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The first accounts sent out ot the Johns- town disaster are far below the wildest es- timates placed upon the extent of the cal- amity, and instead of 2,000 or 3,000 it is probable the death Jist will reach 8,000 ; many say 10,000. It 1s now known that two passenger trains, two sections of the day express on the Pennsylvania Railroad, have been thrown into the torrent and the passengers drowned. These trains were held at Johnstown from Friday at 11 a. m. and were lying on a siding between the Johnstown and Conemaugh stations. The awful torrent. came down the narrow defile between the mountains, adistance of nine miles, and with a fall of 300 feet in that distance, sweeping away che villages of South Fork, Mineral Point, Woodvale and Conemaugh, leaving but one building stand- ing, a woollen mill, where but an hour be- fore had stood hundreds, and dashing on with the
ROAR OF A CATARACT and the speed of the wind upon the fair city at the foothills. The plain in which but yesterday sat Johnstown sits in the mountains like a jewel in a queen's diadem. Here is where the trains were standing when the tide of water like a catapult came déwn upon them with such relentless force that the heavy trains, locomo tives, Pullmans and all were overturned and swept down the torrent, and were lodged against the great stone viaduct along with forty-one locomotives from the Johnstown roundhouse, the heavy machinery of the Gautier mill, accumulated debris of more than a thousand houses, bridges, lumber, drift and human beings. The low arches of the stone viaduct choked up im- mediately, and the water backed back over the entire level of the valley upon which the city stood to the depth of what from the water marks, indicate about 3S feet. Inthe great sea thus formed, hundreds, perhaps thousands of people were struggling for life. The scene is one of the most harrowing possible for the im- agination of man to conceive. The accu- mulated drift gorged up at the viaduct to a
height of 40 feet, and then took fire from the upsetting of stoves or lamps. Then
were strong men made sick at the sight. As the flames crackled and roared among the dry tinder of the floating houses, human beings were seen pinioned between the phous roofs, locomotives, iron beams, freight, passenger, Pullman and baggage cars, THE GREEDY FLAMES LICKING WITH THEIR DIET OF HUMAN FLESH. The dead have beea computed at not less than 8,000, and the number may even ex- ceed this estimate. This seems incredibie, but not until the waters will have abated, and the work of removing the dead from this tremendous mass begins, will it be possible to tell how many lives have been lost. The associated press correspondent was the first manto crossto Johnstown pro- per by means of a basket suspended from a cable, as passengers are removed from wrecked ships. Here the scenes were magnified in their horror. Here were the residences of the little city’s most wealthy and inteliigent people.
Cinder, Market, Main, Locust and Washington Streets have been swept clean, and bare of all buildings of whatever char- acter, and their inhabitants seem to have fled into the streets at the first warning of danger, and others rushed to their deaths, for those who remained in their houses had an opportunity to flee to the upper stories. When the houses were frame they were floated from their foundations and many were saved. ‘The Hotel Hulbert, a brick structure, had 65 guests, and 63 of these were killed by the falling in of the floors and walls. ‘The Morell library, the school- house, Alma Hall, the general stores and oftices of the iron company and one other brick buildmg are all of probably 2000 buildings that have not floated from their foundations or caved in. The stune viaduct is 40 feet high from the river bed at low water, and over this the water rushed in a resistless flood. » On this or the west side is the Bessemer and rail mills of the Cambria iron company. Although warned to flee to the hillsides, many of the men, resting ia a fancied security, loitered about the mills and were engulfed in an instant. To-day their bodies are strewn along the Conemaugh, Kiskiminetas and Allegheny Rivers, and are being caught as far down the Ohio River as Rochester. Below the mills in Cambria, a sub-borough, in which reside probably 2,000 people, the scenes are but a repetition of the other parts‘of the flood-washed cities. In St. Columba’s Church, just built, which had been flooded to a depth of six feet, the water had reced- ed and the floor was covered with a slimy ooze to the depth of several inches. On boards stretched along the top of the pews were 30 bodies which had been snatched from the stream by Father Thomas Farlin and some of his parishioners whom he had impressed into service. While in
THE AWFUL PRESENCE OF THE DEAD, and amid the solemn surroundings of a des- olated fane, the representative saw Joseph Smith, a man of extraordinary size and strength, enter. He said not a word, but quietly went from corpse to corpse, lifting the stained and mud-covered coverings of the dead. At last he came to the corpse of a child about 9 years old. He looked at the swollen and blood-stained features a moment, and then with a voice of the most
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my little Maggie,” at the same time press- ing the inanimate form to his bosom, and giving expression to alternate caressings and ejaculations of grief the man took his child and ran with it to what had been his home. He placed it beside those of his wife and two other children, all of whom
had been drowned. At Morrell 44 bodies
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were laid out waiting to be identified. fight of them were chiidren, one that of a ichild which a physician said had been born |while the mother was fighting for her life in the raging flood.
At Nineveh, nine miles down the stream, 106 bodies, mostly women and children, were laid out in a saw mill, and additions were being made by wagon loads at a time, which were being picked up on the mea- dows, over which the great tide had surged with the fury of a demon. They were found with their hands yet clinging tena- ciously to branches of trees and shrubs, In one case a young couple were found locked in each other’s arms. In another case a mother was found with a child clasp- ed in exch arm, and held closely to her bosom. There is no possibility of telling just who has been lost, as thousands are missing. The survivors, many of whom tell of the most thrilling escapes {from de- bris, house roofs, car doors, and planks, seek the banks and gaze with stupor born of paralysis of their mental faculties from fright and horror they have been subjected to. The number of people who are visible from the banks are so few in contrast with the population of the various little boroughs which constitute the city that the question Where are the people? is asked on all sides. The impression is gaining that the disclo- sures yet to come where the gorge collected and which is now burning over an area of several acres, will be yet more ghastly. ' The awfulness of the scene defies language to depict as it does the imagination to con- ceive. Without seeing the havoe created, no idea can be given either of the des»la- tion or the extent of the damage.
Jounstown, Pa., June 4.—For 36 hours without intermission four fire engines have played upon the smoking ruins above the bridge, but the tlames broke out afresh at frequent intervals. Nearly 2,000 men are employed. It has been decided to give no food to Hungarians and Poles unless they work forir. [t is claimed that they refuse to aid in the work of relief, and steal pro- visions from the sufferers. hey will be driven out unless they share in the labors of relief in different parts of the valley, clearing up ruins and prosecuting the search for undiscovered dead bodies. Dead and charred victims of the flood and fire are discovered with undiminished fre- quency. It becomes hourly more and mvre apparent that not a single vestige will ever be recognized of hundreds that were roast- ed in the flames above the bridge. So diflicult is it at times to determine whether the remains are those of human beings that it is apparent that hundreds must be fairly barned to ashes. Thus the number that have found fa last resting place beneath these ruins can at best never be more than approximated. This morning orders were issued to push the prepara- tions for a gigantic burial with-all~ possible speed. Where there is no reasonable hope for identification, the bodies will be buried at once. It is probable that by evening there will be at least 3,000 new graves in the valley, many of which will be unmark- ed
Nearly 2,000 bodies have already been recovered, and as the work of examining the wreckage progresses, the conviction grows that the magnitude of the calamity has not yet been approximated. Conser- vative estimates this morning put the num- ber of lost at 7,000, and many men of calm judgment who have been upon the ground trom the outset place the number at 10,- O00.
To Dakota and Back,
Tue Fortress of Quebec, viewed from the opposite side of the river, impresses the stranger with the idea of its great strength. The appearance of solidity presented by its frowning battlements of grey stone, would seem to indicate that an enemy making an effort to vapture the town, would undertake a hopeless task.
At 8.25 p. m., on May 8th, we left Levis by the Grand Trunk, and on awaking next morning our train was nearing Montreal. Vegetation in this vicinity was much more advanced than in the Quebec section of the Province, thus indicating a more genial clime than that in which the ancient cap-- tal is located. We were early on the look- out for the Victoria Tubular Bridge,oneand three-quarter miles in length, and one of the greatest engineering achievements of its day. At9.10 a. m., on the 9th, we left Montreal for the west; and | must say that my first impressions of the great Province of Ontario were not se favorable as I had pictured. Farmers along the line of the Grand Trunk in many sections of Eastern Ontario have to contend with the graniie stone nuisance, although not to such an ex- tent as in some portions of (Quebac, while westof Brockville for several miles stretches a ridge of granite boulders, the existence of which must be a great drawback to the tarmers in that section of country. Corn- wall was the first Ontario town of note which we reached; but as‘is the case with several others in the Province, the railway only touches the outskirts. Cornwall is surrounded by a fairly good agricultural district. We next come to Prescott, oppo- site which, on the New York side of the river is Ogdensburg, which appears to be
quite a city. Twelve miles beyond Prescott we come to Brockville, between which and Kingston there is no place of much note. The main line
of therailway does not touch Kingston. The city is reached byfa branch, fbouat 2 miles lin length, but from the ,junction a fairly 'vood view of the town can be had. Kings- ‘ton is one of the principal lake ports, and lin the immediate vicinity are the famous |'Thousand Islands. We next pass, in order ‘named, Napanee, Belleville, Trenton, Co- ‘burg and Port Hope, all rising towns, back- ‘ed by good agricultural country. Between Trenton and Coburg, we caught sight of ‘Lake Ontario, by the side of whose waters the railway runs for some distance. Night ‘closed down on us in the vicinity of Port ‘Hope. We reached Toronto at 10.15 p, 'm., and the rising sun of the 10th found us nearing Point Edward, one of the western
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terinini of the Grand Trunk, and between which place and Fort Gratiot, on the Mich- igan side of the St. Clair river is the mos* northern of the two great ferries between Western Canada and the American North- west. The cars are ferried across the river on large steamers, to and fro, which ply regularly. When crossing the ferry, and looking north, we are in full view of the waters of the great Lake Huron. We reached Point Edward at 6.05 a. m. and left Fo:: «tratiot for Chicago at 5.45 a. m. The explanation of this seeming inconsis- tency of statement, in regard to time, is ‘accounted for hy the fact that the river is | the dividing ‘:.e, at this point, between |eastern and central standard time, and the | traveller arriving at Port Huron from the least in order to conform to the standard, |is obliged to set his watch back an_ hour. For some miles, after leaving Port Huron, | the country along the line of the Chicago ‘and Grand Trunk Railway, is not the equal {of the Canadian border. It was at one time heavily timbered, and the farmers are now struggling to uproot the huge pine ; Stumps, the troublesome remnants of what | were once giant monarchs of the forest. The jappliances used for this purpose must be jexceedingly powerful, fur stumps of tre- mendous size are removed, roots and all. We svon, however, reach a well cultivated country, and every farmstead, large or small, has its apple orchard. These or- chards presented a beautiful sight when we passed along west, the trees being in full bloom. The railway runs through several small Michigan towns, as well as Lansing, the capital of the State. Soon after passing the Indiana boundary, we reach South Bend, a town of 40,000 inhabitants and a great manufacturing centre. In passing through the town, we obtain a view of some of the immense manufacturing estab- lishments, of the extent of which, before seeing them, I could have no adequate con- ception. Iam told that the circumference of the Sturtevant Wagon Works, claimed to be the largest concern of the kind in the world, is one and a quarter miles, and that they cover a floor space of twenty-seven acres. ‘T'wo thousand men are constantly employed. The Oliver Chilled Plow Works is anothea tremendous industry, employing 1,600 hands. Lesides these there are Malleable Iron Works and other industries which are large employers of skilled labor. There are very fine Catholic Educational In- stitutions in South Bend, both for boys and girls. It is a beautiful city, and surround- ed by a rich agricultural country, The land in some parts of Indiana and Illinois through which we passed, is very level, partaking somewhat of the nature of prairie, but well wooded. The cottages of the working classes extend for miles along the lines of railway leading to Chicago, and
reached Chicago at 6.30 p. m., on the 10th, amid a tremendoas downpour of rain, ac- companied with vivid lightning and terrific thunder, which raged with unabated fury for several hours. The storm was the heaviest of the kind which the writer ever encountered, an account of which was wired to the eastern papers. Petween the Chicago and Grand Trunk depots, and that of the Chicago and Northeastern by which road we left for St. Paul at 10.55 p.m. there is quite a long distance, the transfer being made by the Parmalee Transfer Co., in large omnibuses. We had a good view of the streets through which we passed, and they looked resplend- ent under the glare of the electric light. When we saw the light on the morning of the 11th, we were nearing Elroy, Wiscon- sin, atuwn of some importance, and a divisional point, being midway between Chicago and St. Paul. Vegetation in this ‘section was well advanced, and the country presented a nicely diversified appearance. Further north it is considerably broken by granite bluffs along the line of the Chicago & North Western. At one point we passed through atunnel of considerable length. Northern Wisconsin is a heavily timbered country, and the high piles of cord wood lying at most of the railway stations show that an immense traflic is carried on in this article. Ean Claire is quite a large town located 88 miles from St. Paul. !t is the seat of extensive woodenware manufactories. At 1.50, nearly four and a half days out from Charlottetown, we errived at the Union Depot, St. Paul, a fine building but not affording ample accommodation for the present requirements of the great lines of railway centering there.
Before closing this letter, | wish to say a tew words in reference to the Chicago & North Western Railway. This great corporation has been a very important factor in the settlement and development of the Northwest. From Chicago it has posted its lines in all directions west, northwest and north, Its numerous ramifications have followed the pioneer settlers, and sometimes gone in advance of them, over the western plains. It has an
excellent road-bed, and its train service is
not excelled by that of any of the other great lines with which it is brought in competition. It is the favorite and most
direct route between Chicago and St. Paul, We did not reach Chicago in time to take the evening limited train, made up entirely of new and elegant vestibuled cars, which add greatly to the comfort and safety of travellers. The parlor and dining cars operated by the Chicago & Northwestern are not surpassed in point of excellence by those run on any other western road.- For the moderate sum of 75 cents, meals are served equa! to any furnished by the best hotels on the land. Both Wagner and Pullman Palace Sleeping cars are run on the through express trains of this road. In the construction and equipment of these cars, nothing has been omitted which could conduce to the safety passengers. Te Say that their “appoint- ments are luxurious beyond anticipation is speaking quite within bounds. io parties contemplating a visit to the Northwest, I can with great confidence recommend the Chicago & Northwestern Railway as being every way deserving of patronage.
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