Punxsutawney Spirit, 1889-06-05

              M v HMOfl ** -hwI • • '4 NO 2. B COME AT LAST 1 Crowd of Consumers AND HAS BROUGHT WITH IT THI AYE EVER SEEN! Bhookville, Pa. IT-LAW, A TTORNE T-A TLA W, TH * MORRIS, v, v.« ff 0. CAMPBELL, BMMKV1UB.PA QBee la Mat*ob Bloeh, oppeelto the pvblle awBrtiiii JENXS ft CLARK, ATT0XKMT8-AT-LA W, JQDWABD A. CARMALT, ATTOMXMT-AT-LAtT, BMOCTOXI, FA Ofloa with Judge Jeaki. Legal bMlseweaN- Ulljr attended to. PWMWiflBT, Pa. OAm m Ollpto 8hMt, two doer* aorth 1 MW faraltaie itan. O M. BSEWEB, A TTOSJfl T-A T-LA W, ,52" \ssAXiUStXSSSi TMMUHtMT, r A J. TBUITT, atto*xwt-at-law, nmuaxi* KTKKT WHWWAT. J (AT10B1I1L, JfcSAEUSf - —«sr A TTOXKM T-A T-LA W, Ivmaxa, Fa, Omm Ke. Mt, Tedd balldtag, Maim street. EHOT WEATHER PTTNXSUTAWN35T, PA., WEDNESDAY. JUKE 5,1889. Appall? Disasler Joircstown Orerwtielned tj Furious Waters and Swept from the Face of tlie Earth. THE MOST FEARFUL CATASTROPHE OF MODERN TIMES. THOU LITIS LOST. ror Unspeakable—Ghastly Sights and Heart Breaking Scenes. D-vaatation ! Hor- rth & Morris TH* DOOMKD CITY HI SIGHT, But_a_few atepe now and the doomed city is in slghtT Overtaxed nerves weaken aad hr»r*s are broken at the very (luoe. Fire, ten, tifteen thonaand people drowaed if one: for the wonder Is not that so many were drowned, bat that ao many were saved. Thousands of poor men, women and children swept away in a moment, to die, If luckily they oonld, by injury; or worse, to fight and fight the fieroe current, to atraggle aad pray and weep, to have their leader hand* torn and limbs bruised by hurling timbers, to sink and rise, and sink again la a msd whirl of angry waters, to battle bravely, despairingly, for a life precious tojthe last, and then the bitter end, where exhausted nature can do no ■ere, and the poor, tired arms are thrown ap plaintively to a high heaven that answers not, to a God that gives no sign, and then down—down. Let us speak of Johnstown, and a scene that cannot be forgotten. Just as ire teaoh the place the distressing groups to the right or left, huddled together in misery unutterable, are found to be the poorer familiea who have lost all, and are camped under a cold sky. And worse still, they are not all there. Some ono is missing, and perhaps two or three, and mote. There are no tears here and no repining. They are far beyond that. They sat silent and stolid, not thinking, for their faculties were benumbed; not speaking, for they had no thoughts to ntter. Most oertainly hundreds of snrvivrrs will die of the shoek and exposure, and 1 need only to speak ef one woman in these groups, far they Beem to be the most deeply strioken, and to speak of oue describes all. The Ri alleli *rowd and Jam we Have had at our Store is Unpar- Never before have we sold the amount of Straw Light Suits and Light Underwear, Seersuckers lei and Alpaca Coats. During the past ten 's we have had one continual rush. Some nerchants complain of business, but this is not the case with Sang Hollow, Fa., May 31.—(4| mile* weat of Johnitown.)—Johnatown Ilea, or Aid lie, at the foot of a valley, which at that point ia little more than a gorge. It lay in a point of land between Coaemaagh river or oreek, and 8tony Creak,aa Pittaburg Ilea between the Allegheny and Moningahela. Wall np the farther ahore of the Allegheny with a precipitiona hill, riaing almoat from the watera edge, narrow the apaoe for the Ohio to flow te a mere gap between the hilla, 100 yard* wide, and yon have a fair idea of the geography of the plaoe where thia morning there waa a oity of 30,000 people, and where to night there ia a waete of water, ehoked with blazing wreck. TH & one rnice CLOT+HEBS. MORRIS, JIAAO 6, * C. Z. GORDON, OSm In Opera Houo Block. Oct, 1.1(89. PA. NO g A. CRAIG aSEsaswiSWa,uSr TVAXIBL BAMBY, A TTOBNM T-A T-LA W 1MTIM. H.-W., Waahlagtoa, D. C. 0H W.F. BEYER, PBTflGUir AND 8USOBON, rnranunor, fa OSoe two door* cut Of tk* Foot Otto*. £)R. B. 0. AXU80N, PHYSICIAN AND 8USGS0N, FmwvAwxar, Fa. O&h hi* MrrioM to the peoplo 9t Fonsanll«MT And Tlelnlty. J)R. BYRON WIN8LOW, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Clattille, Fa. M»>Ottoc and ieace one tquare back of j.TT7GiUe»pte» itojre. lt-T-ly. JJB. CHARGES t. ERNSt, PHYSICIAN AND SUMMON, I FOKsaoTAWxaT. Fa. HmSer of Board tell thi feet mc tailors than h order. scarcel you,to I and fit 1 than all suits froi $1.50 to in pne« the seast MEN'! first-clas $3 to $6. SWts: 1 to $7 ; Alberts \ in light C cords, lig Shoes! and boys. furn: Balerigan nel Shirts' Hats! I Stiff Hats colors, Yec Trunks, and Moha Gloves, E. We still watch and grsiiidest display you ever saw. A 'lish pants for 90c and $1 ; Dress Pants from a would call special attention to our Men's ack Suits we can give you an elegant for from wool 18, $9 and 510. In Cutaways and Prince live everything new and seasonable. Cutaways iots, Cassimers, Widewails, Corkscrews, Whiptd dark colors, from 18 to $30. is I! Shoes I!! Everything in Shoes for men good dress shoe for men, $2. NG DEPARTMENT—Complete Gauze and icy Stripe Underwear. Men s Summer Flanlegant patterns 50c. to $3.75. !! Hats III In Straw, Wool and Fur. In how all the latest styles. In light and dark i, Knox, Dunlap and Miller Shapes. :hels, Valises, Rubber Coats, Umbrellas, silk Neckwear, all the latestt styles ; Hosiery, J. Collars and Cuffs. itinue to make the boys happy by giving a with every suit. j the leading Clothiers of this county. You can rarments wherever you see them. They are perin fit, and are just as well fmade as any of our jd make them. We can sell you a suit for less le price you will pay for the same goods made to r stock has never been so complete. There is oill in existence whose goods we cannot show [nothing of the fit and workmanship. For style ever had a rival. We show more good goods other clothiers in this t«wn. We have men's 3 to 130; Boys' Suits $2.50 to $15 ; Child's suits 50 ; Kilt Suits $1.50 to $5. These suits are made iwo piece suits and comprise all the novelties of jp w. J. OHAmdleb, SUMOSON DMNTIMT, i PmnsmPAWiviT, Pa. la hto ifWePW. In tk» Wart Bad* [JH. 8. I. HOGHE8, SVBOJSOy DMKTI8T, 1 FumoTAwmT, Fa. OBm wrath aid ot Jladley itraet. fjl K.tMOKKlkOM, D.\D. 8. DMJTTAZ R00M8, Tl. Mm is Johuon Bnlldtog, over Jobamm * Flak'iMor*. , M-«* pa.nr. raiLLxm, DENTIST. »Mitrau,n. .fflw easrJK.ia?^'1' tiieOrieii & Popular One Price Clothiers CORNER ROOM MOTfcL PAHTALL, J# B. MOHKIS, JUSTICE. OF VMM WAGE, MJoUjcftooiWid otiwr piwpOy.t- jnffifff tf ff* y— FV WXET. M fragmaotaof bridges, lags, dead badiee lid indeecribable wrack of all kind* wan hearing and jamming together. Mao, woman and children aweepiag by on piaoaa of wreck, filled the air with their naf railing criea for help. A hnndred and nineteen liring people were counted going by before 8 o'clock, and the agonizing criea that oeme np from the water since it ia teo dark to mo, give evidence of the awfnl acenea which the darkneea hidea from aight. Such help aa oonld be given hero via bravely ventured, bnt it availed bnt little. No life boat could have lived in each a torrent of rnahing wreck, if a lifeboat had been here. The drift piled op againat the dam it had formed at the bridge. Honae after honae added ita wreck to the heap until it formed a tangled maaa, from thirty to aixty feet thick, riaing high above the water, and atretching back three-fourths of a mile along the curve of the hill. Thia, later in the night took fire, bnt it probably added no pang to any unfortunate people who had been caught in it The water had left nothing for the lira to do. Their aufferinga were over. TOO HORRIBLE TO BJCAIJZK. Johnstown, June 2.—Some wiae provision in nature haa ao made It that man'a feeling and aympathy and comprehenaion of certain events goea juat 10 far, and beyond that line—lies madness. For this resson the fnll extent of the Johnatown holooauat will never be realized in this life. The calamity was ao gr*»'. he event so frightful, and the result so - --- .— —_ - -11 i.j i . u M .!• m bad eagrely taken them and divided then inparalleled, thnt a cold feeling of numb among their famishing companions. Aloa nets results from a mere contemplation of wa. offered this poor woman, Bitting sileu inch a scene, ere a thousandth psrt of it* and apart, but she never saw the friendlj fnll magnitude is realized. J"*- never notioed th® rouud wheatei Johnstown is no more. Ttiat peaceful "Come, come, rouse up." iity of 3'.,000 happy, prosperous people haa "Why," said she calmly. ""Why, 1 havt oeen swept away in an hour, and leaving, B° one- I have nothing left. 1 lost seven . _ . - - , _ . whatt The wildest flight of the imagin- W ' . „ Stony Creek and Conemaagh Creek .. .. . . .. . "But, my God woman, you must—" »m* together then and form the Cone- •t,0D'the bolde,t utter»nce- cou,d not »P" "God," said she stonily. "Where is Godr v ?? _ .. . . .. proachthe truth, or even attempt to de- and we turned away heartbroken. True naugh river. The .tone railroad bridge pict the tbat followed. jQ,t lmag. true, where wa. be when this awful thing Ito h,« lu.te bo™ w;tk „ lu M «f m.nj J..4 o„,b.d .„J up Stoney Creek burst at an early hour , , , . ... . . .. 7. med together in acres of debris up against ihis morning, and the rushing water bTl « the stone bridge. People stood with g.assee , . , X„nm.nAm n4 inirfl intn thu hurle* huS6 blooks and houses about m if turned to the blazing ruin, but the naked J \x tv a v *hey were toys, and ground an entire city eye waa enough ; too much ; for It showed Jrh"tOWn !?d into a ma- of lumber and iron and .tone «"•{•« blackened form sitting to >lt uprille borough, lying just across the creek. _™i. . . . right just near the bridge, and no one It was worse than a bombardment by mnd bric7 Then thp P®0'1®' *lM' 016 knows how many more were tangled in l. tiii ti,. P°°r people! the enormous mass, and no one ever will, heavy artillery. The foundations were Erery tr^B tbat hnrried out of this eity for the Are could not be extinguished, nor * .i. 7 and toward the east carried hundred, of 1 Criwf!^ crashed through house* as though they . . , . ., . . , to the release of a whole family, before had been built of piper. The flood .wept ~ JTLot 27'ofthey were reached by the ugly flames. RVArvthino ni**r M it ««nt and while worst, though as yet not one of them the worst is thuk. treat Trmfir- of wreck were oarried down re*llzed whw WM coming. AtNinevaha Johnstown, June 2.—There is » famine great asMs rec e .top was made, and the anxiou. queetion, among the dead. The 15,000 survivors ot the river, through the wild mountain w- f ran aronnd. The conduotor hoarse- the flood who are suffering lor food and gorges, so muoh of it caught on the bridge , .. . ... . . . ,. clothing find their troubles have a ghastly and the hill, which above the bridge counterpart- There are no coffins here to _ j__ awaited identification, and that, perhaps bury the dead. I saw tbe last coftin used ourves back fro th » —perhaps some of yon know them." Si- this afternoon. Three thousand more, at was formed and the water backed still Jently we ,t the first frightful evi- wiU be needed. Therefore, to the further up into the town. About four , . . ... public appeal for aasistano may be added o'clock this afternoon, just before th. lnT t wj S th" ,th^W°/d8: « coffins bv tho train , , . of horror., and it was pitiful how they load, for we need them as bad as wa do wires we.t down east of here.the operator lay> |ide bj (ide> tlny ohildreil fir8t, then bread. at South Fork telegraphed thu oflo« that the yonnger8 md then the eiderg with morguks in many buildings. the great South Fork dam was about to faoea of 8noh dead]_ eloqnenoe) that a por. Charnel houses have been established in burst. Th. dam i. on the Mnth fork of a dim idea of wh(kt t„ follow all sections of Johnstown. The principal Conemaugh creek, about ten mile, above hnrri(l(, thg> >. . . . ... one is in the public school building on Tnt.n.tr»n .n/1 nnamllii from gonth Fork burned the blanched crowd to the train, Adams street. Over two hundred bodies Joh stow and on toward th. fountain head of ruined, have been taken there for identification .tatlon. It 1. a mil. wide and three mile. djBn]all^jed j#imgtown. .inoe tbe flood occurred. Lower down in long, and hold, an immense body of miwmiTii.nnn.Tn. theruin. 40 more bodies lie awaiting claimwater. The next oall over the wire for At J „ „ ! hollow. anU. Over on the Southside a public hall Onntti pn,v ont M unit The wires * Hallow, four mile, from the is filled w ith 60 or 70 corpses. IntheMor- Souti) t ork got no uawer. city and a place already historical, th. rellville district there are still 65 more were down. rail, had been torn up and twisted like corpwe grouped in one apartment. An hour later there came a rush of wa- thread( ln theawfnl avalanohe, Then the os'LY A PART OK TnB l>KAI)- tor Into Johnstown, compared with which r0illin_ gwonen Tiyer to tbe left bore on These are the dead people taken out of the Drecedinff flood had been a. nothing. .. „„ . . th. water and debris in Johnstown and tn. precedingboobmo » its sullen bosom, and on either bank, wme <Bbnrbll aIone. Add to them the additional It poured down Conemaugh traces of the fearful night's work, some 200 or 300 corpses which floated from Johnsgreat wave-like wall of water, .weeping jdea Qf wj,aj wag yet to oomp Clothing town down stream and are now lyirg at everything before it. The immens. work. (ortI t0 ohreds, swung from trees, broken Nineveh, Florence, Sang Ho low and Holl*'it' °f bouses and of furniture nn-7,000 men, the seoona large.* notioed, or caaght and swirled in treaoh- this is wired perhaps later dispatches in this oountry, were burled out of .lgnt er0QR eddieB| bat all unnoticedi 0n! On i will probably chronicle the recovery qf except the roofs and chimney tops, and A thrin of borror f(|n thron h aJ1 fof # scores more corpses. roof, and obimney.soon began to orumble . M_ ... ,. , , . how all iiopb has klkd. and disappear nuder the battering of the . I ... r Ilar ttn J . And so hone has (led. Instend of Hearchfloating timber. Half the to "J?*lb* fbe"nd "TTT £1 i»« among tL rescued for their mining . ... ... than lying stark upon the bank, mudded relatives, people havo onuented to believe be lifted from its foundations, a d p and bruised, just as he had beei drawn them dead. Tbat bes but one result. It away at once. The wreckage covered the brom the wate with his powerful arm. forces all to admit that there mu,t have Water thioker than the house, had stood , , .. . _ . _ been no less than .<,000 drowned, and that V,'°" u _0 ,on_er a balf raised over his head, as if to ward toff of the 10(0oo, which many people believe in the town be for . K even iu death, tbe blow that had redden- are still missing, very few will turu up flood of water. It WaB a town anoai. bis forebe»<l »nd taken from hts stroDK »live- Iu view of these stubborn and ap- Uany had takeii *e*ning and fled to the tUeir oaon, do Bnd to palling figure,, wuich few ,-nt-ide people hiirher around, but thousands of men, , , .. . , have refused to believe, no attempt; lias, j —am «»ent awav hundreds passed another boy almost or will be mude to keep a tabuUttd morwomen and children were swept away, jm iff<)te|lt,y by nig wu not the (aoe nor tURry lut. their h.att-rending cries rising above bis the form they looked for and feared to Bettor work was accomplished today jrash of th. .mashing houses. The mass than ever before in the removal . f .1. bris if wreck water dead bodie. and drown- . ,. ; . * ® ® living, {rom tlol,« uf g0me eir<>eiH, and the >f wreck, water, mw www. « and then to weep for the dead. constqum.t .1 soovery of bodies. The reang people ruahed down into tn. moutn IN THETEHR11ILB VALLBY OF DEATH. sonoflhis v a< the entire witldiaw>.l of >f the gorge, wh.ro tbe hilU oome togetber xhe nearer we approached the horrible water from the heart of tl.« ciiy. Tnat ike a pair of giant arms, and choked the obetae'e gone, men can po to woik, but qiio.tnim bridue stood firm a. Nai ei 01 ue»lQ tne n!gner anu tngner ana wor,t part of it is that no human beitream. The stone bndg higher rose the figurta of destruction, ui- w with any degree of feeln g about I iin the hills. The wreck eang lil it seemed as if not the dead but the ean stick at pnoh labor thau a lew »nry. It th ekened into a dam. hvitg should be oounted. A hundred bour.. . t » the bridge and the hollow of the hill. . Three hundred there Two thnn Almost every foot or progress » laborer > >.o»h»ru,t .trraii'h with everv liieoe of inree rea mere. Two thou in the debris lie comes hch sii a dciid It gathered strength with e J 1 siml swept from tbat one street alone. man, woman or child. This oconrs iin »reck, and every body that was c » j one speaks of the d.a<l in bnudlta aid again. It soon becouns sickenirg ntoit, and bound them all together in |tk(| lliat| „ben one jgno a gcoie and in O.nk ora vkyard. k tangled wall, closing up half the outlet, of bQik| mer<) bnlk| ln 1 uciau 1 fe, Grk«nsbukc, Pa, June :J.—The Comtoward which the mouutsin water, hurled i n#t # bleMin_ that ktauefaction miwioners snd foor Dir. et. rs - f Indianti, th.it' flood. Tho water buret even »»*« . ,, . Mn # Cambria, and W.s iu nel ml oru ties will « . i:_i,. wi.us ir had taken for its new i *bouJd.n»ut Allies away from the .cene to-m»row morning at Nineveh to flood limit, whloh it a i it seemed as if 000 death, were .urely decide upon a pl«'> *->r ho burial of banks, aud poured a new river in a new enough, bat as body after body i. drawn the d«al. It Is likely that a plot of «hannel through tbe teirt of the lower frotu tbe fjn| rlver it |8 not enouah tTOUDd wiU .i"»' •«'<"" th. b irt of the citv. \ • u _ . . .* river in Cambria conn I \ ai d that the A man who walked here from Johnstown . * figure* go up and up. A quavering BMBe wm bB parchas'.d t.y tie three coui- A man who walked here from Wobnto i workman point, to a submerged field and tieaandnneortwoonf grav». v ill bemad, this eveoiog said that wbeu be left you • strewn with dead. and will be barfed could we nothing of the town but the ( W(j tarn U a be||d Cambria Clti is th#re- Poor B''»rd Attorney Spiegel, of church steeples, ... ' fi>00'i woman |R-ihis to ah'ase tbht.iring* will havi to -be taken, as ib» '!<•: •' are is i J The river rushing nist here has been in a gbt »ud »iys that lint dred. are bur a- idly Muompokiog. j black with drift sli >4*y. Hnisee, ears, (here. 1 [Late news on 4th «n l 8th pagtu.] ;• ; '• ii* ■' " ' •• ! ; ' X.U'UUT LEFT TO LIVE KOK. Each of os had carried a loaf of dry broad (all we bad) from the train and the men i a i_ A_i « ii • « * *•  Pa. (J C. BXNSCOTEB, DISTRICT ATTOMNMT, with Hea. A. C. White. in ATTQXXMY-AT-LA W, Bbooktillb, Pa. JOHN W. BELL, BMKraU, PA. ope* is VitM'i oOee, B*wo« bnlldtag, oppeat* the Court Home. air vol* xvn. m j- m ft ~wr '[