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wore busily standing shoveling rand from ray eyes. Bnt there ie still a roercifnl completely destroyed, will be rebuilt im- member of Poet of the first floors. The scene at 8». Oolum 30 the Grand Army. tied in for He me The works is owned and heaven, has spared my mediately. op- RELIEF FORCES Hie terrible death a hia’s church was awful will canse deep feel- TWO ROADS OF LIFE. Forty or fifty erated by the Cambria Iron bodies had been carried it wife.” Company. ing of sorrow among cot only his many in*o and laid oa The buildings will be rebuilt I went a little farther. John immediately friends in thie bnt the seats. The had been D. Jones' in Order and vicinity tbronghont the VALLEY muddy following and in as goon as Arranged Working With ON'K LEADS HBAVBNWARD, THK OTHER TO DEATH a put operation Desperate OF former a name possible. HE identified: Kate Charles A policeman spurred horse in the country, his being a familiar one Frank, Reis, The lost at this point is complete. The Energy at Pittsburg—Contributions THK DAMNED. James and Justice opposite direction. Something inspired among the 300,000 members of the order Lightner wife, of the land on which it stood is to as rue to to day barren From Towns. of Peace Edward O’Neill’s Louis speak him, too, My inquiry Many Knights of Pythias. baby, Wine- and desolate as if it stood in the midst of seller and Miss Rose brought hack this piteons reply: ”1 and wife, McAnan, Mrs. the Sahara desert. Cambria Iron Com- The Broad and Path and Its Allurements for a little eon are all who are alive of a Easy James P. McConaliughy, Keelan, loses its saw pany great supply stores at this Pittsburg, Jnne 2.—The FIENDS AT WORK. Prescribes Four Thomas Mrs. P. family of 14 1 most of them go usually quiet Young Men—Dr.Talmage Fagan. Kush, Mrs. W. point. The to the stock alone will down.” damage quiet streets of on were for Life's Travellers Mrs. Pittsburg Sunday Human Vulture* on Things Kirby, Hutchin, Thomas, son of amount to The was Preying; the Dead at It was still a of a $50,000. building Michael quarter mile to Mor- to-day alive with excited Johnstown. to Shun. Hayes. valued at and is a people, eagerly Willi a relville. Bnt here was the next testi- $150,000 total Victims of news from SirewB A SADLY PATHETIC SIGHT. loss. The company which ad- seeking tlooded, destroyed Johnstown, Jane 2.—It makes one Myriad heard from a offices, mony, garden gate: “A in a row join the store, is a haYidsome structure. Johnstown. In (ront of the bul- teel almost ashamed to call himself a man to the Lying in this church were five fripnd of mine, W. 9. Weaver, a promi- newspaper SfitcuU Ttltgrnm RtqitUr. It was protected the first bnt children, from two to six years old. No nent confectioner, was saved bnt by building, letins the crowds were so dense as to almost and know that others who bear the same Brooklyn, June *2.—The Rev. T. De by uh, nevertheless is almost one had identified them this afternoon. of his nearest relatives are all totally destroyed. name the twenty The entirely suspend travel, and each new pos- have converted themselves into Witt Talmage, D. D., preached at the Torrent. at Their little curls were matted with lost.” Dartmouth Clnb, which employes mud; ter was an of the works was read with interest that to hnman vultures, on the dead. Tabernacle After the their nostrils were filled with sand and boarded, carried away many preying to-day. expounding ARKITKO AT LAST ON THE SCENE. in the flood. It contained was more than mere Men are their eyes completely covered. No many occu- curiosity. Telegraph carrying shotguns and tevolvers Scriptures, he gave out that popular hymn In Morrelville at last. “Yon want pants at the time. None were saved. and woe one had come to wash away the dirt from news, offices were choked with people trying in betide the stranger who looks by A. M. Toplady, beginning: do remarked a Estimates of the losses of the Cambria their tinv faces or the blood stains from yon?” pale-faced young vain to receive some even Your harps, ye trembling faint*, Iron word from suspiciously at any article. Goods their woman. “Go there to Young’s livery Company is given at from $2,000,- Down from the willow* take. waters braises. Where are their parents ? friends and of give op relatives in the value were the dead 000 to stricken great sold in town to- eding stable and look upstairs.” I did so. $2,500,000. Bnt little of this can being Across the aisle lay the massive frame of a He took for hie text Proverbs x'ii, *20: “A in a long barn of a were be recovered. city. When the wires started work- for a drink of Hungarian laborer. Strong men as well There, hall, day whisky. of fools shall be some women companion destroyed as children were the torrent’s victims. grouped eighty people—men ing to JohnBtown this morning there and children. They were wounded from MRS. HALFORD’8 ESCAPE. Following ie a verbatim report of the ser- Men were at York in lower Yoder Cath- UNDER MARTIAL LAW. were on file at the Western 1000 battles with the debris, or sick from Union, mon: M m Cannot Number or (iive Them Christian olic and Grand a Protest- expos- Cemetery View, over The President'* Wile and \m\ ure. Some were sat telegraphic inquiries from all the con- Secretary’s ant lying down, others up. Militia Take of the it the said a con- cemetery, this afternoon digging Charge tinent for friends and In the Flood. “May please court,” while a few about. A relatives. Of these Daughters Caught trenches. The bodies that were exposed very limped single Wrecked Train. victed when asked if he had Burial. labored them. It however, few will ever be answered. Pittsbcboh, June 2.—The wife and criminal, any- when the waters are in bad country snrgeon among began falling Johnstown, June 2.—One of the safety in the seven car loads of to before sentence of death was was an improvised hospital to make a city Early morning twodanghters of E. W. Halford, President thing say condition. Some have already been in- left the Union dootor crmmittee said to a reporter this even- provisions depot for Johns- it the court, terred. In the haste and excitement no weep. Harrison’s were victims passed upon him, “may please town on a special train. Many cars loaded Secretary, nearly Over in Johnstown proper it was found ing: “For God’s sake, tell them at bad has been rnin. I re- definite seems to have been with and of the flood. were in a train which company my arrangements that auolher Had been formed in provisions, bedding clothes, ar- They made hospital to the rush of to It ICS OF STRICKEN THOUSANDS for funeral services. The only sug- Pittsburg stop sightseers from North and was in ceived the blessings of good parents, and, r: the Park Opera House. Thirty-three riving points West, South, caught the torrent, and one car, gestion that coaid be obtained at Morrel- this stricken locality. There is enough are forwarded to the scene of 13 was in return to avoid all evil associ- homeless persons were housed there. One being rapidly containing persons, swept away. promised ville was that all the bodies would be here to last for and the morbid disaster. Mrs. Halford and were rescued of there, Edward Fisher, a young man, weeks, daughters ations. Had I kept my promise I should buried and general memorial services held the trainmen and taken to tried to commit three times during of these can as well be THOUSANDS OF GENEROUS GUTS. by Ebensbnrg, have been saved this and been free after the is alleviated. curiosity people just whence shame, i in the loss ot Their Kintlml nnd Refuse to he present euderiug the they will be sent to Washington. previous night, because of grief over gratified later as now. The crowds of A scene of activity was presented at the from this load of guili that hangs round how’thi train men perished. the drowning of his parents and sisters. Chamber of Commerce tfcio morning. A me like a vulture, threatening to drag me Comforted, cnrions have greatly embarrassed ns to- In a talk to-day with Conductor Ball, of number of gentlemen of the Relief Com- to justice for crimes yet nnrevealed. I, The authorities must it.” the first section of the day express east, PROMINENT DEAD. day. stop mittee were present receiving telegrams, THE FLOOD STILL ON who once moved in the first circles o laid up at Conemaugh ou the night of the Adjutant-General Hastings, N. G. P., official and private telegrams from towns society, and have been the guest of dis- disaster, he said: “The first and second Names of Welt Kuown People Who Went and Ma)or Sander have assumed control of and cities in this and other States, receiv- tinguished public men, am lost, anil all the Arm of the Bravest Down In the Flood. AND 11. & 0. TRAFFIC AT CUMBBRLAND Heart and Unnerve Rescuer— sectious stopped side by side at Conemaugh everything at Johnstown. Nothing isle- ing contributions of money from individ- through bad company.” on PARALYZBD. but one of the a vnd the Whole Extent of the Horror Real- Friday afternoon account of tho wash- Perhaps the day has revealed no more gal nnless it hears his signature. One ef- uals and answering questions for those This is thousand proofs out at The second was next to startling fact than that several of the fect of this work is making it- who came to seek information. A that the companion of fools shall he de- w•.; a M;i-s of Ruins and the Dead Everywhere— Lilley. systematic special the hill, the first on the ontside. Sudden- wealthiest and most eminent citizens of self felt. The town is guarded by Co. H, train conveying two fire engines and stroyed. It is the invariable rule. There the Almost Unavailing—Many Thrilling Twelve Hundred Passengers Waiting for the Rushing to Care for Living ly 1 saw what looked like a wall of water. Johnstown were drowned, with their en- of the Sixth Regiment, Lieutenant Leggett hose carriages with full quota of firemen is a well man in the wards of a hospital, Totreals to Subside—A That the Death Scenes. It was 30 feet high. We barely had time tire families. The first is James McMil- in command. New members were sworn left here about 12 p. m. for Johnstown. Report where there are a hundred people sick with to notify the passengers and they nearly all len, one of the Vice Presidents of the great in by him, and they are makiog excellent Twenty-eight policemen accompanied Harper's Perry Bridge is Gone— ship fever, and be will not he so apt to disease as a man tied np the hillside. One old man who Cambria Iron Works. He was about 60 soldiers. Special police are numerous, and them, under command of Inspector McAl- Excitement at Piedmont. take the good would be with his sonretnrned for some reason, was years of age, and has long been a resident regulations are so strict that the smoking lese. The coffin manufactories are worked apt to be smitten with moral distempter, drowned. Two cars went down in the cur- of the HiH residence wpi the hand- of a is General to their fullest and coffins are if shut with companions. So- city. cigar prohibited. Hastings capacity, up iniquitous rows, Pa ,June 2—When are In olden times were herded to- ed grin, hat it now had a smile of fiendish rent. I do not know how many were somest and most richly famished in expresses the opinion that more troops being shipped rapidly. This morning 10 Special Telegram to the PuQinter. prisoners to Pitta- to describe the drowned. We saw two on of the cars. Johnstown. It was demolished. necessary. car loads were sent in the same cell, but each otn --r.rten-lnt Pitcairn telegraphed mockery. It ie impossible top utterly down, containing 2,200 Md., Jane ‘A—The eit- gether Cumberland, the so of Main street Whole houses Toe water set fire to a lot of lime and the He was a widower and had living with Mr. Alex. Hart is in charge of the coffins. They will be distributed at vari- learned the vices of all culprits, that Johnstown was an- appearance aation here remains Ff i*' night a unchanged, except of reformed incar- | have been swept down Main street and fire caught two Pullman cars, which were him widowed daughter and her chil- special police. He has lost his wife and ous points along the river where the dead that, instead being by to the tacts as but no was all dren. All went down the flood with the this mis- have been collected. that the crowd of travelers has ceration, the day of liberation turned them ... *ted. he tame very close become lodged The wreck is piled destroyed, person burned, family. Notwithstanding great delayed fortune he is the work of a Hercules out not men. gv the second story windows. The the passengers having left the train liefore hnnse, and have not been heard of since. doing THE COUNTRY RESPONDS NOBLY. greatly increased. There mnst be twelve upon society beasts, 'hough be had not seen the high ^e coaid from the wreck into the cars caught. There were about 100 His fortune was estimated at over a mil- in his own way. Gen. Hastings’ head- SHUN THK SKEPTIC. reporter step Reports are coming in from a large num- hundred passengers waiting to go East. To that Johnstown is theaaditoriam of the House. The on the section, which was made np lion. quarters are at the ! c.-v say Opera persons ber of towns throughout the Western part The trains continue to arrive from the First, I warn you to shun the skeptic saw- of • depot. A is established at facts' ruins consist of parte of houses, trees, day coaches.’’ prohibition's fathkk a VICTIM. supply depot of this Eastern Ohio and Vir- the man who puts bis lingers in hnt statirg the State, West West and are at once side tracked. Pas- young reels from the wire After the inad rush the went this aDd many needy are ings, factory. Many passengers John of the point people of citizen’s mass his vest and