The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 12, 1889, Page 2

A GIGANTIC BURIAL. = and three other dren. The heads were complete ly ned Dead Bodies Everywhere in and About Johnstown. clothing to recc 1 was left was p and up gentleman in coffins, 1 ¢ ing elosely the men who were ca Unidentified Victims Laid Away Without Mourners and With- out Tears. ing the coffins A wealthy young Philadelpi named Ogle, recent! 1 to a Joh n lady—Miss They were to be wed ded in the middle of June and both Hundreds Roasted Above the Bridge Who Will Neve 1. Be Recogniz parties were preparing for the cere i mony. The lover dof the terri- Acres ot Debris and Death Which] ble flood, but knov ing that the resi : Threaten a Pestilence. denee of his dear cne was up in the hills felt little fear for her ¥- 1 To make sure, howey he started | Johnstown, Pa., June 4.—The sad : are te®: es nip oe | story of the Conemaugh is not with-| "7 * rapes a wae . Near the Fourth street morgue he out its deeds of heroism. scenes of misery and horror devel- met Mr. Diehl. are safe,” he ex “Is Carrie well? in the “Thank God you imed, then added, “She i Ney when the wave oped daring courage where least cx- pected, while every day herves in the midst of the terrifying scene usual- he - was the mournful reply. Then ly degenerated into arrant cowards. gt ‘ua ; : . eos yeckoned tue Young 2} L tO er Those who viewed the frightful Z ee 5 A the chamber death. later Mr. Ogle was Ix rough bier aud was k 4 moment scenes of fire and flood agree that . the hopelessness of the situavion was | first fully realized by women, and that by that sex was exhibited that dauntless couraye of resignation. Mothers sacrificed them- selves to the fury of the fire or to save the lives of their childr -eling beside 2 the cold “rom the lifeless # he slipped a thin white face. I sold ring : ich is born its his own. he tho > put one o7 tly out—one of th nds made to bursting of the South Fork cd: stole qu flood a 4 mourn by the Gh or = loved ones. Not infrequently some t pale-faced woman. clinging with her child to floating debris : izing that the suppport was too frail for two, could be seen io lift her recoguized d rez could and in a corpse was ticketed and delivere a cious burden high on the { laborers wit bore it MERE e i}. debris and with a hasty kiss bidding the long funeral Pore Or 4 farewell sink beneath the waves. A mother recognized uy bel j Edward C. Willis a young foun- “Keep ita few i Si dryman of Cambria 27 years old, the undertaker in cl ¢ whom no one ever suspected of pos- = : sessing more than ordinary courage. her arms alittle white casket jae z A she hired two men ¢ ear i When the flood was at its height | °"° hired two:men' to: bear’ ab (to es cemetery. and the people were floating down Re oeeES the rushing torrent in hundreds he} **° hearses are seen in Jobnstow rushed to his boat and despite the Relative erecnens thei dead, : a pleadings of wife and relatives push- Sens coffins aud get them carried ed the frail craft far out into the an- | He best way they can to the morgues and from there to the graveyar A pr of the dead thousands are buried in mother earth. gry current. Gliding rapidly along- side a floating roof upon which a woman and two children were knee!- ing with blanched faces and stony stare he skillfully evaded the ob- structions that every minute threat- ened to crush his cockle shell, and lifting the terrorized creatures to his boat shot across the torrent back to the bank whence he came. A shout of applause swelled from the crowd that lined the banks, but unmoved by the plaudits young Will repeated his perilous trip not once, but seven times, until twenty- two lives had been saved by his in- domitable exertions. ayer, some tears and a few more A visitor at these places is David John Lewis. All over he rides a powerful Johnstown horse and to each one he meets whom he kno “Have Hardly waiting for a re- he exclaims, you seen my sisters?” ply he gallops away, either to seck ingress to to along the river bank. One weekago he was worth $60,000, his all being invested in a commission busine! a morgue or ride 3. To-day he owns the horse he rides and the clothes on his back and that is all. In the fierce waves were buried five of his relatives—his ters Anna, Lizzie and Maggie and the latter's little boy and babe. They were all dearly loved by the mer- chant, who, crazed with grief and mounted on his horse, is a conspieu- ous figure in the ruined city. This was the day set aside by the Citizens’ Committee for the burying of all the unidentified dead that have been laying in the morgues since Sunday at 10 o'clock. This morning the men who were in charge of the burrying started to work, and have been busy all day. There are no pathetic scenes at these burials. The men who have been hired to do the work seem to’ do it just as a matter of business. The bodies are being interred in the cem- eteries nearest the place where the bodies were found. About noon a procession of about fifty coffined bodies was seen going up the hill above the railroad. There was not a mourner present, and the sight was a ghastly one to behold. It will take several days to bury the bodies PITIFUL INCIDENTS. Johnstown, Pa., June 4.—William Gaffney, an insurance agent at this place, had a very pitiful duty to per- form this morning. On his father’s and wife's side he lost fourteen rela- tives, among them his wife’s family. He had no one to take his deceased relatives to the grave and he had the mournful duty of digging his wife's and children’s graves and burying them. In speaking of the matter this morning he said: “I never thought that I could perform such a sad duty but I had to do it and I did it. No one has any idea of the feelings of a man who acts as undertaker, grave digger and _pall- bearers for his own family.” The saddest sight on the river + bank this morning was Mr. Gilmore, i who had lost his wife and family of | five children. Ever since the calam- | ity he had been looking for his fam- ily. He insisted on the firemen ' playing a stream of water on the place where the house formerly stood, and where he supposed the bodies of his family lay. The fire- men, recognizing his feelings, play- —— in the different graveyards, as ed the stream on the place for sever- | |*T® Were few graves dug until this morning, and no implements to dig them with. However, a large detachment of men arrived from Pittsburg this morning, and they were put to work at once. Alto- gether about 300 bodies were taken al hours and at last the rescuers got i to the place where the old gentle- man said his house formerly stood “I know the bodies are there and you must find them.” he exclaimed. On went the rescuers after this plea. At last one of the men picked up al to the different cemeteries this burned, charred skull, evidently that | oS: ofa child. j ACRES OF DESOLATION. This stirred the old man up and | he exclaimed: “That is my child. | There lies my family. The water receded in the night al- 2ost as rapidly as it came, and be- Go cn and dit remains the sorriest sight get the rest of them.” The work- | ginable. The dove that has | men continued and in a few minutes | ne has no green leaf of promise, they came to the remains of the | it placed hue of mourning’ and desolation. | mountains and Before the windows of the Associat- ed Press headquarters lies the great skeleton of ad Johnstown. stretch and ¢ Aci abrasions. of wreckage, acres unsteady, totte buildings, of unknown dead, acres of ghastly | objects wh been eage: sought for since Fr y, str uning ru row for sou ebody he « the sunshine. Hundre are lying along under pile trouble will ¢ are hard to fi Bontires where. F to hel the the refuse an out. TALES OF HORROR. v the burniug people and debris beside t e stone bridge.” remarked Rey. Father Trautmei rible nature of the a y person did no s scene. AS SOOn BS pos- rfler the first great Dlasphemed to tremble. wings are draped with the] ed effort would = comma go get her out: fer sake, get her out, referrii , wanted saved. umst és it Was nec- rto thwart their thinhing I was trying efforis when I ordered another | to be attacked by ¢ e@ = Ra 1 upon me, shoor me or dash me One man who w to steera float upon which his wife hold and ft sweptinto the sea of Hame and never: ing river. sat ou a mattress, lost his in 2 inoment the cr ain appeared. The agony of that man was simply heartrending. He raised his arms to heaven and screamed in his mental anguish, and only ceased that to}. ees 5 5 j ington about that date. and no word tear his hairand moan like one « tracted. save every person accessible, and we have the satisfaction of knowing that fully 20 were spared from cremation. One young woman was found under the dead body ofarelative. «a foree of men attempted to extricate her, and succeeded in releasing every Every effort was made to limb but one leg. Eor three hours she reapproached theagent in charge they labored and every moment the and asked if he would exchange it | for a black one. was on the point several times of | family,” she added by way of apolo- ordering the men to chop her leg | SY: #8 the tears streamed down her off. It would have been much bet-| W!inkled face, “and would like to ter tosave her life even at that loss | have a black dress if could get one. than have her burn to death. For-| My husband and four children are flames crept nearer and nearer. tunately it was not necessary, but the young lady's escape from muti- lation or death she will never realize. Four long trenches, 100 feet long, seven feet wide and three feet deep, form the graves of 200 victims of the flood whose bodies have been recov- ered at Nineveh to-day. A planing mill has been converted into a morgue. Across the river at old Nineveh thirty-five bodies were ta- ken out of the debris and mud. This is the first opening of the nar- row valley through which the Cone- maugh dashes like a millrace. From the fields of mud, to-day, many bod- ies have been taken. The searchers find many bodies by means ofa hand or pieces of clothing sticking up through the mud. They carry long sticks with which they prod the soil. One of the most ghastly finds ing inatree. Its feet had caught jedup with a pole to pull down what he believed to be a fj clothmg when the body fell. missioners yesterday purchased an acre of ground on the side of the | at work The! A rou ross jth pvered ; The na | was that of a baby which was hang- | T® | in the fork, and by this means it was | |the procession moved, and silently J cemetery. A gang of laborers were at | ir victims to destruc- Pwo hundred victims were found ross the and diphthe: 1g the people who the who are g cared for. istown, June ~The best es- tinate this morning on the less of aud unofficial px 12,000 to 15,0060. Johhstown Pa., 5.—-Where reets stood e uow pitched about id betore to-morrow doubled nmiodat- the militia and the th ts of workmen who are t t the streets of this y. Over 5,000 men are t i Johnstown prep- converted it into =| of these being the hand sooth & F s be employed by lynn. of Pitts- volunte ed this morn took charge of the LOGrers. 4 Interview e work that is to be Gone, nnd the contractor's estimates show morethan anything else the chaotic ¢ on Of this city. 10,000 men thirty that e and the zrounds so work of 1 cau be I sand I now how the work This ad the come menced,” s ain at is to be will soon s will re- it will take ail summer a loss te k done. en siasm voluntec die ou turn home. for my men alone to do what work ig necessary. Conneil Biuils, fn., June 5.—There are ve apprehensions that Con- 1, of this one of the victir distriet, is gressu is of the Johnstown disaster. He was due to leave Wash- has been received from him. ONE POOR WOMAN S SAD STORY. A gray haired woman was among the applicants for clothing at the distributing depot, at the Pennsyl- vania railroad station, this morning. Au outfit was made up and given her, but after examining the dress “I have lost all my in that awful pile by the stone bridge and I am alone now.” A black dress was found for her. Johnstown, June 5.—The grey mists had seareely arisen from the hills this morning until a thousand funerals were coursing their green sides. There were no hearses, few mourners and as little solemnity as formality. The majority of the coffins were of rough pine. The pallbearers were strong farmers’ teams, and instead of six pallbearers to one coffin, there were generally six coffins to one team. 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