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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. William‘•port. Penn., has undergone the experience of being flooded with thirty-four feet of water, of having the Susquehanna 'boom taken out with 200,000,000 feet of logs and 40,000,000 feet of sawed lumber; mills carried away and others wrecked; business and industrial establishments wrecked, and about twenty lives lost. A ruND in aid of Pennsylvania flood suffer ers is being raised in Berlin. The Pennsylvania Railroad was badly crippled by the flood at Johnstown. Its losses will run into the millions. Gover.vor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has issued a strong appeal to the people of the United States on behalf of the the flood suf ferers. On the first day that subscriptions were opened in New York city nearly $100,- €00 were contributed. Philadelphia raised about $150,000 in two days. The number of lives lost by the giving way of abridge at Williamsport. Penn., was in creased by later reports to sixty, mostly boys. First accounts made the number thirty. Be sides this terrible casualty, many other peo ple in Williamsport and vicinity were drowned in the inundation. The lumber loss at Williamsport and Lock Haven is put at over $4,000,000. A freight train was wrecked on the North Pennsylvania railway and two tramps were killed. Engineer Hiram Meek was badly in jured. The English brewing syndicate has pur chased the second largest brewery establish ment in this country—the Ballantine Brew ery, of Newark, N. J. The _ syndicate for the plant is $4,"500,< Fifty thousand children marched in the annual parade of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Sun day-schools. No choice having been made by the people, the New Hampshire Legislature met at Concord and elected David H. Goodell, a Republican, Governor. John and Henry Gilley, brothers were killed by a fall of top coal at Honey Brook Colliery, near Wilkesbarre, Penn. Governor Goodell was inaugurated at Concord, N. H., in the presence of 20.000 people. ud by the South ami West. Three boys were drowned while attempt ing to cross the Olentangy River at Colum bus, Ohio. The English syndicate, which for some time past has been buying up American breweries, has obtained control of Denver’s two leading properties. The amount paid is $3,000,000. Hull Brothers, the largest retail grocery and provision dealers in Detroit, have failed for $134,473. Dr. Oswald Owen, of Anderson County, S. C., was shot and instantly killed by his stepson. Owen assaulted his wife, and, upon being remonstrated with by his steo- son, turned upon him with an uplifted knife. The lad retreated a few steps and then drew a pistol and shot his drunken stepfather through the heart. Maryland, next to Pennsvlvania, suf fered most heavily from the floods. Many lives were lost, and the pecuniary damage amounts to millions of dollars. Every bridge in Frederick County was washed away. Miss Annie McMaster, of Havre de Grace, Md., a beautiful girl of twenty years, killed herself with her brother's revolver on account of a quarrel with Daniel W. Kenley, to whom she was engaged to be married. Lawrence Murry, a bachelor, aged forty- six years, aud his mother, aged eighty, resid ing on an unfrequented road in Argentine township, Green County, Mich., were found mysteriously murdered in their home. Both were shot in the back of the head, and had been dead several days. Joseph W. Arnold, a wealthy farmer, ■who resided two miles from Springfield, 111., was shot and killed by his wife as the result of a domestic quarrel. Fire destroyed five blocks of residences in Jacksonville, Fla., causing an estimated total loss of $100,000. The annual grand council of the five civilized Indian nations and allied tribes met at Purcell, Indian Territory. The tribes represented were the Cherokees, Otoes, Miss our is, Poncas, Kiowas, Shawnees and iWichitas. Boudinot, a Cherokee, was - elected Chief. bAudits made an at tack upon the depot at Silver- station, Mon tana, and murdered Agent Jobst and Tele- graph Operator Burrell. They secured $200,- OOO. The Sheriff pursued and killed two rob bers, but the others escaped with the booty. Fire at Biloxi, Miss., destroyed twenty- six business houses and dwellings, causing a loss of over $100,000. Fire at Seattle, Washington Territory, House on Front entire busi- i was esti- originating in Frye’s Opera Fr E men were drowned during a hurri cane at Greenville, Ohio. J. H. Benjamin, editor of the Deland (Fla.) JTetvs, shot and killed Captain J. W. Douglass, a prominent politician, at New Smirna, Fla. It was the outcome of a long standing feud. appointments: •ge B. Fisher, of Washington. The President made these First Auditor, Treasury, Georj Delaware; Second Auditor, Treasury, Joab N. Patterson, of New Hampshire; United States Attorney, Lewis E. Parsons, Jr., of Alabama, for the Northern aud Middle Dis tricts of Alabama. John Anton Wolff Grip, the new Minis ter of Sweden and Norway to the United ■States, presented his credentials to thePresi- dent. The President replied to the Minister's speech. The reduction of the public debt during May amounted to $8,702,877.27. The total cash in the Treasury is $629,169,888.72. The President has appointed Charles L. Knapp, of New York, to be Consul General of the United States at Montreal, Canada, .and Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to be Consul at Dublin, Ireland. President Harrison has been in constant communication with Governor Beaver, of (Pennsylvania, concerning the sufferers by Johnstown flood. A meeting of Washington citizens to raise funds for the sufferers was presided over by the President, and the sum of $10,000 contributed. Postmastep-General Wanamaker has sent circulars to 100 of the largest postoffices in the country with a view to learn the pos sibility of reducing wor k on Sunday. j Captain Meade, the commandant at the ’Washington Navy Yard, has made a recom- Tnendation to Secretary Tracy that Congress tbe asked for a sufficient appropriation to ’arect a wall around the water front of the yard to prevent overflow by future freshets. The President made the following appoint- .ments: United States Attorney for the •Western District of North Carolina, Charles Price, of North Carolina; United States At torney for the Northern District of Miss issippi, Henrv C. Niles, of Mississippi; United ;States, Marshal for the Western District of Louisiana, J olin iigueaux, of Louisiana. Foreign. Messrs. Tosixins and Martin, English men, were recently stoned to death by a mob •of mountain Indians at Potosi, Bolivia. • The Brazilian Ministry has resigned. Victor Maclin, the famous brigand chief ■who has terrorized Cuba for years aud made Ahe lives of travelers a plaything, was exe cuted at Havana in the presence of 30,000 people. The new harbor at Calais, France, was formally declared open by President Carnot ■in the presence of a great throng of people. Heavy storms of rain and lightning have occurred in the Midlands of England. The lower part of Liverpool was under water. A bank building at Preston nas been struck by lightning. Numerous fatalities are reported. The London Stock Exchange subscribed $5000 in aid of the Johnstown flood sufferers. A meeting of Americans was called in Paris by Minister Reid, to express sympathy 'with the Pennsylvania sufferers. The mutilated body of a woman, tied in two parcels, recalling the methods of “Jack the Ripper," was found floating in the Thames, at London. A hurricane and waterspout at Reichen- b&ch, Germany, have caused great loss of life and property. The Duke of Portland’s colt, Donovr.n,won the Derby, England's greatest annual racing event. At the United States Legation in Paris a meeting of Americans subscribed $8000 for ghe Pennsylvania flood sufferers, the Paris Municipal Council contributed $1000 for the same cnarity. Disastrous floods destroyed life, crops and property in Bavaria. Fire in the village of Libionoch, in Prus sian Silesia, destroyed 105 houses. The cotton mills at Offenborg, Baden, were destroyed by fire and eight fives were lost. The loss by fire is $100,000. The Marchioness deChasteler, belonging to one of the oldest of the noble families of Bel gium, was fonnd murdered in her bed at her residence, Chateaux Moulbaix, at Mons, hav ing been shot through the heart. She was murdered for refusing a reduction of rent. A fund has been opened in Vienna for the Pennsylvania flojd sufferers. LATER~NEWS. By the capsizing of a boat in the Provi dence (R. I.) harbor John Moran, aged eight een; James McNiff, nineteen, and William Hart, sixteen, were drowned. Eleven business houses and offices in Syracuse, Kan. r were burned. John Feaster and Charles Colston, both colored, were hanged on the same scaffold at Yorkville, S. C., for the murder of W. C. Abernathy, a merchant. Two men murdered the wife and son of Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist minister in Scott County, Tenn. They secured $74 in money and then burned the house. The President has appointed Mahlon Chance, of New York, Inspector of Foreign Labor. Colonel J. C. Keltox has been appointed Adjutant-General of the United States Army to succeed General Drum, retired. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1828, and was gradu ated at the Military Academy at West Point July 1, 1851. A teacher named Keeling, while travel ing by train to Birmingham, England, with his sweetheart, named Lister, killed the wo man and threw her body out of the carriage. He then committed suicide. Forty-three persons committed suicide in Vienna in May. Arrangements have been made by thi State of Pennsylvania to loan the city ol Johnstown $1,000,009 to be used in rebuilding. A westbound engine and car went through the bridge west of Petersburg, r Penn., and Engineer Port and Fireman Hoffright were killed. A misplaced sn itch caused the ac cident. A tornado wrecked many buildings at Danvers, 111. A church was destroyed, freight cars blown from the track, a tile factory ruined and many barns and dwell ings unroofed. The western part of Sedg wick County and the eastern part of King- man County, in Kansas, suffered greatly, and a space twenty miles long by five miles wide was swept over by the tornado. A farmer named Rogers and his family were killed, and many others are homeless. F. B. Reynolds and Thomas J. Lloyd, who murdered the wife of Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist minister in Scott County, Tenn., and his ten-year-old son, and then robbed and burned the house, were taken from jail and lynched. The Dunkards have held their annual national meeting at Harrisonburg, Va. Mr. McLeod, agent for Mrs. Sterling’s plantation, got into an altercation with some colored men at a saloon and he shot and in stantly killed two of them in Greenville, Miss. President Harrison has accepted an in. vitation from Secretary Blaine to spend two weeks at the latter’s cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., during July. The United States steamer Dispatch will take the Presidential party t- '«» ready to go fie back. Secretary Tracy issued an order in re gard to the new plan of keeping the accounts of the navy so as not to accumulate unnec- cessary stocks of supplies. The President has commuted the sentence Captain George A. Armes, the retired of army officer who assaulted Governor Beaver and was sentenced by court martial to be dis missed from the service, to confinement within such limits as the Secretary of "War may prescribe and to deprivation of right to wear the uniform and insignia of his rank in the army for a period of five years. During the Persian Shah’s visit to St. Petersburg, a secret treaty was made between Russia and Persia for the temporary annex ation of Northern Persia to Russia in certain cases. Russia threatens the Shah if he makes concessions to England. Four hundred natives were killed in the recent fight with the Germans at Saadani, on the east coast of Africa. The bulk of the property destroyed belonged to British In dians. The statue of Giordano Bruno, the martyr, was unveiled at Rome with imposing cere monies. Thirty thousand persons, including students and deputations from various parts of Italy, marched in procession through the principal streets. A liberal Ministry has been formed in Brazil with \icomte Pretoas President. AIDS TO THE CENSUS CHIEF. Superintendent Porter's Expert and Experienced Assistants. Superintendent of the Census Porter will be aided in the preparation of the Eleventh census by the following experts and special- its whom he has just chosen; S. N. North, of Boston, Secretary of the National Association of Vtool Manufactur ers, who will have charge of the wool and worsted industries aud the press of the United States. Henry T. Cook, of Trenton, an experienced manufacturing potter, will be in charge of the china and pottery industries. John S. Billings of the United States army will have charge of the mortality and vital statistics. Henry Bowers, of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Chemical Association of the United States, will look to the statistics of the chemi cal and allied industries. Henry Gonnett, of the Geological Survey, will have cuarge of the Geographical Depart ment. Frederick W. Kruse, of Glean, N. Y., a prominent lawyer and for five years a mem ber of the Legislative Assembly, will see to the presentation of local finance. . M illiarn C. Hunt, of the Bureau of Statis tics of Massachusetts, will preside over the Department of Social Statistics. J- N. Upton, of New Hampshire, formerlv Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will have charge of State finance and indebted ness. Messrs. North, Billings, Bowers, Gonnett and Upton gained prominence by their work on the census of I860. THOUSANDS BUTCHERED. Western Abyssinia Made a Desert by the Conquering Mahdists. Missionary letters to the Anti-Slavery Society say that the Mahdists have made Western Abyssinia a desert. Whole flocks and herds have been de stroyed, thousands of Christians have been thrown into slavery, thousands of others have been butchered and hundreds of the noblest inhabitants have been taken to Mecca as slaves in violation of treaties. There will be twenty-five places to fill in the Pennsylvania Legislature next season on account of the expiration of the terms of twelve Democrats and ihirteen Republicans. 1 Diagram of the Upper Coaamavgh Talley, Showing the Lake and Heaerroir, Which War* the of the Unparalleled Inundation^—-Secured from Pennsylvania State Geological Surrey, kindly loaned ns by the Baltimore Md, HBRALD—See Key Below* !.V»« ■ V> UftOM 0/?£. > • ‘ *V ; ->• -i AJ/A/EZ yv x'.-tv/i/to*A M. i €»fi J? «?>. .. Jo?' MU£f arjf/£ieo*eMo<W M4P *t*m/*i6 Afitii, TMe Coo*frAT\ THoq rue Sfmtrt ora( A r# BtAt/fsi'n-t b * - -• A woolen, mills. H—Homes of the 5,M0 morfctngmen employed Works. W—Cambria City. Johnstown and Cambria Cities «ji 000 souls. M—Sheridan (800 inhabitants). T—Sting Hollow, 12 ■ bodies carried down the river. X—Continuation of the river at diagram), which were completely submerged. Tne picture in the upper left-hand earner shows the City of Jot > KEY. A—Conemaugh Lake and Reservoir (sev eral miles long and 14 miles above Johns- toum), whose broken dam flooded the valley. B—Town of South Forks (2,000 inhabitants). C—Mineral Point (800 inhabitants). E-— Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, reported to be swept away. D—Town of Conemaugh (2,500 inhabitants) 10 miles below the lake. F—Woodvale (2,000 inhabitants). G—Large steel works at Johnstown. S—Cambria Iron end Steel emaugh borough contained a total population of nearly 30,- •low Johnstown, sehere the railroad operator counted 75 deaid iilroad toward Nineveh, Lockport and Bolivar (jsee small fn miles distant) as photograbed by thfe Cambria Iron Co. AFTER THE FLOOD. Heartrending Scenes in Cone- maugh’s Valley of Death. Horrors Witnessed During a Along the Torrent’s Path. Walk Thrilliiig Stories and Pathetic Incidents of the Inundation A Swath of Death Thirteen Miles Lons—Dead Bodies and Wrecked Houses Everywhere—The Survivors Sleeping on the Ground—Roughs Invade the Stricken Town—An Es timate of the Loss of Life. the valuaole machine emained in sight. A correspondent of the New York World, who was among the first to reach Johns town after the awful disaster, sent the fol lowing vivid description of what he saw: I have just come from Johnstown proper, ajroge bridge which_wo° :rnooIl. fffeaolied there at 5 o’clock last night, and tell only what I did see and do know. The mighty wave that rushed through this Conemaugh valley on Friday evening cut a swath of death thirteen miles long. In its way lay one of the most thickly popu lated centres of the Keystone State, and within a few minutes from the time the dam at Lake Conemaugh broke houses were rolling over one another in a mad whirl as they were carried by the seething waters down the gorge between the Endless hills. At Johnstown the whole cen" ter of the city was cut as if a mammoth scythe had passed over the land. At that place was a large stone bridge of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, one of the strongest that that company owns. The Conemaugh River is crossed by it at an angle. Into this angle houses, trees and fences that came down the left side of the river rushed and were piled one on top of another until the arches under the bridge were closed, the cur rent of the Conemaugh was changed and the wreckage began to pile on high until rafters and timbers projected above the stone. Then the houses, nearly all crowded with people, crashed one after another until this terrible wreckage extended a half mile up the stream. No pen can tell the horror of the shrieks of the thousands who were in the mass of float ing ruin. Shortly after the blockade had formed, the dry timbers of the houses caught fire and the mass nearest the railroad bridge became a glowing furnace. Hundreds of people who had not been drowned or crushea in the mad rush downstream were burned alive. Their shneks as the flames reached them made the most stout-hearted wring their hands in agony at their inability to render assistance. The wind blew from upstream. The air became filled with the gruesome odors of burning human flesh until at last the horrors to sight, hearing and smell became so great that per sons in the vicinity were forced to leave the place. Meanwhile the greater bulk of houses had gone down along the right bank. One mad rush carried away a portion of the stone bridge, and then the flood bore down upon the thousands of homes and floated them further westward in the Conemaugh. It was only a little after five Friday after noon when the first warning came, and as it had been raining heavily all day the citizens of Johnstown and the neighboring hamlets thought that the slowlv rising waters only meant a light flood. Thus the inhabitants were either grouped in windows or in the open doors, watching what they expected would be an imposing spectacle, but nothing more. No one seemed to think it n< that they should take to the hills, and so were caught in vhe fearful rush. The two upper portions of the works were swept away almost entirely, and under the pieces of fallen 'ron and wood could be seen the bodies of more than forty workmen. At this point there is a bend in the river and the fiery furnace blazing for a quarter of a mile square above the stone bridge came into view. “My God!” screamed a woman who was hastening up the track, “can it be that any are in there’?” “Yes, over a thousand,” repliedaman who had just came from the neighborhood, and it is now learned that he estimated the number at one thousand too low. The scenes of misery and suffering and agony and despair can hardly be chronicled. One man, a clerk named Woodruff, was reel ing along intoxicated. Suddenly, with a frantic shout, he threw himself over the bank into the flood and would have been carried to his death had he not been caught by some persons below. “Let me die,” he ex claimed, when they rescued him. “My wife and children are gone- I have no use for my life.” An hour later I^saw Woodruff lying on the ground entirely overcome by liquor. Persons who knew him said that he had never tasted liquor before. Toughs Invade the Stricken Town. Probably fifty barrels of whisky were below Johnstown, and lost everything in this' 7 washed ashore lust those men who had world sought solace in the fiery liquid. So it was that as early as 6 o’clock last night the shrieks and cries of women were intermingled with drunkards’ howls and curses. What was worse than anything, however, was the fact that incoming trams from Pittsburg brought hundreds of tougjj| who joined with teamriBoK ' Tind stealing furniture, insulting deavormg to assume contro parties that tried to seek the bodies under the bushes and in the limbs of trees. There was no one in authority, no one to ake command of e r en a citizens’ posse could it have been organized. A lawless mob seemed to control this narrow neck of land that was the only approach to the city of Johnstown. I saw persons take watches from dead men’s jackets and brutally tear finger-rings from the hands of women. The ruffians also climbed into the overturned houses and ransacked the rooms, taking whatever they thought valuable. No one dared check them in this work, and con sequently the scene was not as riotous as it would have been if the toughs had not had sway. In fact, they became beastly drunk after a time and were seen lying around in a stupor. Walking in the Torrent’s Path. I walked late yesterday afternoon from New Florence to a place opposite Johnstown, a distance of four miles. I describe what I actually saw. All along the wav bodies were seen lying on the river banks. In one place a woman was half buried in the mud, only a limb showing. In another was a mother with a babe clasped to her breast. Further along lay a husband and wife, their arms wound around each other’s necks. Probably fifty bodies were seen on that side of the river, and it must be remembered that here the cur rent was the swiftest, and consequently fewer of the dead were landed among the bushes. On the opposite side bodies could also be seen, but they were all covered with mud. Near Johnstown the wreckage became grand in its massive proportions. The scenes, as I neared Johnstown, were the most heartrending that man was ever called to look upon. Probably three thou sand people were scattered in groups along the Pennsylvania Railroad track ami every one of them had a relative lying dead either in the wreckage above, in the river below, or in the still burning furnace. Not a house that was left standing was in plumb. Hun dreds of them were turned on their sides and in some cases three or four stood one on top of the other. Two miles from Johns town, on the opposite side of the river from where I walked, stood one- half of the water-works of the Cambria Iron Company, a structure that had been built of massive stone. It was filled with planks from houses, and a large abut ment of wreckage was piled up fully fifty feet in front of it. A little above, on the same side, could be seen what was left of the Cam bria Iron "Works, which was one of the finest plants in the world. Some of the walls are still standing, it is true, but not a vestige of The Death Score. The committee at Johnstown in their last bulletin placed the number of lives lost at eight thousand. In doing so they are figur ing the inhabitants of their own city and the towns immediately adjoining. But it must be remembered that the tidal wave swept ten miles through a populous district before it even reached the locality over which this com mittee has supervision. It devastated a tract the size and shape of Manhattan Island. Here are a few facts-' that will show the geographical outlines of the terrible dis aster: The Hotel Hurlburt, of Johnstown, a massive three-story building of 100 rooms, has vanished. There were in it seventy-five guests at the time of the flood. Two only are now known to be alive. The Merchants’ Hotel is leveled. How many were inside it is not known, but as yet no one has been seen who came from there or heard of an inmate escap ing. At the Conemaugh round house forty- one locomotives were swept down the stream, and before they reached the stone bridge all the iron and steel work had been torn from their boilers. It is almost impossible in this great catastrophe to go more into details. I stood on the stone bridge at 6 o’clock and looked into the seething mass of ruin below me. At one place the blackened body of a babe was seen; in another, fourteen skulls could be counted, became thicker one place it seeme who had been i been carried inj this time the height of flftj when it dies down ' seen dotting the debris. ther along the bones until at last at course of people jfcertainment, had neinerated. At rising to the s expected that bodies will be mass of burned Sleeping on the Ground. I walked along the hillside and saw hun dreds of persons lying on the wet grass wrapped in blankets or quilts. It was grow ing cold and a misty rain had set in. Shelter was not to be had, and houses on the hillsides that had not been swept away were literally packed from top to bottom. The bare ne cessities of life were soon at a premium and loaves of bread sold at fifty ~ents. Fortu nately, however, the relief train from Pitts burg arrived at 7 o’clock. Oth. rwise the horrors of starvation would have been added. All provisions, however, had to be car ried over a rough rocky road a distance of four miles (as I knew, who had been com pelled to walk it), and in many cases they were seized by the toughs, and the people who were in need of food did not get it. It may sound strange to say much about the damage to property, but it must be re membered that the living are those who now suffer and aid is asked for the thousands who are left homeless and without a change of clothing. The damages, including personal losses, cannot fall short of $40. (XX),000. I learned in Johnstown that the Great Chartiers Steel "Works are swept away with all the valuable machinery. This alone en tails a loss of $2,000,000. One million will not make the Cambria Iron Works whole. Rich and poor were served alike by this ter rible disaster. I saw a girl standing in her bare feet on the river's bank clad in a loose currencesof the whole disaster was how Mr. Walters got to the hall. He has his office on the second floor. His home is at 135 Walnut street. He says he was in the house with his family when the waters struck it. All was carried away. Mr. Walters's family drifted on a roof in another direction. He passed down several streets and alleys, until he came to the hall. His dwelling struck that edifice, and he was thrown into his own office. About 200 persons had taken ref uge in the hall, and were on the second, third and fourth stories. The men helda meeting and drew up some rules which all were bound te respect. Mr. Walters was chosen President. The Rev. Mr. Beale was put in charge of the first floor, A. M. Hart of the second floor. Dr. Mathews of the fourth floor. No lights were allowed, and the whole night was spent in darkness. The sick were cared for. The weaker women and children had the best accommodations that could be had, while the others had to wait. The scenes were most agonizing. Heatrending shrieks, sobs and moans pierced the gloomy darkness. The crying of children mingled with the sup- S ressed sobs of the women. Under the guar- ianship of the men all took more hope. No one slept during all the long dark night. Many knelt for hours in prayer, their supplications mingled with the roar of the waters and the shrieks of the dying in the surrounding houses. In all this misery two women gave premature birth children. Dr. Matthews is a hero. Several of his ribs were crushed by a falling timber and his pains were most severe, yet through all he attended the sick. When two women in a house across the street shouted for help, he with two other brave young men climbed across the drift and ministered to their wants. No one died during the night, but women and children surrendered their lives on the suc ceeding day as a result of) terror and fatigue. TjflHllg, young" was frightful^ cut and bruised, dung had a leg broken. All of Mr. Walters’s family were saved. Pathetic Incidents. The sad scenes will never all be written. One lady told me of seeing her mother crushed to pieces just before her eyes and the mangled boay carried off down the stream. William Varner lost six children and saved a babe about eighteen months old. His wife died just three weeks ago. An aged German, his wife and five daughters floated down on their house to a point below Ninevah, where the house was wrecked. The five daughters were drowned, but the old man and his wife stuck in a tree and hung there for twenty-four hours before they could be taken off. One of the most pitiful sights of this ter rible disaster came to my notice when the body of a young lady was taken out of the Conemaugh River. The woman was ap parently quite young, though her features were terribly disfigured. Nearly all the clothing except the shoes was torn off the body. The corpse was that of a mother, for although cold in death the woman clasped a young male babe, apparently not more than a year old, tighly inner arms. The little one was huddled close up to its mother’s face, who, when she realized their terrible fate, had evidently raised the babe to her lips to imprint upon its little lips the last motherly kiss it was to receive in this world. The sight was a pathetic one and turned many a stout heart to tears. Among the miraculous escapes to bo re corded in connection with the great disaster is that of George J. Leas and family. He re sided on Iron street, Johnstown. When the rush of water came there were eight people on the roof. The little house swung around off its moorings and floated about for nearly half an hour before it came up against the bank of drift above the stone bridge. A three-year-old girl with sunny golden hair and dimpled cheeks prayed all the while that God would save them, aud it seemed that God really answered the prayer of this inno cent little girl and directed the house against the drift, enabling every one of the eight to get off. Mrs. Leas carried the little girl in her arms, and how she got off she doesn't know. Everj r house around them, she said was crushed,'and the people either killed or drowned. Harrowing Story of an Eye-Witness. A correspondent telegraphs a word-picture of Johnstown as it looked after the subsidence of the flood. He says: “The point of observation was on the hill side, midway between the woolen mills of Woodvale and Johnstown proper, which I reached after a journey through the por tions of the city from which the waters, receding fast, are revealing scenes of unparalleled horror. From the point on the hillside referred to, an excellent view of the site of the town can be obtained. Here it can be seen that from the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad which winds along the base of Prospect Hill, to a point at which St. John’s Catholic Church formerly stood, and from the stone bridge to Conemaugh, on the Conemaugh River, but twelve houses by actual count remain, and they are in such a condition as to be prac tically useless. To any one familiar witli the geography of the iron city of Cambria County, this will convey a vivid idea of a swath averaging onc-half mile in width and three miles in length. In all the length and breadth of the most peaceful and costly por tion of Johnstown not a shingle remains, ex cept those adhering to the buildings men tioned. “But do not think for an instant that this comprehends in full the awfulness of the scene. What has just been mentioned is a waste of large territory swept as clean as if by a gigantic broom. In the other direction, along the course of Stony Creek, as far as Alexander Kennedy's, the President of the town councils, some few of the houses still remain, but they are up side down, piled on top of each other, and in B tticoat and with a sawl over her head. At - . , I thought she was an Italian woman, but many ways so tom asunder that not a single her face showed that I was mistaken. She was the belle of the town—the daughter of a wealthy Johnstown banker—and this single petticoat and shawl were not only all that was left her, but all that was saved from the magnificent residence of her father. She had escaped to the hills not an instant too soon. A Thriving Story. James M. Walters, an attorney, spent the night in Alma HaU, Johnstown, and relates a thrilling story. Ope of the most curious oc- one of them is available for any whatsoever. It is in this district that "the loss of life has been heartrending. Bodies are being dug up in every direction. “On the main street from which the waters have receded sufficiently to render access and work possible, bodies are being exhumed. They are as thick as potatoes in a field. Those in charge seem to have the utmost difficulty in securing the removal of bodies after they have been found. “At the public schoolhouse the scene beg gars description. Boards have been laid from! desk to desk, and as fast as the hands of a large body of men and women can pat the remains in recognizable shape, they are laid out for possible identification, and removed aa quickly as possible. Seventy-five still remain, although many have been taken away, and they are being brought in every moment It is something horrifying to see one portion of the huge school taken up by rows and rows of corpses, each with a clean white sheet covering it, and on the other side of the room a promiscuous heap of bodies in all sorts of shapes and conditions, looking for all the world like decaying tree trunks. Among the number identified are two beauti ful young ladies named respectively Mrs. Richardson, who was a teacher in the kinder garten school, and Miss Lottie Yost, whose sister I afterward noticed at one of the cor ners near by, weeping as if her heart was broken. Not a single acquaintance did she count in all of the great throng who passed her by, although many of them tendered sin cere sympathy, which was accentuated by their own losses.” A Paul Revere Among the Dead. A nameless Paul Revere lies somewhere among the nameless dead. Who he is may never be known, but his ride will be famous in local history. Mounted on a grand big bay horse, he came riding down the pike which passes through Conemaugh to Johnstown like some angel of wrath of old shouting his por tentous warning: “Run for your lives to the hills!” “Run to the hills!” The people crowded out of their houses along the thickly settled itreet, awestruck and wondering. Nobody knew the man, and some thought he was a maniac and laughed. On at a quick pace he rode, and shrilly rang out his awful cry. In a few moments, however, there came a cloud of ruin down the broad streets, down the narrow alleys, grinding, twisting, hurling, over turning, crashing, annihilating the weak and the strong. It was the charge of the flood, wearing its coronet of ruin and devastation, which grew at every instant of its progress. Forty feet high, some say, thirty according tc others, was this sea, and it traveled with a swiftness like that which lay hidden in the heels of Mercury. On and on raced the rider, aud on and on rushed the wave. Dozens of people took heed of the warning and ran up to the hills. Poor faithful rider; it was an un equal contest. Just as he turned across the railroad bridge the mighty wave fell upon him, and horse, rider and bridge all went out into chaos together. A few feet further on several cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad train from Pittsburgh were caught up and hurled into the cauldron, and the heart of the town reached at the hero, who turned neither to right nor left for safety for himself, but rode on to death for his townsmen. An Estimate of the Number of Dead. Adjutant-General Hastings, whose bureau at Johnstown is endeavoring to make some thing like a complete record of the number of bodies found, sent to Governor Beaver on Monday his official estimate that at least 5000 deaths would be absolutely proven. This does not include the large number of deaths that will never be known of positively, and General Hastings's own estimate of the total is 8000. The loss of property will be far up into the millions, but no one thinks of that. The tale of the dead is bad, says a dispatch, but the tale of .the living is bad, too, and it must have attention. There are as many of them as of the dead, and they are hard pressed for food, clothing and all the necessaries of life. Their necessity will continue, not for a day, nor for a week, but for months. They are as destitute of all that goes to support life, except the bare breath in their bodies, as are the very dead whose half nude bodies line the banks of the Conemaugh for miles. Their ordinary means of earning a live lihood are gone, with the rest of the town, but there is abundant work for every one. But there must be money to pay the workmen. Food for the immediate necessity of the people in Johnstown itself is coming in from every side,, and there is enough to relieve their wants. FLOODS OF THE PAST. Catastrophes Recalled, by the Terrible Tragedy at Johnstown. The Johnstown disaster is the greatest that has occurred in many years. In the Mill River disaster, May 16,1874, when the village of Hay* denville, Mass., was almost swept off the face of the^arth, 14tfperSOT.j"i- uje U.' at Johnstown, the immediate cause of the catastrophe was the breaking of a dam. A guard had been watching the dam, and about 8 o’clock in the morning it was discovered that an enormous leak had develoned out of a small one. The guard started to give warning, but the reservoir broke away and the water from a pond 114 acres in area came down like a wall, carrying away nearly the whole vil lage. Several other towns on the Connecti cut River were inundated. Over 300 fami lies were rendered homeless and $1,000,000 worth of property in dams, dwellings, fac tories, etc., was lost. Roads and bridges were damaged to the extent of $200,000. At Lynde Brook, near Worcester, on March 30, 1876, thirty feet of the reservoir wall, which had been leaking, gave way, and over 600,000,000 gallons of water were emptied into the valley. Only one life was lost, but property was damaged to the extent of nearly $1 000 000. On March 27, 1877, the Staffordville reser voir, on the east branch of the Williraantic River, gave way, and a torrent of water rushed down the valley at the rate of live miles an hour, destroying mill dams and rail road bridges in its course. The people were warned by a man on horseback, and all ex cept two of the residents of the valley es caped. The loss of property on this occasion exceeded $1,000,000. By the bursting of the Huron mill dam, near Houghton, Mich., on January 2, 1884, six lives were lost; those of Charles E. Ray mond, bank teller; his son and servant, and Howard Raymond of the Allouez mine, wife and son. The money loss was not great. A similar disaster near Lee, Mass., April 20, 1886, destroyed nine lives, and the dam age to mill property, private dwellings and roads and bridges exceeded $150,000. One reservoir calamity, that at Sheffield, England, has been made famous by Charles Ecade in “Put Yourself in His Place.” On March 11, 1864, the embankment of the Brad- fiekl reservoir gave way, and flooded Shef field and the country for twelve or fourteen miles around. About 250 lives were lost, and property valued at over $1,600,000 was de stroyed. A GOLDEN STREAM, Seventeen Cities in One Day Subscribe $50-1,200 Car the Flood Victims. These are the totals of the sums raised in seventeen cities on the first day that subscrip tions were opened for the sufferers at Johns town: e Philadelphia $230,900 Pittsburg 150,000 New York 110,000 Chicago 20,000 Bethlehem, Penn 15. (XX) Lancaster Penn 8,300 Cincinnati 6,800 Boston 4,000 Easton, Penn 4,000 Allentown, Penn 3.(XX) Baltimore 3,(XX) Harrisburg, Penn 2,100 Trenton, N. J 2,000 Jacksonville, Florida 2,000 Scranton, Penn 1,500 West Chester, Penn 1,000 Albany, N. Y 1,000 Total $504,200 M. FERRY INSULTED. A Wild Scene in the French Cham ber of Deputies. An exciting scene occurred in the Chamber of Deput es at Paris when Ferry rose to speak on the Education budget. The members oi the Right rose as one man, and shouted and shrieked until they became hoarse. Feiry remained standing in his place, coolly waiting for an opportunity to be heard, but his enemies kept up the cry: “The blood of the Tonquin dead choke you!” while insults of the coarsest nature were hurled at him fast and thick. When the angry deputies had quieted down somewhat from sheer exhaustion, Paul de Cas- sagnac, the famous duelist rose, and, with a contemptuous nod in the direction of the ex- Premier, said: “Let us submit to this inflic tion. Let us listen to this bourgeois, this Ven- dean deputy.” Then facing the President, who was all the time shouting “Order! OrderF he said: “We swallow our disgust, Mr. President. Let him talk.” Ferry then proceeded with his speechi GOV. BEAVER’S APPEAL. An Urgent Call for Help From Penn* sylvan la's Chief Executive. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has is sued an appeal for aid. It is addressed to the people of the United States. He says: “Newspaper reports as to the loss of life and property have not been exaggerated. The valley of the Conemaugh, which is pecu liar, has been swept from one end to the other as with the besom of destruction. It con tained a population of 40,000 to 50,000 people, living for the most part along the banks of a small river confined within narrow limitsi The most conservative estimates place the loss of life at 5000 human beings ana of prop* erty at $25,000,000. ‘•Those who are least able to bear it have suffered the loss of everything. The most pressing needs, so far as food is concerned, have been supplied. Shoes and clothing of all sorts for men, womon and children are greatly needed. Money is also urgently re quired to remove the debris. bury the dead, and caro temporarily for widows and orphans and for the homeless generally. “A careful organization has been rnnifa upon the ground for the distribution of what ever assistance is furnished in kind. The Ad jutant-General of the State is there as the representative of the State authorities, and is giving personal attention in connection with the chief burgess of Johnstown, and a com mittee of relief to the distribution of the help- which is furnished. Funds contributed in aid of the sufferers can be dei>osited with Drexel&Co., Philadelphia; Jacob E. Bom- berger, banker, Harrisburg, or William R. Thompson & Co., balhkers, Pittsburg. All money contributed will be used carefully and judiciously. “The people of the Commonwealth and others, whose unselfish generosity is hereby heartily appeciatod and acknowledged, may be assured that their contributions will be faithfully husbauded and judiciously ex pended, and that every effort possible will b® made to bring their benefactions to the im mediate and direct relief of those for whose benefit they are intended.” RIOTS IN RUSSIA. Striking Miners Resort to Arson- Seven Victims in the Flames. The silver miners in the Ural Mountains, Russia, have struck and have set on fire the houses of the managers in Eketeringburg. The factories adjoining were also set afire and seven persons who were in the buildings were burned to death. The military wore called out and restored order. THE NATIONAL GAME. Boston continues to win. Irwin is playing short for Philadelphia again. Pittsburg has tried eight pitchers this season. Baltimore is sadly in need of a good field general. Columbus is disappointed in Pitcher Baldwin. O’Brien, of Cleveland, is fast becoming • star pitcher. Cincinnati has offered Louisville $3500 for Pitcher Stratton. This is Anson’s nineteenth successive sum mer as a ball player. Kelly is supposed to get ab out $4500 salary from the Boston Club. Brouthers leads the League in batting, a* well as his own club (the Bostons). Playing ball without spikes causes a lame back. The slips wrench severely. The Cleveland team as now made up will play out the season, bar accidents. Morrill is trying to instil the science ot sacrifice hitting into the Washingtons. Pete Hotaling has been appointed mana ger of the Chattanoogas with full power. Smoked goggles are worn by the right* fielders at Kansas City when the sun has full sweep. Dalryhple, the ex-Chica go-Pi ttsburg fielder, is now covering first base for the Den ver (Col.) team. In McGnirk and Ward New Orleans has the :he The reports of the various committees show that the Players’ Brotherhood is in good standing every way. It looks as if Boston would have to put its main reliance in the pitching line upon Clark son and Rad bo urn this season. A wild Western exchange facetiously re marks that “the Baltimore* couldn’t hit Hie Atlantic Ocean with a paddie.” Captain Burdock has given the New York clothing store club the shake, and has linked his fortunes with Spence's New Haven Club. The four-ball rule bids fair to put a good many pitchers on the shelf this season. But what matter so long as the public is satisfied? Captain Comiskey, of the St. Louis Browns, says that the Bostons will win the League championship through the superior ity of its pitchers. Batting is fast going ahead of pitching, as strikeouts are almost a thing of the past, and the pitcher must depend on his team accept ing reasonable chances for outs. Baseball is goin» up in the world. Ah American sculptor has a statue under that title in the Pans salon, representing a young man in the act of throwing a ball. For presuming to differ in opinion regard ing a “called” ball at Washington, Umpire Curry fined Captain Ewing, of New York, the limit, $175, and expelled him from the game. It is mysteriously hinted that Erastus Wiman, the Staven Island millionaire, stands ready to back the Brotherhood financially in case of a split between the players and the League. At the Polo Grounds, Decoration Day would have brought out 20,000 poople at least to witness the New York-Indianapolis games; at Staten Island a beggarly 5000 witnessed the two games. Charleston, S. C., has a terrible nine for the telegraph operators who send the games to our cities. Just think of Aydelotte, Householder. Fitzsimmons and Brandenburg all in the same team. League pitchers are all anxious to see who will be the fortunate one to strike Dan Brouthers, of Boston, out for the first time this season. The feat had not been accom plished up to recent date. Umpire Gaffney wears a jacket filled with air and bound to his waist by a rubber band, in which he puts his cap, the extra balls ana other articles with a lightning-like move ment. He wastes no time in cramming the articles into his pocket. Patrick Gillespie, the once-famous left fielder of the New York Club, was severely and possibly fatally injured in a drunken brawl at Carbondale, Penn., Decoration Day. His head was fearfully cut, necessitating many stitches by the surgeon. Cleveland mad& the best showing of any of the Western clubs on the Eastern trio, having won 9 games and lost 4; Indianapolis won 3 and lost 10, Chicago won 6 and lost 10, Pittsburg won 4 and lost 10. Indianapolis was the only Western club to win a game from Boston. Baseball is not a mere craze, as the at tendance on holidays indicates a continual in crease from year to year. On Decoration Day 119,164 persons attended the games of four of the largest organizations, and the majority of them were interferea with by the threatening or rainy weather. Manager Hart has given the Boston players to understand that winning the League pennant means at least $1000 each to the men in the games for the world’s championship and other money that they are sure to get out of it. Besides this Hart has offered the boys a good round sum to go with him to California next winter should they pull off the coveted piece of bunting. LEAGUE RECORD. Won. LoW. Percentage. Boston 7 .781 Cleveland 23 14 .622 Philadelphia. 14 .611 New York 16 .529 Chicago 20 .429 ! Pittsburg.... 21 .353 Indianapolis.. 10 22 .318 Washington.. 21 .300 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD . Won. Lott. Percentage. St. Louis ••••••••• 32 13 .711 Athletic 26 15 .634 Brooklyn 25 17 .595 • Baltimore.... $•••••••• 21 20 .512 Cincinnati.... 22 23 .489 Kansas City.. 22 .488 Columbus 25 .890 ,, Louisville 86 J&Jt