Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1889, Page 1

| EIGHTEENTH YEAR. IN AFLOOD OF TEARS Weeping and Walling in Water- swept Johnstown. MOTHERS DUMB WITH SORROW. Fathers Groping Heart-broken Amid the Ruins. LITTLE CHILDREN AWE-STRUCK. Rich and Poor Sleeping in Tents on the Hillside. PLUNDERING THE DEAD BODIES. Heartless Hungarians Quarrel Like Wild Beasts Over the Spoils—In dignant Citizens Kill Several of' the Ghouls. Digging Trenches For the Dead. Jonsstowy, Pa., June 2.—Men were at work in the lower Yoder Catholic cometery and the Grand View Protestant cemetery, this afternoon, digging trenches, The bodies that were exposed when the waters begun falling are in bad condition. Some have already been interred. In tho hasta ond excitement no definite arrangements seem to have been made for the fuueral ser- vices, The only suggestion that could be obtained at Morrellville was that all the bodies would be buried and general memo- rial services held after the present suffering is alleviated. A CONDUCTOR'S STORY. In a talk, to-day, Conductor Bell, of the first section of the day express, luid up at Conemaugh on the night of the disaster, said: “The first and second sections stopped side by side at Conemaugh, Friday after- noon, on account of the washout at Lillys. The sccond section was next to the hill, the first on the outside. Suddenly I suw what looked like a wall of water. It was thirty feet high. We barely had time to notify the passengers, and they neurly all fled up the hillside, One old man who with his son returned, for some reason, was drowned. Two cars went down in the current. 1 do not know how mauy were drowned. We saw two persous on ton of the cars. Tho water set fire to a lot of lime, and the fire caught two Pullman cars, which were destroyed, but no person was burned, all the pussengers having left the train be- fore the cars took fire. There were about one hundred persons on my section, which was made up of day coaches. The passengers went back to the cars, and later were cared for by the people of Conemaugh. Afterward wiey were taken to Ebensburg. They ex- pected to o east to Altoona. this afternoon. The friends of those in the Chicago limited need feel no anxiety, as it was not in the flood at all.” THE SITUATION UNCIANGED, The situation here has not changed, and yosterday's estimates of the loss of life do not scem to be exaggerated. Six hundred bodies are now lying in Johnstown, and a large nwmber have already been buried. Four immense relief trains arrived last night, and the survivors are being well cared for. A portion of the police force of Pittsburg and Allegheny are on duty and better order s maintained than prevailed yesterday Communication will be restored between Cambric City and Johustown by foot bridge. The work of repairing the tracks between Sang Hollow and Johnstown is going on rap- idly and trains will probubly be ruuning by to-morrow worning. Not less than 15,000 stranzers are here, ‘Che handsome brick high school building is dumaged to such an extent that it will have to be rebuilt. The waters attained the height of the windows of the second floor. Tts upper stories formed a refuge for many persc All Saturduy afternoon two little girls vould be seen at the windows franti- callmg for aid. They had spent all night und day in the building, cut off from all wid, without tood or drinking water. Their condition was pitiuble. Late in the evening the children were removed to higher ground and properly cared for. A number of persons had been taken from this building earlicr iu the day, but in the excitement the children were forgotton, Now that the waters have receded there is great danger from falling walls, Al day long the crashing of walls could be heard across the viver, Library hall was another of the fine buildings of mavy i the city that is de- stroyed. Of the Episcopal church not a ves- vige remains, The parsonage is swept away, and the rector of the church, Rev. Dillon, was drowned. ( James M. Walters, an attorney, spent the night iu Alta hall, ana relates a thrilling story. One of the most curious occurrences of the whole disuster was how Walters ot to the hall. He bus his office on the second floor. His home is at 135 Walnut street, He suys ho s in the house with his family when the wators struck it All wus carried away. Walters' family drifted on the roof in another direction. He passed down several strects and ulleys until he come to the hall. His dwelling struck that edifice, und he was thrown iuto his own office. About two hun- dred persons had taken refuge in the hall, snd were oun the secoud. third and fourth stories. The men held & meeting und drew up some rules, which ull were bound to re- spect. Walters was chosen president, Rev. Beale was put iu charge of the first floor, M. Hart of the second, and Dr. Matthews of the fourthi floor. No lights were allow the whole night wus spent in ness. The scenes were most agoniz- ing. Heartvending shricks and sobs and moans pierced the gloomy darkness. whe crying of children, mingled with the suppresscd sobs of the women. No one slept during ull the dark wight. Many knelt for hours in vrayer, their supplications mingling with the roar of the waters and shrieks of the dying in the surrounding houses. Iu all this misery two womeu guve premature birth to children. . A ILEROIC DOCTOR. Dr. Mathews is the hero. His ribs were crushed by falling timber, and Wis pains Were most severe, you through atall he at- tended the sick. Wken the two women in the house across the street shouted for help, be, with two other brave young men, climbed scross the drift and ministered to their wants. Noone died during the night, but ghe women and ¢hildren surrendered their lives on they succeeding day froin terror snd fatigue. Miss Rose Youug, one of the young ladies in the hall, was frightfully cut and bruised Mrs. Young bad & leg broken. A tour of the west bank of the river for a distance of two miles leaves the mind confused. There are not over two hundred bydies to be seen, bat while the mass of people walked back and forth they were strangers. Not one person in ten that one met was a resident of this vicinity. It leads to the belief that hundreds, perhaps thousands, are still buried in the mud and debris, burned in the awful furtace at the stoue bridge or lodged further down than the s2archers have yet gone. That many are buried yet is also in- dicated by the fresh finds every few houes, and the unmistakable odor that rises from the acres of fire on the river bank. PLUNDERING THE DEAD. As the roads to the roundabout are opened deeds of the vilest natures perpetrated in the darkness of the night are broughtto light. Just as the shadows began to fall upon the earth last evening a party of thirteen Hun- garians were noticed steaithily picking their way along the banks of the Conemaugh towaras Sang Hollow. Divining their pur- pose, several farmers armed themselves and started in pursuit. Soon their most terrible fears were realized. The Hungarians were out for the plunder lying upon the shores. They came upon a dead und mangled body of & woman upon Whoss person Were a num- ber of trinkets, gold jewelry and two dia- mond rings. In their cagerness to scoure the plunder the Hungarians got iuto a figh! auring which one of their number severed the finger upon which were the rings, and started on a run with his fearful prize. The revolting nature of the deed so wrought upon the pursuing farmers, who, by this time, were close at hand, that they gave im- mediate clase. Sowie of the Hungavians showed fight, but, being outnumbered, were compelled to flee for their lives. Nine of the brutes escaped, but four were literally driven into the surging river and to their death. The inhuman monster whose atrocious act has been described was among the number of the involuntary suicides. LYNCHED THE LOOTENS. Another incident of even greater moment has just been brought to notice. At 8:30 o’clock this morning an old railroader, who had walked from Sang Hollow, stepped up to a number of men who were congregated on the platform of the station ut Curransvilie and said: “‘Gentlemen, if 1 had ashotgun with me half an hour ago I would now be a murderer, yet with no foar of ever having to suffer for my crime. Two miles below here [ watched three men going along the banks stealing jewels from the bodies of the dead wives and daughters of men who have been robbed of all they held dear on earth.” He had no sooner finished the last sentence than five burly men were on their way to the scene of the plunder, one with a rope and another with a revolver. In twenty minutes they had overtaken two of the guouls, who were then in the act of cutting pieces from the ears and fingers from the hands of two dead women. With the revolver leveled at the scoundrels the leader of the posse shouted, “Throw up your hands or i blow your heads oft With blanched faces and trembling forms they obeved the order and begged for mercy. They were searched, and as their pockets wer ‘emptied of their whastly finds, the indignation of the crowd intensitied, and ‘when the bloody fiuger of an infant encir- cled with two tiny gold rings was found among the plunder, the cry went up, “Lynch them! Lynch them!” Without w moment's delay ropes were thrown about their necks and they were dangling t a tree, in thg branches of which an hour before were the entangled bodies of the dead father and son. After the expiration of a half-hour, the ropes were cut and the bodies lowered and carried to a pile of rocks in the foresy on the hili above. MINISTERING TO THE SICK. A squad of Battery BB, under commana of Lieutenant Brown, (the forerunner of the whole battery} arrived at the improvised telegraph oftice at 6:30 o’clock. He went at once to Adjutant-General Hastings and ar- ranged for proper protection, Medical dispensary under Directors Wake- fieid, of the Cambrii Medical society, Stew- art, of the Allezheny society, and Milligan, of the Westmoreland society, is doing good work. Dr. Milligan states that they treated 300 patients to-day. They are at Napoleon street, in*Iearnsville. No surgical instru- ments could be procured ia the city untal 2 o'clock this afternoon. Among their 300 patients the doetors have many with factured skulls, and nearly all have broken boues. One man had a heavy iron bar driven through his leg beneath the kuee, separating two bones. A’ thigh ampu- tetion was made. A woman has her knee and the lower part of a lunb crushed out of all shape. Dr. Millizan reported at 6 p. m. that seventy-six bodies had been taken out of Kearnsville and eighty-five above the silk works. Chief Evans, of the Pittsburg fire depart- ment, arrived this evening with encines Nos, 2una 15 and several hose carts and a full complement of men, A large number of Pittsburg physicians came on the same train, Mvr. Crouse, the proprietor of the South Park Fishing club hotel came to Johnstown this afternoon, He says that when the dam of Conemaugh luke broke the water med to leup, scarcely touching the ground. It bounded down the valiey, erashing and roar- ing, carrying everything ‘before iv. For a mile 1ts front seemed like a sohid wall, twenty feet high, The warning given the stricken city was sent from South ork by Freight Agent Dechert. When the great wall that held the body of the water began tocruible at the top he sent a nessage beg- ging the people of Jotnstown for God's sake to take to the hills, He reports no ious accidents at South Fork, Richard Davis ran to Prospect hill when the water raised. As to Dechiert's messsge, be says that just sucn a one has been sent down at each flood since the lake v made, The warning so often proved uscless that littie attention was paid to it this time, “1 can not describe the mad rush," he anid AL first it looked Jike dust. ‘Chat must have been spray. [ could see houses going down beforo it like u child’s play blocks set on_end in a row. As it camec nearer i could see houses totter for a moment, theu rise, and the next moment he crustied like ogg shells against each otlicr. Mrs. James Davig, her two daughters and son, cun nowhere be found. At Woodvalo there was & row of brick tenement houses 120 feet long and thieo stories high, It stood broadside to the current, A few teuants fled, but muny went to their attics to watch the fiood, «day scarcely u foundation of the row of brick Louses cun be found. Supe: intendent Kiortland, of the Wost Pennsyl- vania raillrond, arvived at 6:30 . m., with & car lowd of provisions from Bluirsvi EMIARIASSED BY SIGIT-SEERS. A membor of the Jolnstown eafety com nittee said w a report this eveni: 'S 8i tell them ut Pittsbur the Of sigit-xeers to this locality, There is enough to last for weeks, and the norhid euriosity of the people can juat as well be gratified later as row. The crowds huve greatly embarrassed us to-day, ‘I'he authori must stop it."” Adjutant-General Hustings and Major Sanger have assumed entire charge of Johnstown aud viciuity, anc strict discipline Wil be enjoined 1rom now on as much as possible. Goeneral Hastings' headquarters arc at the Pennsylvania railroad depot. A supply depot is estabiished at this point, aud wany needy people are being relieved. The bodics that are dug out lic in the station un- til coftins can be obtained. ‘They are buried in Prospect il James MeMillen, vice president of the mbria iron works, Iu a_conversation, thi oon, said: a0 ‘e upper mill is a total wreck, b paged beyond all repairs. The lower agzed to such un extent that all the chinery and buildings are useless. The mill will be rebuilt immediatel; The Gautier wire works, which was com- pletely destroyed, is owned' and operated by the Cambria Tron company. The buildings will be Immediately rebuilt wud put in oper: tion as 5000 as possible, Loss at this point is cowplete. ‘The land o which it stood is to- luss is. ing da n‘ ;s uncren wud desolate ws if 1 stood in not know what our | OMAHA MONDAY, MORNING JUNE 3. 1889 NUMBER 353 the midst of the Sahara desert. The Cam- bria Iron company loses its great supply stores at this point. The Darmouth club, where the employes of the works boarded, was carried away in the flood. 1t_contained many occupants at the time, None were saved. The losses of the Cambria Iron com- pany are given at from 2,000,000 to $3,500,000; ut little of this can be recovered. {THE ROPE BRIDGE. Crossing the bridge which spans the chasm dug by the waters between the stone bridge and Johnstown, is an exciting task, It is a narrow rope bridge. A slide, a scries of frightful tosses from side to side, arun and you have crossed the bridge. The bridge pitches like a ship in a storm and within two inches of your feet rush the muddy waters of Conemaugh. One lias to cross Conemaugh at a second point in order to reach Johns- town proper. This was accomplished by a skiff ferry. The forryman clung to the rone and pulled the lowd over. After landing, one walks across a lesolate sea of mud in which tiere is interred the remains of many hundred bodies. It was once a handsome portion of the town, The cellars are filled up with mud 8o that a person who has never scen the city can hardly imagine that houses ever stood where they did. The work of getting the bodies together for identification began this afternoon on Sarsfield avenue on a vacant lot. AtH o'clock this was almost entirely covered with coffins, while between them and stooping over them were weeping men and women, Although the number was short of 100, at 5 o'clock others will come, and there is no tell- ing what the total will be. In one rough box was a piece of paper with the words, “Three children,” night they were lifted out and all three placed in one coMu, The little bodies were almost nude, and their faces were bruised and cut. The scene in St. Columbia Catholic church was awful. Forty or fifty bodies had been carried mto it and laid side by side. In this church were five childiren. No one had iden- tified them this afternoon. Their little curls were matted with mud. Their nostrils were filled with sand and their eyes completely covered, THE FLOOD-SWEPT TOWN, Tt is impossible to describe the appearance of the main street. Whole houses have been swept down the street and become lodged, The wreck is piled as high as the second story windows, The reporters could step from the wreck into the auditorium of the opera house. The ruins consist of parts of houses, trees, saw logs, reels from the wire factory, ete. The houses have their side- walls “and roofs torn up, and you can walk directly into what had been a second story bedroom, or go in by way of the top. Fur- ther up town a raft of logs was lodged in the street and did - great dama The best de- scription that can be ven of the general appearance of the wreck is to imagine a number of children’s blocks placed closely together and then draw your hand through them in almost every dircc- tion, At the commencement of the wreck- age, which is at the opening of the vailey of Conemaugh, one can look up the val miles and not see a house. Nothing stands but an old woolen miil. Charles Luther is the name of a boy who stood on an adjacent elevation and saw the whole flood. He said he heard a grinding noise up the valley, and looking up he could see a dark line moving slowly lowards him, He saw that it was a house. High in" the air would be tossed a lozx or a beam which would fail back with a ash. Dowu the valley the flood moved and across the little mountain city. For ten minues nothing but moving houses was seen and then the waters came with a roar and a rush. This tasted for two hours, and then it began 1o flow more steadily. HUMAN VULTURES, The pillaging of houses in Johnstown is something awful to contemplate and de- scribe. 1t makes one feel almost ashamed to cail himself a man and know that others who beur the same name, have converted themselves into human vuitures preying on the dead. Men are carrying shotguns and revolvers and woe betide the stranger who looks even suspiciously any article. Goods of great value were being sold n town to-day for a drink of whisky. A sup- ply store has been established in the Fourth ward in Johnstown. A line of men, women and children extending for a square waited to have their wants supplied. The school house has been converted into a morgue, and the dead are beiug buried from this place. A hospital has been opened near by and is full of patients. The Peunsylvania railroad is laying its track from Johustown to the washout. A temporary bridge is being built, and by to- morrow evening trains will be run into Johnstown. Communication by rail has been established between Pittsburg and the end of the stone bridge, Assistant Superin- tendent Trump 18 on the ground and is au- thority for the news, He knows nothing of the condition of the track between Johns- town and Altoona. In some | it is said, the tracks were scooped out to the depth of twenty feet. Tho Peunsyvania railroad loses thirty-five engines and many cars, The Baltimore & Ohio tracks are now open. The fire in the wreck h: d rapidly all day and the apper part of the drift is burning to-night. A fire engine 1s stationed on the river bunk and others will be gotten there by the Baltimore & Ohio. The natu- ral gas has deen shut off, owing to the many leaks in Johnstown. No fire is allowed in the city. A funeral was being held at one of the Catnolic churches at the time of the flood, The congregation deserted the church and the body was burned with the building. The citizens committee has issued a proclamation that all men who are uble for work must re- port for work or leave tho place. There is 100 much to do to support idlers and the com- mittee will not abuse the generous help that is being sent by friends. DTHER STORY. Johnstown is the most complete wreck that the imagination can portray. Probably five hundred houses have been swept from the face of the earth as completely as if they had never been erected. The main stree from end to end is piled fifteen to twenty feet high with debris and in some instances is as high as the roofs of the houses, This great mass of wreckage fills the streets from curb to curb and frequently has crushed the fronts of build- ings in ana filled the space with reminders of the terrible calamity. krom the woolen mill above the island to the bridge, a dis- tance probably of two miles, a strip of terri- tory nearly a half a mile in width has been swept clean, not a stick of timber or one brick on top of another being left to tell the tale. All day long men, women aund children were plodding about the desolate waste, trying in vain to locate the bourdaries of former homes. Nothing but @ wide expanse of mud remain»d for their contewplution, These losses, however, are as nothing compared to the frightful sacri- fices of precious human lives to be seen on every hand, During all this solemn Sunday Johnstown has been drenched with the tears of stricken mortals, and the air is tilled with sobs and sighs that come from breaking hearts. There are scenes enacted here every hour and every minute that effect all behold- ers profoundly. LEPT ALONE. An utterly wretched woman named Mrs, Tenn, stood by a muddy vool of water try‘ng to find some (race of & happy home. Sne was half ¢ d with grief and her eyes were red and swollen, As the writer stepped to her side she raised her pale and haggard face and remarked: *“Chey are all gone, Oh God, be merciful to them. My husband and wy seven dear children have been swept down with the flood, and I am left alone, We were driven by the flood into the garrett, but the water followed us there. Inch by inch it keot rising uutil our heads crushed ugainst the roof. It was death main, so I ruised & window, and one b one placed my darlings on some drift wood, trusting to the great Creator. As I liberated the last one of my sweet little boys, he looked at we and said: ‘Mamuma, you always told me that the Lord would care for me: will he look after me mnow? I saw him drift away from sight forever. The next moment the roof crashed in, and I floated outside to be rescued fifteen hours later from the roof of the house in the valley. If I could only find one of my darlings. I could *bow to the will of God, bu% they are all gone. 1 have lost everything on earth now, but my life.” A handsome wowan walked through the depot, where u dozen or more bodies were awaiting their burial, Passing from ou¢ W auotber, she finally lifted 'the paper covering from the face of a woman, young, and with traces of beauty -hnww Tnxn the stains of the muddy water, ith & cry of anguish she recled backward, to be eanght by a man who chanced to be passing. In a moment or 80 she had calmed herself suficiently to tage one more look at the features of her defd She stood gazing at. the urifortunate dead woman, who was a_gister of the mourner. The body was placed in a cofin a fow min- utes later and sent away 1o its narrow house. Thesoe incidents ure but fair samples of tho scenes familiar to every turn in this stricken Tho loss of life is simply dreadful. The most conservative people declare that the number will reach 5,000, The stroets have bden full of men carrying bodies to various places, where they await identification since morning, and the work has only just becun. ' Every hour or so ‘forces of men working in various heaps of debris find number of bodies buried in the mud and wreckage. It is be- lieved that when the flames are extinguished in the wreckage at the bridge, and the same is removed, that hundreds ana hundreds of victims will ve disdovercd, In fact, this seems certain, as dozéns of bodies have al- ready been found on ‘the outskirts of the mass of broken timbors, Keports from outsidé points are also ap- palling. Up to 9 o'cloek to-night 150 bodics have been embalmed at Nineveh, and there is a report that 200 mors have been discovered half buried - in the mud on an island between New Florence and the place named. At the Fourth ward school house over ONE HUNDRED VICTIVS have been laid out for identification. Tn many cases thev have been recoguized, while in many more tabs bear the simple word, “Unknown.” Shocking sights have become 80 common thau they have lost their terrors, and the finding of a body here and there at tracts little or no attention from the great crowds that constantly line the river banks and crowd all other adcessible places, As this is being written hundreds and hundreds of homeless men, women and children are sleeping on the hillside under tents that were sent on from Pittsburg and other places about the country, The Penusylvania railroad has succeeded i getting a track through to the city and ions enough to meet all immediate have arrived, The people who are not disabled are working earnestly for the revival of the stricken city, but it" will take months of work to come anywhere near re- pairing the fearful damages, while it is about certain that the list of the loss wiil never be made complete. The supply of cofins sent in from Pittsburg and other points is so great that the relief committee telographed last even- ing not to send any more until ordered. Dozens of places have already sent in gener- ous sums of money, and people are encour- aged to believe ail their pressing wants will be provided for. It will require several duys 10 ascertain anything like a definite idea of life, but it will certainly reach up into the thousands. Every hour brings fresh evi- donce of the fact that the disaster eclinses anything of the kind in the history of the country, and noone can say what the final result will be. ALMOST LYNOHED. A case of attempted lynching was wit- nessed this evening near’ Kenville, A man was observed stealing valuabie articles from houses. He was seized byamob, a rope placed around his neck and he was jerked up into the air. The rope was tied toa tree, and his would be_lynchers left im. By- standers cut him down before he was dead. The other men did not interfere and he was allowed to go. SHOT A MAN, 2x-Mayor Chalmer=Dicl, of Johnstown, shot a mau in Johnstown! to-day for robbing a dead woman's body. - The story related of Mr. Dick is that he saw’ the man go to the dead body of a woman and -take off sev- eral rings that she had on. He pulled out his revolver and fired: The bullet struck the man. He fell forward into the water and his body was washed away by the cur- rent. This afternoon Editor Swank, of the Johnstown Tribune, received a telegram from Scnator Quay fo draw on him at sight at the Beaver Deposit bank for $500 ia aid of the afflicted. W. S. Brown, of Pittsburg, of the Americus Relief corps, to-aay notifi Captain Kuhn, city solicitor, that the Pitts- burg musons stand ready to furnish auything that is wanted. The scenes at supper time show that hun- ger is beginning to drive sufferers to des- peration. They surrounded the freight cars that had been fitted up to feed the hungry and shouted for bread. At first those in charge tossed provisions into the crowd, and an awful scramble followed. Children were TRANMPLED UNDER FEET, and women were unable to get food, though they need it worst. Finally the Allegheny and Pittsburg volice stoppéd the throwing of food and forced the crowd to pass in a single ile before the car doors, Then there was no more trouble, though little children were crying for bread. “Where's that child without stockings{” called out a committee man from the car filled with clothing. There were a dozen shivering little girls in sight, and as many were too poorly clothed to pro- tect them from the weather, and as it is very cold here to-night, many a poor woman and her children are suffering. 1t is estimated that Councilnan Wilhiams and Undertaker MeNulty washed and pre- pared 230 bodies to-duy. The remuins at Morrellville are still in a vacant lot for the night. Hungarians attacked cars standing on the tracks, to-night, to seizq clothing and pro- visions. Onc was turned over to the deputy sheriff and the rest were clubbed. Hungar- ians and negroes are caysing the most trou- ble, All aay long they lave been filling with whisky, taken from the river, on Suturday, and to-night are in A DANGEROUS CONDITION, Negroes in Johnstown were seiling hams, sacks of flour and dress goods for whisky. A Hungarian with two companions was caught. to-day, in Kernville, rifling a body. The indignant crowd beat and kicked the men severely, placed a rone about the neck of one of them, and swung iim up to a tree, keeping him there until nearly strangled. The men were then released and chased by the crowd, who, it is said, stoned them into the river, where they were drowned. A deputy sheriff, named Porter, shot a negro who was robbing a store, The uumber of persons who searched the debris for plunder to-day, is surprising. Poorly clad laboring men may be scen car rying away fine ornamental clocks and rich bric-a-brac, Planos b the dozen are scat- d along the river, Bt they are ruined. One of the PATHETIC SORNES To-day, was a man and wife who drew from a mass of rubbish part of a cradle. They looked at it a moment in -silence and tien fell to weeping in each othor's arms, for the loved little one that was gpue. William Varner is a broken-hearted man, Of a family of ten, just five are missing, A THRILLING BXPERIENCE, Miss Fulton, n daughter of Manager John Fulton, of the Cambria Iron works, together with six ofmers, had u thrilling experience. They were in the First National bank buildiding and were driven to the roof. r‘; Jast the build- ing moved and the ladies leaped to another roof. This was going down stream and they leaped to another and theo to another. They traveled almost the entire length of the wain street on the top of peofs, aud finally landed sarely at Vine street. Selecting a Burial Site. Greexsnuxc, Pa., Junn 2,—The commis- sloners and poor dirdetors of Indiana, Cam- bria and Westuorelanddounties will mect to- morrow at Ninevah to decide upon a plan for the burial of the dead; It is likely thata plat of ground will be selected just across the river in Cambeia county, and it will be purchased by the three counties. One or two long graves will be made and the unfor- wunate dead, us fast as they can be found, will be placed there! Immediate action will be taken, as some the dead have turned black and are rapillly decomposing. Whole- sale robbery Of ° the victims Is re- ported and stlieves are arriving by the score. «One wunfecling wrelch was seen to rifle the pockels of @ dead [Continued on Second Page) PREPARING FOR THE CENSUS How the Officials Are Selectod and How Much Paid. ARMY PROMOTION AND PROJECT. The Unjustifiable Attack on the President’s Son—Oommissioner Tanner on the Distribu. tion of Pensions. 513 FOURTRENTA STRRET, ‘WasmiNaron, D. C,, June 2. It is very natural that there should be a great deal of interest taken by the people throughout the country, just at this time, in the compilation of the Eleventh census, Many people are seeking offices now, and an army of something like 40,000 men willal- together be employed in the ccnsus work. Only a small number of this vast aggrega- tion will have employment longer than thirty or forty davs. However, the super- intendent of the census and his force of clerks are at work now upon the plans for the real work in the field, which is to begin on the 1st of June next year. Altogether there will be 175 supervisors appointed throughout the states and territories, an in- crease of twenty-five over the list of ten years ago. The supervisors will be ap- pomted according to the population and the work which they will have to super- intend. They will receive $125 salary, ana are given 81 for every 1,000 persons enumer- ated in thickly settled districts, and $1.40 per 1,000 in thinly settled districts. They shall not be permitted to make an aggregate of over $00 for the entire work. This is very good pay, as scarcely over forty days of actual work will be involved. The super- visors are appointed by the president and must be confirmed by the senate. The enum- erators will be appointed by the superinten- dent of the census upon the recommendation of the supervisors, and in the selection of tuisarmy of enumerators a very lively fight will take place between republican represen- tatives and republican senators, cach claim- the right to name both the supervisors and the enumerators. The pay fixed for the enumerators is 2 cents a head for all enumerated, and 5 cents for each sol- dier or soidier’s widow: 15 cents for a farm, nd 20 cents for each manufacturing estab: lishment in the thickly populated regions. The enumerators arc not permitted to make more than $t a day, and i the sparsely se! tled districts their salaries are contined to £6 aday. Those having thickly settled dis- tricts are expected to enumerate about 4,000 souls; in the thinly populated districts the salaries will be fixed arbitrarily without ref- erence to the number enumerated. The ap- pointment of the supervisors ana the en- umerators must take place not later than the 1st of May, 1800, as all of the work shall be done in the following June. Most of the supervisiors will, of course, be upon by the end’ of this year, all of them will be by the president during the first three months of mnext year. The superintendent of the census has about com- pleted a redistricting of the country for the next census, and has determined the number of supervisors each state shall huve. Under the new apportionment, Nebraska will have three supervisors, an increase of one in num- ber in comparison with the number allowed that state under the Tenth census; and lowa will receive four supervisors, the same num- ber she had ten years ago. SOME ARMY GOSSIP, The agitation which has existed in army circies for some time over the successorship to Adjutant-General Drum, the promotion of one of the senior captains to be assistant ad- jutant-general, with the rank of wmajor, and the action of President Harrison on the de- cision, and recommendations of the court martial which tried Major Arms, on the re- od list, for tweaking the nose of Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, over a dispute re- specting a position in the inaugural parade, h: out subsided owing to the great and unexpected delay. ‘rhese questions, it v confidently expected, three or four weeks ago, would be disposed of fully a week be- fore the 1st of June. The president, evi- dently, does not _consider an emergency ex- isting 1w any of these cases, and since ha refuses 1o disclose his future fctions on any questions, no reliable information can be had. ‘The friends of Colonel S. Whipple and Colonel Kelton continue to contend that the adjutant-generalship lies between these two atiicers, and the preponderance of opinion is that Kelton will secure the prize. The friends of Captain John Bourke, Seventh cavalry, are cxercising themselves very much in his behulf for the assistaut adjutant- generalship, ana_they are confident that he will succeed. Bourke has certainly one of the best records of any mun of his rank the army. He was in daoger and withstand- ing the severest privations for fifteen or eighteen years, during and immediately su. ceeding the war. He is scholarly and a gen- tlemar It is believed that the delay of the president in taking final action on the decis- ion of the Arms court-martial is due to the fact that the recommendations and the testimony are at variance, It will be strange if this is not true, as the decisions in the Swaim and Lydecker court-martial cases were the most remarkable in the judicial an- nals of the army. President Harrison him- self was very much “put_out” at the sen- tence in these cases, and he evideutly iutends to take the Arms matter in his own hands Undoubtealy a better couditios of affairs exists in the army now than has existed ut any time during the past six or eight years, ‘e designation of General Schofield “to bo acting secretary of war in the absence of Proctor is in réfreshing contrast to the con- tentions over this question, which have arisen from time to time during the past two administrations ATTACKING RUSSELL B, HARRISON, As an illustration of the unfair and bit- terly personal warfare being made on Mr, Russell B, Hurrison by the democrats in Montana, it can be stated that no such per- son lives'in Montana territory, 80 far as can be ascertained, as Richard I, Negiey, who, it was recently published, had written u let ter to the president, complaining of the al- leged interterence of vhe president's son in politigs in that territory, and no such letter as bas been published, or, in fact, any kind of a letter written by Negley, has been de livered at the white hous: If the Negley letter is genuine and was wi n by such a verson it beurs a palpable falsehood on its face in claiming to be addressed and delivered to the president, as no such missive has ever entered the white house. he democrats in Montana seem to g reatly fear the popularity, sagacity and prestige of Russell B, Harrisor, and they are lr‘.\'lu% to defeat him for an office at the hands of the peopie WasniNaToN BureAv, Tiae OMana Bre, } determined and about nominated before he becomes a candidate, and even be- fore he announces his aspirations, It is stated that the speakers the democrats in- tend to send into Montana during the com- g campaign, will attack the president’s son and charge him with the uso of patronugs for the purpose of building himself up for senatorial election. Such unfairness, injus- ice and uncalled-for personaiity has nev entered into & campaign before. Every charge against him is basely false and is un- provoked. ‘The end in view, of course, is to carry Montana for tne democratic ticket at any hazard, and secondly, to degrade tho popularity of President ' Harrison, The president’s son has had no more to do with the distribution of federal oftices in Mon- tuna than any other other prominent, active nd good republican citizen of the territory, aud it can be further stated that the bresi- dent has given other republicans the same hearing and the same consideration that he has given his son. WHAT COMMISSIONER TANNER SATS. I aw not thin-skinned, and care little as any republican about ‘the criticisms and denunciations of democratic newspapers, but I do not think it sense or fairness to de- Bounce we for whe decisious of Assistaat Secretary Bussey, and give that official credit for the action 1 take myseif,” said Commissioner Panner, in discussing the oar- toons of the democratlo press to-day. The commissioner continued, T am willing to be ropresented as pouring out bags of dollars into eager soldiors' hands, although this is but a flight of fancy, and they may describe me a8 dispensing all'of the good things of Uncle Sam to ‘the bovs,’ but I think thero should be discrimination between the action of the pension office and the action of the officials in the iuterior department proper, 80 that each man may get his praise and his adverso criticism, as it may be due him, I intend to roverse the order of General Black, and have the 75,000 cases for increaso of pensions pushed to combletion along with the new applications for original pensions. General Black thought the applications for increase should stay in the pigeon holes, as long as there wass application for original Jensions<o aot upon, T shall havo no regard or tho condition of the surplus in the treas- ury in considering applications for pensions, 1t will be my purpose to grant all just pen- sions, and to do it _promptly, whother our next pension appropriation bill shall be in- creased from $20,000,000 to 10,000,000, or from $30,000,000 to §160,000,000. The surplus can take care of 1tself, and those who need pensions can not.” WHAT MR STOCKSLAGER WILL DO, Land Commissioner Stockslager, whose resignation has been aceepted, o take effect July 1, will leave the city for his old home at Corydon as soon as the trains run west out of Washington. He has been granted a leave of absence until the 15th of June. Mr, Stockslager has not made arrangements yet for the future, and the objuct of his visit to Indiana, this time, is to enter into a law partnership at New Albany, or complete his plans for resuming the practice of law at Corydon. He is one of the very last promi- nent democratic officers to be displaced by this administration. He says his retention was due to the unsettled condition in and the opening of Okluhoma, the inability of the administration to determine as to his successor, and the fact that he was a union soldier, and made an acceptable officer. It is not yet determined who shall be his successor, but Assistant Commis- sioner Stone' has been designated dus acting commissioner, Governor Stone may become commissioner finally. ~ The only thing there is against his appointment is his age. President Harrison believes that there should be a man younger than one of about seventy years to fill a position requiring the activity that should be pessessed by a com- missioner of the general land office, MISCELLANEOUS. Thomas J. Shindler has been appointed at Albion, Marshall county, Ia., vice W. W. Ballard, resigned. James S. Raymond, of Towa, was appointed last week to a $1,000 clerkship iu the war de purtment. Mrs. and Miss Niles will leave to-morrow for Omaha, if the trains are running west of here. Ou'their way home a fortnight hence they will make short visit to Mrs. Hen- dricks, at Indianapolis. Mrs. and Miss Niles will spend the summer at Deer Park. First Licutenaut C. H. Bonstecl, Twenty first infantry, stationed at Fort Sidney wiil remain in the city on two months leave of asonce. - He is stopping av 1920 Sunderland place Col. Swords, the treasury inspector of fur- niture, had a caller at his " oftice yesterday, who cused somewhat of a_commotion us he od through the corridors owing to his striking resemblunce to General W. T. Sherman. He ought to look like him, as it was Major Hoyt Sherman, of Des Moines, the youngest of the celebrated family, wwho, while enroute cast, dropped in 1o view the government treasury and meet his old friend. v S. Heatn, The Sioux Commission. Rosenun, Dak. loutine), June The Sioux comwission arrived at this agency yasterday afternoon, and decided to postpone th first council unuil the third inst., in ordor to give those living at the more dis- tant points time to be present. It is be- lieved the efforts of interested parties out- side the reservation has succecded in cre- ating a fecling of hostility, which will require the utmost nicety of treatment to overcome. There has been a dance by the Omana Sioux, at whici several chiefs of some prom- inencé made specches, the tone of which were favorable. While this circumstance may indicate the growth of the friendly fecling, which was increased by the fe: given at the close of the dance, it is believed the opinions given above are correct. The Indians do not now want to part with _their lands, and if they finally consent it will be because they are convinced their interests will be best subserved by such i course. To couvince them of this fact will be no easy taslk for tho commissioner nts in the G Developm Pawsee City, Neb, Telegram to Tne Bee. | new has been pres ndy Case, June 2.--[Spaci ~Until vo-day nothing ited in the Gandy case now on trifll here. It has been distinguished oniy the long drawn evidence that was pro- duced at the other trials, with the defense altempting the impeachuient of the state's evidence. Something interesting, lowever, was developed to-day, when rumor brought ont the fact that the defense eluims to have proof that one juror had previ said that he wanted o be on the Gandy case to see that the defendant ‘“got in the pen for a term oi years.,” This report finds in be- lievers, 13y noon, yesterday, the evidence was all in, and, by Consent, Judge Broady issued his instructions, and the attorneys began their war of words Frank Martin was the drawing card, and at the evening session the court-room was picked with men and a_ large namber of ladies to ear his plea. Martin’s speech lasted over two hours. At 11 o'clock the jury wentout and have been out all of to-day without agreeing, e — Mr. Mackay kx Cnicaco, June to Tue Bre, |—Generai Freight Agent Mackay, of the Michigan Central road, was inte viewed, to night, on the subject of the re ported indictment of nimself and other off- cials of the Michigan Central, for violation of the inter-state commerce law, He said he supposed it was the result of the charge of discrimination nnde lust fall, when M Streit, who is not iow in the service of the company, made a certain special arrange ment with Counsclman & Co. for throngh rates from points west of Chicago to the east. “Of course, d Mr. Muekay, “'vou can not indict a railway company, but they have taken the whole freight department of our road. The Michigan Ceutral is the old. est cast bound line, and i3 interests are of Chicago but' it looks us if some rs of the board of trade want to use inter-state commerce lnw to muke grain pay toll to them as it gocs through, They don't want it to go around Chicago, but I suppose we shall learn more about it if indic have been found.” A Festive HasTiNGgs, Neb, gram t Tne Bee) e e s Lightningz Bolt June 2.—|Special ‘Lele. -A bolt of lightning struck the Hostwick hotel about 10 o'clock this morning, during the prevalence of a severe storm of short duration, creaung much consternation. The eurrent descended tne cnimney and charged the wires of the meadescent light system and shocked and terrified all the inmates. A cloud of soot wis blown in from the chimney flue in the dining room and covered the floor and the tables an inch deep, and smeared the guests mating breakfast. Sheets of flame filled th rooms, causing a wild alarm and excitement. Nobody was hurt and the dumage was slignt. e Pawnee City High School, Pawxsee Ciry, Neb,, June 2, —|Special Tel- gram to Tue Bee. ) --The high school com- mencenient excreises were held, last night, in the opera house. There were seven gruduates, The eveniug's Lrogramme was highly entertaining, ‘Che public schools ave under the managewent of Prof. W, J, \, this being his second graduating eluss school board has engaged Lim for two yeurs wore, SOMETHING OF HOME RULE, It is Hoped the General Fleotion ‘Will Divulge Intentions. WILL MR, PARNELL BACK DOWN! The Art of Interviewing Ohurchill< Gladstone's Tour to Cornwall and the Bothered Reporters—Tho Grand Old Man's Outiook. Meeting With Celebritics. [Copyright 1859 by James Gordon Bennett.) Loxnoy, June 2-[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tug Be. |—It does not do, in these days, for any man to shut himself ina bandbox, and if he moves about the world like other people he will very likely come in contact with a Gladstonian, a Par< nellite, a Salisburyite or even a Goschenite, for it is said that tew odd persons are to found who call themselves by this last name, At all events he will likely run across the largely interviewed Lord Randolp Churehill, Queer as it is, although that interesting Rontleman is going, for the next month, to dine largely on fish caught by himself on tha banks of Norwegian rivers the patent paras graph machine will not stop in the vietun absence. He will be made to supply grist ta the mill, once or twice a day. y Gladstone is so hardened an offender thaé 1t is of no use remonstrating with him on what Whitsuntide tour he has marked out for himself, and for the miscrable reporters who were just beginning to hope that they would get hohday, at least. It must be res membered that the reporters who can take really verbatim notes are comparatively few in number, and that most of this. description are engaged in the gallery of the house of commons. When Gladstone speaks in tha country, especially during recess, some of these accomplished gentlemen are required to follow him, and so with the chief writers of the great press associations, who do tha descriptive articles. They are compelied to £0 to the priuciple points on the Gladstonian tour. For them, therefore, the newsofa Cornwall expedition came as anything buta welcome surprise, 1t is no joke of an expedition, either, so far as I can learn. Gladstone has arranged to speak in something like half a dozen places, not quite all at once, and to receive no end of addresses. He will rush about inyachts, trains and carriages. If he can not find something new to say everywhere, he willy at least, succeed in impressing his audiences with his unrivaled powers, giving an air of novelty to the veriest commonplace. In the art of putting things there is no one equal to him. Between the things he will have to put and those he will have to avoid, his work in Cornwall will tax all the ingeau- 1ty he can bring to it. For instance, what people want to know is, where the home rule question really stands. What is homa rule, and how does Gladstone propose to ems body it in his nexvbillt * Dealing with all sides of the subject he is wonderfully coy about it. Is the scheme of 1886 really dead, or is it only sleepmg? No doubt, Gladstone has attended its funcral as chief mourner, and put up several affecting epithets over its remnins, but can it be resucitated at a moment's notice? The verbal wizard woula only tell us the present intentions and opinions with regard to that. He would find the whole country intently listening to Lim every time, bt the time has not come for such confidence. Gene eralities suftice for the thira year of a parlia- ment. As a general election approaches, 1t is pos- sible that concealment will be abandoned. We shall then know of how many of its ob- jectionable and unpopular features the home rule bill has been shorn. Perhaps Parnell will cause it to leak out how much less he is willing to take than he was offcred in 1885, Some reduction of terms will certainly have to be made if the once formiduble liberal party is to be united, Almost every day, as matters stand, a fresh schism occurs. The great shock of tha earthquake is over, but of the edifice which survives some corner is continually falling off, or a new crack appears in the wall, The place can be shored up so as to last till election comes around, but, if not, steps can be taken, now and then, to rebuild iven. tirely. It is a bad outlook for Gladstone and hig chief followers, Another speli of power for the unionists would be the deati blow of the liberal party, and that result is far from im~ probable, unless Gladstone contrives to make & much more favorable impression upon the public than he has yet done. This, however, is taking a long look ahead. At present, we are in vhe midst of a dull ses- sion, and unless the Irishmen break sudden- 1y into dulluess, it will be necessary to cease to write to you on parliamentary proceeds ings. They will cease to interest anyone but official bores. The Scoteh locsl government bill, the Bann drainage bill—who can strike any fire out of srch materials as these! They are very use- ful, no doubt, but heavy beyond power ot woras to describe in every phase of the dig- cussion uvon them. Heavier still will be- come this letter it T linger over them & mos ment longer, A MEMuER OF PARLIAMENT, e Seventh Day Adventists. Des Moixrs, la., June 2.—[Special to T'ny B |—=The Seventh Day Adventists of the northwest hold their annuul campmeeting at this city, beginuing next Tuesday. They have had tents pitched wh Ouk Park, a subs | urb of the city, for several days, holding s kind of preparatory meeting there. But the campmeeting proper begins ou Tuesday, and then runs for a week under high vressure of three weetings a day. ‘There ure ncarly ning Lundred organized churciics in this denomi- nation with ten foreign conferences, They hold about forty cumpmectings each year, relying largely upon them for their converts, The meeting here will be attended by several thousund of the believers, and some of tha strougest ministers in that denomination will preach and discuss tueir doctrines, Theie cawp is alrendy quite & center of interest, and heing on a wotor line, can be visited by thousunds dail R An O1d Citizen Kearyey, Neb, June 2.—(Special fele- gram to Tur Bek)—Charles Black, an old and respected citizen and prominent stock- man, who owned & large ranch on the island west of the city, died ol crysipelus lagt night, Dead. - Killen Will Fight MeAuliffe. 8. Pary, Minn, June 2 pocial Teles gram 0 Tk Beg | —Secretury Jumison, of the Califoraia Athlotic club, to-day wired Pat Killen as follows: “Will give $2,%00 for a fight botweon and McAulifie, Best we can do. Au Killen replied thut the stuke was sutisfaotory, and that he wnd s manager would start for Califoruis in the next few days. Toe fight, will nut talie place” probably until All of the *.‘,G‘Jr 5 o gu tuc Hghe. ou