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He Valley of Death NO. 217 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, Daffney 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. Pennsylvania 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 suicide 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.
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