Punxsutawney Spirit, 1889-06-12

              In Men's Suits we have all the novelties as well as the sta- Boys' Clothing in all the latest styles, from 12.">0 to $15. ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, Office in Opera House Block. Oct, 1,1889. JSAAC G. * C. Z. GORDON, Bbookville, Pa. ATTORNEYS-AT-LA Jf, from I. T. Wood & Co., the celebrated shoe manufacturers. SHOES. We have just received a new invoice of shoes Furnishing Goods of every description. HATS—Men's Hats, Boys' Hats, Child's Hats. All the la- FUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12,1889. THE TAL1IY 0! DEATH Progress of the Work at Johns town —Interesting Incidents. inch NNrion wmtatMN tkn oM by the many sots of heroism and true generosity performed by the more fort an ate Inhabitant* here. Among the many eneh here oh be named Mr. 8toner, the Diriaion boas of the Penney iyaaia Railroad,who haa kept open home for the aafortanatee, fire famillea staying in the honee with hie family, beeidee giving free me*la to all who apply. FURNISHING GOODS. IMMTIUI, PA DIM la Hataon Block, oppoelte the pnblle alldlsg*. pENKB k CLARK, A TIORNEYB-A T-LA W, Still They Come I Mfc.AU le#al tarinw wUl ttwlu prompt ■lemMitttatlH. 1W-W IinuxA, Pa, OMeoHe.MI,Tedd baiMUag, Main Street. ATTORXMY-AT-LA W, ATTORNKY-AT-LA W, PtmnovAwinT, Pa. (Mm oa etlpis itroot, two door* north of ■Midi' faraltnre itoro. If. BBXWXB, gjDWABD A. C ARM ALT, A TTORNE Y-A TLA W, Buoinui, Pa OSee with Judge Jeaki. Legal bnaineMeareilly attended to. MORRIS' STORE for their FINE CLOTHING, SHOES and You might rs well try to stop the waters of the recent flood as to stop the people from coming to NORTH & |"OHN W. BELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Bbookvilli, Pa. with Hon. A. C. White. 1S-SS c. CAMPBELL, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W, Bbookvilli, Pa. Office ta lfataon't office, Mataon building, opoalte the Gonrt Home. C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, Notwithstanding the cold weather and high waters our trade has kept right along. We are still reducing our stock in every department. While many of our competitors complain of having nothing to do we are never without work, but are always busy. Now, we don't want to tire you with a long sto- ry about our immense stock. It would be impossible to give you a full detailed rccount of our store in its different depart- ments. All we can say to everybody is, Come in and inspect to $5.00; Short Pant Suits $1.50 to $7.50. A. CRAIG $3.00 to $25.00. pies in Cassimcrs and Riverside Worsted, ranging in price from rVANIEL RAMEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LA W 1807 Fat. N.-W., Washington, D. C. . "noticing attorney In the HTtnl court* in ashlnxton and elsewhere. rroMCitei eltlna •for* all the Government Department!. Ala* he yarehaae and aale of real eatate. 14-18 PA. Positive orders were issued by tlieSanitary committee to day to arrest any person, workman or otherwise, wh should be detected throwing any manner of debris into the river. Everything must be burned. All violators of this order to be pnuished severely by order of Dictator Scott. The work of blasting the gorge at the Pennsylvania bridge was prosecuted today with mnch better success than on any previous day. Several men armoil with pikes were busy pushing the logs loosened by the blast out into the stream so that they would llo3t away. Not ices were posted "t all the morgues tn-rtiv s'nti- g tint iitier to-day bodies i*" .1 i liu lie.J only twenty four hours for identification. If at the expiration of that time they are no"t~recognizecf" they are photographed, the photograph being the same number as the morgue number of the corpse, Recognition i« a difficult matter, as the bodies are most terribly bruised and discolored when taken out, and in most cases the faces are so distorted that recognition is considered much more difficult titan simply the blanched appearance given from lying in the water. The forces oaring for the dead are abont exhausted. Several of the undertakers were obliged to give np today. Lack of sleep and lack of accommodations and ronghest of army fare, consisting largely of salt pork, bread and black coffee, has had the usual ett'ect when coupled with hard work and damp weather. dreda of survivors with their nenrooa forces badly shattered and broken. derg and none gave those who are actually employed will be allowed to remain! "The officers are arresting men every honrT some of them on the slightest provocation? In all cases where the offense is trivial the victims are i>ressed~into~ work  relief gangs. Johnstown and adjoining Tillage* are now nnder thorough military and police regulations. Each place ha* been prov;i-ded with men enough to" keep ;ont" intra" with meaales and kindred complainta. The reaction, uow that the great shook ha* in a measure passed, has left ban- exist. The children at* alio afflicted to stand the expense. Theee bodies ware gathered from np and down the rirar bolow Johnstown, and tho Commlaiionscs of Westmoreland oonnty furnished the plot of grannd where thej sleep to-night. 4 "There ia~an unusual amount of sickness about?Kernville. The physicains claim that several hundred oases of pneamonla Children's Department—simply grand. Kilt Suits $1.50 Johnstown, June (I.—J. Lippert, Geo. Iiichards, Fred Zimmerand John Murphy, of the Allegheny corps, made a tour of Kernville to day, inspecting the sanitary condition of the town. They report that the sanitary condition of all the houses is bad. Four persons were found sick. There is no morgue in the towu. "What is needed most to morrow is disinfectants and men to clear up the ruins. The inspectors say that the people cannot clear the place themselves. Kev. Ileal estimates that there are still 1,000 bodies in the ruins at Kernville.DT S IN FE CTA N TS N E E DE D. A motion was made that after fortyeight hours further search the debris of the city be consumed by fire, the engines to be on hand to play upon any valuable building that, despite previous precautions, might become ignited by the general cod tlagration. This was debated for nearly half an hour. Those whose relatives or friends rest beneath the wreck remonstrated strongly against any Biioh summary action. They insisted that all the talk of threatened epidemic was only the sensational gossip of fertile brains,and that the search for the bodies should only be abandoned at a last extremity. The physicians in attendance warned the committee that the further exposure of putrid bodies in the valley would have bnt one result—the typhns or some other epidemic equally fatal to its victims. It was a question of whether the living should bo sacrificed for the dead; whether the sway of sentiment or the mandate cf science should be the ruling impulse. Although the proposition to burn the wreck was opposed, it was evident that the movement is gaining many adherents, and the result will doubtless lie that in a few days the torch will be applied, not only to the fields of waste in Jonnstown, but also to the avalanche of debris that chokts the streams above the Pennsylvania bridge. Johnstown, Pa., Jane 6.—There is a strong movement on foot In favor of applying the torch to the wrecked building! in Johaetown, and although the suggestion meets with strong opposition at this time, there is little donbt the ultimate eolation of existing difficulties will be by this method. - An army of men have been for two days employed in olearing np the wreck in the oity proper, and although hundreds of bodiee have been discovered, not one-fifth of the ground has yet been gone over. In many places the rubbish is piled twenty or thirty feet high, and not infrequently these great drifts cover an area of nearly an acre. Narrow passages have been out through in every direction but the herculean labor of removing the rubbish has yet hardly begun. At a meeting of the General Relief Commiitee this afternoon Gen. Hastings suggested the advisability of drawing a cordon around the few houses that are not in ruins and applying the torch to the remaining great sea of waste. He explained briefly *'• great work yet to be accomplished if r. were hoped to thoroughly overhaul ev< v portion of the debris, and insisted ti nt it would take 5,000 men months to complete the task. Of the hundreds of bodies buried beneath the rubbjth Mid stones, the skeleton or putrid remains of many was nil that could be hoped to lie recovered. WILL APPLY THS TORCH. rino, Summer Flannel Shirts, from the cheapest to all silk. Balbrigan Fancy Stripe Underwear, Gauze Summer Me- Ifuoh has been aooomplished, and great bonfires are harning throughout the devastated portion. The work is being pushed with all possible expedition, bnt the amount to do is so vast that much as is being done makes little show as yet. The work of blasting a obannel through the gorge accumulated above the viaduct is being prosecuted with great vigor also, bnt. it seems futile, as the blasting seems only to loosen the grave lands and to do nothing towards tearing the great logs ont of the bed of sand, earth and accumulated debris of all kinds whioh bind them as tight as stone quarries, At the present speed it will be five or six weeks before the mssa can be dislodged. Meantime the bodies of the charred unfortnnates who went down in the whirlpool of death are being taken out as radidly as possible, some with heads, some with legs burned entirely off. Johnstowh, Pa., Jane 5.—The work of cleaning the atroeta goea on bravely, about 1,600 men being at work. For the first time ainoe the fatal honr the flood ewooped down npon the nnanapeoting populace aome ayatem haa characterized the work. AN IMMENSE TASK. Despite the sunshine, the weather remains cool, or the stench arising from the mass would be more awful than it now is, and it is bad enough in all conscience. The impression is gaining that the most expeditious way to get rid of the gorge is to saturate it with oil and tiro it again. Otherwise it will take 2,000 men a month to remove it, by which time the drying flesh of human beings and animals will have bad time to pollute the watercourse to New Or!eins. THE SICKENING STENCH. The State Board of Heal 'i is considering the matter and this maj ' e done yet, the protection of the living ir considered of quite as much importance as the recovery aud burial of the dead. If it is done there will be an outcry of conrse, but imperative necessity for the living, not deference to the ideas of sentiment regarding the dead, must govern. Action must be prompt to be effective. The dead animals, of which there are hundreds, will be burned, and that as quickly as they are taken out of the drift. Ouly six patients are this evening in the hospital on Adams street. Twenty have been discharged. This morning fourteen, and this afternoon twelve of the injured •r sick were sent by the Baltimore & Ohio road to Pittsburgh. There is as yet little general sickness in the oity, bat doctors say that much pneumonia is likely to develop in a few days. To-night the site of the town is guarded by a heavy detail of militia, and only persons who have general passes are permitted to move about. The Pittsburg police this evening arrested a Hungarian for drunkenness and have him locked in a box car for safe keeping. The register of survivors amouuted to-night to 13,000. test styles Yeoman, Knox and Miller shapes. All the novel- ties in Straw Hats for men and boys. £)R. CHARLES G. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PcKxamwjiiT. Pa. aa permanently located In this place, and ofraSprofeaalonalaervioee to the olHsena of la vicinity. He may be found at all tlmee at J office, up atalra In the Roaenberger bolWing. German language spoken. Member of Board of Pension Examiners.  Clatvillb, Pa. w-Ofce and residence one square back of j ,v7Gillesples store. 15-7-ly. J)R. BYRON WINSLOW, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, £)R. 8. J. HUGHES, 8 UBQEON DENTIST, PmUtTTAWKIT. Pi. Ofioe south end of Flndley street. nmxauTAWiiaT, Pa. 1b hie residence, In the West Bad. T)R. W. J. CHANDLER, SUBOEON DENTIST, IJI B. XOK&1SOK, D.D.8. DENTAL BOOMS, raxHiiTivnT. fi. OBoe In Johnson Building, over Johnson* rink's store. 14",x OBee In the Gordon Briek, Block, Reynolds- Tiu*, Pn. ArtUeUl teeth without platee. pi. K. P. PHILLIPP1, DENTIST. SMms «f 1$t ¥****> • B. 1COBRIB, " JVmCEJOt TEE EEACE, lam Ttnnr, PA OoUfetloM and other business promptly at- _)R. W.F.BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUKTiCTAWKIT, PA Office two doors east of the Post Office. QR. S. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ptkmutawwt, PA. Offers his services to the people of Punxsuawney and vicinity. MUST BE SOLI). NORTH & MORRIS, The Oripal aid Popular One Price Cloiiiers, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Hotel Pantall Building »:tO.OOO In KlKht On.l1*. Trunks, the finest in the land. Trunks from three to ten Umbrellas, etc. dollars. This comprises a beautiful line. Prices guaranteed lower than any other house in this town. Satckels, Valises Johnstown, June 8.—Dr. Ltissy, who is at the head of the State Health Hoard here, says he, with a gang of :!0 men, discovered a lot of dead horses, pi;*», eto., in a house on Franklin street, from which a horrible stench emanated. Ho immediately bad it romoved to a distance and burned. Dr. Lossy denied (he report that there was an epidemic of diphtheria or fear thereof, but admitted that a number of cases of pneumonia were prevailing.DIPHTHERIA NOT EPIDEMIC. Free! Free! Free with every Child's Suit a watch and chain. E. & W. Collars and Culls, Neckwear, all the novelties' Hosiery, Gloves, etc. t«t I.OH' I'riccH. .10,(too Yards of Carpet Arf Offered Curtain Polks, nlair rods, htair pads, stair oilcloths, cupboard oilcloths, &o. J. L. North, Pjutall Hotel building. Puuxsutawnev, Pa. Floor and Table Oilcloths at, all prices. Hali. and Stair Cari-hth- 25c., 35c. 40c., 45o., 75c., $1.00 and $1 25. Window Siiadrs from 35c. to SI.00. Rugs, Smyrna and Reversible, from f 1 to$7.2fi. Body Brussels—75c., bOo., ;»0c., $1.00 and $I.S5. Ingrain Carpets—25e., 30c., 35o., lOo, ■15c., f)0o., 65c., 75o. and $1.00. I am now offering thirty thousand yards of carpet at low prices in order to make room for another lire of goods. The inquest tcuchirg responsibility for the disaster is still in progress. | "Primarily 1 hold that the Cambria Iron Company is lesponsible for narrowing the obannel, secondly the South Fork Club for nut having made the dam secure beyond all possibility of a break, especially when tbey caused the dam to be enlarged by raising the breast, and thirdly, the Pennsylvania railroad for having constructed tbe viaduct with such low arches and with ribs calculated to catch pieoes of driftwood if tbey happen to strike diagonally on tbe piers. Tbe dam made by the gorge at tbe bridge is what engnlfcd tbe to* n." Johnstown, Pa., June C.—Thomas Jacobs, of Morrellville, is one of the oldest inhabitants of the Conemaugh valley. He said to-day that the waterof the river waB much higher in 1837 than last Friday, even after the dam had broken. "The whole tronble about this deplorable affair," he continued, "results from the nar rowing of the channel of the river and the deflection of its natural course. I remember well when tho channel ran down where the mill below the bridge now stands. The channel has been nrrrowed along its entire course through the town by the dumping of refuse along the banks during low water. The Conemaugh has always been a shallow stream. After heavy rainfalls it rites rapidly, as all monntain streams do, Its watershed is large and ohe hillsides so constituted that the water runs down rapidly, causing quick rises and turbulent currents. PLACING THE liLAME. The Insurance firm of Juo. F. and G.rE. Brown, of Clnrion and Brookviile, had a large portion w( the insurance in Punxsutawoey at the time of our great lire of 1884 and it is not flattery to say thai their adjustments were prompt and satisfactory. Everr loss was settled and I<>11,] by Miyhi drafts, over $30,000 being psid by their companies within HO days alter the tire That lire did iim <Iiq courage them «ad lliey have wriii*n njiw«t of the new buildings and si«vk« Th-ir h»»| lies* has increwd so much that th«-r hsvK opened u office in Punxsutawney, in fro«i rooui of second story of John Zeitler block, and placed Waller s ltri>«ii, im< •>. uie bieMittra, in eharye The'r Int.- i»>n<|>t'i-ek rlu. jihI ••'iiii|>nui.-.. d '.tij I"' " « in the ITuit <l States 16-39 A large number of freight oars were ly ing at Mineral Point, when the flood came, and the railroad being here quite a die tanee above tbe bed of tbe stream, tbe cars were not swept away. A number of tbem contained produce for tbe east, «.,»« 1 of tbem being filled witb bams, otheis with eggs, butter, floor, crockery, glassware, etc., these being a very Qod-send to the destitute inhabitant, some of whotu would probably have starved before any aid oonld have reached them, hemmed iu as they were by unb oken forests. Even under such circumstances as these tbn seamy side of human nature will oiot alonally crop oat, as quite a number o' boxrs containing fine glassw are, em , wett broken opt n and the coo tents tak.D, bat Many responsible people here who saw the flood coming affirm that it was at least 20 feet higher m the center than it was at sides, and as one peison graphically expressed it, "looked just like a sliding forest rushing on as." Mineral Point, containing about 22T> residents, iB situated apout seven miles east of Johnstown. It has since last Friday been completely cut off from the rest of the world, and, until a reporter managed to got into the place to-day by working his way along the bed of the stream, It was uncertain whether any one had escaped. The loss of life here was not so large as it would otherwise have been had not the most of the people left their homes some time before, owing to the reports of tl>e dam betng liable to break at any moment. Out of a total of 34 houses in the place ouly fonr are left, and the reason they were not taken was that they were situated at some distance up the mouDtain side out of reach of the flood. Not a single vestige of the houses swept away can be seen. There was only one church in the place (Methodist) and it was swept away. The number of persons np to the present time known to be drowned is 16. The town is almost completely obliterated. What was formerly the main street is now the bed of the river. THE RUIN AT MINERAL POINT. Johnstown, Pa., Jane 6—Nineveh saw | some woeful sights to day. During the period of daylight 74<! bodies were consigned to tbe earth from tbe morgnes ab <ut the town. Father Doirn conducted religions services at the Sr. Columbia Catholic Charch in Cambria City. This ftrmy of tb«dead was plated In trenohee. L»-s tbun 1(10 bad been r«e"gnizml by t ienrs. Noi.e of litem were c'aimed for private bniial, however, aa in a majority of instances the ourvivms were too pai r TRENCHES. 746 UNCLAIMED BODIES BURIED IN NO 3. VOL. XVII. nmwp ww wpwroiT. m. tbuitt, ft ATTOMMMT-AT-LAW, J mmumr, Ta I |om L aearad atory of Aha Mttor1* brick kleek. raeticeiatfeaCoartaof iOmuInulea.J TAYLOBBBIX, *■ our stock for yourselves.