A hoase known for many years as the table, all the inhabitants in the county in i 1810 were found in the three townships of! “Old Sharp House,” and which stood near Allegheny, Cambria, and Conemaugh. It' \ the line of Lilly borongh, ■was destroyed by 'must be remembered, however, that these fire yesterday morning. The building three townships constituted the whole of j ing was occupied by a nnmber of Italians Cambria County at that date. Cambria i ' who narrowly escaped with their lives, but Township embraced Ebensburg and ther whole of the central part of the county p without saving any of their effects and the Allegheny embraced Munster and Loretto contents were devoured by the flames. As and the whole of the eastern and northern the building, fnrnicnre and other contents territory ; while old Conemaugh embraced f were of small valne, the loss is very slight. Johnstown and the entire south of the! The bouse, which was a tnmbledown county. Johnstown had no rating until [ affair and had weathered the storms of } many years, was probably the oldest in the 1820, when she was credited with a popula-1 tion of 116, as Conemaugh Town, or Johns-j .vicinity of Lilly, and was known to the ^earliest settlers in that section. It is so town. Ten years later, in 1830, her popula-1 tion had increased to 513. Ebensburg first lOld, in fact, that nobody in or about Lilly appears also in 1820, with a population of seems to know how old i( is, bat it is said that on many occasions its first occnpants 168, exceeding Johnstown’s by 52, which have been compelled to barricade them was only increased to 270 in 1830, being 234 selves within it and shoot through port¬ less than Johustown, showing that even at holes at savage Indians who danced around this early day tne present commercial me- outside with blood-thirsty war whoops and troviolis and center of population of the thirated for their gore. The ancient strnc- county had shot ahead of the county seat in , tore was owned by W. H. Piper & Go. J the matter of citizenship—a supremacy she has ever since maintained, and is destined ,0 maintain until she becomes the seat of 1 justice of a new county, with a population From, KA equal to that of the present county of Cam¬ bria, and far exceeding the remainder of the old county in wealth. (Pa.< It is amusing to state that Munster was a bigger town than Loretto in 1820, with a population of eighty-four against forty-four— nearly twice as big. She wasn’t so much bigger in 1830, when she had only 107 inhabitants, while Loretto had jumped to seventy-one. The situation now is cons- picionsly reversed. Cambria Township had the largest population in 1810, but Cone¬ OF 1839 maugh Township nearly trebled her in 1830. True, Cambria bad lost Jackson, but so also Interesting Cuilings From That Remote had Conemaugh lost Johnstown. Record. Many other equally suggestive compar¬ In 1839 Henry D. Rogers, then thi isons might be drawn from the data supplied .'State Geologist of Pennsylvania, wit) by this entertaining old book, but as I have nine geological assistants — Messrs already exceeded my limit, I will desist. Harvey B. Hall, Alexander McKinley If I have succeeded in interesting the reader Chas. B, Trego, James D. Whelpley, jas sufficiently in what is here written to induce r. Hodge, Dr. Jackson, John C. McKin him or her to finish the reading of it, my ley, Peter W. Shaeffer and Townsenc contribution in the way of antiquarian i Ward, with two chemical assistants, Dr research into the history of the county, in ■ Robert E. Rogers and Martin Borje.— which I have an abiding interest, will have made a geological survey of the State, accomplished the mission whereunto it p which even at this advanced time makes sent. Meanwhile he or she may take very palatable reading for persons who |he figures I have supplied, and conjure are interested in the formations of nature. them at their leisure to the end of the The State was divided into six districts, Hjpter. .T. M. B. } for the purpose of classification, and the Fourth District “einbracing the country immediately beneath it a stratum of lime¬ included between the bti^ bt the Alle¬ stone, varying from three to eight feet in gheny Mountain and Chestnut Ridge,” thickness. Between sixty and seventy being the one which will prdbably interest feet above the middle coal bed is another, the majority of our readers, we quote apparently the uppermost workable seam from It: _ . ' in this vicinity. These coal beds are re¬ Iron ore, apparently of line quality, spectively three, three and a hall and is fouiid along Stony creek, above Stoys- _ four feet in thickness. They are but town, and also, in many places near the little worked, supplying only the imme¬ foot of Laurel Hill, on the head branches diate neighborhood. The mines ad¬ of Quemahonmg. That at the old Shade joining the railroad on the Allegheny furnace, is rough and Sandy. Ihis fur¬ mountain furnish fuel to the stationary nace has not been in blast for some ■engines at the inclined planes, and sup- years. From the vicinity of the turnpike Jply a moderate demand from the country northeastward to the Conemaugh, the east of the mountain. The measurements ' country is rugged and unsettled, except and other researches undertaken, indi¬ a few spots in the neighborhood of Paint cate that most, if not all these mines creek. Near the mouth of that .stream, near the railroad, are in the uppermost and along the valley of Stony Creek, Jof the three seams already mentioned, where some population prevails, the beds excepting the mine of Dr. Shoenberger, ot coal are again recognized and have near the foot of Plane No. 6, on the been partially mined at a few points to "’^eastern decent of the mountain, which supply the bHckrmiths and others in the would appear to be in the lowermost bed jdistrict. The digging of coal being per¬ in the series. Passing from the valley of formed, as in most other similar places, ( the Conemaugh towards F.bensburg, the •Jduring the winter, and carried on upon a ?. surface of the country rises rapidly, and ■fp'ery small scale, the spring thaws cause 5^ 'the principal seams are again lost to •the earth and slate to fall, rendering the jview beneath the unproductive super;i>i- •t (entrance to the mines incessible during Icumbent strata, which here spread them- ■'the summer. We are hence, too frequent- Sselves over the surface, borne small ily precluded from ascertaining the thick- fibeds from one to two feet in thickness c - |ness, quality and aspect ot the seams, and ' lare, however, met with. Towards the [from procuring other data, so essential to, [eastern and western borders of the basin, jany attempt to trace and develop the! I near the base of the Mlegheny mountain icoal over the circumjacent country. * land of Laurel hill, the lower and thicker i The deep valley of the Conemaugh, > beds, occasionally show themselves, and exposing the strata from the uppermost! admit of being extensively traced. ibeds of the coal series, in this part of the^. ’ Among these slates included between j basin, downward to nearly the bottom > : these seams, we find as usual, the chief I beds of formation XI; we are enabled, [deposits of argillaceous iron ore, the ■through a careful examination of the de¬ display of which is particularly promis- nuded beds, to determine with some ac- jing along Laurel run and Hengston's run ' curacy, the contents of the coal forma-. which flow southward into the Cone¬ lion in this portion of its range. The maugh, near the foot of Laurel hill. Ore artificial excavations along the line of the is also to be found along the waters of Portage railroad, furnish from point to Clearfield creek and m other places near point, displays of the stratification, which the Western slope of the Allegheny greatly assists the investigation. Using mountain between eight and ten miles the facilities thus afforded, we collected southeast of Loretto. an ample suite of specimens, from the; Northward from Eoensburg, the strata composing the coal measures, ■ country descending in virtue of the drain¬ together with a set from the under-lying age towards the Susquehanna, we once beds ot all the formations, included be-f more cross the outcrop of the coal, though ^ tween the base of the Allegheny moun¬ in this truly wild forest region, but ve^' tains and the first bed of coal. Minute little excavation has been attempted, measurements were at the same time in- : The Laurel hill looses its features as jstituted, which will enable us to approxi- distinct ridge, a little south of Blackli^ Imate to the thickness of all the strata, creek, anticlinal axes to which it owes it ibetween the foot of the mountain and the - elevation and structure, being hardf. 'third principal coal seam, which restsi’; ; descernable in the deep george thought 'upon its summit. The same was donefr which this stream flows across its termm- ;in the gap at Laurel Hill, where the’ nation. Some miles south of this point^^. j Conemaugh passing through that ridge, j the height of the ridge being much reM presents an excellent opportunity for T jduced and its axis greatly flattened downi» collecting those details of the stratifica-! 1 ahe coal slates and the coal itself reach tion, which when applied to other neigh¬ high up on the irregular, but gentle slope borhoods, where the rocks are more ob¬ of the hill: at the extremity of ttie ridge, scurely discovered, greatly assist us in icoal is found in abundance exposed in tracing any valuable beds which they, " the valley of Blacklick creek, whence it* may contain. In the vicinity of Johns- j. is taken chiefly to the town of Ebensburg. town there are known at present three • Iron ore, also occurs, and a considerable seams of coal, the lowest occurring oMy ■ amount of excavation has been made in a few feet above the level of the Cone¬ search of it on the north bank of the maugh. The next is between forty and ^ [same stream, through the enterprise of i fifty feet higher in the strata, and , has. .osrs. Lewis and Rogers ol that town, In his private room in the public build¬l.f and with encouraging prospects. A.bout two miles lower dawn the stream, borings ing on Fraukliii street, but not really pri- ; were made some years ago into the strata vate because it is ever open to those who:' and salt water obtained, but the man- wish to enter, Wesley J. Ro.se, one of ourlr*^ ufauture of salt was abandoned. Recen- oldest and always foremost citizens, has aJ ly, operations in this place have been recommenced, by Judge Murray of ■ collection of cabinet photographs of Johns Cambria countv, whose workmen during town people which forms an interesting and^ ^ autumn, were engaged in increasing the even wonderful exhibit. depth of the wells. There are to be seen the faces of men who have been more or less prominent in Johnstown from the beginning, and a pecu¬ liar pathos pervades it all because of the large number of those most familiar, best From, known and most helpful throughout a long period, who- were suddenly called away, but the memory of whom connot be dis¬ missed, who are ever with us in thought, and whose lives and services had so much to do with the real worth of our city. Date, It is not only a picture gallery, this re- . treat of Mr. Rose’s, but it is a “curiosity shop’’ which Charles Dickens on any day y^NOTHER LAND MAfilt GONE in his life would have delighted to enter. But more of that further along. Now to 'The Old Lock House CoopersdaleCoc the names of those whose faces are there to Being Torn Down. be seen, as familiar as their names. They The old lock house at Coopersdale, which are: had braved the storm of 75 winters,is being Peter Le^vergood, Sr., Geo. S. King, Tazed to the gronnd and with its demolition Robt. P. Linton, Jacob Levergood, Geo. disappears one of the oldest landmarks inj W. Kern, C. B. Ellis, Isaac Kauffman, the vicinity of this city. Ihe work ofi Moses W. Yoder, C. L. jPershing, John P. tearing down the ancient structure wasi Linton, Samuel White, John White, John’ begun yesterday morning. John Lamison, Tittle, Emanuel Shaffer, George Hamilton, who resides on the South Side, is thought David Hamilton, Alex. Kennedy, W. J. to be the only lock keeper living who at¬ Rose, Geo. W. Munson, W. C. Lewis, ’ tended to the duties of this place. Joseph P. Layton, Daniel Seigh, W^illiam L. The lumber of the house is fairly well Shryock, J. P. McConaughy, Robb, preserved. Especially is such the case David Dibert, Jonathan Horrbeks, George V with the lathes, which are of ash and were Shaffer, Jacob L. Mildren, J. W. James, J,I aiade by hand. The building which stood M. Shumaker, John Stream, Herman Bau ' an the IMain street of that enterprising mer, Alvar Akers, L. A. Gels, A. W. Luck- little borough was in the way of needed im¬ hardt, Mahlon W. Keim, H. A. Boggs, John provement and as the structure had out Best, Joseph Thomas, Henry Walters, lived its time of usefulness it was deemed. iJohn Parks, W. B. Vance, George Krueger, Jidvisable by its owners to tear it away, so ’Louis Raumer, Isaac Jones, Geo. Hohman, that in a day or two it will be remember^ Benj. F. Orr, C. P. Tittle, Geo. Rutlege, as a thing of the past. /A James Sloan, Asbury Greer, Chas Butland, iJohn Sharp, J. F. Carpenter, Wm. M. Gruber, Jacob Gruber, Geo. Spangler,! Emanuel Young, N. B. Hartzell, J, M. [ From, Bowman; Tine Louther, Wesley Greer,; James King, Wm. Layton, Louis Luckhart, John Geis, Wm. Fredericks, Dr. F. Schill,- . Dr. J. K. Lee, Dr. W. W. Walters, Dr. B..’ L. Yeagley, James, Morley, Dr. C. Emer-I-' , son, S. H. Smith, Dr. C. Sheridan, Dr. W. ; i B. Lowman Dr. John C. Sheridan, Dr. John Lowman (2), John Fritz, George -J Fritz, James McMillen, Daniel J. Mor- ^ rell, John P. Pringle, John Flana-! -A W. J. ROSE’S .OALLERY. igan, Hon. Evan Roberts, Wm J. Ma-j^ — Iclay, Peter Berkley, Chas. Priestly, HIS COLLECTION OP PICTURES OP 'Charles Barnes, Airwine Metz, Jacob Ifi, Fronheiser, Fred Krebs, Sr., Geo. W. ' ^ JOHNSTOWN PEOPLE. Easly, Chas Zimmerman, Sr., Geo. Me- iLain, John Dibert, John H. Dibert, John ^ Prom Almost as Far Back as the First D. Roberts, John B. Hay, Frank H. Me-1'W Inhabitant Down to the Present Millen, Thos. Gore, Henry Gore, Theo. F. j ^ Date He Has the Likenesses of Men Seigh, Samuel Baltzley, Wm. MastertOD,yK Identified With Our History. Pearson Fisher, Jacob Swank, JosephSS Kuntz, Alex. Montgomery, Gomer Walters, Joseph Hiuchman, Geo. C. Jordan, Geo. J. Akers, Geo. C. Gibbe,_ Daniel Bolton,;. ' Jos. Morgan, Jr., Jacob b'er.d, Newton, 1. Swan, Rev. James G. Sansom, Rev. D. M. iRoberts, Capt. P. Graham, Maj. D. Hamil¬ Miller, James J. Barron, Tho.s. L. Keedy, ton, b. D. Caiian, John J. Canan, Geo. R. John Cunningham, J. Earl Ogle, J. A. Lar- Slick, Wra. Slick, A. J, Haws, B. F. ;kin, Samuel Douglass, James Potts, D. Speedy, W. H. Rose, Jas. Potts, D. Mc¬ ^McLaughlin, Dr. Wm. C. Beam, Gust Bost- Laughlin, A. Koplin, J. F. Barnes, jerl, Adam Roland, Conrad Bader, Louis David Peelor, Harry Peelor, Wm. N. War¬ iWehn, Enoch James, John J. Brown, den, N. B. Haynes, L. M. Woolf, T. L. iFrank IT. Singer, James Moore, Hunt, Judge Taylor, Judge A. V. Barker, Thomas Fulton, Thomas Caddy, Aug. Bradiraier, Geo. W. McGarry, Hon. William Altfather, John M. King, Remegius A. A. Barker, Hon. John Fenlon, Joseph iDuracb, Emanuel Shaffer, John Beam, Mentzer, Samuel Dibert, George Fockler, jJohn Egan, Howard McKeever, Jerry I Thomas Wisegarver, Samuel Masters, iWalters, J. L. Smith, Jay White, Geo. A. iThomas Davis, William Nickelson, Fred |Hager, JohuT. Harris, Stephen R. Varner, i Krebs. Jr., Chas. F. Kress, Henry Barnes, Robt. S. Murphy, John Weakland, William [Albert M. Gregg, Emery West, Andrew- iSmithj Harry W. Arnold, R. P. Robison, I Glass, Louis Deiner, J. J. Jtrayer, Captain, I Wm. B. Keller, Jacob Daniels, Thomas Bnt- jO’Connell, Captain H. D. Woodruff, W. S. [ler, Geo. R. Slick,'P. A. Daniels, Wm. Mc¬ Weaver, Harry Rosensteel, Gottlieb Bant- Kee, Robt. B. Gageby, John Kelley, James ]ley, Herman Bantley, John Dowling, 'Davis, Dr. J. L. Toner, Hugh Kelley, W. S. O'Brien, I. E. Roberts, 'Jacob Jacoby, Rev. William Lynch, Gen. I John Taney, Ebenezer Smith, Harry Jacob M. Campbell, William Everett, [Fisher, Joseph Strayer, J. H. Fisher, Michael Dan McGehan, M. Lee Masterton, H. J. Roberts, C. T. Frazer, Evan Lewis, I. i William Masterton. E. Chandler, A^ex. Hamilton, Wm. R. There are 877 pictures in the gallery, all Jones, James Williams, Frank W. Hay, neatly framed, and more are being added Chas. VonLunen, Wm. H. Rosensteel, Sr.,' ; almost daily as Mr. Rose can get them. He Geo. T. Swank, James M. Swank, John had more or less intimate acquaintance with Fulton, James J. Fronheiser, E. T. Cres- j nearly all of the originals since his coming well, F. W. Coxe, John Fredericks, Sr., here in 1828. Samuel Brown, Morganza A. Brown, Gale] Three generatations of Levergoods are Heslop, B. F. Horner, J. K. Boyd, Dwight [represented in these pictures: Peter Lever- Roberts, Otis Roberts, Speer Orr, Samuel ! good, Jacob Levergood, and Peter H. Lever- Henry, Peter B. Phillips, John Phillips, j good. The photograph of the latter’s son, James Quinn, Chas. Zimmerman, Alonzo; iEd. Levergood, will soon be added, making I Rodgers, Louis Von Lunen, James Downey, four generations. I James Murphy, Ed. Siter, Simon Young, L. Mr. Rose himself represents the head of D. Woodruff, Harry Wayne, Samuel John¬ three generations of Roses, R. Given Rose son, H. P. Derritt, C. G. Campbell, W. j and child completing the list, Detopsey, P. S. Fisher, F. G. Parker, Her¬ j Mr. Rose also prides himself upon the man Baumer, John S. Buchanan, R. L. Bu- ! possession of a safe that is over a century old. ichanan, John Henderson, John Alexan¬ ' About 25 yeats ago this curiosity was pur- der, John Jordan, John Ryan, Hugh I chased at a constable’s sale at Catfish, In- Bradley, David Griffith, H. Boyer, C. Robi¬ : diana County, by William Gardner, of son, C. J. Mayer, Andrew Foster, Herman (Lockport. That gentleman could not Baumer, Jr., H. Fockler, Lee Mow, Leei I open the “strong box,” as it was called, so Sing, Geo. W. Gageby, Maj. J. H. Gageby, ■ he turned it over to Mr. Rose. The latter John Fritz, Judge R. L. Johnston, Dr. Geo. attempted to saw through the sheet-iron *W. Wagoner, Chal. L. Dick, Gust. Burg- door and the bolts, or to take the door off its graf, Casper Burggraf, John Arthur, Sr., , hinges; but it was found impossible to open John Arthur, Jr., T. R. Kimmell, William the iron box in this way, and holes were Orr, Jacob Horner, Sr., Jonathan Horner, ! bored through the side so that the bolts —- Matthew Moses, G. W. Moses; Emil Young, j could be driven back, unlocking the door, (jj-, Cyrus Leffler, John J. Hornick, C. H. Mc- i This safe is made entirely of sheet iron, g • Ateer, F. A. Joy, Chas. F. Frank, George ! with round bolt-heads dotted over the sur- Gillinger, S. J. Royer, George Wehn, A. face like warts on a toad. Combinations '( N. Metzgar, Frank M. Buchanan. James T. were unknown in those days: the door is \''- Young, Samuel McKeever, P. C. Bolsiuger, opened by means of a large key which re- Thos. Howe, Robt. Parsons, Henry Adam.s, quires a peculiar twist. qj,_ H. G. Rose, J. G. Given, Jessie and Eliza¬ j This safe contains, among other relics, beth Rose, group of four brothers, W. J , The books used by Allan Rose, father of the- M. R., W. H., and G. W. Rose; W. R. Ellis’ present owner, who was a contractor in this^ Horace R. Young, Jessie Young, Elizabeth city from 1828 to 1851. j Taney, S. T. Selleck, Morgan Goudy, Another curiosity in this room is a cl ock^ Joseph Shoemaker, John C. Shoemaker, that commenced ticking over a hundred 'Thomas Watkins, B. F. Horner, R. G years ago and is still in good running order. I Rose, H. G. Rose, W. E. Rose, J. M. Rose, It was purchased some time ago from a A. P. Ellis, R. L. Taney, J. S. Gallagher, man nameu Yoder, who lives near Davids- S. K Young, L. S. Rose, J. S. Rose, G. ville. The exact date of its manufacture W. Rose, M. R. Rose, W. J. Rose, W. H. I cannot be ascertained, but on the works is Rose,Rev. Geo. Wagoner, Rev. Jones, Rev. 1 a memorandum that it was repaired in 1818. J. A. Lane, Rev. A. J. Lane, Rev. H. C. The case is of black walnut, put together Chapman, Rev. L. McGuire, Rev. W. A. with nails such as are now used in shoeing Shipman, Rev. Dr. R. A. Fink. Rev. James horses. Miller, _Rev. A. P. Diller, Rev. Samuel After the flood Mr. Rose secured for this Its bars formed a cons'tdqra&le part of; this much sought-for comfort, wntch at', room a modern clock that had been through those days was so scarce an article, on' L the water but its frequent ticks reminded him these bleak mountain tops. ®that time was passing away too rapidly We don’t know anything in particular and he purchased this old-timer, whose slow, movement sgems to indicate that time isj of this old fire-place but our imagination aids us and we form a mental picture of not moving on such rapid wings. | 3 Several collections of out-of-date currency i the old leathern-springed coach, mounted and scrip have been arranged in frames! on runners and drawn by four powerful made for that purpose. One of ^ese con. horses. Over the snow they go, across tf- hills and through vales, the steaming sists of currency in 5, 10, 15, 2o, and50; cent denominations, with a $5 bill on the: breath and bodies of the horses floating old Bank of Pennsylvania which recently: on the air and the snake lines of the found its way into the Savings Bank of this Jehu’s whip following the track as he city, and can not be redeemed because plays with the fresh snow along the way. there are no available funds lor its redemp- He is bundled up in a huge yellow wolf¬ tion; store orders issued by the Wheatlandj skin coat, the original owners of which were natives of the fastnesses through furnace eompany tor $5, $2, $1, and 2o! cents, bearing date Oct. 12, 1871; store which he guides his team. His face is a orders on Wood, Morrell & Co., worth re-; jolly one, as ruddy as a peach, from the wind and weather, and his nose is a shade spectively 5, 64, 10, 12J, 20, and 25 cents, dated 1868. While exhibiting these relics; deeper, from the same cause, plus the of hard times Mr. Rose demonstrates that! numerous stops he has made in his • history repeats itself by producing a $1' career at the genial inns on his route. Johnson Company bond ot the present: . In the boot of the coach are the travel¬ ers’ effects and the mail—odd looking ^ Six passes that were issued to Mr. Rose: missives sealed with wafers, and stamp¬ just after the flood, all signed by ditferent: less. Inside the coach are several a'persons, are also preserved. travelers, bound for Pittsburg. We pass Not the least interesting display in this; Betsy Holder’s, where ginger cake and flroom is the cabinet contained stuffed birds,, small beer are retailed bv that old lady, and snakes, and specimens of shells, miner who was afterwards murdered for her ^ etc.,. whicht • .1 thei 1_ - owner secured^ .1.^ • 1 i-i while onV money; then the old Zahrn farm and on a trip to California in 1869. to the toll gate, where the horn was wound, announcing our arrival in the ’burg. Drawing up in front of the Berry Hill Inn we are greeted by numerous quaint¬ ly dressed persons and the kind host and hostess and are at once conducted to the old fire-place to thaw out, and some mel¬ low old rye, which sold at 3 cents the glass, but on this occasion flowed freely, was set out to assist in the process. There was great excitement over our arrival, Date for then the trips were not so frequent as later, and the natives were greatly inter¬ ested in us and anxious to learn of the A QUAINT OLD BURIED RELIC transpinngs in the east. There was great EXHUMED. satisfaction in this kind greeting, but the fire-place around which we all gathered The Story of the Ancient Berrfy Hill Inn and chatted inspired the pleasantries I Iron Fire Place. which passed and was, to be sure, the i The quaint old fire-place, which for the most appreciated of anything in the room. Ipast hundred yeary- prob'ably, has been It was the wonder of the settlement—not imbedded in the wufl of the residence of another one was to be found on the Alle¬ Hon. A. A. Barker,'which was formerly gheny mountains—and its owner was the old stage line tavern known as Berry probably as proud of its iron ribs as our ^ Hill Inn, has been removed from itS; Honorable Judge is ot his new residence. .■moorings there and placed in the elegant( After a long term of usefulness the era modern house—now nearing completion—1 of stoves was ushered in and the ancient of Hon. A. V. Barker. fire-place was relegated to innocuous / But little is known of the history of the desuetude—plastered over and hidden.— old grate—with that of the old inn it How its cheery nature must have grieved, is for the most part buried in the obscuri¬ and how sadly it missed the song of the ty of the past. cricket on the hearth below none will It is known, however, that the Berry ever know. For years it was buried. Hill Inn, conducted fora time by the late^ Its owner and old acquaintances passed Johnston Moore, was one of the most away, and finally of the merry groups celebrated hostelries along the old stage which occupied the room in the long line—that it had so great a reputation winter evenings it was the only one left, for solid comfort and a satisfying table and its presence was a secret. But one ' that travelers came for miles to rest there. day in the summer of 1893 a neighboring .Thus the old fire-place is woven in with, studding became overheated and took fire and a confusion set in which resulted in , the traditions of the inn, for no doubt the; , ^ • cheery wood fires which glowed between' tearing away some of the burdensome^^ ■ -El mud and brick which had been so inso¬ I was Jsjbstem of intermittent canal V ^ lently daubed and laid over the faithful road and the sections of the road . wt. old friend, and the discovery took place. [largely perpendicular. There were no lew “A fire-place!” Quoth the Judge, and I than ten inclined p'anee, where we had to “What an ancient old article it is!”, said be hauled up a grade of ten feet to each one jthe others. Inquiry soon revealed its hundred feet by means of a cable and sta¬ antiquity and the idea of placing it in the tionary engine. One of I he men on this new house soon followed, so there you 1 road was Henry Willis, a Quaker. When ;have the story of the life, death and the Michigan Central—then the State road iresurrection of this centennarian to date, —was projected, Mr. Willis was selected as 'at which juncture we will drop out and Ileave its future for some other poor editor who may be as badly pushed for J‘‘copv” as we are at this writing, Fini%/

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JOHN EBBERT.

An Old Johnstowner Tells the Story of His Liife-A History Old- Timers Will Appreciate. Chicago Post, ^ John Ebbert, the engineer who ran the ^ first locomotive on the first railroad cat of ^ its first General Superintendent and he em Chicago, is now seventy-nine years of age, ployed me as an engineer. I made the but is as full of vigor and kindly, old-school first run on that road. It was to Dearbcro, courtesy as he is full of years. To-morrow' a station ten miles out of Detroit, where the, he will leave his Chicago home, a'PNo. 68 arsenal was located. That was in the falj; Warren avenue, for an extended visit with of 1838, at the time of the Canadian Patriot children in New York City, His step is War, and the run was to secure arms andf still as firm, and quick as when in the prime ammunition for the defense of Detroit. of manhood, and nothing brightens his “ And speaking of the Canadian Patriots clear eyes so much as an allusion to the reminds me that the only secret c^vaniza- days when he brought the old locomotive tion to which I ever belonged was ^ ^ — Pioneer to Chicago and helped to place it triots of Canada. I once tcok out. "W on the “strap-rails” of the Galena & Chi¬ iload of them from Detroit, but * cago Union Pnailroad, the first railway line jgot into the middle of the river ciT .i ever built out of this city. gave out, and, as the pumps had bee. It is not too much to say that Mr. Ebbert 'pletely disabled, we were in decide hop.rs to the hundreds of locomotive engi¬ ‘bad boat.’ I was chosen to go neers who man the “machines” now 'American shore and see if help ccn’^ hauling the great traffic, of Chicago the rela¬ be arranged for. As soon as I set tion of a venerated idol, and no festival of isborelwas made a prisoner. Alth' the craft is complete without his presence. I was drenched to the skin, for it was ' j To a reporter for the Chicago Evening Post j night, I was commanded to sit down I Mr. Ebbert recently gave the following sim¬ I guard carried a gun and I concluded } ple and modest narrative of his interesting ' him. But in a few momenta G career Mason came alorg and said ‘ Hell t.^ . 'i- i “Well, to begin at the start,’’ said Mr. What are you doing here ? ’ I toi- Ebbert, “ I was born in Westmoreland that I was a prisoner, and he immediate./ I County, Pennsylvanis, near Green sburg, on turned to the guard and said : ‘ Let this i June 19, ]815. My education was very ex¬ man go.’ After that I attended to my rail¬ tensive. In fact, I think that I must have ■ roading and the Canadian Patriots attended attended schcol for about a year, all told, in t- to their insurrection without my company. the whole of my life. When my father “ My first visit to Chicago was made in moved to Johnstown—about 1835—I en¬ : 1843. In July of that year I came here to tered McClurg & Wade’s shops there as an jpat up an engine in the propeller Independ¬ apprentice. These were the shops of the ence, which was building on the shore where old Allegheny Portage Railroad. The term ,. Kirk’s soap establishment now stands. I of my apprenticeship was six years and my icame in the biig Rebecca, of which Cap- pay was my board and clothes. taiu Wegstaff was master, and I boarded at “ After I had been in the shops for some the old frame Tremont. While I was at months I was put upon the road and given work putting in the engine, William B. Og¬ an engine to run. The old Portage Road den, a real-estate dealer who bad an offic^ come out acd watch me and lien of ruins, and has practically lost evrai had many pleasant chats together. Ij its name, being referred to as ‘ South _not realize then what would be the re¬ Elgin ’ more frequently than it is called sult of my casual acquaintance with Mr. Clinton. But in the ’403 Clinton did a big Ogden. For the five years following Ij business. The Ballantynes were then run¬ sailed the lakes between Buffalo and Chi ning their big distilleries in full blast, and cago as a lake engineer. The boats which I we used to haul an immense amount of served in this capacity were the St. Louis, ^ whisky out of that place. The Ballantynes, owned by the Hollisters, of Buffalo; thei grew rich out of the business, and now only Oregon, of which Captain Hart was master, I the whitened and crumbling walls of the: and the St. Joe, first owned by a manj distillery remain. I named Bugby, and later by Allen & Bryant.' “ After I had run the Pioneer for about| |Many of the people who came to Chicago a year, General-Superintendent John B. in those days will remember these boats. Turner appointed me Master Mechanic of[ “la 1847, when the Galena & Chicago the road. This position I held until 1852.’’' Union Railroad had constructed the ftrstj Mr. Ebbert has a very pleasant memento four miles of railroad leading out of Chicago, I of this period of his service in the form of[ I was engaged by William B. Ogden as thei a fine silver set, on each piece of which is] road’s first engineer. The fact that 'the' engraved the following inscription : charter of the road provided that the road i Presented to Mr. JOHN EBBERT, Mas¬ might be used as a turnpike indicated that: ter Mechanic Galena & Chicago Union ,' its projectors were anything but certain that [ Railroad by the employees under his the line would be a pay ng success. Of thej Superintendence. LRochester & Attica Division of the New Another promotion was given Mr. Ebbert ork Central Road were purchased one en-' in 1852, when he was appointed Aesietant e, two old passenger cats, and forty-two Superintendent of the road. This position ’es of strap rail. These were secured by he resigned in the fall of 1860 to take a son of the fact that the Rochester &, high position with the Ohio & Mississippi Utica Road was being relaid with T rails, i Railroad. He remained with this road un-, )ne of my first duties was to go East and; • til 1865, when he was again called to the | uperintend the transportation of these pur- Galena & Chicago U.uion Road, then | ^.ehases to Chicago. about to consolidate with the Northwestern' “ The first trip out was a great event and] Line running to Janesville. His stay here lere was a big crowd around to witness it. ^ was brief, as be was offered the position of! Fhen the road was built to a point only ten Chief Esgineer oftheEvanston Water-works out of the city, we began to haul and accepted. This position beheld until ght. The farmers would load theirl 1880, when he resigned to take charge of! jgrain and provisions onto the construction; the gas and water-works of the Rockaway Strain, and when we had extended the road, Beach Improvement Company, remaining ten BbSes beyond the Despiaine?, we beganj there eight years. ; to take on passengers from Frink andj When his service with this Company ex-, hi Walker’s stage line, which ran between, , pired, Mr. Ebbert retired from active labor,, Isna and Chicago. The first conductor; ' to spend his old age quietly with his chil¬ *je line was a man named Allen, who dren. During the World’s Fair he was en¬ Tlives just below Evanston. Jimmy gaged by the Northwestern Road to care: was my first fireman. He was a Ca-- for the Pioneer, his old engine, in the; Iran and used to fire for me on the' Transportation Building. The locomotive- He is now dead, but has two or ia now in the Field Columbian Museum at| sons living here. Redmond Prindi-| 1 Jackson Park. The si rap rails upon which who now has an incurance oQSce inj it rests were secured from a trackman, who| |5w Stock Rxchange Buildirg, .was thei built a short sidetrack for the accommoda¬ lieight agent of the road. ; tion of a handcar. hoDsidering the fact that we had to run! kap rails, we did well. Our speed wasj twenty miles an hour. In other I used to make the run out to Elgin From ,. t hours and a-half. The stations were erably different in those days from they are now. They were : Steele’s Station, near the Desplaines River ; Cottage ^ Hill, now Elmhurst; Babcock’s Grove, Winfield, Wheaton, Turner, Wayne, Clin- “’^ton, and Elgin. There may have been one or two other stations whi^ have escaped . - my recollection. We burned cordwood in DUG HiS OWN GRAVE. the old engine then. The tender held about a' quarter cf a, cord of wood, which was Some Facts About the Man who was Buried; sufficient to run for about twenty miles. in the Woods South of Ebensburg “ There has been a mighty big change in the importance of the various stations along Last spring the Hekald contained an, the line. Galena was. of course, the big item giving an account of an old gravel objective point, and fairly overshadowed yard on Wilman’s Ridge about three Chicago. Then nearer home were Elgin: miles southwest of Ebeiisbm-g. A few Clinton, which were then about neckl ’ks ago I noticed a communication in ^ Lack. Now Clinton is largely a collecj i 'bensburg paper referr ing to this old ■ave yard, and also referring to' a grave the ridge between what is now known Driggs’ old mill, a mile south of Ebens- V, .rg, and George Krug’s farm in Cambria . jwnship, and I thought perhaps it might be of interest to some of your readers to know the facts in regard to how that jgrave came to be made there. Date, In 1796 a family by the name of i— Philipps came to this place from Wales jand settled at the old mill property; but A REMARKABLE FAMILY. whether the mill was built by them, or THE DESCENDANTS OP ADAM before they came, I am not prepared to COOVER, AN EARLY SETTLER. ■say. Some few years after arriving, Thomas jProbably the Seven Oldest Living Philipps, a young man, took sick and Brothers and Sisters in the State, died. A grave was dug on the old bury- All Residing Near Together-—Early ling ground on Wilman’s hill, near Beulah, I History of the Family—Old and Interesting .Documents •— Cone- ' and all arrangements made for the funer¬ j raaugh “Old Town" and “New al. ! Town." At the appointed time the friends gathered at the house and the services ■ ! Mention was made in thesecolumnsa few were commenced. I months since of the remarkable longevity j The minister took his text from I Kings attained by the seven surviving children of Adam Coover, deceased, who lived in Cone- 14, 13, and had just commenced speaking maiigh Township, Cambria County. A I when Mrs. Philipps, thinking that the further investigation shows that the family is I text was very unsuitable for the occasion, not less remarkable for the long life of its i in that it implied that he, Thomas, was members than for the distance into the past a faidy-accurate and very interesting history jthe only one of the family in whom was of it can be traced. It is without doubt jfound any good, interfered and had the one of the very oldest, not only of this sec¬ ■k funeral postponed and had a grave dug in tion, but of the State, authentic records the woods on their own property, and reaching back to the early part of the seven¬ teenth century, when America was to the * Thomas Philipps was buried alone in the . -.. European a “ New World ” indeed, filled I woods, and no one living can point out?' with indescribable wonders, and when the his grave to-day. Some have tried to dol^^?: knowledge of it was so meagre that it was so but time has destroyed all traces. But "Jr. / hoped the Pacific Ocean might be reached by sailing up,the Iludson River as the coriespondent of the other paper * ^ The Dutch were the first Europeans to remarked, there used to be a high fence take possession of the lands lying upon the I built of logs around it, but that has been Delaware, but they did not establish any I gone for many years. permanent settlements. In 1638 the Swedes established a settlement within the The most remarkable occurrence limits of the present State of Delaware, iremains to be told : When the Philipps' and in 1643 the same people settled on Tin- j family came to this country they paid a , icum Island and on the mainland in its vi¬ I young man’s passage with them and had cinity, within the limits of the present: State of Pennsylvania. In 1648 they him bound to them to work until it was founded Chester. In the meantime, the I repaid, and it was he that dug the grave Dutch had not abandoned their claim to ion Wilman’s hill near Beulah.. Soon after! .exercise jurisdiction over the territory Iv 'the funeral Mr. Alexander Waters, father' jing upon both sides of the Delaware. Ipj TG55 the Swedish settlers surrendered tc |of the late E. J. Waters, Esq., deceased, the Dutch, and in 1664 the Dutch surren¬ land two or three others became interested: dered to the English. In 1681 the terri¬ jin this young man and raised money tory west of the Delaware was granted by ienough, and liberated him. Very soon Charles II. to William Penn, and in 1682 ■Penn founded Philadelphia In 1084 a, ; after, however, this young man died sud- I colony of Germans, under the leadership idenly, and was buried in the grave dug lof Francis Daniel Pastorius, settled at !by his own hands on Wihnan’s hill. It is Germantown, which now forms a part of believed that he died from over-joy at Philadelphia 0,.her Germans soon came to Germantown and its vicinity, and amoiig being set free. the earliest of these was Adam Coover’s Such is the history of the grave in the great grandfather, who chose for Lis home woods south of town as your correspond¬ a spot of land almost exactly where Ger¬ ent received it many a time from several mantown now stands. There he jiv-nd ard of the earliest settlers here.

Old Siutler. i emauglTTownBEip; hnd CbTin^||BBi>ri8,, until bia'^eath. 'fiia children spent! beginning at a white oak, ConiwWriand meir lives there too, but a grandson—Gia-j of the late Jacob Gcod, dec^sM,_lher.ce eon Coover—moved to Cumberland County, i South twenty-nine degrees ’West, eighty- and there a eon—Adam Coovot was born cnj five perches to a post, thence South eighty- May 28, 1781. .. , , three degrees West, thirty-eight perches to On March 14, 1789, Mary Madaleue] a post, thence South five degrees West, Bftshore was born, in Lebanon County ; her sixty-seven nerches and five-tenths to a father was of German descent her cucumber, thence South seventy five de , mother was an English lady. In 1808 she grees West one hundred and sevenieeiu and Adam Coover were married and went perches and five tenths to a chestnut, i to housekeeping in the thriving town of Harrisburg, then quite a protnising place iheuce North twenty degrees East, twen¬ ty two perches and one-tenth to a because of the chance it stood to become beech, thence East eighty perches to the capital of the State, which bonor wai| a_ch^tapt, thence^_North thirty de¬ conferred upon it four years later. Iq Har-1 risburg Mr. and Mrs. Coover kept a hotel, grees East one hundred and thirty-two known up to tnat time as the Breniser perches to a chestnut, and thence by land of House, the former proprietor—Adam the late Jacob Good, deceasd. South four¬ Breniser—having been seized with the teen degrees East, one hundred and fifteen “western” fever and moved to the wild perches and seven-tenths, to the place of be¬ region west of the Alleghenies, in thej ginning, cont-aining one hundred and sev¬ vicinity of the Conemaugh. While living enty-five acres, allowance of six per cent for ic Harrisburg Mr. Coover was awhile on roads &c. (It being part of a tract of land, ^he police force. His hotel property being' which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, destroyed by fire, he engaged in the butch¬ by patent bearing date the first day of Feb¬ ering business, but deserted that soon, and, ruary, one thousand seven hundred and probably anticipating Horace Greeley’s ninety-two, did grant and convey the same ^ advice by half a century, concluded to fol¬ to Jacob Stutzman, as will more fully and at] low to the westward his friend Breniser, large appear by the said patent icrolled in who, in association with a gentleman named the Rolls Office of Pennsylvania, Patent' - Burrell, had acquired a large part of what is Book No. 18 page 340, and by the aforesaid Pnow Johnstown about 1810, in which own¬ indenture recorded in the office for the re¬ ership, after their financial failure, they cording of deeds, &c., in and for the county were succeeded by Peter Levergood. of Bedford, Book D, page 440-1 the fif,.h i In 1814 Mr. Coover and his wife'came to , day of February 1796, who by his inden- this section and purchased from Christian Wture, dated the 12th day of June 1804, did) Good a tract of land on a hill, which has grant and convey to Abraham Longneckerl ' since been known as “ Coover’s Hill.” In as will more fully and at large appear byl ■ purchasing this, Mr Coover gave a mortgage, ; the aforesaid indenture, recorded in the officel of which the following is a copy : for the recording of deeds, &c., in and for| “ This indenture made the fourth day of™ ihe County of Somerset, in Book No. 3 May, in the year of our Lord, one thou¬ Jpage 395 &c., the tenth day of September sand eight hundred and fourteen, between 51804, relation .unto the same respectively) Adam Coover, of the Township of Cone- V being had, &c. And the said Abraham Long maogb. County of Cambria, and State of j necker and Agnes his wife, by this indent Pennsylanii, of the one part, and Christian! ure dated the eighteenth day of August, A Good, of the Township, County, and State] D., one thousand eight hundred and eight, aforesaid, of the other part, Witnesseth : •'^for the consideration therein mentioned,! , “ Whereas, the said Adam Coover, by] ^^igranted and confirmed the said tract of| I these obligations or writings obligatory,! lland unto the aforesaid Christian Good,] I under his hand and seal duly executed and!..; reference thereto being had will more fully ] I bearing date herewith, stands bound untoL and at large appear.) Together with all] I the said Christian Good in the sum of nine-®? and singular the buildings, improvements, I teen hundred dollars, lawful money of the r hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto I State of Pennsylvania, to be paid to the saidj belonging or in any wise appeitaining, and • Christian Good, his heirs or assigns, as ini the reversions and remainders, rents, issues and by the said recited obligations, relation] and profits thereof. To have and to bold ’ thereunto being had more fully and at large i the said tract of land, hereditaments and ] appears; now this indenture witnesseth that: premises hereby granted or mentioned, or j the said Adam Coover a i well for and in intended so to be, with the appurtenances ’ consideration of the aforesaid debt or sum | unto the said Christian Good and to his heirs | of nineteen hundred dollars, and for the bet- ] and assigns to the only proper use, benefit j ter security of the payment thereof unto the? and behoof of the said Christian Good, his said Christian Good and to his he’cs or as-j heirs and assigns forever. Provided,! signs, in discharge of the recited obligations j always, nevertheless, that if the said Adam! lit K as for the consideration of the further! Coover, his heirs, Executors, Administrators ! sum of one dollar, unto him in hand or assigns do and shall will and truly pay or i paid by the said Christian Good, the cause to be paid unto the said Christian ,, receipt of which one dollar is hereby Good, his heirs, Executors, Administrators, acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, or assigns, the aforesaid debt or sum of sold, aliened, released, and confirmed, and nineteen hundred dollars, lawful money by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, aforesaid, on the day and time appointed alien, release, and confirm unto the said for payment thereof, without fraud or Christian Good, and to his heirs and as foriher delay, and without any deduction, I signs, all that tract of land situate in Con-! defalcation or abatement to be made of any I taxes, cliJtfges or aeseMMiente, that from lamexitB or b anj . and from thenceforth as wel! this f^ppoljntnng,' aud also all the righ^ „fflit indenture and the estate hereby granted interest, property, claim, and demand the BBid_ recited obligations shall cease 'them, the said Abrabam Longneckar aiw’ and determine and become absolutely null Agnes his wife of, into or out of the same, and void to all intents and purposes, any- to have and to hold the said plantation, ! thing hereinbefore contained or mentioned messuage and tract of one hundred and jto the contrary thereof in any wise notwith¬ 1 seventy-seven acres end allowance as afore- standing. In witoess whereof I j^ve here- jsaid, unto the said Christion Good, his heira, lunto set my ban "and seal the dx^^nd year I and assigns, that they, the said Abraham I first above written Longnecker, his wife and their heirs, shall, 1 “ Adam Coover [Seal ] and will at all times warrant and forever ds- “Sealed and delivered in the presence of !fend the hereby granted premises with the I “JohnLikton, I appurtenances, unto the said Christian I “James W. Calican.” ' Good and his heirs and assigns, against (them, the said Abraham Longnecker and The document is acknowledged before Agnes his wife, and their heirs and assigns, lAbraham Hildebrand, at that time an As- ! and against all and every other person or per¬ jsociate Judge of the County, sons lawfully claiming or to claim the same. i Mr, Good had bought this land in 1808 “In testimony whereof the said parties I from Abraham Longuecker. The deed, have hereunto set their hands and seals. ■which was acknowledged before William Dated the day and year herein before writ- j Davis, at that time a Justice of the Peace, jten. Abraham Longnecker, [L. 8.] I reads as follows, the description and boun i ■“ Warner Longnecker, [L S.] ' dary of the land, which coincides precisely “ Sealed and delivered in the presence of with that given aoove, being omitted : , ns. Wm. Davis, “ This indenture made the eighteenth j “ John Kunkel,” day of August, in the year of our Lord one The above deal was made for spot thousand eight hundred and eight, between cash. as the following receipt will show : Abraham Longnecker, of Woodbury Town¬ “ Received, on the day of the date of the ship, Bedford County, Commonyrealth of foregoing indenture, of the therein-named Pennsylvania, farmer, and Agnes his wife Christian Good, the sum of six hundred and j of the one part, and Christian Good, of Cam- ibria County, Conemaugh Township, and fifty-six^ pounds, the consideration therein named in full. Abraham Longnecker i State aforesaid, of the other part, Witnesseth jthat the said Abraham Longnecker and Ag- ' “ Witness at signing, Wm. Davis. £656.” j Unfortunately, the paper co?iveying the Ines, his wife, for and in consideration of^ jproperty in question from Mr. Stutzman to 'the sum of six hundred and fifty-six pounds, I Mr. Longnecker is lost. lawful money of Pennsylvania, to them in The deed of Mr. Rittenhouse to Mr. hand p^id by the said Christian Good at or Stutzman is still in Jhe possession of the before the ensealing and delivery hereof, Coover family, however, and a copy of it is the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, given It is dated in May, 1792, and ,have granted bargained, sold, released, in- [feoffed, and confirmed, and by these pres¬ is consequently over one hundred and two ents do grant, bargain, sell, release, infeoff years old. The writing, which is on heavy and confirm unto thj said Christian Good Iamb skin, is in a full, round hand and very and his heirs and assigns, all that certain easy to read ; where the shading has been plantation, messuage and tract of land sit¬ heavy the letters are still black, but where uated in Conemaugh Township, and County the lines are lighter the ink has faded to a of Somerset, now Cambria [Here follows a golden color. The document has on it three description of the land as given above] (It seals, each being a piece of lamb skin fas¬ being part of a tract of land which the tened to the body of the deed with red wax. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by patent It will be noticed that 327 acres are con¬ bearing date the first day of February, veyed ; this includes the 177 acres of the 1792, did grant to Berjamin Ritten- Coover farm and also 150 acres adjoining it, house, who, by his indenture, dated the constituting what is known as the Singer eighth day of May. 1792, did grant and farm. The deed reads as follows : convey the same to Jacob Stutzman, as will “This Indenture, made the eighth day of more fully and at large appear by the said May, in the year of our Lord one thousand patent broiled in the Rolls Office of Penn¬ seven hundred and ninety-two, between sylvania, in Patent Book No. 18, page 340, Benjamin Rittenhouse, Esquire, of the and bv the aforesaid indenture recorded, in Township of Worcester, in the County of the office for recordine of deeds, etc., in Montgomery, and Commonwealth of Penn¬ and for the County of Bedford, in Book D, sylvania, of the one part, and Jacob Stuiz- pages 440 1, the 6th day of February, man, of Bedford County, in th,e said Com¬ 1796, who, by his indenture dated the monwealth aforesaid, of the other part, twelfth day of June, 1804, did grant and “ Whereas, in pursuance of two war¬ convey the same to the said Abraham Loug- rants, one granted to Robert Todd, bearing necker, as will more fully and at large ap¬ date the 20th day of June, 1776, And pear by the aforesaid indenture recorded in the other to Benjamin Rittenhouse, party the office for recording of Deeds, etc., in hereto, dated the 12th day of March, 1783, and for the County of Somerset, in Book 'there was surveyed a certain tract of land No. 3, page 395, etc., the tenth day of Sep¬ called Hillsborough, situate on the Top of tember, 1804, relation unto the same respect¬ Henry’s Hill, in or near the Forks of Cone¬ ively being had, together with all and sin¬ maugh and StoDy_ Creeks in the Township gular, the buildings, improvements, heredit- of Quemahoning in the said County of Bed-

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containing three hundred and twenty- proper use, profit, benefit anTbSSbl ot him itics, and in fact only two of the males: Mary with Captain J. B. Fhe ; Daniel and! connection who have attained their major Jacob,.who are both dead, with Catharine profess any other political faith. \^l c Liut and Margaret M. Teeter, daughter of marriageable age are married exce^ fonrl Isaac Teeter, respectively; Elizabeth with female grandchildren and one male grand-1 John Sharp, and Lucinda with Jonathan child. Horner. Adam Coover was one of the first sub-1 ' Tiio present generation almost all write scribers to the Tribune in 1853, paying in| r their name “Cover.” but in this article we advance, which was a more nnnsual occur-] '■ >4iftve preferred to cling to the ancient form, rence then than at the present time. “-Coover,” which has been used thronghout| Adam Coover died on November 17th, 1 ^ithe documents at cur command. 1856, aged seventy-five years five monthsl The following table presents clearly end and nineteen days. He passed away in a] ‘"'^compactly the genealogical record of the house in the Fifth Ward, at that time occntl ^family of which Adam Coover is considered pied by his son-in-law and daughter —MtJ as the head : and Mrs. John Sharp : it was swept down] p p by the Great Flood. Mrs. Coover also died] 2.N o in Johnstown, Seventh Ward, while staying] bEo- 5‘£ ^ g. with her eon-in-law a-»«d‘ daughter-—Ma..] w "g. I £3*® ®'5'p,9§ .Jonathan Horner and wife ; she expired] ^ a ® ® o ^ p.® ^ September 23, 1867, at the age of seventy- O® 2 -i six years, six months and nine-days. They] p® m® J o*® 09 P have left behind them a memory fragrant] P with good and noble deeds, and a posterity] ^ c of which any community might well be] proud. ®: ai

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tHO A FAMOUS CHERRY TREE. §-Eoo 8il McscooooooiW^ocnOHMl-* 03 w Mm. PP ® Why the State Designates Its Loca¬ pr tion With a Monument. From the Johnstown Tribune. Friday, the 16th inst., has been fixed tj99o upon as the day for unveiling the monu- •yifco: w pM Iment erected by the State of Pennsyl- • m 'r ‘ Ivania at Cberrytree, Grant post-office,’ I Indiana county, to mark the boundary line of Governor Penn’s purchase from the Indians. The spot is known as Canoe bO.• .■ .: : : S52 About 126 years ago, 'William Penn made his sixth purchase of lands m P Hhe Indians. This purchase extended Pp O-?. £ clear across the State, from the Dela- ^ ware river to the Allegheny It embrac^ All the members of the family are strong in whole or in part the lands -which noW and healthy, and remarlrably active for their form the counties of "Wayne, Wyoming^ ages, except the eldest son—Alexander— Susyuehanna, Lackawanna, Luzerne.Sullit who has suffered more or less for several ".it. van, Columbia, Montour, Nortbumberlan«f years from the results of grip. There is a Lycoming, Union, Center, Clearfield, Ca^ strong family resemblance, not confined to brla, Somerset, Indiana, Armstrong, the brothers and sisters alone, but noticeable raoreland, Fayette, Greene, -Washi"- in the children and grandchildren. ' and Allegheny, coyerlug an area of 16.000 square miteCKtand- contaiu' tlie neig:hbt)rho6a of S.TTCTOiOiJO acres. The lands were then a virgin forest, whose western houmiary was practically unknown, and by many believed to be , only the Pacific ocean. It was too much trouble for the In¬ dians to measure the land, and they From, ^ agreed that the tract should embrace all not already bought by Penn, from the eastern limit of his royal patent to ithe western line of the same, and be Ibounded on the north and west in a gen- jeral way by the south bank of the Sus- iquehanna river, the chiefs reserving {the right to fish on both sides of that 1 stream. It was agreed that the line of 'the purchase between the headwaters lOf the Susquehanna and the Allegheny V r\ ^ A. _-> •< should be defined by a line run from [the highest point to which ,Penn could push a canoe on tlie first named stream THE FAMOUS GREEN HILL, !to K-ittannihg, the main camp r)t the Indians in the western part of this State. Interesting Facts as to Its Topog¬ 1 On November 5. 1764, the purchase was concluded and solemnly ratified, raphy and Geology. ' and early in ttie following year the boun >- -— 'I ary of th.e new acquisition was estab¬ It Stands Like a Sphinx Guarding i lished. When the canoe had been pushed the City—A History of the Franks- I up the Susquehanna till it stuck in the ■mud, accordlnj^ to the agreetnent, the town Road, Which Traverses Its surveyors selemed as a starting point Side—The Valuable Veins of Coal I to run the “Purciiase Line," a large That Underlie It and Furnish I cherry tree which grew on the west bank ! of the Susquehanna, and marked it a Cheap Fuel for the City—Other corner. Since that time the stream has Points of Interest About a Great li'ihifted, and until recently the exact Natural Feature of the Valley. focatlon of the historic cherry tree has 1 been a matter of speculation, Green Hill, which divides the City of i At the last session of the legislature a bill was passed appiopriating Sl.oyo to Johnstown, is as prominent as an Egyp¬ ’ erect a suitable monument on the spot, tian Sphinx, with its nose to the west land the conduct of the affair was ^aced and facing the Laurel Hill Gap. Ap¬ ' lln the hands of a committee, E. B. Camp, proaching it through the Gap, it seems ’ of Ctierrytree, Indiana county, being at its to be an insurmountable obstruction to a .head. Some time since County Surveyors Henry Scanian, of this conntyj John K. feasible grade over the mountains, yet it [ ICaldwell, of Indiana, and Harry Byers, divides the Conemaugh and Stonycreek Uof Clearfield, met at Cherry tree and lo- Rivers, and makes two valleys. The Jicated the position for the monument in former stream has its source near Carroll- fittie bed of the stream, and about eight town, on the summit of the Alleghenies, I • rods from the point where the line be- and is the outlet for the rainfall on the tween Clearfield and Cambria counties north of us, while the latter drains the ,intersects that of Indiana county, pi The monument erected on this historic territory in the south, through Cambria ''spot consists of a granite base 16 feet and Somerset Counties. Both rivers -'square and eight feet above high water meet at The Point, 3,800 feet below the i mark. This is surmounted by a marble nose of Green Hill. shaft 33 feet in height and adorned with Green Hill commences to rise near 'appropriate iuscr^tions. _ Jackson and Main streets, but_ for all practical purposes we may say it starts from Adam street, where the easterly From, Az . side of the street has been leveled, to grade from Green Hill, whence it rises abruptly to an altitude of 531 feet above .I the curb line at the post-office. The Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Wards are on the northeasterly side of it, and parts of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Bate, Eighth and Seventeenth Wards are on the southwesterly side. It continues in An Old Apple Tree. ^ its ascent without a serious break until it becomes part of a range of the Alle¬ , Philip Pringle, grandfather of J. W; and gheny Mountains. father of the venerable William Pringle, of The early settlers on the hilltops Summerhill, planted an apple, tree in New traveled along the northerly side of Germany, Croyle Township, in 1800. It Green Hill in going to the valley and still bears f^uit, a specimen taken from the from one hill to another. Many years tree a few days since having been brought to before the Pennsylvania Canal was con¬ this office |>n Saturday, and it bids fair to templated, and before it was known that llast as miny years knger. The apple ist Johnstown was to be its eastern ter minus Ipot good until frozen two or three times. "" lAlT'- . the western end of the plane system liave, by tlioir petitions to llSS^T7egisla of running railroad cars on the moun¬ prayed that tlie said road be altered, i tains, with Hollidaysburg, at the eastern sum of money appropriated in aid c base, serving the same purpose, the vatesubscriptions, for the purpose af rc!_ ^Executive Councils of our Common¬ ing tlie said road and making the afore^ wealth authorized the construction of alterations; tliereforc, Beit enacted, etc.. That the roads between'] the Frankstown Koad between these the waters of the Frankstown branch points by an act passed in 1787, but a tlie River Juniata and the RiverConemaug' short time after the close of the Revolu¬ be, and is iieroiiy confirmed, a.s it has tionary War, and before the Constitution altered by the Courts of Quarter Sessions ' ^ ^became operative, indeed, before its the dilferent counties tlirough which tlicl a adoption. This is the act: said road passes, and that the sum of eiglitl An Act for opening and establishing a road hundred dollars of the moneys which arel between the navigajile waters of the jjjid hereafter become due from the couutjif Frankstown Branch of the River Juniata of Huntingdon to this Commonwealtli, onl and the River Conemaugh. account of a loan made to the said countjl Commissioners to be appointed to layout in the year 1794, be appropriated, in aid o'l a State highway between the waters of the private suliscriptions, for tlie purpose o I Frankstown Brandi of Juniata and the altering and amending the same. River Conemaugh. Report to be made to The Frankstown Road proper, and asi Council, who may approve the same or is known, begins at the head of Mai’,j order a review thereof; the said highway, when established, shall be a State highway street, Johnstown, and climbs thenortl between said points, and the courses and ern side of Green Hill, at a very heav; ^ distances shall be entered in the Council gradfe, of about an average of one foot ii ■books, which entry shall be deemed a rec¬ every ten, although in some places of al ord tliereof. higher gradient. From it a beautif’ull The said Commissioners, having marked view is had of the Laurel Hill Gap, andl out said road, were directed to trace the almost all that part of the city below’ course of another road, to begin from the terminating spot of the first-mentioned Adam street and the Stonycreek River. i road, and lead along the left shore of the Although it is one of the main thor-| Conemaugh to that point where the river oughfares to our city, yet it is somewhat] begins to bo navigable at all seasons; said dangerous in icy weather and after dark, f road to be hereafter opened as Occasion may Frequently persons who are compelled to j recpiirc, and tlien deemed also a public make the descent at night will not drivel highwa.v. Allowance fixed for the Commis¬ from the carriage or wagon, but prefer! sioners and tlie sum of five hundred pounds aiipropriated for tlie purposes of this act, to walk down the hill and lead their! Tliat the Frankstown branch of tlie Juni¬ horses, and in the winter wagons have! ata and tlic Conemaugh, together with the been known to slide off the road and over] Kiskiminctas, throughout their whole navi¬ the hill. gable enurse shall bo deemed and declared While Green Hill has some inconven¬ public highways. iences to those who travel it, and is not I This act was passed by the Supreme practical for building purposes, excepting] Executive Council of this State on the at the top, near where Daisytown is lo¬ 29tli day of March, 1787, when John cated, yet it is of great use to the i>eople I Dickinson was President of the Council; and the manufacturing interests of our,' he was followed by Benjamin Franklin, city. in 1788, and Thomas Miiilin, in 1790. There are five seams of coal in it, and^ The records show that this road was commencing at the top, they are known run and marked, and was confirmed by among coal men and in the geological | Council on the 16th of December, 1787, surveys as follows : | and entered in the minutes of Council, First, “ E,” or the Coke Yard, or Lemon, ; vol. 8, page 205. vein, about four feet in thickness. j On the 11th day of April, 1799, when Thomas Mifiiin was serving his ninth Second, “ D,” orlhe limestone vein, from consecutive year as Governor (he was the lone-half to three and one-half feet. first Governor under the Constitution Third, “ C,” or cement, or prime seam, of 1789), a supplement to the foregoing about four feet, and about elgbty-fivc to act was passed, which sets forth a pre¬ I ninety feet above tlic “ B ” seam. amble why it was done, as follows ; Fourth, “B,” or the Miller vein, about three and one-half feet, and about fifty-five Where.vs, From the unexplored situation feet above “A,” or the lowest seam. of the country between Frankstown and Fifth, “A,” or the lowest seam, is about Ligonier Valley at the time the Commis¬ six feet in thickness, but it is not worked in sioners acted under the act to which this is this locality, as it is about fifty to sixty feet a supplement, they were unable to lay out below water level within the city limits. the road on the nearest course and the best The six-foot vein and the Miller seam ground that the country afforded, and from the want of inhabitants for a considerable have not been tapped in the Green Hill, lengtli of time after opening said road it is owing to their depth. _ much out of repair ; and The “B,” or the Miller, seam is the Whereas, Viewers have been appointed best coal for steam purposes in the mar¬ by tlic Courts of Quarter Sessions of the dif¬ ket. It is the choice fuel for steamship ferent counties tlu'ough which the road and manufacturing purposes, for the passes, and liave made such alterations tiicrein as appear to be necessary, and a reason that it produces more power, in number of inhabitants of the Counties of proportion to the quantity used, than iluntingdon, Somerset, and Westmoreland ing’Gr^n Hill and like places wit^ .any other. our citt', where the consumer gets the t Coal operators do not care very much bifst fiifel and at the cheapest price on ■for land if it does not have the “B” j I seam, as it' is considered more valuable The /bin of the silent, sleeping Egyp¬ ; than all the others, but in this vicinity tian guardian is formed by that portion I it is not worked, except in a few places, of the hill between Adam street and the because it can only be operated through a stone quarry. In taking out the stone a shaft. cut was made in the earth in the point o The analysis of the three best veins is the hill, the lower side being earth and as follows; this is about the average— the upper rock, and the quarry extems some places it may be better, and others around on both sides of the hill for some mot so good: distance, forming the inouth and the “A.” “B.” “C.” beginning of the nose, which gracefully Per Cent. Per Cent. curves to the eyebrow, formed by an Volatile matter...20.135 1G.155 10,065 72.700 i abrupt ridge near the top of the niii. Fixed Carboii.70.472 79.105 The better place to see this modern Ash. 8.280 3.945 9.045 Sulphur. 1.113 Kt.ivo0.795 2.190 ^ Gizeh is from Yoder Hill, at almost any It will be observed that the carbon in ' point above Sherman street, the “B” seam is high, while the sul¬ i The citv lines come to an acute angle phur is very low, and likewise the ash. : two hundred and fifty feet above Mam and Adam streets. The northerly line These are the properties that make this If' coal so desirable and valuable. follows the side of the hill, and up the None of these veins will make 1 Conemaugh Valley, and the southerly coke on account of there not- bei^j|^^^ lline the Stonycreek River. sufficient per cent, of “water and vola¬ An air line through the tile matter” in them. It''requires at point where the angle is, from Ledford least twenty-eight per cent, ot these street to the Frankstown Road, is 89U properties to make merchantable coae, fLt, with an altitude of pi feet from to compete with that of the Connells- the curb line at the post-office. ville district, which is mac^ from coal The distance, as the bird flies, from having an average of over thirty-six per the corner of Bedford and Horner cent, of volatile matter. streets, on the southerly side of the hill, ‘ In addition to the coal deposit, there Ito the head of Singer street on the was formerly a valuable stone quarry nther side is 1,700 feet, and the eleva¬ some two' hundred feet above tion at this’place is 351 feet; and the same street, which furnished stone for the kind of a line from the same place to foundations of many buildings in our the southerly end of the Wood vale city, but lately it has not been worked bridge is 4,200 feet, and from fh® corner This stone quarry has caused a Ranged of Bedford and Hickory f^’cets ^ and queer appearance of Green Hilb ^y same point at the Wood vale bridge is making a veritable Sphinx of it from Adam street to the top of the ridge. ‘^'Th/“ftip ot land included in toe Beginning at the Adair Mine, on Be - Nta?h andGenth Ward, between the Onnemaueh River and G'^een Hill, is ford, near Hickory street, the south side of Green Hill and the but 1 900 feet at its widest point, and o S “de ot the hh I the narrows knob, then up the north side of it to ^st’s Hollow, there have been thirty- Sie openings made in these two searn^ !g-?S'S£*rs- many of them long since, and which have been abandoned the It is out of the question to give the exact date when the first was made but it was in the early years of the in producing fuel to „„ui"tosome present century, and about the time that for as | Joseph Johns laid out the present City Stent y'e“a”favSe^|lace social of Johnstown, which spite of the fact that at that time ^e 3d day of November A. D. 1800 Mr. Johns was rather modest, and in the the sphinx s eyeorow. covereOt-Kith ' charter he had a “ whereas stating he ful clearing of sewrM ggt texturr i “ hath laid out a town on the tract of soft and silky sod ^he nues land whereon be now lives, situated in and of a pnre natural com the forks of and at the ing the gr®®“ it was the famps | Stonycreek and Little Conemaugh Rivers known by the name of Conemaugh Old fpring^on th® nSe^^faS to | Town, in the Township of ‘b^Se^rt o’! ^.“ot beast .ince • Somerset County.” But on tlm 14th ot April, 1834, the name was changed to it was also be remembered , Johnstown. _ , i Green HiU wi Ms® greets ; The best quality of house coal ^s de- iJteSoSnrier’Ton's when s,u»her I l!beredfor$l 25 per gross ton, ttie run ofenine for about $1, and the slack for ' j^ty centS;^ This is the benefit of hav- has been broken by the soft and mellow | foliage seeking cover in the ground, tones of some one of the city bands that where it remains silent and inactive plays xipon it at the break of day on As¬ under the protection of the light and cension morning, the fortieth day after feathery snow until the following season. ; Easter. It is a custom that has been On the whole range of the Alleghenies, ■ observed for many years, and one that is ' extending from the Gulf of St. Lawrence appreciated by the people for its charm ' to Alabama, nowhere can it be seen to a at an unusual hour, and from a point 1 ' ■ - ■ . ’'-^ ntTge than in crossing it b)' where thousands of persons can hear it I tae great iiighways leading from Johns¬ at the early dawn. ' j town. It is not only beautiful, but most A portion of Green Hill was taken up useful to the happiness of mankind and as_early as May 7, 1792, under the Benja¬ the prosperity of the Nation. min Eittenhouse patent, and other parts Among the many beautiful things to under the John Flack patent of March be seen on the summit of the Allegheny 21, 1798. Eittenhouse sold part of his Mountains are a sunrise on a misty, . land to Jacob Stutzman, who conveyed cloudy morning, and a sunset in a clear it to Abraham Longenecker, and he to sky. Christian Good, who conveyed his title The horizon is above the treetops, to Adam Cover on the 16th of August, which circle on every side—no hill or 1828. Flack conveyed a part of his i mountain to make a temporary break ; survey to Daniel Goughnour, and he to I the clouds are mostly heavy, with an Jonas Huber, who sold his interests to occasional light one; the sun, with Its I Adam Cover on May 1, 1834. intense power and heat, is b^iind them. f, The-Cover tract was divided in parti¬ The dark clouds pass between, and the tion proceedings in 1858, and is largely sun is yet unseen ; then a brighter par¬ ^ held by his sons—Daniel, William, Sam-1 cel of clouds follow, which the rays pene¬ ' uel, and Alexander Cover—or their heirs, j trate just enough to point the way to the great fiery orb ; then a den.se cloud again covers it, but it has ]>ro1bably an opening which the rays come through, jLi miB m with all the appearance of molten metal flowing from a furnace. The black cloud ii ----- again hides it from view, and again an " Interesting Description of Old- aperture permits the great fiery orb to cast through a small portion of its heat a Time Transportation. and light. Again it is covered by a less dense cloud, and another less still, until f A Complete History of the First the sun gets above them. This sight is only equaled by a sunset Highway for Traffic Across the Al- in a cloudless sky, when the atmosphere leghenies—Details as to the Road¬ is clear and dry, and at a temperature of, bed, the Track, and the Service. say, eighty degrees. When the sun is at “Tricks of the Trade” in Dealing ' the horizon the glare of its heat is unob¬ in Cordwood—Facts Full of In- j jectionable and agreeable to the eye. 1 struction for the Rising Genera- I ; The colors are many, and from the most tion, and Calculated to Put the I delicate shade to the brightest red. The sun apparently touches the tree- Old-Timers of the Conemaugh Val¬ tops, then gradually falls below, throw¬ ley in a Reminiscent Mood. ing a hue of mixed colors miles on either side of it. To the north, south, In the series of articles published by and east all is blank ; the evening shade the Tribune on the commercial advan¬ . has come, and th*^. treetops and the sky tages of Johnstown, due to the mineral are just discernible at the horizon. deposits and a favorable topographical But oh, the west! There the great light location, it was said that there was as has passed' away, apparently, but high much beautiful natural scenery in and in the sky, and for many leagues ou around Johnstown as it was possible to either side of the spot from where it see anvwhere. Most of it is on the Alle¬ disappeared, there are beautiful rays of gheny" IMountains, of which Johnstown yellow, red, and scarlet of the sunset, lies at the base of the western slope. which only disappear with the night. In the springtime, when the sap is It will be observed in all the surveys brought by the warmth of the sun from made by the direction of the Assembly where it has been hiding during the of this Commonwealth, that the route cold, blastv winter months, the foliage .from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, to con- begins, first with its buds of various Inect the East with the groat West by hues and shapes, which finally break 'the way of Johnstown, was the most into their maturity of fullness and available and practicable. This was so I determined in 1826, when the Commis¬ color, maintained through the summer, until autumn, when the leaves begin to sioners appointed to locate the line re¬ turn to their rich scarlet, brown, purple, ported that it was feasible and practicable led, and yellow, and when the frigid for the State to own a canal from Pitts¬ wx'ather again finds the food for the burg to Philadelphia, so that a boat with its lading could start at the western end The extreme lehgth of the Old Portage • the and deliver itc car^o in road was less than thirty-six miles, frona wharf at Philadelphia. Johnstown to HilUdaysburg. The Old Portage planes Jrad eleven levels, so called (there was only one which was level), to overcome the rise of 1,138 feet, State build a canal across the Allegheny between Johnstown and the top of the ■Mountains from Johnstown to Hollidays- mountains, which is about two and one- burg, when Johnstown is 1,183 feet above half miles in an easterly direction from ;ea level, and Hollidaysburg 953 feet, Cresson to the head of Plane No. 6. ind to reach these points the summit of There were five planes and six levels on ,he mountains, wdiich is 2,341 feet, had the western side of the mountain and five ,„o be crossed. It did not mean a canal of each on the eastern, and the planes : water way, but a canal railroad between were numbered eastward from Johns¬ these points. town. The distance to the foot of Plane But, notwithstanding the Act of 1S26, authorizing the construction of the 1 No. 1, was 3.54 miles, and the plane was 1 ,700 feet in length. At the head of the IPennsylvania public works, there seems I plane there was a tirnnel, which w'as cut to have been some doubt as to the best through rock 900 feet long, and was the means of crossing the Allegheny Moun- only tunnel on the Old Portage. It is ;ains. On the 9th of April, 1827, Gov- jrnor Shulze approved of a supplement only a few hundred yards south of bridge No. 6, on the Pennsylvania Railtoad, and Tor the extension of the canal system, in hich it authorized the Canal Commis- can be observed from it approaching from the west. The long level began at the ; lioners to locate and contract for “a anal, locks, and other works necessary head of Plane No. 1, and extended to the thereto, up the Kiskiminetas and the j foot of No. 2, a few hundred yards north- ; pjonemaugh from the western section of least of Portage Station, and was 13.04 ' the Pennsylvania Canal to a point at or miles long. Plane No. 2 was also 1,700 near Blairsville. * * * And the said : feet in length ; the level from the head of Board shall proceed to make, or cause to No. 2 to the foot of No. 3, was 1.47 miles ; be made, such examinations and surveys ' the length of Plane No. 3 at Benscreek, [from Frankstown, on the Juniata, to was 1,500 feet. The level from No [Johnstown, on the Conemaugh, across 3 to No. 4, at Lilly, was 1.89 miles, ano ;the Allegheny Mountains, as may enable I its length was 2,‘200 feet. The level them to determine in what manner and from No. 4 to Plane No. 5 was 2.57 miles, by what kind of works, whether by the and plane No. 5 was 2,300 feet long construction of a smooth and permanent being situated near the Summit, an* ; road of easy graduation, or by railway was the longest plane on the wester i with locomotive or stationary engines, side of the mountains. At this poir or otherwise, the portage or space be¬ the road took an easterly course, tow'ai : tween the said two points may be passeil Hollidaysburg, and the last level c ' 60 as to insure the greatest public advan¬ I that side—from No. 5 to Plane No. 6, : tage.” . j the Lemon homestead—was 1.59 milef By virtue of this authority the plane at its head was the highest point on tl system was adopted, and the common road, the altitude from Johnstown beii noun portage was thereafter raised to the 1,158 feet—twenty feet higher than ^ proper noun Portage, from whence the the Summit, so-called. The length ot road got its name. The word is pro¬ Plane No. 0 was 700 feet, and the dis-1 nounced as if it were “ por-taj,” and tance from the foot of No. 6 to,the head ' means “a break in a chain of water : of No. 7 was 800 feet. Plane No. 7 was communication over which goods, boats. ; 2,600 feet long, and at the head of it the etc., have to be carried, as from one lake. i altitude was 891 feet above Johnstown. river, or canal to another also means I From the foot of No. 7 to the head of “ to carry.” No. 8 it was 3,600 feet; and the length The planes and levels were the con¬ of the plane was 3,100 feet, and it was necting links to pass over the Portage the longest, with the highest lift on the between the Juniata and the Conemaugh. system, with an elevation of 604 feet. It was the Allegheny Portage Railroad, The distance from the foot of No. 8 to commencing at the ^‘Five Points,” at i the head of No. 9 was G..500 feet, noth an the upper end of the Basin, at Johns¬ 1 atr.itnde of 307 feet. Plane No. 9 was town, and ending at Hollidaysburg. It 2.600 feet in length. From the foot of was among the first railroads constructed ■ No. 9 to the head of No. 10 it was 9,500 in this country for public purposes, and feet, with an altitude of 87 feet. Plane was finished, as a single-line road, in the No. 10 was the last one, and w'as 2,300 fall of 1833. The Canal was completed feet long. From the foot of No. 10 to and in operation in 1832, but Captain Duncansville Station it was 6,300 feet; .John Pickworth succeeded in bringing a I from the station to the Duncansville flat boat in December, 1831, and it was ” Y ” it was 4,700 feet, and it was 6,000 the first one to enter Johnstown. feet from there to Hollidaysl>nrg, where The Old Portage Road was not opened the traffic was reloaded and the section for general business in connection with boats dropped into the .Juniata and nro- the Canal until the spring of 1834, when eqeded eastw^ard. Hollidaysburg is 230 the ‘‘only great system of rapid transit and an economical method of transporta- Ji®n to connect the East and the West” tQ_tbe Jieople. _ 82

lower tbnn Johnstown, and about for only one rail. The chairs were fas¬ lO same altitude as Tllairsville. tened to the blocks bv drilling a hole in The lifting power of each plane was as the latter on either side of the. rail and Sfollows; hro. 1. ]4f).5 feet; Xo. 2. 13.2 then filling it with a locust pin, placing feet: No. 3, le.2 feet: No. 4. 188 feet ; the cast-iron chair thereon, fspikes No. Pi. lO-'i feet ; No. tl. 2f)7 feet; No 7. would be driven through either side 250 5 feet ; No. 8. .306 feet ; No. 9, 190 into the locust pins. The rails did not feet, and No. 10, 178 feet. have fish-plate .joints, but were joined in The ffrades on each level were thus ; the chair, where they had to be fastened ¥rom Johnstown to the foot of No. 1. it by wedges or keys. The wedges had tn was an average of 29 55 feet per mile ; be tightened every dav, and the “ kev- From No. 1 to No 2. the longrest level, it driver ” had a daily trip of six to eight was an average of 13 SO feet per mile ; to miles to drive them to their place The No. 3, 6.78 feet ; to No 4, 8.93 feet ; to gauge of the tracks was four feet eight No. 5, 12.42 feet ; to No. 6, 12 42 feet : and one-half inches, the same as now on to No. 7, on a dead level : to No. 8. 11 1 all standard roads. feet ; to No 9, 8 9.3 feet ; to No. 10, 16 67 The iron rails and chairs and stone feet, .and to Hollidaysburg;, an average of ties were used only on the levels, and 44.51 feet per mile. never on the planes. There it was the The elevations above sea level at Sandy primitive track of wooden stringers, Hook were; At Johnstown, 1.18.3 feet; about five by eight inches, with strap foot of Plane No 1.1.273 5 ; at the head, iron spiked on the top, they resting on 1.423; at the Viaduct, 1.4.59; at South wooden ties. These were in use when Fork, 1,481 ; at Snmmerhill (Half-wav the system was abandoned. When the Hon =e), 1..5.36 ; at Wilmore, 1,573: font New Portage was constructed, however, : of No 2. 1.61.3; at its head, 1.746; at the old style of rails, chairs, and stone I,foot of No. .3. 1.7.56 ; at its head, 1.8.89 ; blocks was abandoned, and modern rails at the foot of No. 4. 1.906 ; at its head. and ties were used. 2.094 ; at the foot of No. 5. 2.126 ; at its When the road was contemplated, the head. 2.321 ; on the top, at the head of great obstacle to the civil engineers was No. 6. 2 .341 : at its foot. 2 074 ; at the to get a track around the many sharp head of No 7. 2 074 : at its foot, 1,814 5 ; curves which would necessarily be re- > at the head of No. 8. 1 807 ; at its foot, quired in passing over the mountains. 1.501 : at the head of No 9. 1,490 : at its They did not believe a long rail could he foot. 1.300 ; at the head of No '10. 1,270 ; used in a curve, and actually purchased at its foot. 1,092 ; at Ttnucansville Sta¬ rails four feet long for this purpose, but tion, 1,028, and at Hollidaysburg, 05.3 they were never used for making curves, feet. though they were put in service to a AVhen the road was opened for busi¬ limited extent on a straight line.y.s it; ness, in 18.34. it was but a single-track was discovered a long rail could he\laid railroad, and during that vear and part around a curve of a practical radius.\ Tf^ of 1.^35 all the cars—passenger and freight this had been known at the time the —were hauled on the levels by horse roadbed was made it is- probable there would not have been any planes, but a power, there being four horses to a train of five or six short cars, each car being gradual ascent, such as was finallyadopt- ed, twelve years afterward about eight feet long. These cars were taken up and let down the planes by A stationary engine was built at the stationary engines The driver, starting head of each plane to draw the cars up with a train at .Johnstown, would take ' and to let them down. The manner of his train through to Hollidaysburg. doing this was by an endless rope, turn- Some of the section-boat drivers would I ing around a shive at the head and the nut their mules in the front section 'and ; foot of the plane, and it was preferred have them hauled over the mountains, ! to have a car go down when it was neces¬ and some would take them over the sary to take another ;up, so they would Frankstown Road and meet their boat balance each other. The “hitcher,” at Hollidavsbirrg. In 1835 a second who was at the foot, would wrap the track was lai(^, but what queer tracks “stop” chain around the hook on the they were. i end of the truck, and then tie it to the The rails and chairs were brought rope, and away it would go. When it from F.ngland,land the rails were some¬ reached the top of the plane, another thing like the T rail now in use, but in¬ “hitcher” would locse it. Sometimes verted. The flat side of the rail was the rope would break, and then the cars up and the bulged part was set in a cast- would come down as fast as gra\’ity iron chair and wedged, and the chair would permit, and when the collision rested on a stoiiebloek. or tie The stone id took place, which was certain to follow, blocks had a mce of a,bout two feet, and it would destroy everything within were about eigpteen inches deep. Prob¬ reach. AVhen the rope broke, “ riggers ” ably everv sijj feet there was a stone were called out to make the splices. binder, which (was eighteen inches wide Hemp ropes were used until 1843, when and seven feet long, of the same d|>pth. one of the first wire ropes made by the with the chairs, which supported both inventor—Roebling—was put in use on rails, while the single blocks were used Plane No. 1. was fifteen miles per fiour, and in one in¬ To prevent these accidents, John Tit¬ stance the “ Berks” ran from the head tle, of Johnstown, invented a safety ear, of No. 1 to the foot of No. 2—the four¬ which was adopted by the State. It was teen-mile level—in forty-five minutes, a two-wheeled car, with a concave top, which was wonderfully fast traveling. and a strip of notched iron on tlie bottom, In thoseda3'S an engine like the “ Bos- j I which slid along on top of the rail. Ttie ton ” could haul ten short cars, but the j safety car would be attached to the rear larger engines, like the “Cherokee” or of an ascending truck and in front of a the “Niagara,” could haul thirtj" or descending one, and, if the rope broke, forty. The four sections of a boat were the truck would run into the concave considered equal to ten cars, and two surface, and thus its own weight, press¬ boats were a good load for the big en¬ ing the notched iron on the rail, would gines. I be sufficient to hold it. The safety car The freight cars first introduced were was a success. eight feet in length and width, and When the road was opened it was in¬ seven feet in hight, and had one truck ; tended to draw the cars on the levels by but in 1851 larger cars were b'ought into horses, and this power was used until use, which had two trucks and were June, 1835, when the fitvt locomotive from sixteen to twenty feet long. was put in service. It was brought from The Tafif & O’Connor barge cars were ■ Pittsburg to Johnstown on a tiat boat. about eight feet square, and two rows, And what a time ‘.there was in this town five in length, were a boat load. They on that occasion ! It was only equaled were transferred by the crane. These 1 when the first boat “ groundeil ” for the cars had no springs, and were coupled ; lack of water in the aqueduct and was together with a chain six feet long, pulled through by the enthusiastic cit- thrown over a hook on either end of the I izens.' When the flat containing the truck. locomotive was launched at the ware¬ The passenger cars were about the size house, there was a great crowd of people of, and had the general appearance of, our there to see it, and the managers had street cars, except that the platform and canopy were not so large, but the wheels so greai great difficulty in unloming were larger, probably twenty-eight inches in charge bulk and weight. The man in diameter. of people announced to the assembli' In the verj'early days of the Old Por¬ that whoever should give the best ser¬ tage there were no baggage cars, and ' vice in aiding to get the engine from the bairgage was carried on the’ tops of pas- ’ boat to the track should be the fireman senaer cans, as in the old coaching days, | of that particular engine, which was the hut latterly they were introduced. Nor “Boston.” Very many turned in, and were there any brakemen on the passer finally they got the “ Boston ” anchored iiev trains. The train would be stopped > on the track. j by the engine, unless the “Captain”' It is claimed by some that the fortu¬ nate man to get the position was Joseph had time to let the loose brake, like Parks, the father of Joseph Parks,_ of they use on a wagon, drop and sit on it. Tyrone, while many say the first fire¬ man on the “ Boston ” was Barney Col¬ The fuel for the locomotives was wmod, which was used until about the time of lier. But it is generally admitted that , the abandonment of the Old Portage. Charles Whiting was the first engineer. [ Coal burners were used on the New Por¬ The “Boston” was built in Boston tage. and taken to Pittsburg, where two more The small locomotives could carry a engines were built over her patterns, quarter of a cord of wood, which would and three locomotives—the “ Alle¬ be sufficient for a twenty-mile run, but gheny ” and the “ Delaw'are ’’—were put afterward the larger engines used from in service the same year—1835. five to seven cords of wood in a good The “Boston” was a leviathan in , day’s work. The wages of an engineer those days, but it would not now be v/as $2 per day, and firepren received even considered a dinkey. It had one 81 121. ‘ . pair of driving wdieels of forty-eight in¬ Among the very first persons employed ches, with wooden felloes and spokes, as fireman was William Covei’, of this I with an iron tire, without a flange, city, who was eighty years of age on the ' which rested behind the boiler, and was 12th day of February, 1896. The wages j supported in front by a four-wheeled paid firemen ran the same as those of ' truck. The cylinders were eight inches ; other train hands. As the others did in diameter, with a sixteen-inch stroke. not have to polish up the machines after The steam pressure was 125 pounds to I A/ sunset, nor get out of bed before sun¬ i the square inch, but as there were no rise to get up steam read}' to start at steam gauges, excepting a spring scale, the usual time, Mr. Cover resigned his I something like the old time“ balances,” position after a trial of three weeks. it was only a matter of possibilities, The single pair :of driving wheels on especially when the engineer wanted a locomotives was u^ed up to 1851, when good supply of steam, and would tie the the “Juniata” was brought here; she “ stilliards,” so it couldn’t go too high, had two pairs of drivers. Then followed apiiarently. I the “ Cherokee” aijd the “Niagara.” i The average speed in the early days -- - --— .as one regular passenger tram: Johnstown was about where the lo<> way every day. It was a dayii ^ht house was situated, at the old brick- railroad, never running any kind of I yard, ancl where Henry Layton, the trains at night, and when sunset ap¬ peared the freight trains would stop at - v Layton, lost his leg, in ^ ^ was a Captain of a train. the iirst plane until the sun would rise^ The cars would run by gravity from again. But the passenger train would! Plane No. 1 to Johnstown usually leave Johnstown between 6 andJ The stone blocks and iron rails were 7 o’clock in the morning, on the arrival! laid to a point near Hudson street, this ol the packet from the west, and would city, adjoining the north side of Rail¬ run to Plane No. 2, where the favorite!' road stieet, and from there down to hotels were, for breakfast, arriving at Clinton street there were four tracks Hollidaysburg between 1 and 2 o’clock ' between Railroad street and the Basin’ Ihe west-bound train would leave at for passeiigers and freight. These tracks about the same hour and arrive at Johns¬ consistGu of 5 by 8-incii oak strino'ors town before 2 o’clock. with strap iron spiked thereto, all rest¬ iJ|A train, in the! latter days, consisted ing on wooden ties. All except a few of ot a baggage caf and two passenger the transportation lines had two sidings coaches, and hauled sixty people, which to their dock, one on either side of the made a comfortal le load for a packet, warehouse Cars were taken from the ihe fare between: the above-mentioned points was $1 25. main tracks by a turn table, like the street cars now use, and it was a neat! During the forties and fifties the im¬ job to turn a two-truck car on a one-! migrant travel was heavy, but these peo¬ truck table, but it was done. The track ! ple were hauled on special trains for on Portage street, somewhat similar, was tltat class of passengers. They usually owned by individuals. In the early days carried their food in the cars, and fre- cars were hauled from the warehouse: iiuentlj’'the train Would stop along the and slips iiy horses, but latterly engines road at a suitable location for them to were u.scd The w'are'iouse siding; cook and eat their meals. Some were would extend to the end of the docl carried in section boats, and other kinds and as fast as cars were loaded the of cars, where they did their cooking would be slioved to the end of the doc and sleeping while the trains were run¬ until all would he loaded^ ning. It is generally supposed that Woodruff was the inventor of the sleep¬ ■When General Taylor passed through ing cars about 1860, and that Pull¬ the town, after he had defeated Santa man brought out the dining cars, as we Anna at Buena Vista, in 1847, and ma( e know them in the modern system of rail¬ himself the popular hero, he came dow n roading, but the original dining and Railroad street, riding a beautiful wliiuB sleeping cars were used on the Old Port¬ horse, at the head of a great crowd of age twenty years and more before. The admirers, and when he (lied, in 'Wash- section boats had but one compartment . ington, July 9, 1850, his body was taken for cooking, eating, sleeping, and storing through this place, and “Old Whitey,” food, a little den about 8 by 12 feet. his favorite saddler, was a part of the The regular passenger trains stopped cortege. for meals at the two or three hotels at 'When the New Portage went into op¬ the foot of No. 2, which was a very im¬ eration, in 1856, the woodyard was on portant point for the management of the the north side of the road, opposite road. William Palmer, afterward the the old Catholic graveyard, and the fore- proprietor of the/ Foster House, in this manship of the woodyard was a position ;uty, and Gideon Marlett and Richard much sought for. His duty was to have Trotter kept therUlroad hotels, and they the cordwood, which was about four were good ones, too. It was a promi¬ feet in length, sawed in halves, and nent place for pec pie to go to for dinners ranked in quarter and half cords. and parties, and many a frolic took Some of the Old Portage workmen 1 place at the foot if No. 2. relate queer things that occurred about Before the doude track was finished the ranking and sawing of wood, dur¬ there were two “turn-outs” between ing the political days of that great Johnstown and Bane No. 1. The first highway. It required an artist to rank was near where I ridge street crosses the a quarter that would have as little wood Old Portage, in Fknklin, and the other in it as possible—the larger the holes, was up at Corkto’ n, near the log house, the less the quantity of ■wood; and subseciuently knesvn as Rodgers’, above when a piece could be found that had a the Williams fan. The schedule was I knot or a bump on it too large to go in about the same a that of a single-line I the fire-box, it was a prize for the saw¬ road is now. If i train, hauled by four yer. It always remained in the rank, horses, would ma e one of these “ turn¬ because the firemaii would not take it, outs ” and there ’ as none in sight ap-1 but he paid for it eiery time ; and some¬ preaching from ue opposite direction,! times each quarter, or half space, would the train would proceed, and if two I have two or three or more knotty should meet, th half-way post would jjiwe^s, wlijch imv^Jpst their virtue. decide as to whin train would have to go back., . The i^t half-way post east of New Portage, wnicn was nnien^ It is said that inj tlie heyday of polit¬ !n the fall of 1855, and was only oper- ical manipulation the Inspector, whose duty it was to accept wood from certain parties, would start at Johnstown and %"uidnftl;e S inspect and take up—that is, accept all «i^e^rn Fn^= Sn? Y\iy the cordwood ranked on the r/^/d-hand J tTathc agreement, which was advan¬ side of the road up to the Summit; then tageous to both rokds, both used the the Inspector wouh! return and inspect S traps a portion of tlm way, and at and accept all the wood ranked on the left-h&nd side of the road coming down, •^'Sf^oCdthe and the aiid make his report accordingly, be thus Pe?n«ylvania7iad the only practicable accepting and the State paying for the same wood twice. It uas a case ot “ heads I win, tails you lose. And sometimes, when a new Inspector would take up the wood on the south snle^ the road' "n^^roc??T^^^asfwST^fi^^ * ® ml reltV ofS; Sc.- rortage from parties in interest would carry the wood Tohnstown was on the roadbed of the to the north side of the road and re-rank Old Portage to Conemaugh, where it it before his return, when it would again j - crossed the Conemaugh River below tlie be accepted. They would thus get a fnint where the overhead bridge he-, double price for the same fuel. tween East Conemaugh and l^^^nklin is The weighscales were on the south | now located. There it used the Penn¬ side of the road, just below the grpe-' sylvania tracks up 1° 1^®. ®qire *yard, where the weight of all freight ^ the bridge tvftst of ^outh Pork, ^ner - passing over the road vtas ascertained, t. 'the roads diverged the ? nnsylvannx The cars from the warehouses and the ■ f.vossing to the South Siae of the Gone section boats were taken out of the basin ...augh rix^r, and tfieT^lew Portagelieep- 1 to the weighscales and then delivered on ing on the north side, on the bed of the the main track, where the locomotives long level of the Old Portage, where it would be hitched on and they would be i. crossed under the Pennsylvania Railroad taken over the mountains. £ west of Summerhill, and recrossed onder The position of Weigbm^ster was j it at the long bridge at Summerhill; looked upon as a choice one by the poll- ^ again crossed under it at the bridge west ticians, it paying ?(500 per annum, with L of the deep cut east of Summerhill; again ^ house rent free. P crossed under it just east of the Summer 1 Tlie Weiglimasters at the upper end ot K- hill deep cut, anil then passed on through I the basin were like those of the lower . Jefiersoii, which is now known as Wil- , end—they came from all parts of the ej more About two miles east of Wilmore j State—and were : Samuel Kennedy, of y it left the Old Portage, turning to the 1 Indiana, 1834-36 ; Jacob Dritt, of Johns- P south to pass around Plane No. 2, near town, 1836-39 ; 0. B. Cotter, of Clear- | Portage, and about a half mile west of : field, 1839-42 ; Thomas Ford, of | - Ben’s Creek, it came back in the road¬ i 1842-45 ; Robert Philson, of Somerset, I bed of the Old Portage and practically ■^1 1845-48 ; James Shannon, of Johnstowm, i paraled the Pennsylvania road to Oas- 1648—51. j- . V, /~i 1 i^andra, where the New Portage passed ■ Peter Levergood was one of the Canal around Plane No. ^3, at Ben s C^eek. Commissioners under Governor Ritner At Cassandra, it passed under the 1 enn- in 1836-38. , ^ ^ sylvania, and from that point, passing^ But after the Old Portage had been in through Lilly and Cresson it practical 1; operation for twelve years, and the prac¬ paralleled and was near the grade of th ticability of running a railroad over the Pennsylvania road, up to and above th mountains was admitted, and the prog¬ high bridge west of Oallitzin. ress of the times required a more expe¬ The Old Portage and the New Portage^ ditious and economical highw^ay for diverged at the foot of Plane No. 3, west .transportation, and the system of canals, of Ben’s Creek, and did not touch again locks, and planes was out of date, and the until they crossed at or near the foot of State could not sell nor even give its Plane No. 8, on the eastern slope of the property away, the Pennsylvania Rail¬ mountains. , road was organized April 13, 1846, to East of the high bridge, a mile and supply the want. Its road was opened a-half west of Oallitzin, the New I or- February 15, 1854, for through traffic. tage took a southeasterly course and leit As the Old Portage system was being I the Pennsylvania, and passed througn operated at a daily loss, and the State the southerly part of Oallitzin and authorities knew it would have to meet through the tunnel, which was made the opposition of the Pennsylvania on before the tunnel on the Pennsylvania the new order of business, the State de- Road was finished, the tv.'0 being within/ termined to build another road between a few hundred vards of each other at thf Johnstown and Hollidaysburg that i east end. After passing through t F would not have the objectionable planes. tunnel the New Portage kept on tly In 1852, while the Pennsylvania was south side of the Allegrippus Oulch, aiJ building its road, the State commenced the Pennsylvania on the other side. ■ Vi

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The JNew I’ortage skirted tlie moon-1 «■ Lhj-. ' , ______tains and gulches until it reached Plane The New Portage was constructed to No. 8, on the Old Portage, where it ^nieet the competition of the Pennsylva- cro.ssed it, and again touched the Old .* ■ ;nia Road, and was opened in October, Portage roadbed near Duncansville, and 1855. In order to claim that it was, used it to Hollidaysburg, where the ready for business, the State authorities j merchandise and section boats were sent the locomotive “Pittsburg” from transferred to the Juniata, as when the Johnstown to Hollidaysburg in that I Old Portage was in operation. month, but nothing more was done until The distance between Johnstown and ' the following spring. 'Hollidaj’sburg on the New Portage was -j Mr. Henry E. Hudson, who re.«ides at forty-one miles, or live miles farther than ..-•liithe corner of Railroad and Hudson by the old, but a train could make the S'"''* streets, in this city, was the engineer on trip in four to live hours. It only hauled the “Pittsburg,” and, of course, was freight, however: the Pennsylvania the first engineer to use the New Portage then being in operation, x)assengers Road. He is probably the oldest practi- always tra,veled by that route. ^ 4* cal engineer in service in this country. It is claimed that there never was a ■ h.' ‘ He was employed as a fireman on the uassenger injured qri the Old Portage— “ hmited States,” a locomotive whose obably because tip trains did not go engineer was John Campbell, also of mougb. to causJ an accident. ,■ tbii^lace, in 1847, and was promoted to -v ngineer of the “Berks ” in 1851, •I ■

constructing a mountain railroad' w^s and in 1858 waSi^gfit to Be -Pennsyl¬ well spent, but as the road was being op¬ vania by thelatelhoinas A. iSeotl., where erated at a daily loss the Assembly he has been m continual service for a authorized its sale, providing that no number of years, and is now engaged as bid should be received for less than $7,- engineer on a jiassenger helper up the o00,000. It was sold at public sale in western side of the mountain. He has Philadelphia, and the deed executed on been an active engineer for forty-live the 31st day of July, 1857. Mr. S. H. years, and was seventv'-two years of age Smith, of this city, was present on that on August 28, 1895. ' occasion. The auctioneer liad been try¬ hile the Old Portage v.’as in operation ing to get a bid for some time, but could it required from ten to twelve Uours to not, and late in the day J. Edgar Thom¬ T? I*?- f train or a section boat to son gave a wink and a slight nod of his Hohidaysburg, but on the Xew Portage to take the property at that price. it only required four hours, and a day’s Ihen the crowd set up a cheer and cried WOTk was to run there and return to aloud, ‘l\e’vegota bid,” and it was Johnstown, the round trip being eighty- sold at the figure offered. two miles. There were no regular brake- The only evidence of the Old Portao'e men and the stops were made by the Railroad in or close to Johnstown i^a engineer, with the reverse lever, and by part of the roadbed from the “Five the tireman twisting the tank brake. Points ” up to a point near Franklin After dusk the officials w'ere not partic¬ Borough. From there up to Plane No 1 ular what the employees did with the I It was entirely swept away by the Flood qngiiie, and frequently they would raise * of 1889. But the most substantial thin'*’ steam and start off to attend a country to be seen is the bed of Plane No 1 and frolic, and leave the locomotive stand on the tunnel. The masonry in the ends of the main track, without guard or a light, th6 tunn©! is a beautiful piece of work as no lamps or torches were provdded for and is an object of sufficient interest to night work. On Sundav the engine mechanics to yet visit. would be taken cut at their It was constructed sixty-five years pleasure and they would go where thny and is as strong as when the arched stmu" desired. Even on week days, while blocks were first laid, piece by piece, aiv hauling a train, it would sto.p anywhere and take up a weary traveler—man or the keystone put in place, except at^fTi'e" woman, boy or girl,'or a lot of either— east end, which has been taken out for and many a funeral cortege was put on building purposes. Prior to the Flood the engine and tank and conveyed to its the Old Portage roadway was a fair pas¬ destination. No charge, and every one sage way for carriages, but since that the was made happy. only way to reach it is to go up the The importance of the sev'eral surveys Pennsylvania Road to Bridge No. 6. The to cross the mountains in the manner in tunnel was formerly used for a roadway which it has been done is shown at a for vehicles, but is now rarely trod. point above Ben’s Creek, near the head There is a sort of a road over it now. of Plane No. 3, where the Old Portage The -\Taduct spanning the Little Cone- Be New Portage, the Pennsylvania maugh about eight miles from town was xvoac], and the new route of the Pennsvl- a magnificent piece of work, a,nd was the Vania Boad v\ hich is now in process admiration of engineers and mechanics, of construction, are less than one hun¬ g It was in use by the Pennsylvania Road dred yards apart. The Old Portage is for its double tracks up to the time of ^niediately above the Pennsylvania the Flood. It was in its day one of the Koad, the New Portage immediately highest single-span arches known of, and below it, and the new route of the Penn¬ was as strong the day it was swept away sylvania Road w'ill cross all of them as when it was constructed in 1833. within the distance mentioned. It was what was termed an eighty-foot The grade of the New Portage, on the arch, that is, eighty feet across at water eastern slope, was not as high as it is on level, and eighty feet from water level to the Pennsylvania, the highest point be the top of the arch, and eight feet to the ing 2,199 feet above the sea level, or 143 tracks. It is said that there was seven¬ I than on the Old Portage, and ty-nine feet of water behind it before it • 1 above Johnstown; whereas gave way in that terrible Flood, but .. o Old Portage was employees of the Company say it was oiu ^ or 1,158 feet above Johnstown, ninety-eight, inasmuch as it "held the ihe maximum grade from Gallitzin to eighty-eight feet to the level of the duct, o New Portage was and the water ran through the little cut T)' j i on the Pennsylvania on the easterly side of it, like a Niagara Road to Altoona it is 100.32 feet. Falls, to the hight ot ten feet. The The inevitable was facing the State marks were there, and some are there ti; authorities. They were endeavoring to this day, that seem to verify tliis view. comjiete with a road that w'as open all The only persons that were employed the year and an all-rail route. It could on the Portage Road who live in this not be done, as the New Portage could city and vicinity, so far as learned of, canal connection with the are: John Harker, Engineer: John ■ Campbell, Engineer j Frank DevUn,. Fn- The $75,000,000 expended by the peopl^stablish the practicability of| ' ^ineer; Henry IS Hudson, Engineer; breed, no. This Company Wants a little) Tlioinas Gore, lireman a,nd warehouse¬ fixing, it does ; I’m the wwongsort of a man ; William Cover, fireman and man for ’em, I arh ; they won’t like me, warehouseman ; S. Dean Canan, Cap- they won’t. This is piiiug of it u;- a " tain; Englebert Walters, of Tapper little too mountainou.s, tnis i.^.’ Yoder, carpenter; Michael McCaulifi', “At the end of every one of tliese farmer, residing near the Jackson House, short sentences he turned upon h’s heel I hitcher ; John Wliite, Assistant Supei- and walked the other way, chuckling to I intendent of the First Division (to the himself abruptly when he had finished j Summit) ; John Arthur, Captain ; another short sentence, and tunii/ig back ^^Samuel Cover, Captain ; Jacob Sharretts, again. , warehouseman ; Morganza Brown, ware¬ “It is imitossible for me to say what houseman ; S. H. Smith, contractor; terrific meaning was hidden iti the words i William McKee, warehouseman ; David of this brown forester, but I know the ; Hamilton, depotman ; Harry A. Boggs, other passengers looked on in a sort of agent, and Alfred Eoyer, carman. Mr. admiring horror, and that presently the Royer was on the first train that left boat was nut back to the wharf [at Johnstown on the Old Portage. Johnstowm], and as many of the I’ioneers 1 : In the “American Notes ” of his trip in as could be coaxed or bullied into going w 1842, Charles Dickens writes of Johns¬ away were got rid of. ” ^ town and the Canal and r >ad as follows : In another note Dickens says : ‘ ‘ tVe ( “ The Canal extends to he foot of the had left Harrisburg on Friday. On Sun¬ , mountain, and there, of course, it stops, day morning we arrived at the foot of . the passengers being conveyed across by the mountain [Hollidaysburg], which ' land carriage and taken on afterward by is crossed by railroad. * ■■ * Occa¬ ® another canal boat—the counterpart of sionally the rails are laid upon the ex-1 the first—which awaits them on the treme verge of a gi(?dy precipice; andp other side. There are two canal lines of looking from the carriage window, the jg| passage boats ; one is called the Ex¬ traveler gazes sheer down, without a press, and one (a cheaper one) the Pio- stone or scrap of fence between, into the jneer. The Pioneer gets first to the mountain depths below. * * It was it lm,ountain and waits for the Express peo- very pretty traveling like this, at a rapid K Iple to come up, both sets of passengers pace along the bights of the mountain in ^ [being conveyed across it at the same a keen wind, to look down into a valleyg time. full of light and softness ; catchingp; “We were the Express company, glimpses, through the treetops, of scat-1^ ■ but when we had crossed the mountain, tered cabins ; children running to the! ^ ^ and had come to the second boat [at door ; dogs bursting out to bark, wliomj i Johnstown] the proprietors took it into we could see without hearing ; terrifiedJ j their heads to draft all the Pioneers into pigs scampering homeward ; fomilies sit-| - it likewise, so that we were five and ting out in their rude gardens ; cows forty, at least, and the accession of pas¬ gazing upward wdth a stupid indifft-rence ; sengers was not at all of th.at kind men in their shirt sleeves looking in at which improved the prospect of sleeping their unfinished houses, plaumng out at night. Our people grumbled at this, to-morrow’s work ; and we riding on as people do in such cases, but sufl'ered ward, high above them, like a whirl¬ the boat to be towed off with the whole wind. It was amusintr, too, when we freight aboard, nevertheless. At home, I had dined, and rattled down a stee , I should have protested lustily, but, be- pass, having no other nwjvi’y ))Owe: ing a foreigner here, I held my peace.” than the weight of the cai i iages them¬ He refers to a thin-faced passenger selves, to see the engine released, lon£ V, who became famous, and continues in, after us, come buzzing down almie, like tins manner ; a great insect, its back of green and gold “ He cleft a path among the people on so shining in the sun that if it had. , deck (we were nearly all on deck), and, spread a pair of wings and soar*d awav'i without addressing anyone whom.soever, no one would have had oceasi ■M, as I soliloquized as follows : . fancied, for the least surprise iiut it ‘ “This may suit you, this may ; but it stopped short of us in a v- ry I -mess- don’t sqit me. Ttii.s may he all very like manner when we reached ■ canal well with Down-Easters and men of [at Johnstown], and before w ft the I Boston raising, but it won’t suit ray wharf went pantifig up this ' again, ■ figure nohow, and no two ways about with the passengers who had : ed our ■(( tli.at; and so 1 tell you, now ! I’m from arrival for the means of rur ig the ^■Ithebrow'u forests of tiie Mississippi, I road by which we .bad come ■: am ; and when the sun shines on me, it One of the most int- res-ti .e ■•does shine—a little. It don’t glimmer the World’s Fair to tra isp- i 'I where I live, the sun don’t; no, I’m a pie, and especially !■< ibr 4 brown forester, I am ; I ain’t a Johnny Johnstown, was the relici : I cake. There are no smooth skins wiiere Old Portage Railroad ; I live : we’re rough men there, rather. tlie tunnel at the be: i o; i' J If Down-Easters and men of Boston, whi(R bad been piv e ” a raising like this, I’m glad of it, but L’- hibited by the Pei os,4- !. raising, nor of that fe 0 iu(iHnj' in

The map, shoa III. K ■'■ i . ’ Iwtiy, r\\ r, ni'iuntain.s. H D ' iS p~e- lar- ■ i from a.-tu; J 11/- - • -'isure- ‘ From, . nii : and h;a! iV- . ■] to ex- pla. ■- huw s( iC- a.N t ' taken (Ity;. _of tho ■ H\ . . 'er tbo y^/i/yym. j mountains. Tlie exHilSit is now in the ! possession of that Company in its His¬ torical Department, in Philadelphia, Date, . where almost everything, from the : wooden spoke and felloe to its successor, now in use, is kept to show the progress^ made in transportation facilities. I The only inland competitor of the Old# Portage Koad for the Western andv REDNION OF THE FIFTY-FOU^- ►southern trade was the National Turn¬ pike, with its Conestoga wagons, from Held Xo-day in Grand Arnay Hall. Pittsburg to Cumberland, and a railroad Address of Welcome by the Mayor, from the latter place on to the East, be¬ and Response by C. G. Campbell. side the Bedford & Somerset Turnpike, i 1 The fifth annual reunion of the sur- chartered March 13, 1816, and latterly ■ the Stoyestown Pike, and the Pittsburg t , vivors of the Fifty-fourth Eegiment, & Hollidaysburg Pike. The products of r Pennsylvania Volunteers, is being held .the West' and South were brought to! to-day in Grand Army Hall, corner of [Pittsburg on the Ohio Eiver, and at; Park Place and Locust street. Pittsburg would be transferred to one A large number of veterans arrived in of these routes to the east. The Johns¬ the dty yesterday and to-day over the town route was the most expeditious and ; Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania 1 economical for nine months in the year, , Eail roads, and were met by Captain land was the preferable mode of ship- ‘ Graham, George Oyler, and Josiah iinents. . ^ _ Bowers, the Eeception Committee. At 10:30 o’clock this morning the pa¬ rade of the comrades took place over the following route : From G. A. E. Hall up Locust street, to Clinton, to Main, to From,. Franklin, to Somerset, to Dibert, to Franklin, to Main, to Park Place, to Hall.

Date, .. a

An Old" Landma'rir*toT)e "^res'erveijl!^ / The old stone building at the nortmeast corner of Fourth and Ferry streets, erected in 1757 by William Parsons and subse¬ quently occupied by George Taylor, one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen¬ dence, will be preserved as a historical relic. It has passed into the hands of a committee composed of H. D. Maxwell, Ex-Mayor Field, John Eyerman and Dr. J. B. Heller, who will hold it until this t-..- winter when another attempt will be made to organize a historical society in this city. The brick residence adjoining the old stone building has also been secured by this com¬ mittee. The property recently passed into the hands of the First National Bank and for fear that the old landmark might be destroyed steps were taken to purchase the property, which were successful as above The parade, which was headed by the stated. It is believed that the Sons of the Young American Drum Corps of the Revolution and Daughters of the Revolu¬ South Side, was in charge of Captain tion, of this city, will join the historical ; Patrick Graham and Adjutant W. society in the movement to prevent the de- Horace Eose, who rode on horseback. strn^tion of this historical old building._ I The veterans—one hundred and two in number—marched four abreast and unide an excellent appearance. iiig from the heart they go to'the heart. n l\Irs. Campbell, widow of the late You, as the Executive head of this city, VGeneral Jacob M. Campbell, viewed the, speak words of welcome for its thirty thou¬ * narade at her son’s drug store on Main • sand inhabitants: we respond for the meiii- hers of the old Fifty-fourth Eegimcnt; for street Mr. C. G. Campbell, of thisi those hoys, loyal and true, serving llio dark place,’and Dr. Ralph Campbell, of Chi j days of ’(il to ’(>.5. IVe speak for men who, cagVtwo of her sons, standing on either' during that dark and ‘trying period in our country’s history, were one in heart, one in Upon the return of the veterans to the purpose, one in love for that grand old flag, Bfoall Adjutant W. II. Rose called the and one in determination tliat the union of Meeting to order, and introduced George States sliould remain “one and insepara¬ ble.” Y’'onr words of welcome but reassure VV Wagoner, Mayor of Johnstow'n, who them that, after the lapse of over a quar¬ delivered the address of welcome, as ter of a century, the hardships they en¬ follows; , T, • / dured and the sacrifices they made, are not W-ieran.^ oflhc Fi/lt/-/ourth . . forgotten, and the eyes that are growing It does not seem proper tliat we sliouki be dim grow brighter, the pulse-beats quicken, content with ionnally welconiins you into and the faltering steps more elastic. onr city. We should rather add to the It has been truly said that “ Our true welcome a sincere acknowledgment of oin^ holidays are our nieeting place witli priile at tlie honorable station in history Mends.” It is pleasant to know that you to which you have justly attained by sacn- are wanted ; it is all the pleasanter for tlie ticcsal the altar of patriotism. _1 9^“ welcome you receive when you come. that you are welcome, hut that iii itself is Whatever may be said or done during the . cold and formal. When I repeat the um- brief reunion of this Regiment, the best of k vcrsal iudgment that to yon, and patriots all is that comrade shall meet comrade, ^ hko you, 'our Xaiion owes its existence, 1 face shall look into face, the scenes of camp fancy lluit yon feel life, the hardships of the march, the hor¬ "avc yoiir service in such a lioly cause. rors of the battle, the defeats and victories, ° The victories of peace have, lor a geneia- will be recalled and recounted, stories that tion tilled onr land with prosperity and never grow old will be retold, and these old happiness, hut you'- victonc.s in war liave veterans will be more firmly bound to¬ placed the glory and greatness oi the Nation gether by still stronger ties—ties that will I) wond the reach ot envious toes, io nave not be broken until taps have been sounded liceii a soldier, lighting for freedom, is an and the lights go out forever. honor an Ainerican citizen should he proud When 1 was requested to respond, for the I ) nave attained. You veterans are the members of this organization, to the wel¬ tildes that hind us to the awtul realities ot come of Y'oiir Honor, I regarded it as a that struggle. The new generation does 'i special compliment and a special privilege, lu.t realize, as it should, the wca.ry marches, not only on account of the importance of the flsnny of prisons, iind thcsolcinn lioiioi the event, and the happy—and, perhaps, ol'hatllctields and hospitals, through waich some sad—memories it will recall, but be¬ you have lieen faithful to the banner-^nich cause I might, without any impropriety, h llie guarantee of our satety and an invin- digress somewhat from what might be ex¬ cil.le pi'Otection against fircign and domes¬ pected of me on an occasion like the present. tic foes. Froiii your exiimple we, ot the I considered it a special compliment and later generation, should learn lessons ot a special privilege to respond for the mem¬ courage, patriotism, and devotion to our bers of the Fifty-fourth Regiment, because Nation, whose greatness you have sealed these “boys,” as he was wont to call them, with your blood. were my father’s boys—boys whom he And now, veterans, heroes, citizens, W'liat- loved—and I speak not boastfully when I ever of f^’cedoni I cun grtint you iiitliis city, say that no officer in the Army had a is yours. AVitliont fear I can say, go where liigher regard for those under him tlian he you will, do as you w'ish, tor i know you bore for the boys of the old Fifty-fourth. who have fohght to maintain the authonty I recall at tins time a remark he once of law could not w'iltully violate it. made in my hearing. He said his lioys If I had the power I would cause the pco- were sometimes very obstrciieroiis and hard of tliii city to ciiiie forth and pay you the to control, but they were good boys, all (he honor you so richly deserve. I would make same, and wlien it came to a fight they vour iiiorch through tlic streets ot the city could fight like the devil. The regard lie a triumphal procession. But such powei is bore for them is inherited by his son, and I not mine. I can only say again, wdcoiur, never meet a member of the old Fifty- thrice welcome to this city which is proud to fourth but that I have a feeling of kinship claim you as her own, and whose citizens toward him—a feeling as though we had will always hold you in loving remein- something in common together. Since the , lirst reunion of the Regiment in this city in introducing Mr. Curtis G. Campbell some of its nicmhers have passed away, to deliver the response, Mr. Rose said familiar fnce.s are missed from among them; that he had the honor to present tlie the roll has been called and there is no re- name of the eldest son of the late Gen¬ sjionse ; tlie'rank and lilo, the field and eral Campbell, whom all loved and hon¬ staff, have not been sjiarcd ; the commanders ored. Mr. Campbell’s response is as and the commanded alike have suffered. How nobly they fought life's battle we all ^Mr.^Chainnan, Your Honor Huyor WutJoner. know, anil we hold them in grateful re¬ In responding for the members ot tlie membrance, cherish their memory, and are Fifty-fourth Regiment, rennsylvama \ ol- proud of the records they made for them, selves, both in military and civic life ; then uiiteers, to your kind words me assure you that your cordial pcet o let us forget all that Is sad, and' live for to¬ finds a corresponding response m the Heart day in the bright sunshine of the present. of every one of these present. Words p In conclu.-iion, -Mr. Mayor, I again thank welcome,arc indeed welcome wordsj com- you in the name and in behalf of the Fifty- fourth Regiment for your words of welcome so kindly spoken. ■ _ __ IfK- _ 1^^, Immediately atier the response tne fcBs, Johnstown ; DanielTrent, Somers^; veterans marcheii to the basement of ' George Fowler and John Freidline, La- the Hall, wliere tl-e wives and daughters trobe ; M. .1. Lohr, Ligonicr ; H. J. Hor¬ of the local survivors served an army ner and William Walter, Johnstown ; J; dinner—bean sou}), hard tack, etc. D. Miller, Rock wood. At 2::J0 o’clock the business session of Company D—Jonathan and Peter Al¬ the reunic>n was held. Ilolsopple was bright, IMeyersdale ; George F. Hennin- the place decided upon to hold the re¬ ger, of Somerset; William Rose, Mineral union next year. Point; Geoige W. Gageby, New Castle ; The new officers are: President, J. Samuel Williams, iVilmerding; Boring W. Mostoller, of .Stoyestown ; Vice Pres¬ Boyer, Martin Boyer, Johnstown. ident, William jlennett, of Braddock ; Company E—Capt P. Graham, Johns¬ Secretary, C. ^V. Pngh. of Stoyestown ; town; J. B. KaulTman, Conemaugh; Treasurer, David li. Bryan, of Johns¬ Bartholomew Holmes, Manor; jMartin town. Fix, AVestmont; William Fitzimmens, A campfire will be held at the Hall John Inglert, John A. Gore, Samuel tills evening, wlien Adjutant W. Horace Dunham, Robert Parsons, J. H. Kauff¬ Rose will give a history of the Regiment. man, D. AV. Young, Daniel Hill, Johns¬ town ; AVilliam Holmes, Penn Station; David G. Goughnour, near Dayton, 0.; Joseph R. Hummel, Dale ; R. Smiley Graham and John Powell, Braddock; James Kellyy John Glass, Allen Boyle, Johnstown. Company G—A. K. Johnson and John Smith, Berlin ; John Shaffer, Glessner ; Philip Bender, Salix. Company H—D. B. AVertz, Conemaugh Township, Somerset County; Charles AA'endle. .Johnstown ; D. J. Noon, Elton; S. R. A arner, Johnstown ; D. J. Noon, Lower Yoder Towmship ; Samuel Fleigle, Stoyestown ; Thomas Fearl, Johnstown. Comirany I—.John Funk, Greensburg ; The comrades in attendance from here Daniel Dellinger, P. S. Croyle, G. B. i and abroad are : Stineman, South Fork ; Jos. G. Thomas, Adjutant W. Horace Rose, of Johns¬ Johnstowm ; Edmund Holsopple, Holsop- town. ple ; Peter Thomas, Geistown ; Abram Company A—D. G. McCullough, Al¬ Fresh, Vinco ; S. M. Crist, Salix; Noah toona ; John McCune, Johnstown; Fry, Holsopple: Alex. Murphy, Simon George Foust, Latrobe ; Xathan Butler, Murphy, Adams Township ; John Mur¬ Johnstown ; Jacob James, Bolivar ; Levi phy, Conemaugh ; Daniel Murphy, South G. Howard, D. R. Bryan, William Kin¬ Fork; A. AV. Livingston, S. J. Custer, ney, William H. Fredericks, David Cal- Scalp Level ; R. L. Marlett, Sonman ; J. lihan, Johnstov-m ; Joseph Matthews, D. George, Cumberland. Braddock ; L. G, Howard, John Coho, J. F. Howard, .Jacob Glass, C. C. Smith, Johnstown ; William Bryan, Dayton, 0.; J. B. Steam, John stown ; Jacob E. Hor¬ ner, Conc-maugh ; "Capt. John L. Decker, L of Johnstown. Company B—E. W. Rhodes and Solo¬ Successive Legal Stages in the mon Uhl, Somerset; Nicholas Kantner, John Wagner, Buckstown ; Jesse Luton, E^stence of Johnstown. Listonburg; H. H. Wilson, George Oyler, George A. Eerkebile, Johnstowm ; ! It 5a4 Been a Part of Chester, Lan¬ John Koontz, Reitz ; Henry Baldwin, caster, Cumberland, Bedford, and Shade Township ; Josiah Bowers, Johns¬ I Somerset Counties, and of Cone¬ town ; Charles W.. Pugh, Stoyestown ; maugh Township, Cambria Coun¬ John Hamer, Hooversville ; William Ben¬ nett, Braddock ; Abe Wilson, Shanks- ty—The Borough of 1831—Organi¬ ville ; W. A. Slick, E. B. Cardiff, John zation, Its Burgesses, Mayors, and Fisher, Johnstown; Jonathan Boyer, Clerks—Territorial Limits and Ex¬ Hooversville ; J. W. Mostoller, Stoyes¬ tensions—Division Into Wards and town ; D. W. Will, Glade. Incorporation Into the City of Company C—Moses Trent and Capt. Johnstown, Merging the Boroughs W. H. Sanner, of Somerset; George E. of Conemaugh, Cambria, Wood- Pyle, of Jennerto\in; Henry Stutzman, vale, Grubbtown, Millville, and of Listie; Hump^ireys Leverknight, of Dale ; Emanuel Cover, Roxbury ; David Prospect—Population and Elec¬ Cover and John .Gardnei:, Quemahon- tions. ing ; G. F. Spangler, Shanksville ; Rindle Williams, Laughlinstown ;_John D. Lan- The charter for Johnstown, as it be- gan, was not issued by virtue of govern¬ use of the said town and ite future iiihabi-I tants forever. ment authority, as municipal corpora- In testimony whereof the said Joseph tions are now created, and such as trov- Johiis hath hereunto set his hand and seal ernor Beaver granted when it became a the third day of November, one thousand city of the third class, bearing date of eight liundred. December 18, 1889, but was given by a Joseph Johxs. [i.. s.J solemn pledge in writing by Joseph Sealed and delivered in the presence of Abr.viiam Morrison, Johns, the founder. It began thus ; | To All People to Whom These Presents Shall John Berkey, and JosiAH Espy. Joseph Johns, of Quemahoning Town- ; Somerset County, ss. ship, in the County of Somerset, in the On the third day of November, one thou¬ Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, yeoman sand eight hundred, personally came before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of sends greeting. , t i AVherevs, The said Joseph Johns hath the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, laid out a town on the tract of land where¬ the above-named Joseph Johns, and ac¬ on he now lives, situate in the forks of and knowledged the above instrument in writ¬ at the confluence of Stony creek and Little ing to be his act and deed. Conemaugh Rivers, known by the name ot Witness my hand and seal. Conemaugh Old Town, in the township and - John Wells, [l. s.J county aforesaid, which said town contains Recorded Nov. 4, 1800. at present one hundred and forty-one lots, The one hundred and forty-one lota, ten streets, six alleys, and one Market each four rods wide and sixteen rods in Square, as by the place thereof will more length, were west of Franklin street fully and at large appear: CHESTER TO CAMBRIA. Now, know ye, that the said Joseph The land within the City of Johns¬ Johns,’hath laid out the said town on the town was in Chester County, one of the principles and conditions following, viz : First, The said town shall be called arid three original counties of the Province, as created by William Penn, the founder, , hereafter known by the name of Conemaugh. ■m.- Second, The purchaser or purchasers of from 1682 until May 10, 1729, when!

each lot in the said town upon the payoient h-P-'.f-r.SKM Lancaster County was organized by tak- of the purchase money agreed m?on shall ■ ing it from Chester County; it was t- receive from the said Joseph Johns, his thereafter part of Lancaster until Jan- heirs or assigns, a deed regularly executed nary 27, 1750, when it became a part of i for the same lot, free and clear of all incum¬ brances, except the payment of a ground ’ Cumberland County, and so remained un- j rent on each lot so sold of one dollar in specie til March 9, 1771, when Bedford County* on the first of October annually forever. i became a separate municipality ; a pqr- j, . Third, The said Joseph Johns hereby de¬ ■ tion of Cambria County was included in, J clares the said Market Square, streets, and Huntingdon County, when it was organ- alleys public highways, and guaranteas to i zed, September 20,1787, and the remain- the future inhabitants of the said town of Conemaugh a free and undisturbed use of ^ der became a part of Somerset County, them from henceforth forever. April 17, 1795. Fourth, The said Joseph Johns hereby CAMBEI.A COUNTY'. gives and grants to the said future inhabi- On the 26th of March, 1804, an Act of . tants two certain lots of ground situate on ; Assembly was passed organizing Cambria Market street and Chestnut streets, in the County. Section VI. is as follows ; said town, marked in the general plan ‘ ‘ That so much of the counties of Hunt¬ thereof No. 133 and No. 131, for the purpose ingdon and Somerset included in the fol¬ of erecting schoolhouses and houses of pub¬ lic worship, free and clear of all incum¬ lowing boundaries, to wit: Beginning at brances whatsoever. the Conemaugh River at the southeast Fifth, The said Joseph Johns hereby fur¬ corner of Indiana County, thence a ther gives and grants to the inhabitants straight line to the Canoe Place on the aforesaid, free and clear of all incumbrances ^ West Branch of the Susquehanna, thence whatsoever, a convenient spot of ground at f easterly along the line of Clearfield the upper end of the said tract of land, not ^ County to the southwesterly comer of less than one acre, for a burying ground for the inhabitants of the said town and neigh¬ Centre Countv on the heads of Mushanon borhood, which said spot of ground shall be Creek, thence southerly along the Alle¬ mutually determined on, surveyed, and laid gheny Mountain to Somerset and Bed¬ off by the said Joseph Johns and the several ford Counties about seventeen miles, purchasers of lots in the said town, or such until a due course from thence will of them as may there be x>resent on the first strike the main branch of Paint Creek day of May next. [Indianname, Willamink Creek] ; thence Sixth, The said Joseph Johns reserves down said creek the different courses 1 the square on Main street, containing the lots Nos. 49, 50, 51, and 52, for a County thereof till it empties into the Stony- Court House and other public build¬ creek, thence down Stonycreek the dif¬ ings, and he hereby engages as soon as ferent courses to the mouth of Mill Creek, , the said town becomes a seat of justice, to thence a due west line till it intersects ; convey the same to the county for that pur¬ the line of Somerset and Westmoreland pose, free and clear of all incumbrances Counties, thence northerly along the whatsoever. Seventh, The said Joseph Johns hereby said line to the place of beginning ; be further declares that all that piece of ground and the same is hereby erected into a called The Point, lying between the said separate county, to be henceforth called town and the junction of the two rivers or Cambria County. * * * * ” creeks aforesaid, shall be reserved for It was organized for judicial purposes common and public amusements for the by an Act passed January 26, 1807. 'In 1804, Beulah, now a deserted vil¬ ' “early candle light,” first at^i^-^ lage, was chosen for the location of the of James Crow ; and on March 19, Is,, county capital, but in 1805, it was it met in the house of Mrs. Mary Scott, changed to Ebensburg. The county is and sometimes at the house of Michael 35 miles in length and 19 in width, with McGraw, and also at Graham’s hotel. an area of 670 square miles. It had no regular place of meeting until CONEMAUGH TOWNSHIP. , the completion of the “ Lock-up ” build¬ Originally there were but three town- ’ ing on the Public Square in 1846, where ships—Conemaugh, Cambria, and A.11^ its sessions were held until 1872, when gheny—in the county. Conemaugh the new Market House was erected at Township’was the largest of the three. Main and Market streets, excepting for ; The township line began at the Indi- , a short period—1858-61—when there was ana^Jounty line, rarrffi^ce nearly al^g ' a Select Council, as well as a Common the line between Jackson and Blacklick Council, for the four wards of the bor Townships ; thence through Cambria, as ough. it is now, within five miles of Ebens¬ The municipal building was a hand¬ burg ; thence through Munster and some brick structure ; the first floor was Cresson Townships to the top of the ■ occupied for market purposes, and the mountain, passing east of Cresson. ! second for Burgess’ office. Council room, It included almost one half of the area ' Engineer’s office, and lock-up. It was ^ of Cambria County, and is said to have totally destroyed in the Flood of 1889, been that portion which belonged to i with all the ofiBcial records of the bor¬ Somerset County, the remainder belong- ough, excepting the minute book of l', ing to Huntingdon. On the 4th of April, Council beginning in 1885. During the 1809, it was made a separate election dis¬ ' reconstruction period of 1889 Council trict, and it is provided that “ the elec¬ met on the street corners, or at any tors thereof shall^hold their general elec¬ i place where a sufficient number of tions at the house now occupied by John ’ members could get together and agree Grosenickel, in said township.” John on the line of procedure, the main pur- Grosenickel resided on the Bedford Road, : pose being to aid the living, bury the a short distance above Geistown, in dead, and protect property. The min¬ Richland Township. The log house oc¬ utes of these proceedings were not re¬ cupied by him is yet used for a residence, corded at all times. 'When the Flood being now occupied and in a good state Commission erected the temporary build¬ of preservation. ings on the Public Square and the Mar¬ The land within the City of Johns¬ ket Square, the Council and Burgess town remained in Conemaugh Township I occupied one on the northwest corner of until January 12, 1831, when Governor Main and Market streets, where it re¬ George Wolf approved a special act of mained until 1890, when all the munici¬ the General Assembly, incorporating pal offices were moved to the Wesley J. “the town of Conemaugh, in Cambria Rose building, on Franklin street, where County, into a borough.” they now are, excepting the police THE BOROUGH OF CONEMAUGH. magistrate’s office, which is in a small The limits of that borough began at i brick building on the site of the munici¬ the corner of Franklin and Washington pal building destroyed. streets; thence down the north side of I By a special act of Assembly approved Washington street to the north corner of by Governor Wolf on the 14th of April, Walnut street; thence to Union street; , 1834, the name of the Borough of Cone- thence to the north corner of Conemaugh i maugh was changed to that of Johns¬ street; thence to Stonycreek street; town. thence along the south side of Stonycreek ' EXTENSION OP 1851. street to Chestnut (now Carr); thence The limits of the municipality re¬ south 22° east sixteen perches ; thence mained as we have stated until February north to Market street; thence to the I 25, 1851, when Governor William F. south corner'of Franklin ; thence to the ■ Johnston signed a bill extending the Bedford Road ; thence to the east side of ■ boundary lines so as to include the Fifth, Main street; thence to Feeder alley ; Sixth, and parts of the Fourth and Sev¬ thence to the north side of Basin street enth Wards, as follows : (now Railroad street); thence to Frank¬ Beginning at a white walnut tree on lin street, the place of 'beginning. the bank of Stonycreek near the town- The election of ofiicers for the new I ship road leading to Millcreek Furnace ; borough was held in the house of James j thence along Yoder Hill, on the present Crow, at that time the palatial Mansion ; city line, to “ a post on the land of Jacob House, which stood on the lot at the Benshoflf,” above Alderman Graham’s corner of Main and Franklin streets, now residence; thence across the Stonycreek occupied in part by the Tribune office. River to a white oak on the land of The old Mansion House was partially Jacob Horner; thence to the Bedford torn down by David Dibert in May, 1889. Road ; thence along the southwest line George W. Kern was elected Burgess, i of Bedford Road to a point “near the and William Graham, William Fields, said Horner’s barn ” ; thence across the Jr., Jacob Levergood, James McMullen, road to the corner of Johnstown and and John Charters were chosen as the five Conemaugh Boroughs, on Green Hill, members^)! Council. The Council met at above and near Adam and Main streets. this terriljory, as well as tuat in- „iuded within the boundary lines of April 4, 1861, changed the division lines 1831, made the borough. of all the wards, and created the Fifth By the Act of 1831, incorporating the ^ Ward. The First, Second, and Third Borough of Conemaugh, it was provided were made practically the same as they 'that “in the general and electoral elec-i are now, with Main and Franklin streets ; tions the citizens of said borough shall the division lines, and the Fourth Ward ^ not be separated from the citizens of the same as it is now, excepting that the Conemaugh Township, * * * but Seventh Ward has been taken from it. shall remain connected with said town¬ The Fifth Ward included all the terri¬ ship * * * and also in support of the tory on the South Side, and each ward poor.” „ , ^ had three members of Council. On January 19,1844, an act of the Gen¬ This single legislative body, with the eral Assembly was passed over the veto addition of three members from the of Gov. David Eittenhouse Porter, where¬ Sixth and Seventh Wards, when they by the place of holding the election for were admitted, constituted the Council Conemaugh Township was changed to of the Borough of Johnstown until the the “schoolhouse on lot No. 77, on the incorporation of the present city gov¬ Island,” but on May 8, 1844, the Gov¬ ernment in 1890. ernor approved another act, changing it THE EXTENSION IN 1861. back to the place where “borough elec¬ By the Act of February 4, 1861, the ' tions” were held in Johnstown. The boundary lines were slightly extended.; Borough of Johnstown and the Town¬ The Fourth and Fifth Wards remained ship of Conemaugh remained a single as they had been, but in the Third Ward , ^ election and school district until 1844. the line begun on the north side of Basin j JOHNSTOWN DIVIDED INTO WAEDS. street, which was abutting on the old L The municipality of Johnstown was a I Basin, “ thence down the middle of the! i borough without a division by wards stream or channel carrving the water of f until April 8, 1858, when George Nelson said Basin to the (Little) ConemaughE Smith, of this city, was Speaker pro fern, River, to the said river; thence down I of the House of Representatives, and a the (Little) Conemaugh River to itsf J bill was passed dividing it into four junction with the Stonycreek ; thence; wards, in the following manner : up the middle of said Stonycreek to a| “ So mu'fch of the westerly part of said point in said creek immediately opposite,:. borough as is bounded- by Franklin ; and which would be a continuation oil;, street. Main street. Market street, Wash- the northeastern line _ of Market street; f ■i ington street, the Conemaugh River and thence by a straight line to the place of F Stonycreek, shall be one ward and be beginning ” at the white walnut tree att called the First Ward ; so much as is the Millcreek Furnace Road. bounded by Main and Market streets, the DIVISION OF FIFTH WAED. Canal Basin and Canal Feeder shall be On the 11th of February, 1868, Gov-^ the Second Ward ; so much as is bound¬ ernor Geary approved an act dividing the ed by Franklin and Main streets, Cone¬ Fifth Ward and creating the Sixth j maugh Township on the east and south Ward of the Borough of Johnstown, ^, and the Stonycreek shall be the Third which included all that portion lying ! Ward, and so much of the borough south west of the Stonycreek and south ofl and west of the Stonycreek, commonly Dibert street. Notwithstanding the petid called Kernville, shall be the Fourth tion of Samuel Dougl ass, Burgess of Johns -11 Ward.” town, presented January 8,1852, to the|j By this act the Select and Common Court of Quarter Sessions of_ Cambria' 1 Councils were authorized, consisting of County, praying for the extension of the two members from each ward in Select general Borough Act of April 3, 1851, to Council, and four members in Common the said borough, which decree was made Council. But this system was not satis¬ by Judge Taylor, with a saving clause factory, and it was abolished on April 4, “that the provisions of the former char-s, 1861. During the time of its existence ter be annulled, so far as they are in , the Councils met in a room over thepost- conflict with the provisions of said act.” f oflBce, in the building opposite the Teib- Yet the Courts did not have authority j; UNE, on Franklin street; then quarters to divide boroughs into wards, or subdi¬ were procured on the third floor of the vide wards, which had to be created by Scott House, now the Merchants’ Hotel. special acts of the Assembly. Political jealousies ruined the dual legis¬ I SEVENTH WAED. lative bodies ; if Select Council passed an 1 But the laws had been amended, and ordinance. Common Council would de¬ the Fourth Ward was divided, on peti¬ cline to approve it; if Common Council tion to our Court, and on June 7, 1881, originated an ordinance and passed it, the Seventh Ward was formed, including then Select Council would put a veto to all that portion of the Fourth Ward it, and thus it went from bad to worse s lying hetwCten the Bedford Road and the until it was abolished. The Act of ■ J Stonycreek River, southeast of Brooks’ Run,” between Hansman’s Hall and Em- merling’s Brewery. On Jfuuary 3, 1888, the Court of Quar¬ ter Sc^ions made a decree thereby aa- 93

1887.Henry W. Storey.-lohn Jl. linexiDg a portion of IStonycreek Town-i 1S,S8 dial. L. Dick.John 11. Fisher. 1889 Irvin Horrcll.Jolin IL P'isher. '1 ship to the Seventh Ward, which began ' .Vaj/or. City CTe?-*. I at the “white oak ” on the east bank of 1890 W. Horace Rose.James P'aylor. i the Stonycreek and ran up to Conrad 1893.lames K. Boyd.Wm. S. O’Brien. Tross’, to the Von Lunen Road, thence 1896.Geo. W. Wagoner...Wm. S. O’Brien. followed ^he westerly line of said road to '■•■Kesi^^ned. the old borough line. The vote for the other city officers for THE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. 1890 was : Treasurer—Samuel W. Miller, The executive officers of the munici¬ Rep., 1,569 ; George C. Miller, Dem , 2,- pal government from 1831 were as fol¬ 075. Controller—E. T. Carswell, Rep , lows • ' 1,709; JohnDowling,Dem., 1,939. City Year. Burgess. Clerk. Assessors—Emery West, Rep., 1,501 ; 1831 .(ieorge W. Kern.Adam Bailsman. Irvin Rutledge, Rep., 1,320, and August 1832 .Adam Bailsman.George W. Kern. Hammer, Rep., 1,571 ; Joseph Kuntz, 1833 ..Tames McMullen ....George W. Kern. Dem., 2,229; Gottlieb Bantley, Dem.,, 1834 .Tames McMullen ....George W. Kern. 2,189, and John O’Toole, Dem., 2,046. 1835 .James McMullen ....George W. Kern. The compensation to the Burgess was 1830.George W. Kern.James P. White. the same fees allowed to Justices of the 18.37.George W. Kern.Moses Canan. 1838.George S. Kina.Moses Canan. Peace until 1877, when a salary of $600 f 1839.Fred’k Sharretts ....liloses Canan. per year was fixed by Council in lieu of I 1840..John Royer.Moses Canan. fees. Mayor Rose received $2,500 per I 1841..John Royer.Moses Canan. year during his term as Mayor, but in 1842 .Pred'k Leyde.Moses Canan. i 1893 the salarv was reduced to $1,800. 1843 .Jacob Levergood.Moses Canan. ’ COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN. 1844 .Jacob Levergood.Moses Canan. On September 6, 1889, the Board of 1845 .Peter I.evergood.Moses Canan. : 1846.Peter Levergood.Moses Canan. (Trade appointed a committee to take j 1847.R. B. Gageby.Moses Canan. I charge of proposed consolidation of the ' 1848.R. B. Gageby.Moses Canan. (small boroughs, who were Herman 1819.Emanual Shaffer.Moses Canan. Baumer, Scott Dibert, Peter S. Fisher, f Emanual Shaffer.. ) John Hannan, Thomas E. Howe, Tom 1850.. ^ and ^ Moses Canan. L. Johnson, Charles J. Mayer, George (John Flanagan.J W. Moses, A. J. Moxham, James Mc- I Charles Bilestine 1851 .Samuel Douglass.. ( and Millen, John M. Rose, H. W. Storey, (John F. Barnes. Geo. T. Swank, L. D. Woodruff, and 1852 .Robert Hamilton....T. L. Heyer. B. L. Yeagley. On September 16th 18.53.John Flanagan.Sam’l Donglass. !the committee met for organization, 1854.John Flanagan.John P. Linton. (whereupon Herman Baumer was chosen 185.5.William Orr.John P. Linton. jPresident; John M. Rose, Secretary ; 1856.Samuel Douglass.J. Bowen. Peter S. Fisher, Thomas E. Howe, and (Peter Levergood*.. (Sam’l Douglass IGeo. W. Moses an Executive Committee. 1857.. ( and 4 and (Samuel Douglass.. (.John P. Linton ; A special committee, consisting of Geo. ( Samuel Douglass* ^ J. K. Hite ;T. Swank, John Hannan, and George W. 1858.. ( and and jMoses, was appointed to consult Senators (George W. Easly.. Jas. M. Swank, 'Don Cameron and M. S. Quay, and Ed¬ f John P. Linton ward Scull, Member of Congress, in ref¬ 1859.George W. Easly.. < and erence to National legislation affecting ( J. K. Hite. I John P. Linton the public streams. Also, a special com¬ mittee to consider the most economicai I860., ...George W. Easly.. i and (John H. Fisher. means of keeping wagon communications 1861. ...William McKee...... John H. Fisher. open during the winter between all the f William McKee*.. 1 boroughs, composed of A. J. Moxham, 1862.. ( and (John H. Fisher. B. L. Yeagley, and Scott Dibert. ( William C. Lewis. J On September 24th the Committee of 1863 George S. King.J. M. Bowman. Fifteen met in the office of Dick & 1864.George S. King.J. M. Boivman. Murphy, Alma Hall, when the Commit- 1865 .William Orr.W. H. Rose 1866 A. Kopelin.J. M. Bowman. ^tee on Bridges made an elaborate report, 1867 A. Kopelin.J. M. Bowman. providing blue prints, estimates, etc., for 1868 Irvin Rutledge.J. M. Boivman. lattice girder bridges at Franklin street, 1869 ,W. H. Rose.J. M. Bow'man. Lincoln bridge (now known as Walnut- 1870 .J. S. Strayer.J. M. Bowman. ' street), Wood vale, and Cambria, at a 1871 .J. S. Strayer...J. M. Bowman. 1872 .J. S. Strayer.John H. Fisher. cost of $6,400. 1873 .J. S. Strayer..John PI. Fisher. The report was accepted, and a com¬ 1874 .J. M. Bowman.John H. P'isher. mittee consisting of John M. Rose, A. J. 1875 .George W. Easly.John H. Fisher. Moxham and H. W. Storey appointed to 1876 .George W. Easly.John H. Fisher. call a public meeting of the citizens of 1877 .Irvin Rutledge.John H. Fisher. I all the boroughs on Saturday, September 1878 .James King.John H. Fisher. 28th to consider the question of bridges H. Fish r. ...S. J. Royer.John and the consolidation of the several — /U.S. J. Royer.John H. Fishei 1881 .Irvin Rutledge.John H. Fisher. ; boroughs. 1882 .Irvin Rutledge.John H. Fisher. THE PUBI.IC SENTIMENT. 1883 .Henry W. Storey.John H. Fisher. At 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, a 1884 .Henry W. Storey....John H. Fisher. large meeting was held on Market street, 1885 .Henry W. Storey.John H. Phsher. at Main. The officers were : President, 1886 .Henry W. Storey.John H. Fisher. (James Quinn ; Vice Presidents—Dr. W. w Walters, aolinstown; JjlmMuei cienJ sum to restore its pntoiic properpr: James, Millville; John Dowling, Cam¬ the several separate municipalities seeking- bria ; Edward Barry, Prospect; Samuei public aid to dredge our rivers smd protect Yauehn, Ooopersdale; John i. oe\gii, their embankments weakens a just claim ; consolidation w'ould enable us to better pro¬ Morrellville; William Cuthbert, Cone- tect our rivers and prevent encroachments maugh; John Gruber, Woodjale; upon their banks ; tlierefore, and for these Robert Niz, East Conemaugh; John B. reasons, consolidation is a necessity. Fite Franklin ; Daniel Luther, Grubb- Third, If we operate under a city charter town ; Johnson Allen, Moxbam ; George we will then be able to negotiate a loan, Suppes, Upper Yoder; Dr. 0. Sheiidan, payable within thirty years. This fund Lower Yoder; Secretaries, George J. icanbeused to build all necessary bridges Akers, John E. Strayer, and G. tl. within the proposed ctiy limits; to con- , struct all public buildings and schoolhouses; Laugbry. , , to open and improve the highways, rivers, Mr. Moxbam presented the resolutions sewerage system, and the fire departments. to the Committee on Bridges, etc : PUBLIC MEETINGS. That the several districts contiguous to On Saturday afternoon, October 26th, Johnstown represent a population of thirty a public meeting in favor of consolida¬ thousand people ; that the following prin¬ ciples should govern the question of bridges ; tion was held at the Burgees’ office in A That there now exists no reason why Conemaugh Borough. the’ proper depth and width of our Peter S. Friedhoff, Acting Burgess, rivers to prevent the periodical floods that iwas choaed Chairman, and the Vice have of late years visited us, should not be I Presidents were John Campbell, Henry at once taken up and settled. E. Hudson, John Seibert, Adam Roland, B That this community will not sanction ,Frank Taylor, John J. Devlin, Benjamin the' rebuilding of permanent and costly bridges until this question has been properly Kist, Joseph Reiser, Henry O’Shea, (George C. Miller, and Frank Thomas- ^^'licsoivod. That as some central authority berger ; M. J. Carroll was Secretary, and is positively necessary in order to receive and Col. John P. Linton and A. J. Moxham ^pass upon the proposed plans and reports were the speakers. ton the question of our rivers, it is the sense On Monday, October 28th, the same of this meeting that consolidation of the speakers addressed a public meeting in various boroughs at the November election is the most feasible means to this end. Millville, where Burgess Thos. P. Keedy It also authorized the expenditure of was elected Chairman and W. C. Bland Eufticient funds out of the money collect¬ Secretary. Other meetings were held in ed by the local Finance Committee to Minersville, Grubbtown, and Cambria erect permanent bridges of the proper Other speakers were L, D. Woodruff, •width, if consolidation was agreed to. John M. Rose, Chal L. Dick, A. J. Haws, These resolutions W'ere adopted. Inas and George J. Akers. much as a system of permanent bridges POLITICAL LITERATURE. had been adopted at this public meeting, The Committee of Fifteen, of which SH. W. Storey offered the following, Herman Baumer was Chairman, in addi¬ which was also adopted : tion to arranging for public meetings, Rc^nlfed, That the Chairman pre^sent published by posting and advertisements copy of the resolutions in reference to tem¬ the advantages of consolidation, founded porary and permanent bridges to the Pres¬ on the piinciples declared by the Board ident of the Council of Johnstown Bor¬ of Trade. On the question of taxation ough, with the request that he take such the following appeared: action as is necessary to the end that the INDEBTEDNESS, ETC., IN 1888. Edge Moor Bridge Company will stop for Assessed the present any further expense to the per¬ Bonded Valuation of manent bridge at Franklin street until the Indebtedness Property. pending questions as to our streams are Johnstown. $30,000 $1,173,236 definitely settled. Coneniaugli.... 12,000 334,524 THE SENTIMENT OF THE BOAED OF TRADE. Millville. 8,000 754,297 On Tuesday, October 22d, the Board of Cambria. 1,200 161,18L Trade adopted the following resolutions ; ’ In addition, the rule for assessing prop¬ Whereas, The Johnstown Board of Trade erty, and for the payment of the respec¬ is composed of citizens of the several cor¬ tive items of indebtedness by each dis¬ porate municipalities, and it deems proper trict was published. that it should take some action by which At the general election held November the citizens may be assisted to rebuild their 5, 1SS9, eight boroughs voted in favor of homes wiili comfort and safety to their consolidation and two against it, as here¬ families, and that our commercial interests may be restored. To that end we believe after given. that these declarations are truths that will A MEETING OF OFFICIALS. solve the problem of the permanent situa¬ On Friday_eveniDg, November 22,1889. tion ; , i the officials of the several boroug First, We admit that the benevolent peo¬ which were in favor of consolidation met ple of the world have done more for us than in the Board-of-Trade rooms to make a suffering people could expect, and it is arrangements for organizing the new city now time that we turn from the considera¬ tion of our personal affairs to those which government. affect the public interests. Alexander Kennedy, of Johnstown, Second, We believe it is essential to con¬ was chosen to preside, and W. S. O’Brien, solidate under a city charter for th^e of Millville, was made Secretary. Thomas reasons : Neither borough can raise a suffi- P. Keedy, of Millwlle ; H. W. Storey, of Johnstown, and Ijavid Barry, of Pros- I sand according to the last preceding vinie v pect, were appointed a committee to slatk census, shall vote at any eRcM have general cliargeof the arrangements, tion in favor of the same’’/, am! m the and wete authorized to have an outline second section of said Act it is fwj’'- Wn- vided that “if it sliall appear by the sad map of the proposed city prepared for returns that there 13 a ’"donty in fa\oi < f the use of Governor Beaver. a eitv charter, the Governor shall i.ssiie. Iai- A Finance Committee, consisting of ters Patent, under the great seal of the Com¬ Herman Baumer, John N. Horpi and Sam¬ monwealth, reciting the facts, uel Vaughn, was appointed. Iboiindaries of the said city, and constituh At this time it was definitely decided ing the same a body corporate and PO““C. that the name of the new municipality 1 Whereas, It appears by the returns of elections held in the several boroughs of should be the “City of Johnstown.” .jjohnstown, Grubbtown, Conemaugh oo 1- The only opposition to this was on the Jvale, Prospect, Millville, and Caiiibiia, m part of some who wanted to go back to ~ Ithe County of Cambria, on the oth day of the Indian name of Conemaugh, the November, A. D. 1889, that there was a ni.a- original name of the borough in 1831. jority in each of the said boroughs in tavor BEFOEE THE GOVERNOR. of a city charter; and, i , On Monday, December 18, 1889, by Whereas, It appears that i;aid boroughs have together a poinilatioii, ’icco'j'^biig to appointment, W. Horace Rose and H. the last United States census, of at least ten W. Storey appeared before Governor • '/'thousand; and, _ Beaver, Secretary - of-th e-Comm on w eal t h ■ ■hi-'- Whereas; The requirements of the sa d Charles W. Stone, and Deputy-Secretary ‘ ' ,’A'ct of May 23, A. D. 1889, have been fully J. H. Longenecker, and filed an appli¬ Icomplied with ; __ cation for a charter, with the election i. ■ Now, know ye, that I, .Tanies A. Beavei returns, maps, and certificates. ' Governor aforesaid, in compliance with tue provisions of the said Act of the General It was th#! first application for a city Assembly, and by virtue of the authority in charter under the Act of May 23, 1889, me vested, do hereby declare the afoi-esaid and the first one in the Departnsent Boroughs of Johnstown, Grubbtow n, Coue where seven boroughs desired to consoli¬ maugh, Woodvale, Prospect, Millville, and date, which was never contemplated by Cambria, in the County of Cambria, to be the Assembly who passed the Act of and for the City of Johnstown, and do 1889, or by the Wallace Act of 1874. The hereby define the boundaries of said city as difficulties were many, as to harmon¬ follows: izing the school, ward, and election dis¬ Then follows the boundaries and the^ = tricts. It was finally agreed, after a sub-divisions of wards as heretofore men- consultation with Attorney - General Kirkpatrick, that the boundary lines of ^'Tnd'l do also by these presents, which I have caused to be made patent and seal^cd the wards should remain as they were. with the great seal of the State, hereby con¬ Therefore the first seven wards of Johns¬ stitute the same a body wrporate and poli¬ town should be the first seven in the tic by the name of the ‘ City of Johnstow n, city; Grubbtown, the Eighth; First and by the said name to be invested with Ward of Conemaugh, the Ninth; the all the rights, powers, and privileges, with Second Ward, the Tenth; Woodvale, full force and effect, and subject to all the the Eleventh ; Prospect, the Twelfth ; duties, requirements, and restrictions speci¬ the First Ward of Millville, the Thir¬ fied and enjoined in and by said Act of the General Assembly ap^oved the J' teenth ; the Second Ward, the Four¬ third day of May, Anno Domini one thou¬ teenth ; the First Ward of Cambria, the sand eight hundred and eighty-nine. Fifteenth, and the Second Ward, the Given under my hand and the great seal of Sixteenth Ward oftheCity of Johnstown. the State, at Harrisburg this eighteenth The Borough of Coopersdale was not day of December, in the year of our contiguous, although but a very small Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Commonwealth strip separated it from the Fourteenth, as the one hundred and fourteenth. well as the Sixteenth Ward. The Gov¬ By the Governor : Charees W. ernor said that if the Attoney^General Secretary of the Conimonw ealth. could approve of it, it would be included A PRELIMINARY MEETING. • and be made the Seventeenth Ward. On the 26th of February, 1890, W.) THE CHARTER. Horace Rose, Mayor-elect, called th^e Ill the name and by the authority of the members-elect to the Select and Com- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, James EQon Councils to meet on Saturday even¬ A. Beaver, Governor of said Common¬ ing, March 1, 1890, for the purpose of wealth. _ To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, making preliminary arrangements for Sends Greetings. the organization of the new city govern- Whereas, In and by an Act of the Gen¬ eral Assembly of this Commonwealth, en¬ "^^ev met on that day in the temper-* titled, “An Act for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class,’ arv building on the northwest corner approved the titenty-third day of May, o7£ket Vave. The Mayor-elec Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred presided, and Edward A. Barj was and eighty-nine, it is, among otlier things, Losen Secretary. The result of the provided in the first section thereof that meeting was the appointment of the fol¬ “ cities of the third class shall be chartered lowing committees: whenever a majority of the electors of any Cornmittee on Ordinances, more espe- town or borough, or of any two or more intiguous towns or boroughs, situate with- cia,lly those relating to the public peace fhe limits of tlie same county, having to- 'ler a population of at least ten thou- —W. Horace Rose, George W. Moses, Dr. L. Johnston, who spoke cheeituliy ana B. L. Yeagley, Edward A. Barry, Rich¬ in a congratulatory vein on the ocastODj ard Davis, and Thomas Matthews. of becoming a city. JuijR Johnston, 1 Committee to secure a suitable place administered the oath of offiia to Mayor of meeting—H. W. Slick, Charles Brix- Rose and most of the others. The Mayorl , ner, and John Neary. delivered his inaugural address, and Col. ' j Committee on Finance, one member W. D. Moore, of Pittsburg, also spoke to i i from each borough—Andrew Foster, the assemblage of residents and visitors! Johnstown; Thomas J. Fearl, Cone-' from near-by places within and without maugh; A. L. Miltenberger, Grubb-1 : the county. ftown ; John Gruber, Woodvale ; John j At the conclusion there was a parade *Neary, Prospect; Charles Brixner, Mill- ^ of the citizens and visitors, with displays Lville ; James P. Greene, Cambria. of our industrial works, and the City of f On Police—H. Y. Haws, P. J. Mc- Johnstown was duly started as a city of "^Laughlin, Samuel Arthurs, John Gruber, the third class. i Thomas McConnell, and Edward A. THE INCOEI’OEATION OF THE CITY. Barry. The vote for and against a city charter On Salaries, etc.—Alexander Kennedy, was thus : L. L. Smith, William Hochstein, Emil Johnstown Borough— For Against Beaujohn, and Henry O’Shea. First Ward. . 243 1 On Printing—William A. Donaldson, Second Ward. . 115 6 Third Ward. 9 Peter Buser, Benjamin Kist, Alfred . 126 Fourth Ward. . 155 Slater, Adam Huebner, and J. M. Davis. Fifth Ward. . 191 The Committee to prepare ordinances Sixth Ward.. . 368 1 met at the office of Mayor-elect Rose on Seventh Ward. . 192 10 Saturday, March 15, 1890, and outlined a Cambria Borough— criminal code, so as to rush it through First Ward. i ( 22 when the city was in full life, on the first Second Ward.. 124 61 Conemaugh Borough— Monday of April. All the old laws had First Ward. 243 103 expired with the borough, and there was Second Ward.. 108 91 no authority to enact new ones. Coopersdale.. . 53 17 The Committee on Police, met March East Conemaugh....., 30 114 21, 1890, and decided there was need for Franklin. H 95 twenty-five policemen, their salaries to Grubbtown. 53 29 Millville Borough— be : For the Chief, |80 per month ; the First Ward.... 109 11 Lieutenant, $70 ; patrolmen, $C0. Second Ward.. 112 67 The Committee on Officers and Salaries Prospect... 90 13 met on the same evening and suggested Woodvale. 73 13 the following schedule : Mayor, $1,800 ; Controller, $900 ; Treasurer, $900 ; Engi¬ Totals. . 2,533 656 neer, $1,300 ; Assistant Engineer, $500 ; Majority for charter, 1,877. City Solicitor, $800; City Clerk and East Conemaugh and Franklin Bor¬ Clerk of Select Council $700; Clerk of oughs voted against being a part of the Common Council $250; Ciky Assessors, proposed city, and Coopersdale was in each, $250. Marketmaster) $1 per day favor of it, but, it not being contiguous for time employed and teii per cent, of ' to the city, it could not be joined with¬ Oollcotl OC9 _ out adding a strip between tne two dis¬ The Mayor-elect called a jbTnTmeeting tricts. of the Councils to consider the reports, To preserve the autonomy of the elec¬ which was held on Monday, March 26, tion, ward, and school districts of the 1890. Alexander Kennedy was chosen new city, the first seven wards of the Chairman, and Edward Barry, Secretary. Borough of Johnstown were made the The reports were practically approved, first seven wards of the city, as we have excepting that the Solicitor’s salary was given them. reduced to $600 and subsequently that THE EIGHTH WARD—GRUBBTOWN. of the Mayor was increased to $2,500. The Eighth Ward was formed out of the THE INAUGURATION. ' Borough of Grubbtown, which had been On Monday morning, April 7, 1890, incorporated June 5, 1882, being taken the day set for the inauguration, it began from Upper Yoder Township. A remon¬ to rain, and continued until after high strance was filed at the time, praying noon, but this did not prevent the officers-1 that the name be changed to “George¬ elect from turning out for duty, nor : town,” but the remonstrators were not interfere with the pre-arranged pro- successful, and on March 3,1884, another

yia,LUU-iC!. i»/r 1 i. effort was made to change the name, The officers-elect met on the Market but it remained to the memory of Will¬ Square, where a platform had been iam Rinaldo Grubb. erected for the occasion. Mr. Kennedy CONE.MAUGH BOROUGH. and Mr. Barry, Councilmen-elect, and The Ninth and Tenth Wards were who were the temporary officers, re- formed out of the two wards of Cone¬ assumed their positions. The mating maugh Borough, which was the second was called to order, all the city officers borough to be chartered by the name of and Councilmen being present. Chair¬ Conemaugh, by an act of Assembly man Kennedy introduced Judge Robert passed March 23, 1849, entitled: “An

.«■■ stones • thence north li oegrees west lU lAct to incorporate the island, in (Jone- nerclies to stones near the Conemaugh maugh Township, into a Borough, to be River; thence down along said river ■Called Conemaugh.” south 70 degrees west to the original lo¬ The boundary lines were to begin at ginning corner at the Feeder dam of the Feeder, down the embankment to Feeder Lundary line of said Borough of Cone- outlet ; thence up Feeder Dam ; thence by land of David Brosser, John Young, “itSntinued undivided by wards untU et al.; thence by land of Peter Lever- March 20, 1802, when it was made into good and John Young ; thence through two wards, as follows ; , , j a land of Peter Levergood to a post at coal “ All that part of said borough bound¬ bank ; thence to a post on township ed by the Canal Basin on the north, Coal road ; thence to a stump ; thence to the street and a line e^xtending from the east corner of the Borough of Johns¬ mouth and centre of ?aid street to the town ; thence along the same down Main Basin on the east. Main street and the street to Feeder alley ; thence along the borough line on the south, and the Canal same to the south side of Canal Basin ; Feeder on the west shall constitute the thence to the corner of Franklin and First Ward, and all the remaining part Washington streets ; thence down Wash¬ of said borough, not embraced in the ington street to the bank of Conemaugh above boundaries, shall constitute the River ; thence up the Conemaugh River Second Ward.” . . 195 perches to the place of beginning. The First Ward, as above described, is Ttie Act of Assembly incorporating now the Ninth Ward, and the Second the Boroughs of Johnstown and Cone¬ Ward is the Tenth Ward of this city. maugh is rather unique, when consider¬ Mr Henrv Scanlan’s survey of the ing the scramble for office which takes boundard lines, streets, and ^^evs were place now. It reads thus : approved by the borough officials and , That if any person elected to the office ot coLrmed by an Act cf Assembly passed Burgess, member of Town Council, or D'Sh Constable, shall refuse or neglect to take The Eleventh Ward was formerly the upon himself the duties of the said office ! Boromrh of Woodvale, which was organ- he shall forfeit and pay, for the use ot said I ized in March term, 1870, by a decree ot borough, the sum of ten dollars. But no I the Court of Quarter Sessions. The first person shall be compelled to serve more than once in any term of five years. _ _ election was held July 19, 1870, and It was made a separate school district, George W.-Easly was elected Burgess. being taken off Conemaugb Township. It includes the territory north of the On May 3, 1850, Conemaugh Borough Little Conemaugh River, and extends was made a separate election district, to up the river to a point just east of the “hold their general and borough elec¬ new Maple-avenue bridge. tions at schoolhouse No. 1,” and “ that The Twelfth AVard was the old Borough George W. Easly is hereby appointed of Prospect, organized by a decree of the Judge, and David Prosser and John Head- same Court on December 9, 1863. Its rick Inspectors for the first election. territorial limits include the land north By a special Act of January 26, 1854, all of the Little Conemaugh River and east the borough and township elections in of the Ebensburg Road, and it joins the Cambria County were held on the third Eleventh Ward on the east. Friday of February. MILLVILLE. On May 3, 1850, the limits were ex¬ The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Wards tended as follows: Beginning at the were the two wards of Millville Bor¬ southwest corner of said borough ; thence ough, which was also organized as a north 40 degrees east 64 perches to a borough by a decree of the Court, on post; thence by a northwesterly course July 16, 1858, when AVilliam Canan was to the Conemaugh River ; thence down elected Burgess. the margin of said river to where it On the 12th of March, 1873, a special strikes the line of the borough afore- Act of Assembly was passed, wherein it said ; thence by said borough line to the was set forth that the original plot of place of beginning. the boundaries and streets and alleys in On April 28, 1854, the boundary lines the Borough of Millville had been lost, were again extended ‘*80 as to include and that the borough officials had di¬ the residence of George W. Easly. 1^. rected that a true and correct plot of Easly’s residence was on the upper side the borough be made by William Slick, of the Frankstown Road, and the,prop¬ Jr., which had been executed, approved, erty is now owned by Mrs. Charles Kress, and was by the said act confirmed. The and the rear fence is the boundary line boundaries therein given were : of the city in that part of the Ninth Beginning at the abutment of the Aqueduct, on the Little Conemaugh Ward. . On April 2, 1860, the boundaries were River, thence along said stream north again extended, thus: “Beginning at 871° east 31 perches ; thence north 18.1° stones at the east corner of Johnstown ; east 1351 perches to a red oak ; thence thence south 21 degrees west 12 perches north 10° west 132 perches ; thence to stones ; thence south 68 degrees east north 6° west 121 perches to a post; 44 perches to stones; thence south 13 thence south 711° west 118 perches to a Tees east 49 perches to stones ; thence locust; thence west 64 perches to a post; ■ 53 degrees east 93 perches to thence soutn 21" west SOperches to the streets where they cross etrcn ottier, lol Conemaugh River; thence up the said the purpose aforesaid.” This was apl river south 59° east 24 perches; thence proved by the borough officials, and by q south 66° east 28 perches ; thence south special Act of Assembly of April 11,1859.1 62° east 37 perches, irear the mouth of it was confirmed and directed to be re¬ Hinckston’s Run ; thence south 5° east 83 corded, and a certified copy of it would! perches ; thence south 4° west 30 perches be “ sufficent evidence of the same ink to Cambria Iron Company’s bridge; any Court of this Commonwealth.” I thence south 10 J° west 86 perches; When the employees of the Johnstown a thence south 10 perches ; thence up the Water Company were making the excaY^ yLittle Conemaugh south 45° east 14 vationsYTn 4-1/-'t-n a for their main, on^-v-w the4 l-> ^ introduc-,4 ^.1' perches ; thence south 10° east 30 perches ; tion of their gravity system in 1868,| thence 40° east 24 perches ; thence south the stone monuments on Main street! 83° east 33 perches; thence east 18 were dug up and thrown away, except-c| perches to the Aqueduct abutment, the ing, it is said, one near the sidewalk line'- place of beginning. at the southeast corner of Main and Bed-, The borough was divided into two ford streets. wards in 1875, the dividing line being DOWNEY SURVEY. near the Stone Bridge. In 1893 John Downey, the City Engi¬ CAMBRIA. neer, completed a map of the city, which The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Wards was, and, with the additions made by were the two wards of the Borough of Emil Goltstein, the present City Engi- , Cambria, which was created by a decree neer, is the only real survey of the city 1 of the Court on April 5, 1861. Francis as it is now. h *®Gallisoth was elected Burgess. The Bor¬ ELECTIONS. I ough was divided into two wards in 1877, The aggregate vote cast for municipal the dividing line being the centre line ol officers in Johnstown since 1840 is as Third avenue, the portion east of it be¬ follows: In 1840, 71; in 1850, 80 ; in ing the Fifteenth Ward and west of it 1860, 434 ; in 1870, 917; in 1880, 1,149. ^the Sixteenth Ward. The following is the vote in February, THE SEVENTEENTH WARD. 1889, the last election held before the The Seventeenth Ward was taken Flood, and the general election held in from the Seventh Ward of the Borough November, 1889, the first one after the of Johnstown. In the fall of 1889 the Flood, excepting the vote on the amend¬ land included in the Seventeenth Ward ment to the Constitution prohibiting the was joined to the old Borough of manufacturing of liquor, which was Johnstown, and was part of the Sev¬ held June 18, 1889 : enth Ward at the time of the election J’et , 18S0. JYov., ms. held in November, 1889, and in 1891 the Seventeenth Ward was created by a de¬ TFards. Rep. Dem. Rep. Dein. I First. 242 113 181 60 cree of the Court. I Second. 141 81 84 36 THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. ^ Third. 74 107 39 87 Since about 1844 the Borough, and Fourth. 89 67 101 58 afterward the City of Johnstown, was Fifth. 158 90 115 73 a separate School District. Until the Sixth. 216 93 245 112 Seventh Ward was created, in 1881, the Seventh. 89 123 83 128 School Board consisted of six Directors, Totals. 1,009 674 848 554 1, who were chosen from any part of the Rep. majorities. 335 294 j borough, the subdivisions of wards The June election recalls the deplora- I being disregarded' in their selection. . ble condition of the town and the man- , Afterward, because the borough exceed¬ ner of holding elections. The election ed six wards, each ward elected one on the Constitutional question was eigh¬ Director until the incorporation as a teen days after the Flood, and the peo¬ city, when a new Board of School Con ple were scattered over the country, trollers were formed of one member while some were living in tents and from each of the seventeen wards. ;i shanties in the vicinity. In the Second SURVEYS. ) Ward the polls was in the oflSce of the The Doran map of 1854 and the Braw- late ’Squire Strayer, corner of Market ley survey of 1859 are the two landmarks street and Locust alley ; but it, with for the establishing of corners and divis¬ every other house in the ward, except¬ ion lines. There are very few of the ing probably five or six, had been swept Doran maps in existence, as they were away. Even the cellars had been filled almost all destroyed in the Flood, but with sand and debris, so that it was diffi¬ there are occasional copies to be seen cult to locate the polling place. The and are of much value. town was practically under martial law, In pursuance of an order of the bor¬ but not by an order of any authority. ough, John Brawley made a survey ol On the morning of the election a suffi- > the land lying between the two rivers, cient number of the former residents of from The Point to Green Hill, by which the ward were found to hold the elec¬ the centre lines of all streets and alleys tion. They had difficulty to find the and the division lines of lots were estab¬ place, but finally, after consultation and lished, “ and caused stone blocks; to be taking the angles of the streets and permanently fixed in the centre of the il ■' 99 th

[fscraping away the dirt and sand, they 1840 a population of s:49, and a' joinirg concluded they had found the late resi¬ it arounu the barin tl ere were 328 addi¬ dence of ’Squire Strayer, and using one tional ; in 1850 the population was 1,2(7.); of the Government’s tents, with the in I860* 4,185 ; in 1870, 6,028 ; in 1880, guards marching around in uniform with 8,380, and in 1890 the City of Johnstown muskets on their shoulders, the vote had 21,805. .... , . was cast as peacefully and as freely as it The borough was divided into wards in ever was. 1858, and the city organized in 1890. The following is the Presidential vote Since the former date the population by for 1888 and 1892, the last one before the wards, according to the United States Flood and the first after it: , census, has been as follows 1880 1890. 1S8S 1892. M'ards. 1860. 1870. . 1,480 Tr«? (7.?. Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem. \ First. 1,625 1,621 First. 317 151 Second. S82 1,003 507 , Sexmd. 173 80 Third . (C2 817 412 o 1,002 1 Third.. 98 Fourth. l,Cil6 862 1,413 Fourth. 138 Fifth. 1,065 Fifth. 199 Sixth. 660 2,469 3.774 I Sixth. 201 Seventh.... Seventh. 127 Eighth. 628 Eighth. Ninth. 2 252 ! Einth. Tenth. i”,304 683 ■ Tentli. Eleventh.. 889 : Eleventh. Twelfth.... Thirteenth 1,098 .Twelfth. 1,1.S0 Thirteenth. Fourteentl 943 'Fourteenth. 1 Fifteenth.. 1,771 Fifteenth. Sixteenth. Sixteenth. Seventeenth. Totals. 4,185 6,028 8,380 21.805 ; In 1850 Conemaugh Borcugh had 842 ■ . Totals. 1,318 ’ white persons and 12 colored ; in 1860, ' jMajoritic.s. 479 1,866 white and 8 colored; in 1870, The vote in the boroughs, other .than I 2,336 ; in 1880 the First AVard had 1,561, the seven wards of the Borough of I the second 1,937, a total of 3,498. _ In Johnstown, and which became a part of J 1890 Conemaugh, Cambria, Millville, the City of Johnstown, at the Presiden-' Prospect, and Grubbtown Boroughs were , tial election in 1888, was as follows ; merged in the City of Johnstown. i Districts. Rep. Dem. Millville had, in 1860, 1,683 ; in 1870, Cambria— 2,105, and in 1880, 2,409. First Ward. 3 182 Cambria had, in 1870, 1,744, and in Second Ward. 21 248 Coiiemaugh— 1880 2 223 First Wai'd. 80 278 Prospect had, in 1870, 576, and in 1880, Second Ward. 105 240 700, and Woodvale, in 1880, had 639. Orubbtown. 58 22 The number of inhabitants in the Milh'iUr— boroughs contiguous to .Johnstown were : P'irst Ward. 195 113 East Conemaugh in 1890, 1,158, and in Second Ward. 109 112 1880, 756; Franklin, 662, and in 1880, 734 ; Prospect. 33 76 Woodvale. Ill 121 Coopersdale, 619, and in 1880, 409. The THE VOTE FOR MAYOR. following were villages : Morrellville, in The following is the vote in Johnstown j 1880, had 559, and in 1890 it had 2,827 ; for Mayor for the past six years, by wards ; Brownstown. in 1890, had 550 ; Horners- 1890. 1893. 1896. ' town (Dale), in 1890, had 1,014, and Walnut Grove, 535. . Kee- Wago- Wago- The total population in the city and

to the Welsh.) Bigmund. _ True belief was something more than A large congregation was present at mere credence that God was an idea. the afternoon service. The devotions God was something more than '“J* ' were led by Rev. A. L. Rowe, of North ence. The nation or the church that Ebensburg. A feature of the meeting forgets its God forgets what is vital to its was the singing of the Welsh hymn permanence. Unbelief always has been, “ 0 Eryniau Caersalem,” after which an and will be, calamitous. The law of eloquent Welsh sermon was preached correspondence is infle^ble._ He who Rev. D. T. Davis, of Shamokin, whi^ denies the existence of God is called a was much enjoyed by the Welsh people “ fool,” because his life bears the fruit of present. The English sermon was de¬ livered by Rev. George Hill, who was ^^This belief must develop into faith ; pastor of the church from 1884 to 189.-. I faith in the soul ; in the divinity of His text was Heb. vi., 12: “That ye I Christ. The other elements in the con- be not slothful, but followers of them \ ditious of the church’s permanence men¬ who through faith and patience inherit tioned were the Bible and prayer. The the promises.” , ^ sermon was delivered with great power. He made use of these words to pay a We regret that space does not permit of tribute to the fatherajhaorgapized this church and to those wno, in the early a fuller report. . The choir sang four anthems during years of its history, had pillared it. He the services, and the congregational urged the present generation to be worthy singing was most hearty throughout. descendants of noble ancestors, who side , Grateful were the hearts of all those by side of their log cabins had put up a i who had the privilege of attending these house for God. The influence they have ; services, which will never fade from left behind is imperishable. Let their example be an inspiration to us. He their memories. bade us follow the fathers liutheran Sunday-School Convention being a people of a decided religious faith : secondly, as men who anchored at Scalp licvel. their faith to the Bible ; thirdly, as The following is the programme of ex¬ those who believed in the necessity oi ^ ercises of the fourteenth semi-annual individual regeneration ; fourthly, as - Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran men to whom the future life was a vivid Sunday Schools of the Scalp Level Charge, reality. He dwelt at length on each of to be held in the Mt. Zion Lutheran these points, and spoke with great Church, at Scalp Level, Saturday, June earnestness and power. The church in the evening waa ^^Forenoon session—9:3(}-ll :30. —Dev o- jammed. The service was introdimed tional exercises, Jonas J. Weaver ; Bresi- i by Rev. J. Davies, of Johnstown. The dent’s address, A. F. Swank; “ Sunday sermon was preached by Rev. T. K School Music,” H. D. Naugle, D. E. ; Jones, who was pastor of the church Heckman ; “Devotional Services in the i from 18G7 to 1884. He selected as a Sunday School,” George R. Harbaugh, j text Psalm cxxv., verse 1 : “They that Uriah J. Penrod ; “ Preparation of the ; trust in the Lord shall be as Mt. Sunday School Lesson,” J. J. S^hl. which cannot be removed, but abideth Afternoon session—1:45-4.—Devotion¬ forever.” The text was originally al exercises, William Trent ; “How to spoken not from observation, but from Persuade Parents That the Sunday personal experience. And this personal , School is Not Only for Children,” Jonas ^ experience is the product of the law of'.t J. Weaver, H. B. Follmer ; exegesis on affinities. There was trust, and conse-, I. Peter, iii: 18:20, Rev. H. C. Salem ; quentlv there was blessing. The illus-i- recitation. Myrtle Harbaugh ; My tration of the text clothed the idea of Duty to the Sunday School to Which I permanence and stability. The theme Belong,” A. F. Swank, George Ickes, K. of the sermon was, “ What are the pri¬ Kauffman ; “ Necessity of Teaching the mary causes of a church’s perma¬ Truth in the Sunday Sshool, S. P. Nau¬ nency ? ” The word “ trust ” was an¬ gle, Prof. J. C. Neff, George Wolford, alyzed to get hold of its ingredients. Henry Barndt, Simon Thomas ; Sun¬ It was not a passive quality; it was . day School Attractions,” Mrs. Grace active in its nature. Wherever there is,.' Ickes, Vida J. Yoder, Sue Ickes, Lizzie spiritual continuance, the activities and^ Yoder, Mrs. Alice Hayes. enterprises of religion are prominent. ■ Evening session-? :30-10.-Devotional There must, first of all, be a settled exercises. Rev. H. conviction of God’s existence. This our Bible Mode of Baptism,’’W. A.\^aver ; fathers had. The Welsh fathers who duet. Misses Lizzie and Vida J. Yoder -, came to the Allegheny Mountains had “ What Constitutes the Lord s Supper ? the same ingredients in their Christian J. P. Statler, Esq.; “What the World religion as the Pilgrims who came to Owes to the Lutheran Church, \Vflliam New England—a church without a Trent- “What the Lutheran Church Bishop, a State without a Ring- Owes to the World,” Prof. H. A. preacher made use of the tradition that Walker ; music and queries at the call of the Epistle to the Galatians was written : A E. Swank, President; H. vValker, Vice President; J. P. Stat- White, of No. 325 Vine this city^Nj ler, Secretary ; W. A. Weaver, Corre¬ is the only person now living who is the! sponding Secretary; W. C. Knavel, eon and nephew, or the eon or nephew, j Treasurer. of one who was an active participant in A Distinguished Cambria-County the defense at the burning of Hannas¬ town, Pa , by the Indians, on Saturday Boy and His Father. afternoon, July 13, 1782. Washington Post. Webster Davis, the new Second Assis¬ Mr. White is now in the ninetieth (*) tant Secretary of the Interior, is an ar¬ year of his age, and has been an honored dent member of the Sons of Veterans, citizen of this town since 1835. The and his lather is a veteran of the late facts he relates in reference to the experi¬ War. The last time that Mr. Davis, Sr., ence his father’s family had with the \ Eed Man came to him from his father— / was in Washington he rode down Penn¬ / sylvania avenue in the grand review, on John White—and his uncle—James May 24th, after Major-General Sher¬ White. man. How oddly that title sounds At the time of the burning of Hannas¬ now ! Mr. Davis entered the service in town John and James White were at May, 1861, and June 1, 1861, there came home with their parents—Andrew and Jean White—on their farm along the to his home a first born—a son—whose baby face he did not see for many a Greensburg and Somerset Eoad, about weary day. The man child grew and four miles in a southeasterly direction thrived, and he was named Webster, from Greensburg, now in Unity Town¬ after him whose mantle of eloquence ship, in Westmoreland County, and about seven miles from Hannastown. seems to have fallen upon the baby, now ,a young man whose oratory moves the On that afternoon when men, women, multitude as the wind god sways the and children were being put to death in flowers. the most cruel maqner and the town When Webster Davis came to Wash¬ almost destroyed, some escaped, and ington to take the office of Second As¬ they soon gave the alarm to the people in sistant Secretary of the Interior, very that vicinity. These at once began to largely a personal appointment of the seek means of defense and prepared to President, he brought with him his give assistance to those who were locked father and mother, to whom he is de¬ in the stockades at Hannastown. voted, and to whom he is yet but a “ big Hannastown is situated in a north¬ boy,” and as they rode down Pennsyl¬ easterly course from Greensburg, about vania avenue the father remarked in a three miles distant, at the point where reminiscent mood that the avenue was the road leading from Greensburg to named for his son’s native State, and New Alexandria crosses the old Forbes then he added: “The last time I rode Eoad, which extended from Bedford to down this avenue, my son, you lacked Pittsburg. It was the first place west but seven days of being four years old. of the Allegheny Mountains where jus¬ It was a proud day for us battle-scarred tice was officially administered according and worn-out veterans that we were, for to the common law, which significant we brought the flag back, with its stripes event took place in the log house of Mr unsullied and its stars all there. Thirty- Eobert Hanna on April 6, 1773. This two years is a long time, my boy, but in was the beginning of the town ; then a my wildest dreams for the little Son log court house and jail were erected, whom I was soon to greet, I did not pic¬ and it came to be the place for the early ture him as one chosen to a high place in settlers of that vicinity to meet. Houses the Govgjawaent I had given four of the were built for shelter and a stockade for best jjears of my life to protect.” defense from the atrocious and deceptive Eed Man. At the period of which we write there were about thirty houses, some of which were but cabins, while THOEE mEEB ElMIUES. others were two-story log dwellings. These did not include the public build¬ ings. WKi^, of Wesimoreland', Mineely On the day above mentioned the town folks went out to the fields of Michael and Roberts, of Cambria. Huffnagle, a mile and a-half north of the fort, on the Indian trail leading Connection of the Former, of Whom from Hannastown to the Kiskiminetas, the Venerable John White, of This to assist that gentleman in reaping his City, is a Descendant, With That harvest. About 2 o’clock in the after¬ noon they observed probably one hun¬ Famous Event, the Massacre at dred Indian warriors approaching. They Hannastown by the Indians—Re- i at once went, afoot and horseback, to ligious Endeavors of Elders John j warn the people to seek safety in the Mineely and Levi Roberts, of the fort, which most of them succeeded in German Baptist Church. doing, hut left their homes to the ruth¬ less hands of the savages, who within a Judge John White. . f^ hours had destroyed all the houses It is most probable that Mr. John ^ ■ I tree^ afid tll^^ounda" earned terrOF IBfo ^cepting two, and the court house ancT the besoms of the cowardly savageSS the jail. One person within the fort and. They feared the retribution which they one without were wounded. A Mr. deserved, and fled shortly after mid¬ Brownlee and one of his children, with night in their stealthy and wolf-like a Mrs. White and two children, two habits.” miles away, were killed in a cruel James White, the uncle of John manner. There were about twenty per¬ White, the esteemed citizen of Johns¬ sons put to death on that raid. Mr. and town, was one of the thirty “yeomen” Mrs. Robert Hanna and their daughter that came to their aid with his trusty Jennie were captured and taken away, rifle and tramped the planks and rode ■! but subsequently were released. The the horses at full trot that night. It is < Mrs. White mentioned was no relative of most probable that James White is the ' the family of Andrew White, but that only known person who was among the event is a part of the history of West- reinforcements that came to Hannastown i moreland County. on that occasion, as the reports made by i In 1836 Richard Coulter, Esq, of Michael Huffnagle, Ephraim Douglass, L{ Greensburg, who subsequently became a and David Duncan to the Provincial I Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn- authorities were very meagre and did I sylvania, published in the Pennsylvania j not give the details or the roster of their F Argus a very excellent article^ on the forces ; it was not a question of record¬ f, “ Burning of Hannastown,” which is an ing matter for history, but to get more V admitted authority on that horrible ammunition. Nor does Judge Coulter I affair, he having obtained the informa- record any names of persons who were ‘i tion from persons who had been present there. ..' and were part of it. In referring to the The farm mentioned as George’s be¬ jf' aid that came to the beleaguered people, longed to Peter George, and was about he wrote: ^ , two and a-half miles distant from the i “ At nightfall thirty yeomen, good and White farm and a mile and a-half from true, had assembled at George’s farm Miller’s, the latter place being o^ed by (about four and a-half miles from I Captain Samuel Miller at tne umibfhis , ' Hannastown), not far from Miller’s, death, July 7, 1778, when he was killed s determined to give that night _ what by the Indians. It was known as Mil¬ Buccor they could to the people in the ler’s Station, or Miller’s Fort, and was of ' fort. They set off for the town, each importance to the early settlers for a -' with his trusty rifle, some on horseback, common centre, next to Hannastown, and some on foot. As soon as thsy came and on the day of the massacre the In¬ near the fort, the greatest caution and dians made an attack on it and captured circumspection was observed. many persons who sought refuge therein. perienced woodsmen soon ascertained The Miller farm is now owned by Will-; I that the enemy was in the Crabtree bot- lam Russell, and is two miles northeast I tom, and that they might enter the fort, from Greensburg, on the northerly side r i Accordingly, they all inarched to the of the Pennsylvania Railroad and not b gate, and were most joyfully welcomed far from it. | n i by those within. _ . When the news came to the White ‘ P ' “After some consultation rt _was the farm, James White, the elder son, took L general opinion that the Indians in- his rifle and started with other neigh¬ I ' tended to make an attack the next bors to go to the aid of those in the fort, K morning, and, as there were about and John White and his father—Andrew r fortv-five rifles in the fort and about White—remained at home to protect the ii fifty-five or sixty men, the contest was I family. They took Mrs. White and f considered extremely doubtful, consider- other members of the household, and, E ing the great superiority of numbers on with their horses and cattle, abandoned fc the part of the savages. It became, their home and fled to the Chestnut f therefore, a matter of the first import- Ridge and secreted themselves in the I': ance to impress the enemy with a belief dense forest. After having located them - that large reinforcements were arriving, in as safe a place as could he found, Mr. b For that purpose the horses were John White returned to a favorable ■iit mounted by active men and brought full location, where he could watch their trot over the bridge of plank that was home. While passing through a thicket across the ditch which surrounded the of underbrush he discovered a human 6 stockading. This was frequently re- being, as to whom he had some difficulty I I peated. Two old drums were found in in distinguishing whether he was a white K the fort, which were braced, and music or a black man, owing to his dirty ap¬ r on the fife and drum-was kept occasion- pearance. He soon ascertained that he [ ally going during the night. While was one of the unfortunate men who, t marching and counter-marching, the with hie family, resided near Hannas¬ f bridge was frequently crossed on foot town. The stranger was almost ex¬ by the whole garrison. These measures hausted from the effect of the long race ! had the desired effect. The military made necessary by the close pursuit of music from the fort, the trampling of the Indians, and when aid had been the horses, and the marching over the given him and his strength restored he bridge were borne on the silence of the told them of the escape of himself and night over the lowlands of the Orab- M rtmiiy. Me eaid that when the inaiana aead, but there are two ^grandsons— 1^ made the attack he took his wile and James and William White^—bow living K child and started for the woods, but not in Greensburg. soon enough to escape the vigilance of JOHN WHITE, THE FIRST. the Indians, as several of them gave pur¬ John White, the father, was born near suit to the fleeing family. The wife saw Antietam Creek, in Cumberland County, that the savages were gaining on them, now Franklin, in 1759, and in 1776 he and she begged that she and her baby came out to his brother James, and they might hide in the thicket and the hus¬ managed the farm until 1779, when their band go farther for assistance. He saw parents made it their permanent home. his wife and baby snugly hidden in the John White and Margaret Patton were .underbrush and he went on to the White ! married in 1797. Mrs. White was a Ihomestead, where he found John White daughter of Captain James Patton, who and soon had help. His family was was an officer in the Revolutionary War, saved. and was the owner of the farm on which FORT M’CAETNEY. Fort Loudon was erected, which was For many years after the Hannastown their homestead. After their marriage affair the depredations by the Indians they came to ihe White farm, in West¬ were continued. Fort Palmer, near Co- moreland Coupty, where they lived until' vodeville. south of Lockport, in West¬ 1827, when Mr. White sold the farm and I moreland County, and Fort* McCartney, ' moved to Ligonier. Mr. White died in / in Indiana County, not far above Black- the house which was occupied by Gen. lick Furnace, were maintained by the Arthur St. Clair, near that pretty moun- ((people for places of refuge as late as : tain village, August 9, 1832. Mrs. Mar- |l797. That year John White was Cap- . garet White died in Johnstown in 1857. ftain of a company which made these ' Thomas Buchanan, the father of James ^ places their headquarters for a period of ■ Buchanan, lived with Captain Patton for three months. ; several years after he arrived in this I About 1795, while Captain White was country from Ireland, and became a near * located at Fort McCartney, two of the neighbor after his marriage with Miss soldiers of the Fort went to a neighbor’s ^ Ramsey. James, the future fifteenth house to stay all night. Next morning President, was eight years old when Mrs. j at breakfast time the dogs began to bark Margaret White left that vicinity for her j and one of the soldiers, named McCaul- Westmoreland home, but she knew him ( ley, opened the door to look out, when very well, and dusted his frock on many he was killed by an Indian’s shot. occasions. _ ;When McCaulley fell the Indian ran toward the house, but when he saw Elder John Mineely. others there he turned and escaped. . Eider John Mineely, one of the pio- ' ANDREW AVHITE. ; neer preachers of Cambria County, was ‘ Andrew White, the paternal grand- born in Ireland about the year 1779. ^ father, and Jean Herring, his wife, were Many persona entertain an erroneous Inatives of County Down, Ireland. They idea that he was formerly a Roman Cath- [were married about 1745, and immedi¬ ■ olic, but such was not the case ; his i ately sailed for America. It was a tem¬ parents were Presbyterians and he was ] pestuous voyage, and their vessel was reared in that faith. within sight of the New World twice When quite a young man, there was to when the angry waves, with the primi¬ be a draft for recruits in the army and I. tive methods of steering or controlling his father sent him to the United States, i I her, drove her back to within sight of After the draft was made his father; the English coast. The third time they wrote him requesting him to return to ■ disembarked. They located in Cumber- his native country, but he was so pleased ^land County, now Franklin, not far from with the United States, its laws, and in-' PFort Loudon. About 1775 James White, stitutions, that he declined leaving the the elder son, was commissioned by his country, and determined to remain here father to come out to Westmoreland the rest of hiS' lifetime. County and locate a farm, which he did, He was a weaver by trade, and followed 7 by warranting three hundred and twenty that occupation for a length of time, acres at the place above mentioned. Be¬ teaching school at intervals till within a > fore his death the father divided it be¬ few years prior to his death. i tween his two sons—James and John. After residing here several years he Mr. Andrew White died at that place was united in marriage with Elizabeth . January 29, 1802, and Mrs. Jean White Maugan—perhaps the name was origi- , September 1, 1801. nally spelled Makin. A short time sub-1 .TAMES WHITE. sequent to his marriage he joined the | James White was the elder son of German Baptist Church and was shortly P Andrew White, and was born in what is " afterward ordained a minister. He con- e now Franklin County. He was the first tinned all his lifetime a zealous advocate L of the family to come west of the Alle¬ and expounder of the doctrine of his B gheny Mountains. • He and his wife adopted church, and spent much time t Nancy resided on the old homestead and labor in traveling and preaching at.I until his death, about 1824. They had home and in adjacent counties, and, fora I and one son, who are all i man in his position and circumstances^ possessed considerable talent and ability, He had Jwo brothers—Richard ah^ and through his energy and labor many William. I ichard enlisted in-the Army were brought into the fold of the church. during the Revolutionary War and never A thrilling circumstance once occurred returned. The family never learned if in his travels which the writer beard he died a natural death or if he was him relate : He was returning on foot, killed in battle. William died quite from Morrison’s Cove, east of the Alle- young. He had three sisters, viz; gheny Mountain, and while descending Nancy, intermarried with Jacob Sheets ; the western slope of the mountain, pass- Jemima, intermarried with Patrick ■ ing through what was known as the Dimond ; Mary, intermarried with John Fallen Timber, w.her^i. each side of the ShaflTer, and one half-sister, intermarried road was covered with a heavy coat of with Jacob Wilhelm. brambles and bushes, he saw ahead of On the 19th of November, 1799, he him a drove of cattle and what he was united in marriage with Elizabeth ' tuougnt was a large aog loiiowing xuem. Gochnour, of Bedford County. Their As he passed along he heard at the side marriage was solemnized by Rev. Con¬ of the road a low growl, and, looking in rad Brumbaugh. the direction of the noise, he saw a large panther crouched in a position similar to In the spring of 1803, he moved to the farm on the old Ebensburg Road, about that of a cat when about to spring upon five miles north of Johnstown, now a /nouse. He was unarmed and without occupied by the heirs of Jacob Angus, any weapon of defense whatever, but, re¬ deceased, having purchased the land from membering hearing hunters say that a Martin Eeily, of Bedford. The country wild beast would not attack a person if then was an almost unbroken forest. the person boldly stared the animal in The territory now included in the City ihe eyes, he stood and boldly faced the of Johnstown, contained only a few meast for several minutes, when the ani¬ houses, one of which was occupied mal slowly arose and disappeared in the by Joseph Johns, the proprietor of forest. the town, and there were onlv two For several years after his marriage he houses between his residence and the resided in the vicinity of Johnstown, but town—one on the farm of Abram Bubseqentiy purchased and settled on Knavel, formerly of Levi Dimond, and the farm in Conemaugh Township now one on the territory now embraced in the known as the Dr. Emerson farm. Here i : ■■ limits of East Conemaugh, the former he continued to reside until a few years was occupied by a man named Kurtz prior to his death when he disposed of and the latter by a man named Shafi'er. his farm and resided with his son—John The forests abounded with game and Mineely, Jr.—on a farm in the vicinity of wild animals of many species, and, be¬ his former home. ing possessed of a remarkably strong His wife died in the autumn of the and robust constitution, he engaged ex¬ year 1849. For several years previous to tensively in the chase, and slaughtered a his death he suffered considerably from large number of bears, deer, several diseases incident to old age and from an overtaxed constitution, both physical panthers and wolves and smaller game, and in his declining years delighted in and mental, and in the month of June, reciting his adventures with th^ denizens 1852, he died, highly esteemed by a of the forests, as an old soldier relates large number of friends and acquaint¬ his adventures in the army. ances. His remains are interred in the cemetery adjoining the meeting house Probably about the year 1820 he united with the German Baptist Church, and a in Conemaugh Township known as the 15 GifiBn meeting house. few years afterward was ordained a minis-' ter, and in his ministerial capacity la¬ bored faithfully and zealously, traveling 'i Elder Levi Roberts. extensively through Cambria, Somerset, Elder Levi Eoberts was born February Indiana, Bedford, Blair, and Armstrong 9, 1779, in Huntingdon County, Pa. His Counties and elsewhere. He was an in¬ grandfather—Richard Roberts—was born timate friend and co-worker with Elder in Wales, but immigrated to the United Mineely, and traveled frequently with States. His father—Joseph Roberts— him in their ministerial visits. % and his mother, whose maiden name was L In the autumn of 1839 he disposed of Agnes Seabrook, were boirn in Virginia, j his farm to William Huber, of Johns¬ but resided several years in Maryland,! town, but continued to reside in the prior to their removal to Pennsylvania. neighborhood till the spring of 1844, When the subject of this sketch was when he removed to the State of Iowa, I about two years of age his father was then a Territory. killed by the Indians, in the Woodcock On the 6th of December, 1846, his t Valley, Huntingdon County. After the wife died, and a couple of years later j tragic death of his father his mother he returned to Pennsylvania and settled ' raised the children on a farm on the near his former home, residing mostly waters of Clover Creek. They were for • with his son—William Roberts. a while frequently harassed by hostile • He retained his physical strength and Indians and sometimes had to flee to the \ vitality to a remarkable degree until a for^for refuse. _ few years prior to his death. He died month of December, 1860, and is the cemetery on the Angus) which he w^one^mT||^^^L 108

Quitman’s Division moved Sown Tacubya causeway and over a bridg^ covering a ditch on the westerly side or the causeway into the meadows under al WromsSdAfddiX.. terrific crossfire. * * Colonel! Roberts, of the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, lay on his, deathbed ; consequently the command /■ devolved upon Lieutenant - Colonel O- Geary, who, at the commencement of the Bate, t \f /jail attack, was wounded by a spent ball, which struck him in the groin and pre¬ vented him from leading the Second Brigade, when the command devolved upon me as Major of the stormers, as well as of his division. MAJOR BRIKDLE’S TESTIMORY. “ When we filed into the meadows he stood at the point where we entered and Cambria Guards Were Probatly First as I passed him he directed me to go f Inside the Fortification at forward and put the division as far to Chapultepec Castle. the left as the nature of the ground There is no question that the Boldiera would permit, and then advance to the ffurnished by Cambria County for the stone wall inclosing the park of the castle. When I came up with the New Mexican War, extended reference to York regiment the direct and enfilading whose services was made in these col- fire on it was so great as to require assist¬ umnsafew days ago, were among the best ance. To relieve it I threw the Second : which took part in that conflict. They Brigade of the division in front of it, ■, jWere mostly hardy pioneers, men of fine and then, by the right of companies, the Jphysique, and good marksmen, and were Second Brigade plunged through the “tP to the front in every conflict after they ditches, across the meadows to the outer once joined the fighting part of the army. wall, and a break had been made in it. It has been asserted that one of them— Through this break we passed by a fil^ said to have been W. A. Todd—was the movement, where we found Lieutenanto first man to enter the fortifications at T. J. Jackson (“Stonewall”), who coi^ Chapultepec. That might have easily manded that day a section of Magruder’sJ been the case, as the Second Eegiment Battery, standing on one of his guns on occupied a very prominent position in the side of a cypress swamp and waving the storming of that castle. Some time defiance to the enemy with a flag. We since an article on the Mexican War in were soon inside the castle wall, where the Washington S(ar, in which the part we encountered the artillery and infantry played by this body of troops was not ' force constituting the garrison. After a properly mentioned, brought out a reply short conflict with us it surrendered. ' from Major Brindle, who was living as “I put the prisoners in charge of an late as last May—the date of his letter. officer of the Second Regiment, with a We make a few extracts containing local sufficient force under hie command, and references from that reply', of which a then proceeded to the eastern end of the copy is in the possession of Mr. Joshua castle, where I met General Bravo, who D. Parrish, of Ebensburg, who was on was in command of the garrison, and re¬ the field and vouches for the general ceived hie surrender. By this time the accuracy of Major Brindle’s statements : force operating at the back of the hill “As no allusion was made in that on the southeast began to push along the statement [the Slav’s] to the command road into the castle. The Second Regi¬ which first scaled the walls of the Castle ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers did of Chapultepec and encountered the not hoist any colors over the castle, sim¬ artillery force comprising its garrison, ply because we did not have any. It justice to that command and the truth was not until after our arrival in the of history requires that I should make City of Mexico that General Scott pre-, the following statement; The Second sented us with a stand of colors, which * Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, are now in the State Department at Har¬ composed of an extra number of com¬ risburg. So some other troops received : panies, was the Second Brigade of Gen¬ the distinction of planting the American eral Quitman’s Division. The duty of flag on the castle walls, though they., assaulting the Castle of Chapultepec on were not bv any means the first inside, ! the south side was assigned to this and while' they were planting the^^ division. * * * Quitman’s Division, colors we were busy taking the garri - to do its work, had to cross the meadowe and commander prisoners. lying on the southwesterly side of ths “ Lieutenant-Colonel Geary, althoq Tacubya causeway. These meadows painfully wounded, joined the brii were cut up by wide and deep ditches soon after it entered the castle yard, filled with water, from two to three feet continued with it all day, but was.n deep, with muddy bottoms. When the _ able to lead it. I was in command , :^ignAl. fqr the attack was given. General ^ during the day_^ It lost over twenty I profitabie, as well. in killed and wounded during After the disastrous defeat of Brad- the day, most of which was lost in the dock in “the battle of the Monon- attack on the castle. Geary and I each igahela,” by a far inferior force of French made written reports, which, I was in¬ and Indians under the command of the formed by Colonel Ainsworth, of the Sieur de Bojean on the 9th day of July, Record Office, on the 11th of May, 1755, the southwestern frontier of Penn¬ 1897, are not on file in the War Depart¬ sylvania, which at that time did not ex¬ ment. I have copies, among my papers tend beyond the “Allegheny Hills,” in Pennsylvania, which I will put on file was for licarly three years at the mercy in the War Department as soon as possi¬ of the savages. Their ferocity, it is true, ble. After our entrance into the City of was to some extent at least mitigated by Mexico, Colonel Roberts, of the Second the humane efforts of the French, espe- Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, i cially by M. Dumas, the French com¬ died, when General Scott issued an order mander of Fort Duquesne, who suc¬ for an election, under the laws of Penn¬ ceeded Contrecoeur shortly after that sylvania, to fill the vacancy. battle. There was little check on the “The regiment met in the tobacco part of the English, except the re¬ warehouse in the City of Mexico, when prisal of Colonel Armstrong in the de¬ the line officers, non-commissioned struction of the Indian town of Kittan¬ officers, and privates unanimously nom¬ ning, on the Ohio (now Allegheny), until inated me for Colonel of the regiment. about the summer of the year 1758, When I learned what they had done I Brigadier-General John Forbes, with a went to the place of meeting and request- ‘ force, all told, of between six and seven ed an interview with the officers and thousand men, composed of Provincials men. Having been informed by them from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, what they had done, I heartily thanked and North Carolina, and twelve hundred them for the honor they had done me, Highlanders, began the march against and requested them, for reasons I gave Fort Duquesne. them, to reconsider their action and The Virginians were commanded by .elect Geary Colonel, and that I would jColonel Washington, who had signalized 'accept the position of Lieutenant-Colonel. I himself by saving the remnant of Brad- After some conversation they finally 1 dock’s forces from annihilation at the acceded to my propositions ; Geary was Battle of the Monongahela. Col. Henry elected Colonel and I was elected Lieu¬ Bouquet, a talented Swiss officer, who tenant-Colonel by the men whom I hadp • had distinguished himself in the wars of led_ to victory. This was a promotion^' Europe immediately preceding that time which I highly appreciated. On myl- and had taken service with England, return to Pennsylvania I was made aj commanded a battalion of the Royal Major-General of Volunteers.” American Regiment, composed princi¬ pally of Germans from Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Regiment proper was commanded by Hon. William Denny, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, Colonel-in-Chief; Col. John Armstrong, R From, commanding the First Battalion ; Col. James Burd, the Second, and Col. Hugh Mercer, the Third. . Bouquet reached Raystown, now Bed¬ ford, early in June, 1758. Here palisades were put up, and, while awaiting the ar¬ rival of Forbes from Philadelpfoa, who was sufl’ering from an incurable malady of the stomach and bowels to such an extent that he had to be carried on a lit¬ ‘ *• * •^ fLft •Will ^ ter swung between two horses, an ani¬ mated discussion relative to the route to EARLY EISTORY OF LIGOHIER. be taken was participated in by Arm¬ strong, Bouquet, and Washington. nteppsiing Facts Concerning the Armstrong insisted that the route ■Westmoreland Town Which is -i r., should be through Pennsylvania, while ' Celebrating To-day. Washington was “sanguine and obsti¬ The town of Ligonier, in Westmore¬ nate” to march to Fort Cumberland on land County, has yesterday and to-day the Potomac, distant thirty-four miles, and there take the road made by Brad- been i;iving itself up to a grand carnival dock. Sir John Sinclair, Quartermaster and celebration, the occasion being the of the British Army, who Had accompa¬ forme 1 dedication by the Grand Army nied Braddock, coincided in opinion with and their friends of cannon recently re¬ Armstrong; and Forbes and Bouquet ceived from the War Department of the who paid great deference to the views of United .States Government. The occa¬ i"’-^the man who had surprised Captain sion may be seized, also, for a brief re- Jacobs two years before at Kittanning, cital of the early history of Fort Lig- gave in, and the work of cutting a new f •. 1 oni^^^foich is very interesting, and - .oad was immecliatery begun. The line _ " to Chwama ^ of this road has since been known as * * * to Kackanapaulin Porbes’ Route, and was of immense ser- to Loyal Hannin 18 m * » » from'.'l 'vice to the early settlers. Loyal Hannin to Shanoppin^s. -town Instead of advancing rapidly, as Rrad- 50 m.” dock bad done, Forbes, the state of The fort was located on the north bank J whose health would not permit of any of the Loyalhanna. It was square— other course, proceeded slowly, taking ; about one hundred feet each way—with every precaution to guard against sur-1 bastions at the corners. On the north¬ prise, erecting stockades and fortifica¬ western side was a ravelin connected tions at suitable and convenient points with the two bastions on the two cor¬ along the route. It was agreed that all ners bv a stockade. The intrenchments the forces should gather at the western were of cribs built of logs filled in with base of Laurel Hill, near the “ Loyal- earth, all about ten feet through a sec¬ hannon,” and erect suitable intrench- tion. On the top of the intrenchment, ments before proceeding further ; and which was about twelve feet high, was Bouquet was already at this point early secured a line of wooden pickets about • in September, by the time Forbes arrived five feet in length, sharpened at the end, at Raystown, where he was joined by and projecting outward at an angle of '' '^'Washington. Colonel Burd was at this , about thirty-five degrees from the hori¬ time erecting a stockade and building zontal. In the bastion on the southern storehouses at Loyalhanna. ; corner was located the magazine. Near The name Loyalhanna sounds like a -the northern bastion were the ofidcers’ word of English derivation; such how¬ barracks, and adjoining it a storehouse, ever is not the case. It is distinctively i land also a storehouse on the southwestern of Indian origin—of the Delaware ton- j {side. Along the bank of the creek, gue; and whether first applied as the i 'which here runs in a direction a few de¬ name of an Indian town, or to a creek or grees north of west, was situated a line stream, authorities diflfer. According to | of retrenchments, or exterior defences. Heckwelder it is corrupted from Laweel- The intrenchmem; was uistant aoOuc onefi l^anne, signifying the middle stream. ' hundred and fifty feet from the creek, ^ Hanne means a stream of flowing water— the bank of which, except opposite the) notably a rapid stream, and is applied to northwestern bastion, is a high bluff. creek "and river. The Algonquin word On the northward was another line off for river, according to Mr. Russel Errett retrenchments, distant about one hun- J is Sipn. John McCullough, who was dred feet from the fort. captured from the Conococheagne settle¬ Outside of this, at a short distance, ment on the 25th of July, 1756, in his was a spring run, running nearly du history of his captivity, says: “I must west, reached by a gallery or covered pass over many occurences that happen¬ way. At the eastern ends these n ed on our way to Pittsburg, excepting trenchments had each a wing, one aboutj one or two. The morning before we ninety feet and the other about fifty came to Kee-ak-kshee-man-nit-toos, feet, approaching each other at almoi which signifies Cut Spirit, an old town right angles from the lines from which at the junction of La-el-han-neck, or they projected, and distant from each Middle Creek, and Quin-nim-mough- other at the opening about one hundred koong, or Can-na-maugh, or Otter Creek, and fifty feet. The entire distance here as the word signifies,” etc. was about two hundred and fifty feet. Some designated the creek the Kiski- A line extending through the fort, from minetas and the town Loyalhanna, Loyal- northeast to southwest, from one re-' banning, or Loyal Hannon, the French trenchment to the other, was about commanders mistakenly designating it three hundred feet. At the western “ Royal Hannon ” and “ Royal Annon.” end the opening was about two hun¬ Christopher Gist, an agent of the Ohio dred feet. From east to west the dia-^ Companjq and friend of Washington, on tance was about three hundred fedi^ a journey of exploration in 1750, kept From the southern oblique angle of the notes for an official report, from which eastern bastion projected a line of com-- the following extract is quoted : “ Mon¬ munication with tne advanced fascine day, 12th Nov., 1750, set out from Stoney battery. Several buildings, including Creek N. 45, W. 8 N. crossed a great officers’ houses and a large storehouse, \ Laurel Mountain (Laurel Hill) * * * were situated inside of the retrench¬ ) Tuesday 13.—Rain and Snow * * * ments, and with the fort proper accom¬ ) Wednesday 14.—set out in 45 W 6 M to modated at one time, in the autumn of 1 Loyalhannon an old Town on a Creek of 1758, four thousand, three hundred Ohio called Kiscominitas.” In the map troops. — Fry A JeflFerson’s — accompanying Just at what time the fort received Gist’s report Loyalhanna is marked as an the name of Ligonier is not certain. Indian town, and the stream the Kiskke- Forbes, who died in Philadelphia short¬ minetas. ly after the close of the campaign, in hi From an account accompanying Pat¬ letters from the place, heads th^ ten’s map, the following extract my be ‘‘From my camp at Loyal Hannon. of local interest: “ From Ray’s Town to Post, in his journal, December 4, 17 the Shawonese Cabbin 8 miles * * * drew provision (at Pittsburg) “ for To the top of the Allegheny Mountains 8 General Forbes, in his report to GoV^F* nor Denny of the success of the expedi journey to Fort J.igonier ”—the earliest tion, made this suggestion : ” 1 must bef record of the name. that yon recommend to yotir A6seuibl3 ■ >Sir John Ligonier. in whose honor the the building of a blockhouse and saw fort was named, was a British General, mill upon the Niskiminctas, near tin of Huguenot descent, who distinguished Loyalhanna, as a thing of the utmoa , himself at Blenheim, Ondenarde, Rami- consequence to the jirovince, if they ha_c hes, and Malplaquet, and became Com- any intention of jtrofiting by this acqui mander-in-Chief ff the British Army sition.” Previous to that time, on Octo in 1757, and died du 1770, aged ninetv- ber 22, 175S, Forbes, writing from Rays one years. town, said that whether the expeditioi After the defeat of Major Grant, near should be successful or not, the chain o I Fort Du(|uesne, the French, emboldened forts frem the Loyalhanna to Carlisle I by their success, but despairing of the should be gaVrisoned, and estimate.d that ultimate result on account of their there should be three hundred at Loyal¬ weakness and the strength of the Eng¬ hanna and two hundred at Raystown. lish, yet hoping to deceive the enemy During Pontiac’s War, in May, 17G3, by a pretense of strength, sent a small Fort Ligonier, then commanded by Lieu¬ force of French. Canadians, and Indians, tenant Blane, of the Royal American under M. de Vetri, to attack the fort ; Regiment, was invested by the Indians, but this expedition was routed in the and Captain Ecuyer, who commanded at woods near Fort Ligonier bv the Penn¬ Fort Pitt, in writing to Colonel Bouquet, sylvanians under Colonel Burd, the at Carlisle, expressed the greatest anxiety effect of which was that the Indians, about the probable fate of Fort Ligonier. who had long been disaffected and hope¬ Although frequently assaulted, it was less of success, could never more be in¬ successfully defended by the garrison duced to assist their allies in battle in until relieved by Bouquet about the Ist the ^ alley of the Ohio, although they of August. Immediately this ablest of did harass convoys and prowl around in European campaigners- against Indians, the vicinity of the fort for several years leaving his heavy artillery, oxen, and all afterward. needless war material at Fort Ligonier. _ Near this fort Washington was at one set out for Fort Pitt with a convoy of time during the campaign in the greatest three hundred and fifty packhorses. On peril that he ever was in in battle. A August 5th his force was attacked by considerable force of the enemy was the Indians near Bushy Run, or more reconnoitering the English position properly at Edge Hill. Thjs was the within a couple of miles of the fort, and most desperate attack ever made by In¬ Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer, with a force dians, if we except, perhaps, the affair of Virginians, was sent to dislodge it, at Wounded Knee, Montana, a few years the result of which was a sharp engage¬ ago. The convoy was protected by the ment, during which the firing appeared troops disposed in companies in a circle to approach the fort, and those within around it. This the savages surrounded, thinking Mercer was being forced back, and made frequent assaults, which re¬ \Ya8hington asked for volunteers to go to quired all the valor of the troops to his assistance. Mercer’s forces meeting -withstand, although they outnumbered this detachment in the dusk of the even¬ the Indians. ing, and some of them mistaking Wash¬ On the following day the attack was ington’s party for the enemy, although renewed, and in the heat of the action they had been notified of his approach, , Bouquet conceived the brilliant design of opened fire on themj which was returned, i entrapping the Indians. He therefore and, according to his own narrative, was ordered two companies on the Ligonier only put a stop to by Washington going 1 side of the circle to conceal themselves, along the line and “ knocking up the 1 and two on the Fort Pitt side to do like¬ presented pieces with his sword.” wise, and the others to spread out to Washington, w'ho had opposed the cover this space. The Indians, mistak¬ route taken, as any man of military pru¬ ing this movement for a retreat, burst dence might have done, now did all in upon the new line with such impetuosity his pow’er to prevent the abandonment that it was with the greatest difficulty of the campaign until the following sum¬ they were prevented from penetrating to mer, and begged permission to lead the i the camp. At this juncture of the fight way, and, in conjunction with Colonel the companies next Ligonier, outside of Armstrong, pressed on, and on the 17th the improvised line, attacked the massed of November was at Bushy Run, where enemy with telling effect, driving them he learned of the weakness and helpless¬ around to the Fort Pitt side, where the ness of the French, and, pressing on, r other two companies delivered a murder¬ Forbes, with his whole army, was en-‘, ous fire, completely routing the Indians, camped at Turtle Creek on the 24th of‘ who fled in all directions. Nevertheless, November. Here they were brought they hung around the troops, and Bou¬ word that the enemy had abandoned the- quet expressed doubt about the result place and that Fort Duquesnew'as on fire,-' were he to be attacked on the following and a company of cavalry, under Captain^ day. Ilazlet, w'as sent forward to extinguish® Fort Pitt was relieved without further the flames, but Vere too late. On theA molestation, however, and there were no 25th the whole army took possession ol^ more great fights in the vicinity until the site of the Fort. ; m>- ——31 •f. II*War of the Revolution, although i ird Dunmore’s war occurred in iTiit the Indians of the Ohio directed hostilities against the Virginians, on account of Cresap’s butchery of peaceful 1* *■ Indians, including the family of Logan, at the mouth of Capatma OreeK, a - though about this time an incident occurred that required all the tact of Arthur St. Clair to prevent a war I This was the murder at the mouth ofi Hinckston’s Run, now Fourteenth Ward, TohStown of a friendly Delawpe | inS named Wipey, whose Christian name or first name, is given bv some authorities as Joseph, and by others as

spelled his name, Hinkson—and James tiooner and, while a reward of £100 was^olTered for their arrest, they were never delivered to justice, although Hinckston, with eighteen rnen, was at the Lt of justice at Hannastown short¬ ly afterward and a larger force was

^'^Hannastown was the county seat of Westmoreland County, which w^ ed February 26. 1773, from Bedford Countv, which had bem created from Cumberland County March 9, 1771. • Wipey was shot while fishing in a canoe the Conemaugh and his body conceal- at the mouth of Walnut Run, but his can6e, floating down the stream, was seen and recognized by some Indians who dwelt where New Florence now stands, which led to the discovery of the mur¬ der. Wipey lived in what is now Wheatfield Township, Indiana County, vyhither he had moved from the settle¬ ment near Frankstown when the rest ot the Delawares moved to the Chio. The fort originally erected had by this time fallen to decay, but during the Revolution a stockade was erected there called Fort Preservation, which was ot great service during that struggle, and during the Indian wars following. The site of the fort is owned by R. M. Graham, Esq., who, with conamendable public spirit, offers a site for the erection