Lebanon Advertiser

              tSe_3jij^*.-
-  i
W
Manufactures North  and   South.
Selfishness and greed are characteristics
of human nature the world over. It is
not at all surprising, therefore, that in
the South as well as in the North men
are to be found who are not only willing
to accept but ready to intrigue for government interference in behalf of their
business investments. The creation of
the Northern plutocrat by discriminating .tariff laws has excited the cupidity
of men in tbe South who hope to become
Carnegies or Clarks in good time by the
aid of the federal government. Meanwhile tbe mass of Northern manufacturers are placed at a disadvantage with
tbeir Southern competitors by the very
tariff laws on wbich many of them have
heretofore insisted.
II is plain enough that manufacturers
of iron and steel in tbe Northern and
Eastern states cannot compete with their
Southern rivals who not only employ
cheaper labor, but have the advantage
of proximity to rich ore-beds and easily
worked coal mines. The southern ores
are adapted to the manufacture of steel
while the ores of Pennsylvania require
the admixture of foreign or Lake Superior ores to fit tbem for the Bessemer process. Freight charges on Lake Superior
ores are an obstacle te the Pennsylvania
steel manufacturers cu the one hand and
the tariff of seventy-five cents per ton on
foreign ores is a hindrance to tbem on
tbe other. The steel manufacturers east
of tbe Allegheny mountains, are obliged
to import foreign ores in order that they
may be able to tarn out a saleable product. They are badly handicapped with
the tariff on iron ores and if they are to
compete with the Southern manufacturers for the home market in the near
future they must be relieved of this outrageous tax on tbeir raw material.
The Southern grabber for the domestic
trade is already shouting, "American
products for the American market."
Why, certainly. Now that the Southern
manufacturers can themselves supply the
American market and are able to drive
out of ttat market all otber American
competitors they want no importations
from other countries to interfere with
tbe monopoly which they see is to be
theirs under tbe operation of the present
tariff laws. Such is the contemptable
narrowness of protectionism. Instead of
looking to an equal benefaction of the
industry of the whole conntry, it ministers to the selfishness and rapacity of
sections, localities and individuals. Tbe
time will come—nay, the hour ia at hand
—when the manufacturers of the Southern and Eastern state will repudiate a
revenue policy which restricts the sale of
their products to the home market in
which they can no longer successfully
I compete with rival manufacturers in
other sections of the country. They are
beginning to see that witb raw materials
and tbe necessaries of life free of duty
they can manufacture for the world's
market, while with taxed raw materials
and necessaries of life they cannot Lokl
their own even in the home market.
After awhile they will wonder why they
ever supported a tariff policy wbich has
brought them to their present unhappy
condition, and threatens to deliver them
over to the tender mercies of their Southern competitors.—Harrisburg Patriot of
Saturday.
ISSUED ZVBRY Tr7ED2TE8DA.TBY
JOHN BRESLIN,
31 S. Ninth Street,      -     .Lebanon, Pa.
VOL. 40.-NO. 47.
LEBANON, LEBANON COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1889.
WHOLE NO.-2078.
1
W.
T.
The City of Johnstown Entirely
Swept Away.
AWFUL SCENES OF DEATH.
Hundreds of lifeless Forms Floating
Down the Connemaugh River.
WHOLE FAMILIES PERISH.
Agonizing Groans and Heartrending Scenes at the Wreck,
FLAMES ADDTOTHEHOEKOB
Houses Piled in Wreckage on Top of
*tke Great Stone Bridge.
100 DEAD BODIES ALREADY FOUND.
The Charleston Earthquake, the Ashtabula Disaster, the Brooklyn Theatre
Fire All Pale Into Insignificance Before the Gruesome Catalogue of Horrors Furnished hy This Calamity—No
Parallel ln the History of This Country—Cambria City Also Swept Away.
A Belief Committee to Be Organized.
Incidents of the Flood—Description of
the Source of the Calamity.
Nfcw Florence, Pa., June _L—W. H_
Hayes has just returned from Johnstown.
He says the place is annihilated. Conne-
nraugh is wrecked and Cambria City swept
away.    FoUy 1,200 lives have been lost.
One hundred bodies have been recovered
at Ninevah. "'-\..~.
Seventy persons aro reported to have been
burned to death in a fire at Johnstown
Bridge. 	
Grows More Appalling Every Hour.
Bolivar, Pa., June 1.—The magnitude of
the awful disaster that has overtaken Johnstown, *in Cambria county, grows more appalling hour by hoor. There has been no
communication either by telegraph or railroads since 6 o'clock last night between
Altoona, thirty-nine miles east of Johnstown,
and another point about equi-distant west of
Johnstown, but there is little room to doubt
that 1,500 lives have perished in the flood.
The bridge at Johnstown, which is a heavy
piece of masonry, proved too stanch for tbo
fury of the torrent. Some of the top stones
were displaced.
A story reaches here that a family consisting of father, mother and nine children were
washed away in a creek at Lockport The
mother managed to reach the shore, but the
husband and children were carried out into
the river to drown. The woman is crazed
over the terrible event.
After night settled down the horror of the
scenes was enhanced. Above the roar of the
water could be heard the piteous appeals
from the unfortunates as they were carried
by. To add to the appalling scene brilliant
illumination Ut up the sky.
Flames Add to the Horrors.
A message received late last night from
Snug HoUow states that this light came from
a hundred burning wrecks of houses that are
piled upon the Johnstown bridge.
A supervisor from up the road brings the
information that wreckage at Johnstown is
piled up forty feet above the bridge. The
startling news also comes in that more than
1,000 lives have been lost.
The Waters Receding.
Later—The waters are now receding here
as rapidly as they rose last night, and as the
banks uncover the dead are showing up. Already nine dead bodies have been picked up
within the limits of this borough ____> daylight None of them have as yet been recognized.    Five of those found are women.
Ono lady, probably 25 years old and rather
handsome, had clasped in ber arms a babe
about six months old. The dead body of a
young man was discovered in the branches of
a huge tree which had been carried down the
stream. AU the orchard crops.and shrubbery
along the banks of the river have been destroyed
Carried on the Roof of a House.
The body of another woman has just been
discovered in the river here. Her foot was
discovered above the surface of the water. A
ropo was fastened about it and it is now tied
to a tree awaiting assistance to land it. John
I_ Weber and his wife, an old couple, Mike
Metzgar and John Forney were rescued near
here early this morning. They had been carried from their home in Cambria City on the
roof of the house.
There were seven otbers on the roof of the
house when it was carried off by the angry
waters. They were aU drowned They are
unknown to Weber, they having drifted on
to the roof from the floating debris. Weber
and wife wero thoroughly drenched and wero
almost helpless from exposure. They,were
unable to walk when taken off the roof at
this place.   They are now at the hotel here.
THE    TOWN    WIPED    OUT.
WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT.
Governor Beaver's reason for hesitating
to sign the bill increasing the judge's
salaries ia a good one; If it be as represented, that the constitution forbids tbe
increase of salaries, of incumbents of
offioe. The governor would do right not
to trust tbe deoision of the constitutionality of- an increase of salaries, to the decision of the judicial y, if he himself thinks
it unconstitutional. It la his flrst chance
to construe the constitution; and it will
be quite as well to avoid embarrassing tbe
judiciary with so personal a question. If
the Legislature wants to increase the sal.
aries of judges it can constitutionally do
so by making the increase apply to judges
thereafter chosen; and any of the present
incumbents who are not content with their
-compensation can resign aud stand for reelection; and they will come in straight
for the increase, if they are elected.
But we confess to feel serious doubt
whether Governor Beaver will respect his
opinion of the constitution sufficiently to
refuse his signiture to this bUl. We shall
be agreeably surprised by his Roman firmness, if he does not sign it. The Governor
is fond of exhibiting himself as a constitutional ezponder; but he also inclines to
confound it, when his friends particularly
want him to do so; as some of tbem particularly want him to do so in this case.
t-f~One of the most brutal acts tbat
we have noticed for sometime is that
given ia another column at Somerset,
Pa., where half a dozen men are charged
with brutally abusing and tormenting
old Christian Yoder for the purpose of
discovering where he kept his money.
It speaks fbr itself is what a lady said
of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup the other day.
A. Mingle bottle had cured ber child of a
moat dreadful cough. It never foils to
give -speedy relief and permanent cure.
One application of Salvatioa CHI well
rubbed lit cured me of rheumatism in the
arm, of two months Btanding. I never intend to be without it.
U. B. KRAMER, Washington, D. O.
Bassillious Short, an old resident
of this city, died at Fairfield, Wayne
county. 111., fon the 24th of May. Ho
was a member of tbe 4th Cavaliery Company C, and wm well known in this
neighborhood. He left Lebanon in 1869,
for the West, where be met with success
and died very suddenly ot rheumatism
of the heart. He is a father-in-law of
Wm. O. Beard, of this city.
IOO Ladies Wanted,
And 100 men to call on any druggist for
a /rat toll package of Lane's Family
Medicine, the great root and herb remedy,
discovered by Dr. Silas Lane while bl tbe
Rocky Mountains. For diseases of the
blood, Uver and kidneys it is a positive
eure. For oonstipation aad clearing np
the complextion it does wonders. Children
like It. Everyone praises it. Large size
package, 50 cents.   At all druggists.
—Prof. S. M. Hemperly, of the firm of
Hemperly & Tice, of this ctty, will be
married on Jane 4th, at New Cumberland, Pa., to Miss Marion V. Coover, of
the same place.	
■ce:
■ _hi
W £
WW f*
W     fui
Boils, abscesses, tumors, and even cants, are the result of a natural effort of
the system to expel the poisons which the
liver and kidneys have failed to remove.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla stimulates all tbe or
gans to a proper performance of their
functions.
r-Mr. A. V. Heister, son of Rev. J.
£. Heister, D. D., who will graduate at
Franklin and Marshall College June 13,
ii at Annville on a visit.
MAP OF THE FLOODED REGION.
The water is higher here than was ever
known, and two story houses, barns, smoke
houses and whole forests of trees, railroad
bridges, county bridges, rafts, inverted skiffs
and driftwood by the acre are floating down
the river, from all of which imploring hands
are held out to those on the banks willing but
impotent to help.
like a Frenzied Whirlpool.
Information received is meager, but for
most part accurate.
At Lockport more than twenty people have
been taken from the flood The flrst great
rush of water reached here at 7 o'clock in the
evening. This came down from the bursted
dam above Johnstown. It came like a frenzied whirlpool, and before the people could
realize it they were swept into its grasp.
"For God's Sake, Come."
Fortunately, the people on the low lying
ground escaped.
A half past 7 o'clock last night a great pile
of driftwood was swept along, and from it
came cries of "Helpl helpP* "For God's
sake, cornel"
The horrified spectators on the shore saw
three women on a raft, to one of whom were
clinging two children, neither of whom was
apparently more than an infant.
The rapidity, of the current and the position of the raft on the stream, together with
the lack of facilities for rescuing, precluded
the possibility of even thinking in the matter,
and the raft passed out of sight, the screams
of the women and children blending in their
pleadings for aid long after the raft passed
around the bend
Clutching at Straws.
The stream then became thick strewn with
men, women and children clinging to all
sorts of temporary means of salvation, and
two men and women clung madly to the tops
of huge trees, the men emulating the females
in their shrieks for help that tt was not possible to give. Jnst at dark a lad was noticed
clinging to a log. J aines Curry secured a long
line and ran to the river bank. The noose
of the lasso fell over the boy's shoulders and
a moment later tbe drenched, poverty-
stricken little fellow was hauled to the bank.
Dashed Against a Bridge.
He was soon restored and stated that his
name was Edward Harton, 13 years of age.
He had lived with bis father, grandfather
and mother in Cambria City, a part of
Johnstown. At 4 o'clock their home had
beeu caught In the flood. They all climbed
up on a mass of driftwood and were carried
along. The raft went to pieces against a
bridge pier and he had not seen his relatives since, but thought that they were all
drowned
The Awful Death Boll.
A man rescued in the river here who was
swept away from Johnstown says positively
that not less than 1,500 lives are probably lost
in the valley efthe Connemaugh. This point
is twenty miles below Johnstown, and toe
work of rescuing men, women and children
sweeping down the river was pushed steadily
forward all last night
A little after 2 o'clock an engineer of the
Pennsylvania road saw three men drown at
the railroad bridge in Johnstown. At that
time the water was fully fifty feet deep. It
is usually but a little mountain creek, a foot
deep, which the children ford
. Driftwood  Floating Down.
Harry Fisher, a telegraph operator at Bolivar, says:
"We knew nothing at the disaster until
we noticed tbs river slowly rising. Within
tbree hours the water bt the river rose al
least twenty feet Shortly before 6 o'clock
ruins of houses,  beds, household uteniala
barrel, and kegs eame floating down past the
bridges. At 8 o'clock tbo water was within
(ix feet of the roadbed of the bridge.
"The wreckage floated past for at least two
hours. Then it began to lessen, and, night
coming suddenly upon us, we could see no
more.
"The wreckage was floating by for a long
{time before the first living person passed
Fifteen people that I saw were carried down
by the river. One of these, a boy, was saved,
and three of them were drowned just directly
below the town. It was an awful sight and
one that I will not soon forget."
Heartrending Scenes as the Victims Were
Washed Away.
Bi__UE8Vi__l_B, June 1.—At Lockport, about
eighteen miles (rom Johnstown, the scene of
the disaster, Bliel Benson, an old man; Mrs.
Boyle, Paddy Madden and two Hungarians
were rescued   Mr. Benson said:
"I live in Cambria City. I think not less
than 1,500 people were lost In the house
with me on Chestnut street were ten persons
besides mysslf, and I feel suro they were all
lost tip to 4 o'clock tbe water, wbich was
seven feet deep in the streets, remained stationary.
"About _ o'clock in the afternoon the great
rush came. In fifteen minutes the water ros3
fully ten feet and in five minutes more I am
sure fifty houses camo floating down the
streets. There were people in every one of
tbem and God only knows how many were
lost
Crushed Like Egg Shells.
"As they were carried oif the houses were
jammed together and against the houses still
standing, and in a very few minutes they
were all battered to pieces before they had
been carried very far. The house I was in
was toon smashed to pieces, aad I managed
to jump on to a cellar door. In a few minutes I was rushed off into the flood, and
when I looked back where Cambria City
stood there was nothing but a great lake of
Hater. It looked to me as if every house
bad 1 .een razed or covered ov e_.
"The vast sheet of water was full of floating timbers, roofs of houses, rafters and
other articles. The scene was indescribable.
The cries of toe men, women and children
were fearfuL
: "I passed Paddy Maddon's wife, my son's
wife and a man clinging to the roof of a
house. I called to them and bade them good-
by. bi a short time I was caught by the
water and turned under. Every once in a
while I got into a whirlpool and more than
once almost lost my grip on the cellar door.
*"I saw people in the water ahead of ma
and all around me. Many of them were
struck by the crashing timbers and killed
outright. They were so badly hurt that
they fell into the water and drowned at once.
Mrs. Boyle was rescued at Lockport The
poor woman was moaning and crying and
would aot be comforted Her nine children
and husband are supposed to ho drowned™
DELUGE    AT
HABBISBUKG.
aud Peo-
Beserving Confidence.
It is quite surprising to notice the num
erous reports of remarkable cases of nervous diseases cured, such as headache, fits,
nervous prostration, heart offeetions, St.
Titus' Dance, insanity and prolonged
sleeplessness, by Dr. Miles' Restorative
Nervine. This new and improved bain
and nam food, and medicine, ia everywhere gaining a remarkable reputation
for curing the worst of these diseases, as
well as the injurious eflects of worry, nervous iritatioo, mental and physical overwork. Dr. Ooo. Boas & Co., the drug-
fists, will give away trial bottles of this
wonderful remedy. It positively contains
no opiuip or morphine.
DBIFTIN"G    WITH    THE    DEAD.
Houses  and   Debris Mingled in  the Torrent's Grasp.
New Florence, Pa., Jnne 1.—The water
is higher here than it was ever known before,
and is still rising. Centerville, across the
river, is half submerged, but no lives were
lost here. Two persons were rescued from
floating pieces of wreck, and forty-five others were seen floating past, besides many
dead bodies. There is probably not a bridge
standing on the Connemaugh or Kiskiminetas
from Johnstown to Leechburg.
Another rescued here, a little boy, said his
house had floated over the stone bridge. He
was asked how many there had been in his
family. "Father, mother and three sisters,"
be replied. "Where are they!" He pointed
to the river and burst into tears.
Farts of the City Under Water
pie Fleeing for Safety.
Hakrisbubg, Pa., June L—It has been
raining hard here tor twenty-four hours and
everything is deluged. The greatest damage
done is along the flats bordering on Paxton
creek, ordinarily a very narrow, shallow
stream. Last evening, however, the great
bulk of water burst its banks, and in a
short time that portion of toe city in the
Seventh ward known is "Sibletown" was
overflooded and the water began to rise at a
rapid rate.
Fled ln Terror.
Peoplo seized what they could and fled in
terror, scarcely getting out with their lives.
In some instances men had to carry out theii
wives and children. Assistance was prompt
ind the flooded portion was soon depopulated. Those rendered homeless by the flood
have been taken in and cared fear.
Water Up to the Houses.
Jn the southern part of the city, Lochiel,
and on tte lowlands west of Steelton, tha
water is ap to the houses and great damage
is done. People fled to the highlands, and in
the darkness and pouring rain there was
much confusion, hot no loss of life. Cellars
all over the city are fnll of water, sewers are
choked up and the foundations of new buildings rendered unsafe. It is reported that a
row of brick houses in process of erection on
State street caved in
the conntry are swollen, and fields, roads and
houses flooded
At Bintzelle's mill, on the Little Conewago,
the water reached a height of sixteen feet
above low water mark. The mill was flooded. The dam contained a large amount of
sawed logs, which were washed away. At
Spring Grove, on the west branch of the Ca-.
doras, southwest of here, toe stream has
overflowed almost everything. Great excitement prevails there, every one expecting the
large dam to burst, which would cause terrible damage. Part of P. H Gladfeltar's large
paper mill is flooded
An Appalling Outlook.
It is raining hard yet and the water is rising at too rate of ten inches an hour. On
the south branch the stream is rapidly rising.
All the farmers who were in the city were
compelled to remain here, being unable to
reach home. All this immense body of water must pass the city and the possible damage cannot be estimated.
Tbe police have notified the people living
in the lower part of the city to prepare for
the worst
Tbe Cadoras in this oity is about six feet
above low water mark and rapidly rising.
Pittsburg iu Danger.
Pittsburg,   June   1.—The   Times   says:
"Tue Allegheny river is filled wito debris
of  all Idndo £_nd   _r   still rapidly i-iemgr      Tha
streets fronting on the river and the bridges
are thronged with watchers, but no bodies
have been seen. Ho serious trouble from
high water is anticipated here. Extra precautions are being taken, however, to prevent any loss of life or property."
JOHNSTOWN   AS    IT   WAS.
South Fork Beservolr and Its Dangerous
Situation Above the Town.
Pittsburg, June 1.—Johnstown, the scene
of the most frightful disaster of this decade,
is the county seat of Cambria county, Pa.,
and is situated on toe Connemaugh river, and
on both the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and
Ohio railroads. It is thirty-nine miles west
southwest of Altoona and seventy-light miles
east by south of Pittsburg. It is the eastern
terminus of the western division of the Pennsylvania canal, and is the most populous
town in the connty, having over 10,000 inhabitants.
At Johnstown is located the immense work
of the Cambria Iron company, which give
employment to nearly 2,000 men in the manufacture of iron and steel rails for railroads.
Johnstown has a national bank,- several savings institutions, printing offices which issue
several daily and weekly papers, sixteen
churches, S3veral tanneries, flour, planing
and woolen mills. The manufacture of wire,
cement, flre brick aud leather is also carried
on.
Source of the Calamity.
To understand the nature of toe calamity
it is necessary to describe toe respective locations of toe bursted reservoir and Johnstown. The reservoir lies about two and a
half miles northeast of Johnstown, and is the
site of the old reservoir which was one of the
feeders of the Pennsylvania canal. It is the
property of a number of wealthy men in
Pittsburg, who formed themselves into tht
corporation, the title of which is the South
Fork Fishing and Hunting club.
This sheet of water was formerly knowu a_
Connemaugh lake. It is from 200 to 300 feel
above the level of Johnstown, going in the
mountains. It is about three and one-hall
miles long and trom a mile to a mil*
and one-quarter in width, and in some
places it is 100 feet in depth. Il
holds more water than any otber ro
servoir, natural or artificial, in toe United
States. The lake has been quadrupled in size
by artificial means, and was held in check by
a dam from 700 to 1,000 feet wide. It is 91
feet in thickness at the base and tbe height
is 110 feet The top has a breath of over 2C
feet
Must Have Been a Cloudburst.
Recognizing the menace which the lake
was to the region below, the South Fork clut
had the dam inspected once a month by tlu
.  !j I     .,ja _xssii.—a   "M-^lr.  .__._,   __t_—*____
investigation showed that nothing less than
some convulsion of nature would tear tot
barrier away and loosen the weapon of death.
The steady rains of the past forty-eight
hours increased toe volume of water in all
the small mountain streams, which were already swelled by the lesser rains earlier in
the week. From the best information obtained at this time it is evident that something in tbe nature of a cloudburst must have
been the culmination of toe struggle of the
water witi the embankment. *
WILLI AMSPOBT    ALARMED.
Over 85,000,000 Worth of Logs In Danger
mt Being  Swept Away.
Williamsport, Jnne 1.—A feeling of
alarm pervades the city over toe prospects of
a flood that threatens disaster to the West
Branch valley. The rain for the past twenty-
f our hours bas been almost unprecedented
along the river and its tributaries, and the
streams have been turned into raging torrents. The river here began rising rapidly
last evening, and toe condition of the stream
beyond this dty indicates a disastrous flood.
There are over $5,000,000 worth of logs in
the boom, representing nearly the entire season's output of lumber, and grave fears are
entertained for their safety. The boom company has put every available man to work
and every possible means will be adopted to
save this vast quantity of lumber. The rain
has fallen in a steady downpour and shows no
signs of a cessation.
850,000,000 Feet of Logs.
News has been received here stating that
the booms at Curwensville and Caledonia
have broken, and that it is only a question
of a few short hours until toe Lock Haven
boom gives way. There are now 200,000,000
feet of logs in toe boom at this eby, with
50,000,000 more strewn along the banks.
These, with toe logs from the broken booms,
will be swept into the alreeidy over crowded
structure here.
Great Suffering Anticipated.
Williamsport, Pa., June 1.—Shortly after
midnight the boom at Lock Haven burst
The break opened up toe river to all the logs
above the place, which will be forced into the
boom.
The boom contains 50,000,000 feet of logs,
and it ia believed that not one of toe logs
will be saved
The loss will be a serious one. It will necessitate the closing during the season of all the
mills and entail great suffering on the people
dependent upon them for employment
The Very Latest News From the Scene of
the Disaster.
_Pl_TSB .BO, JoneLr-Two bodies were picked out of toe Alleghany river here this morning. They are horribly mangled, and are
supposed to have come all the way from
Johnstown.
The awful force of toe flood can be realized
when it is known that the water route from
Pittsburg to Johnstown, never yet traversed
save by canoe, is about one hundred miles
long. The Connemaugh river, a mere mountain creek, ordinarily a few inches deep,
rushes down the mountains past Johnstown,
and finally empties into the Kiskiminetas,
which joins the Allegheny river thirty miles
north of Pittsburg.
Coming to the Rescue.
Measures for relief arc already being taken.
The Pittsburg newspapers have sent out a
provision train, and the mayors of Pittsburg
and Allegheny have called a public meeting
for this afternoon.
A leading clothier here will send $3,000
worth at clothing to.Johnstown, and his own
relief corps will distribute it Mayor Mc-
Callen, of Pittsburg, has telegraphed Governor Beaver at Harrisburg to. send militia
tents to Johnstown.
The Allegheny river at this point fe rising
at a frightful rate, and fe black wito debris.
The police and fire departments are out looking for bodies.
A later telegram from near Johnstown
says the financial loss fe about $2,000,000;
that 5,000 houses were swept into toe stream
yesterday, and one-half of these were a total
loss.
A    VIRGINIA    WATEBSPOUT.
It
aud
Submerges   Pocahontas—TreBtles
Bailroad  Trains  Swept  Away.
Roanoke, Va., June 1.—A terrible rain
storm has swept over southwest Virginia.
At Pocahontas a waterspout at the head of
Laurel creek submerged the cily, and many
people had to be taken from their homes on
horses. Several bridges are reported washed
away on toe New River division of the Norfolk and Western railroad, and travel and
traffic are suspended
A Train Plunged Into the Blver.
A number of trestles on the Richmond and
Allegheny railroad were carried away, and
seven miles west of Buchanan an engine and
five cars plunged into the James river. One
car was carried down toe river and collided
wito a bridge pier at Buchanan and went to
pieces. No trains are going out or coming in
over the Shenandoah Valley road The destruction of growing crops is inestimable.
W0RSEA1VDW0RSE
The Latest from  Johnstown Swells the List
10,000 MAY BE LOST.
Wood vale With 2,000 Inhabitants, Absolutely Obliterated.
DESOLATION   ON   THE   CONEMAOGH.
Unknown Victims Buried in Trenches
Withont Funeral Ceremonies.
TWO   INHUMAN   YAifDALS   LYNCHED
Caught Mutilating and Robbing
Dead Bodies aad Hanged.
GENERAL HASTINGS IN COMMAND.
Tbe Town Under Military Discipline
end Order -Partially Restored—Thousand* of Homeless People Wander
Through the Ruin* Seeking Traces of
Tbeir Former Dwellings—Over Fif-
leen Hundred Houses Destroyed ln
Johnstown Alone—Fnll Details of ihe
Disaster.
JOHNSTOWN, Jane 2.—Midnight.
—At tjiis hour it is impossible to
estimate tbe number of lives lost
in the flood. Estimates vary from
5,000 «ll the way np to 10,000.
The latter figure is probably too
large, but no one knows. Every
house in Johnstown not situated
on the hilside is either wrecked or
damaged beyond repair. Folly
1,500 houses have been swept away.
Six hundred bodies were recovered in Johnstown alone to-day.
Several hundred more have been
recovered all along the Conemaugh
river. The towns between here and
the Conemaugh lake have suffered
terribly. "Woodvale, jnst above
Johnstown, was swept entirely out
of existence. The woolen mill
alone remains standing. Il is no
longer possible to hold tiie dead for
identification, and bodies bave been
buried in trenches to-night by the
scores.
^r^^-city was fill*"' witLonMono
people to-day searching for loved
ones, but there has been little hope.
Thousands are unacccounted for and
many bodies buried beneath the
mud, buried in the ruins at the
bridge below the town or swept
down the river will never be heard
from.
To add to the honors thieves and
thugs have appeared  and  bodies
have been robbed of their valuables.
THE STORY IN DETAIL.
The Terrible Flood Which Swept Many
Thousands to Their Death.
Fredericksburg's Bridge Gone.
Fredemcksbubg, Va., June _L—Scott's
bridge has been swept away. The railroad
bridge is in danger, and will probably go.
The boat house of the Rappahannock dab
has been torn from its moorings.
YORK   IN   DANGER.
The City Bells Sonnding Forth a General
Alarm.
York, Pa., June 1.—A general alarm has
just been sounded on the bells of the city.
Thursday evening rain began falling, and
since tben there has been a succession ol
beavy and long showers.  M t_£ &<&____i_tt
NO    MAILS    OK    TRAINS.
Private News of the Disaster Received ln
This City.
New York, June 1.—This dty has a direct
interest in the great disaster at Johnstown
by reason of the interruption of the railway
mail service. Superintendent Jackson, who
has charge of that department here, is in
constant communication with General Manager Pugh, of the Pennsylvania road, and
General Superintendent Provost, of the
Northern Central.
The department is endeavoring to get the
mails which are blocked at the points on this
side of the scene of the disaster, and the advices received so far indicate tbat considerable trouble must arise before this can be accomplished. The advices state that it may
he late to-morrow night before all the mails
can be moved.
Malls Will Be Returned.
The mails wliich left New York and are
now blocked will be returned to Jersey City,
Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Mr. Jackson
■ays the mails that left the postoffice for
Jersey City today am still there and will be
sent by the West Shore and New York Central.
The very latest news that reached the post-
office authorities was that no through train*
can be looked for before Monday, and that
the number of persons lost witt lor esct__)
tbe estimate given,     ' :___ _^_
Johnstown, June 8.—Half of the story
of the calamity which has overwhelmed
the Conemaugh Valley has not yet been
told. It never will be. No one not on
tbe spot can begin te form any idea of
the awful havoc. No one who has not
passed through the flood and fire and
come through it with his mind unshaken
can begin to picture the horrors of the
past two days. No one can even begin
to guess how many are dead, and several
days must yet elapse before the actual
truth can be got at. Johnstown is foil
of dead bodies. Scores, if not hundreds,
were crushed and burned to death by the
wreckage which piled itself up at the
bridge just below tbe town and caught
fire. Others who escaped flood and fire
have been killed by falling walls undermined by the water, while all the way
down the river for miles and miles dead
bodies have . been carried ashore. So
many are the dead that many bodies are
being buried to-night ia trenches without
waiting for identification.
This has been a aad day in Johnstown
and in tbe valley towns. It has been a
day of mourning and one of curious
sight-seeing, as well, tor bow that the
water has subsided and it bas become
possible to get into the place, thousands
of strangers from Pittsburgh and other
places have been wandering through what
were once streets and among the ruins of
what were once prosperous homes. No
newspaper has yet been able to give a
connected account of the disaster. The
wires have been down and the difficulties
in the way of getting to Johnstown were
many, but these obstacles have at last
been overcome, and the newspaper men
are prepared to tell the story of the greatest calamity of like nature that has ever
befallen this country.
THE ILL-FATED CUT.
Yon have already been told how the
flood started on Friday. Johnstown is
peculiarly situated—it was, for there is
little left of the place now, except the
houses back in the sides of the hills. The
Little Conemaugh river trickles down
from the mountains on one side and
Stony Creek on the other. The bulk of
the town—the wealthy portion—lies
within this fork. The two streams—
for they are nothing else in ordinary
times—unite to form tbe -Conemaugh
river which flows on and on until tt
empties at length into the Allegheny and
Ohio. These two streams, fed from the
mountain sides, collect water very rapidly in a storm and swell quickly.
But no ordinary storm would have
created anything like the havoc that bas
been wrought. It was due entirely to
the bursting of the great reservoir which
lay up the mountains a few miles from
Johnstown. Think of a dam a thousand
feet long and over one hundred high
holding in check a lake one hundred feet
deep, between two and three long and
over a mile wide. Then imagine this
immense body of water suddenly turned
loose into the channel of tbe Little Conemaugh and rushing down npon towns
and hamlets for twenty or thirty miles
and carrying with it everything within
reach. Picture Johnstown lying in a
basin right in the path of such a flood
and try to realize the result.
THE FLOOD.
The rain which fell back on the mountains on Friday is described as something
wonderful. It fell in sheets. Both the
Little Conemaugh and Stony Creek began to rise and overflow as usual. By
noon there were many forebodings in the
ill fated city, which bas claimed a population of something like 30,000. There
were those wbo shook their heads and
looked grave as reports came that the
dam might give way. There were others, too, and many of them, who laughed
all fear to scorn. The dam was thick
and strong. It had stood there for years
and had weathered many a rain and
flood. On the bank of Stony Creek and
stretching back from it to the south
nestled the houses of some of the 5,000
workers in tbe immense Cambria Iron
Works, now a mass of rains. Johnstown
proper lays on the other side of this
stream and between it and the Little
Conemaugh.
As the water rose it began to encroach
on the dwellings upon the lower streets
on both sides. To make matters worse
a lot of logs burst the boom and came
rushing down Stony creek. Like so
many battering rams they banged away
at the frame houses, pierced them and
wrecked them. But this was nothing to
the calamity which soon followed.
"ths dam is ht danger."
Not far from the big dam stood the
town of South Fork, witb a population
of 2,000. It to a station on the Pennsylvania Bailroad less than ten miles above
Johnstown. The railroad follows the
river in some portions and gets away
from it in others, so that the distance of
the stream is somewhat greater. It was
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when
the operator in the telegraph office flashed
over his wire ths alarming tidings;
" 'THE DAM IS IN DAtfGEB,*'
Tbat was the last heard from him* He
had given his worning. Some heard of
it and lost no time in getting to high
ground. Others took little of it, treating it, perhaps, as only a baseless rumor.
But it was only too true. The high hills
were beginning to shut out the light of
day when wito a roar the dam crumbled
and the pentup waters sped on their way
of destruction. Tbey first passed South
Fork and swept by it with a noise that
was deafening. Down the little stream
they ran, swelling it to a gigantic river.
Less than three milles below by the railroad is Mineral Point. About 800 people
lived there in peace and contentment.—
Like a flash the great advance wave was
upon the place, passed through it as if no
obstacle stood in ite path and fell with a
roar upon Conemaugh, five miles further
on, wito its 2,500 inhabitants. Below
Conemaugh, on a flat, the houses of
Woodvale, in which 2,000 more people
lived, lay directly in the path of the gian t.
The place was literally wiped out of existence, and only one building, a woolen
mill remained standing. But a mile f ur-
«_ivi \ra was von____> Wn.
JOHKSTOWW   ENGULFED.
It was too late to fly now. Those who
had not taken heed of the warning, thinking that no harm could come to them,
found escape entirely cut off.
Can any one picture the terrible scene
which followed ? Only those who passed
through the ordeal alive or those who
have today walked the muddy streets of
Johnstown, piled with debris, and looked
With awe and wonder upon the work of
the flood.
Flood. No, not a flood. It was
worse than any flood. It was one gigantic wave, forty feet high, whieh rolled
through the place and left an immense
swirling lake in ite rear, which only subsided when the dam had let out ita
thousands of tons of water and there was
no more to be turned loose.
What a scene it was which tbe mountains in the gathering gloom frowned
down upon. Trees, logs, boulders crushed
down upon the city with tbe devouring
wave. Iu a twinkling houses were lifted
from their foundations. Some were carried off bodily. Others were crushed like
so many egg shells. Brick structures
that were considered strong and well
built were undermined and crumbled.
AH AWFUL SCENE.
And now above the roar of the waters
agonizing cries went up to Heaven for salvation. Can any one imagine it? No description that could be penned oould even
begin to touch upon the horrors of that
expiring day aaa night. Hundreds of
people were caught in the great wave and
hurried into their death. Otters fled to
the upper stories, but what eould withstand a wave 40 feet higb? Johnstown
was not flooded, to was simply engulfed,
and Cambria City, just below, staggered
under the same great calamity, and its
2000 citizens fought with those of Johnstown proper and the towns above for life.
And what a struggle it was. Whole
families floated off together in some instances. In otbers, and in toe majority of
cases, there were separations. Husbands
were parted from wives, children from
mothers and fathers. Parents were drowned before their children's eyes, children before parents. In a few 'moments Johnstown, buried under water, was a vast sea
upon which floated and tossed the wrecks
of hundreds and hundreds of houses.
Human beings clung frantically to anything within reach, but the current was
swift. Logs and portions of houses smashed into each other, crushing to death their
human freight, for in this awful swirl mt
debris they were fortunate indeed who
eould maintain their grasp.
CRUSHED TO DEATH AT THB BRIDGE.
And now a new horror was added to the
sceue. Below tbe town the Pennsylvania
railroad crosses the Conemaugh on a substantial bridge. It spans the river in seven
arches of solid stone, at an angle from east
to west. A long embankment approaches
it from the east and this embankment and
the bridge proved a terrible death trap to
many. The river becomes narrower below
Johnstown and forms, in fact, a ravine.
Against this eastern end logs, lumber, furniture and tbe debris of the houses jammed in an indescribable manner, engines
from the round bouse, passenger cars, iron
from the Cambria Works and boulders and
trees were driven with the force of cannon
balls into an inextricable mass. And on
this mass and caught in it were human beings.
Can anyone imagine for one moment the
awful situation? Forty feet above low
water mark towers the bridge. High
above tbe bridge towered this mass. It
was a dam ia itself, and while it did not
prevent all the water from rushing over
and under some of the arches, it did bold
in check an immense volume wbich eut a
new channel for itself. In this awful mass
scores of men, women and children who
had escaped drowning were erushed to
death or bad their arms or legs broken.
FIRE ADDED TO FLOOD.
But many ot those who BtiU survived
were reserved for a more terrible fate.
Darkness hid set in on the struggling
victims. Tbose who had climbed to the
tops of the few houses yet standing knew
not wbat moment would be their last.
Down the now gigantic Conemaugh men
and women were still being swept clutching for life to pieces of timber.   With
them were|hnrried along corpses to to
cast on the banks further on. Suddenly
the gloom of night was lighted by flames
which speedily grew in intensity and volume. The great mass of debris at the
bridge had become a funeral pyre. By
some means it had caught fire. Probably
some house had floated there with a
stove stiU burning. Tbere tto house
went to pieces or the stove was overturned. The fieiy coals fell upon something combustible and in a few minutes
the little fire had become a raging conflagration which licked up during the bours
of Friday night and Saturday many of
those wbo remained to the last clinging
to the debris. The remnants of the
wreckage are still burning to-night.
WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION.
It is impossible to convey an idea of
widespread desolation which has followed
the wake of the flood. Some of the streets
of Johnstown are swept as clear of houses
as if residences had never stood tbere. It
to fn toe wealthy portion of the place—
that lying in toe fork of the streams—
and at Cambria City where death bas
been most severe. Those wbo did not
take warning in time in these sections
are nearly all dead.
The greatest anxiety is felt everywhere
to leant tbe names of the dead, and telegrams tne pouring in here from all quarters, but the full death list will never be
known. Now that t ie danger is over and
the flood has subsided anxious friends
and relatives are coming in tar the score,
Nearly everyone met to - day was a
stranger. Where are the inhabitants'-1
Few can be found, and tto list of the
missing is something awful to think
upon.
It will be many days before anything
like a reliable estimate can be made of
the number of dead, and only then
by the num der of those still unaccounted
for. It must be remembered that several
hundred bodies bave been pulled ashore
at various points down tto river. Bodies
are even now being cast ashore miles and
miles away. Most of them will never be
identified. Tto work of searching for
bodie i has been carried on here all day,
but only a very few have been identified.
It has been found impossible to told
them longer, and the grave yards are being filled with the unknown dead. How
many were burned to death in the fire no
one knows. How many still remain under the mud and debris right here in
town cannot be told, hot there are hundreds of them cannot be doubted,
GIVING Up I3J DISJ. AI3,
The scenes in and about tbe bridge and
on the site of the old citytare of the saddest description. Strong men can be seen
either standing or walking to aad fro,
weeping, while women are almost frenzied.
The reaction bas set in with terrible reality
The lingering hope that some dear oaa
might have escaped the fury of the raging
torrents has been dispelled. Wives who
saw tbeir husbands torn from th. ir sfdp
when the deluge came aud thought that
they might have been saved at some point
below, gave up in dispair. Fathers who
searched for news of lost ones havo at last
found their worst fears realized.
One hundred pounds of dynamite have
arrived at tbis point accompanied by experts, who wiU place tbe catridges in the
great mass of iron wood and charred
human flesh which fill tbe shore above the
stone bridge. When this pile is broken
up and floats away the Gouemaugh may
go back to ita proper course. A rope
bridge was being utilized fer tbe passage
of people to and ftom Johnstown. This
bridge grve way this afternoon, when Colonel Newman Smith and Charles Clayton,
of Johnstown, were in tto act of crossing.
Both were hurled into the water. Colonel
Smith was carried down stream and was
rescued after great difficulty and amidst
tbe wildest excitement. Clayton fell into
the water, tot managed to catch a guy
fefirs-§§nffMrc*^nedaftfl'' a hard half.
SO D0CBT ABOUT THU DAM.
A few have expressed doubts whether
the South Fork dam really gave way.
Charles Krouse, proprietor of tne tavern
at tea South Fork fishing grounds, is here
and repoi ts tbat he saw tbe Conemaugh
Lake dam burst and tbe entire body of
water rush iato tha Conemaugh river,
causing the big overflow. This statement
has settled all doubts here in regard to the
destruction of that structure. He also reports that a portion of the South Fork bas
been swept away, but he does not know
whether or aot any lives were lost.
Adjutant-General Hastings is bere and
is taking hold of things. He has sworn
in a lot of Pittsburg policeman and some
volunteers aa special State police. His
picked men wUl patrol the streets on tbe
lookout for thugs and robbers. The men
working on the trestle wbich is to connect
isolated Johnstown with the west shore
expect to complete the work by morning.
Supply trains are beginning to come in,
but there will be distress for many days
to come.
WOODVALE A TOTAL WRECK.
Tbe    Place   Simply   Obliterated  and
Hundred!- Buried   Beneath Ihe Bulbs
Joiixstows, June, 2.—The developments to-day only add tenfold to the horrors already disclosed. 1 have just returned from where Woodvale, with its two
thousand inhabitants, once stood. Just
above Johnstown nothing ia left to mark
the spot bnt tbe woolen mill of Wood,
Morrell & Co. Tbe entire place is covered
with an inextricable mass of wood, lumber bricks and stone. Beneath this, all
crushed out of human shape, the bodies of
hundreds of men, women and children lie.
The scenes here are particularly appalling.
Many dwellings were built of brick, and
when, the mighty rush of waters came
against these buildings tbey did not, like
those made of wood, flat away, but collapsed, aad those who escaped being
drowned were crushed ia a horrible manner.
A walk through toe courses, which
once marked the streets of this prosperous suburb of poor, ill-fated Johnstown,
discloses sights which the most vivid fiction writer could scarce conceive, and
which brought tears to the eyes of sturdy
men and caused wailing to tto hundreds
of pom; homeless souls who wandered
aimlessly about the spot that once had
been tbeir bright, happy home. Those
who peeped through the debris of Woodvale saw at every point toe distorted
bodies of the poor victims. Little children, crushed and distorted, lay side by
side with grown men. Wbere tto school
house once stood a temporary morgue bas
been fitted np. In this spot scores of
bodies were placed. In toe evening tto
mists oa tbe mountains began to move
about, and toe sun, glistening on tto
raiu drops on toe leaves, conveyed the
fancy that the great forests wept at toe
sad sight.
"Here comes a load of coffins," said
someone, and at that moment a wagon
loaded into burial cases came winding
around the hill side. Then another
wagou hove in sight also loaded down
witb this furniture of death and dire calamity. The exact number who died in
Woodvale on Friday last to not yet
known, but that nearly tbe entire popu
lation was swept oat to a chapter of tbis
terrible history.
Lying upon the shore they came upon
tto dead and mangled body of a woman
upon whose person there were a number _
of trinkets of jewelry and two diamond I
rings.   Ib their eagerness to secure the
plunder the Hungarians got Into a squabble, during which one of the number severed the finger upon which were the rings,
and started on a run with bis fearful
prize.   The revolting nature of the deed
so wrought up on the pursuing farmers,
who by this time were close at hand, that
they gave immediate chase.
Some of toe Hungarians showed fight,
but, being out-numbered, 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.
Tto inhuman monster whose atrocious
act has been described was among the
number of the involuntary suicides.
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 step-
ed up to a number of men who were congregated on the platform station at Curwensville and said: "Gentlemen, had I a
shotgun with me half an hour ago I would
now be a murderer, yet with no fear of
ever having to sutler for my crime. Two
miles below here I watched three men
going along the banks stealing the jew ols
from tbe ik____i ot the dead wives and
daughters of the men wbo have been
robbed of all they held dear on earth."
He had bo sooner finished the last sentence
than five burly men, wito looks of terrible
determination written on their faces, were
on their way to the scene of plunder, one
with a ooil of rope over his shoulder and
another with a revolver fat his hand. In
twenty minutes, so it is stated, they bad
overtake! two of their victims, who were
then in the act of cutting pieces from the
ears anl fingers from the hands of the
bodies ai two dead women. With revolver leveltd at the scoundrels, the leader of
the posse shouted; ''Throw ap your
hand*} o»I'll blow yonr heads off." With
blanche* feces and trembling forms they
obeyed _ie order and begged for mercy.
They weo searched, and as their pockets
were emotied of their ghastly fiud, tbe in-
dignatica of the orowd intensified, and
when a bloody finger at aa infant, encircled Jith two tiny gold rings, was
found anong the plunder ia the leader's
pocket, a cry went ay : "Lynch tham !
lynch thjm I" . Without a moment's delay
ropes wne thrown around their necks
and they Wero dangtsng to toe limbs of a
•*•*_"•_•* !B rio branches of which an hour before wen entangled the bodies of a dead
father aid son. After the expiration of a
half houi the ropes were cut and tbe bodies loweigd and carried to a pile of rocks
°_. _}° ba in the forest above. It to hinted
that an Allegheny county official was one
of the mqt prominent factors in this justifiable houioide.
TERMS OP BUBSCRIBTIOS :
ONE YEAR.       -       -       SI
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
SO
BSTTto above rate includes payment
of postage by a. Subscriptions can
commence any time during the year
[ ADVERTISEMENT. ]
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
More Light Wanted.
[advertisement.]
PROHIBITION.
INJIIB_J0US TO THE WELFARE OF
-.     THE STATE.
False ii Theory, Harmful ln Practice.
[ .Plton Transcript Symposium.)
The blowing totters were written to
theedltoeof the Boston Daily Iranscript
in reply te a circular letter from the
Transcript office requesting opinions as to
the expediency of constitutional Prohibition. The letters are from men and women of national reputation—the great
leaders of thought ot the old Bay State.
Rev. Dr. Henry 31. Dexter.
I favor-total abstinance from all intoxicants aa a beverage, except on medical
prescription, and I regard prohibition as
•HjfJdeal methodof freeing any commu-
rom the dreadful curse ot the saloon;
but I gravely doudt whether any police
regulation may wisely be made a part of
our organic law. and I seriously fear lest
the adoption of the proposed prohibitory
amendment to Massachusetts at the present time may increase rather than diminish the evils again-it which it is aimed.
Henry M. Dexter.
I Somerset Street, March IM, 1889.
President Bitot, of Harvard College.
I shall vote against the constitutional
amendment concerning prohibition—first,
because I think that the constitution
ought not to deal with such matters, and,
secondly, because for promoting temperance I prefer the combination or local
option and high license to prohibition.
Your obedient servant,
Charles W. Eliot.
Harvard    University,   Cambridge,   Mass.,
March 18, 1889.
Bev. Dr. Bartol.
A prohibitory law would be no wiser
or stronger in a constitution than under
it. Let us introduce only what we can
enforce. Temperance must be maintained as a virtue, if we would promote it aa
a cause. We can not prohibit o. prevent
wbat we must either use or abuse.
C. A. Bartol.
Hon. Leverelt Saltonstall.
In answer to your question I have no
hesitation in stating that 1 consider the
proposed constitutional amendment exceedingly unwise and inexpedient.
Respectfully Yours,
Le ve bett Saltonstall
Boston, Mareh 18,1889.
Editor of the Record :
I am a citizen and a minister of the
Gospel, deeply sensible of the miseries resulting from drink, and anxious to cast
my vote on the 18th of June in such a way
as to promote the interests of morality ia
this State.
I have attended what Prohibition meetings I could (there are ae anti-Prohibition
meetings or I should bave attended them
also) in quest of light. I have heard
mnch Bale and female declamation,
mingled with comic and pathetic stories,
to prove, what nobody doubts, the immense mischiefs of drunkenness, and tbe
vast blessing to society that it wonld be
if these could be done away. I have also
listened to sundry warnings of a minatory
nature, that tf I should come to conclusions differing from those of the speakers
I should be accounted no ChristtMi- and a
disgrace to my profession. But somehow
aet even these seemed to give me just the
help I wanted toward aa intelligent decision on the merits of the question. I have
recourse to Ths Record in the hope of
drawing forth information.
First. Prohibition by general statute has
been tried ia various States some twenty-
five times. Is there an instance oat of tto
twenty-five (with the alleged but disputed
exception of Maine) in whicb it is so much
as claimed to have been in the long run
successful?
I purposely leave out of this question
(a) the instances of continued effectiveness
ia eircumtcribed localities, as in Vineland,
H. J., and Oreeley, Col., and ia many
rural districts under "local option ;" and
(6) the cases of temporary effectiveness for
a few months or years, as just now reported from Iowa and Kansas. These aro
not relevant to the question of a permanent
constitutional provision for the vast and
populous State of Pennsylvania.
Second. As to the one alleged instance
of the permanent success of Prohibition—
Maine—is it seriously denied by competent
witnesses (a) that ia leading towns of that
State, as Augusta, the capital, and Bangor,
Prohibition has been for years an open and
confessed dead letter; (6) that Bangor is
as compared with like towns in non-Prohibition States, singularly debauched by
drunkenness; (c) that intemperance in
Bangor was even more prevalent whec
Prohibition' was rigidly enforced than
after it beoame a dead letter?
Third. Is it or is it not tone that in
those cases, more than twenty to one, in
which Prohibition being enacted into
statute has resulted in failure, the experiment has proved a rninons one to the interests of morality, leaving toe last state
of these communities worse than the first?
There are other and very weighty questions that ought to be answered, bat these
will suffice for to-day.
I sign my name and address, fully aware
to what I thereby expose myself. It will
at onoe he alleged that I am "no Christian," but a disgrace to my cloth; that I
am a sympathizer with the saloon ii
of intoxication. I suggest, however,
questions, as to my character and motives
be postponed until the more vital ones
which I have propounded shall have been
answered.
Leonard Woolsey Bacon,
No. 403G Chestnut street.
Philadelphia, May 21.
Inhuman Plnnuerers Lynched.
Sw
ill Justice Upon Vandals Who Bob.
bed Dead Bodies.
Johnstowh, June iL—The way of the
transgressor in the desolated valley of the
Conemaugh is hard indeed.   Each hour reveals some new and horrible stories of suffering and outrage, and every succeeding
hoar brings news of swift and merited
punishment meted out to the fiends who
have dared to desecrate the stiff and mangled corpses in tto city of the dead, and
torture the already half-crazed victims of
the cruelest of modern catastrophes.    As
the roads to the lands around abont are
opened, tales of almost indescribable horror come to  light, and deeds of the vilest
nature, perpetrated in the darkness of the
night, are brought to light.   Just as the
shadows began to fall upon the earth last
evening a party of thirteen Hungarians
were noticed stealthily picking tbeir way
along the banks of the Conemaugh towards
Sang Hcllow.    Supicious of their purpose,
several   farmers   armed   themselves   and
started in pursuit.   Soon, their most horrible fears were realized.
The Hungarians were out for plunder.
Bev. Brooke Herford.
I certainly can not vote for the prohibitory amendment. I believe sucb sumptuary laws to be entirely vicious in principle, and never more than temporarily
practicable. Tbe present state of things
—local opinion—enable prohibition to be
carried out wherever there is a prevailing
sentiment ia tta favor, aud where there
is not such a prevailing local sentiment,
it could not be enforced even if enacted.
As far as I ean see, what is needed is not
new legislation, but the more effective
use of what we have It to not either prohibition, or specially high license to which
I look for the lessening of the saloon
power and of the saloon temptation, bat
more effective supervision botn by tto
police and by tbe friends of temperance.
With such effective supervision, we have,
already, laws enough to accomplish what
law can rightly do; without it, more
laws, unenforced, would, I fear, be a pure
mischief.
Brooke Herford.
tn-Governor Gardner.
The result of the former prohibitory
law—whicb, by tbe way, I signed while
chief magistrate—was so unsatisfactory
in its results that it was repealed by decisive majorities in a succeeding Legislature, and does not encourage the re-
enactment ef similar provisions in the
organic constitution of the Commonwealth.
Water will not run higher than its
source; laws can not to successfully enforced unless a decisive majority of popular opinion sustains them; and a law
upon the statute book constantly violated
—much more a constitutional provision
constantly violated—to a menace to popular government and a weakening of all
law.
To-day every municipality in the State
—each of its towns and cities—possesses
the power, and many of them exercise it,
of voting total prohibition within their
owa boundaries. Ia such cases, as the
law has public opinion behind it,itis
generally well executed.
In other municipalities, where public
opinion does not sustain such a restriction, the sale of intoxicants is permitted
under rules that hedge round such sale
by restraints which tbe wisdom of the
governing power imposes, and under high
license such permission produces large
excise tuxes, thus diminishing the burden
upon polls and property.
Experience of the past seems to teach
tbat local option and high license furnish
a practical system regarding this vexed
question as admirable as frail and imperfect humanity can devise.
Yours respectfully,
Henry J. Gardner.
Boston, March 19,1889.
Prohibi.Ion in Vermont.
Perhaps there is no State aud no city of
its siza ia the union where the experiment
of prohibition might bo tried with better
prospect of success than in Vermont and
in Burlington. The population is very intelligent, the;stat_dard of morality to high,
and tbe respect for law because it to law is
thoroughly American. Yet figures sbow
very conclusively that prohibition does not
prohibit iu Burlington aore than in Bangor, Dubuque, Wichita or any other oity
that has tested it. During 18S8 the police
of Burlington made fifty ariests for liquor
solliug and 120 for intoxication, "besides
•_*--*****« made by depn'y nheriffs" for like
i   i.>-_!....i   ..._ ll__ _.i-ie ;....»*. -C.tk '(JO
News. ^^^^^^^
22,000 Sicknesses in a Month.
Alarming* Effect of Constitutional Pro-
hlbition on the Pnblle Health.
Ia Leavenworth, Kan., under constitutional prohibition, the only place to get a
drink is at the druggists, and the drinker
must sign a certificate that be is suffering
from such and such a complaint, and requires such and such a drink. These certificates must be countersigned by the
City Clerk, wbo has a fee of five cents for
each signature by hand stamp. The income of the City Clerk of Leavenworth in
June, 1886, from this source was about
$1,100. _
Shooting at Mount Oretna.
A piger a shooting match was held at
Gretna"_-_rk, between the Lebanon and
Lanca. tar teams on Decoration Day
which was won by the Lancaster team,
they killing two more birds than the
Lebanon boys. Each man shot at 25
birds and theorize was $105. The following is the score:—
LANCASTER TEAM.
"••—■[•""■    nirmii, mil,    , *•**
Fields _.._... .21
H'ranciscus............... As
Total _....«_
LEBANON   TEAM.
Clark.....................................81
Reinoehl 80
Rock......... 2_l
v**** nuf ii.  ii "im    <S
Do you have dyspeptic troubles? Take
Hood's Sarsaparilla, whioh has relieved
thousands and will cure yoa. Sold by all
druggists.
Beal Estate Transfers.
Heury Horst has sold to Joseph Fit-
terer, 1 acre and 13d perches of land in
North Cornwall township. Consideration $130.93.
Mr. Edwin Renshaw has sold to Mr.
Cyrus G. Bauch 24 feet fronting an East
Cumberland street. Consideration $1,500.
Mr. Abraham Herr has sold to Mrs.
Tacie A. Stanley, wife of Mr. B. G.
Stanley, a house and lot on Spruce street,
this city.
,»   ■   i
Died at Beading.
Mr. Benjamin F. Bright, formerly ot
this city, died at the residence of his
brothe-in-law Mr. W. F. Butts, Beading,
of Brights's disease aged 56 years. The
deceased served in the lat Pa., Cav.
Vols., and was a member of Sedgwick
Post G. A. B., of this city. He leaves a
son W. W. Bright, residing at Denver,
Colorado. His brother Micheal resides
in this city.
■ m^ > r_^_   "i —  '
A CLOSE CALL.
Mrs. C. A. Johnson, of Toledo, had
every symptom of heart disease, shortness
of breath, conld not lie on left side, cough,
pains in chest, etc., yet after being given
np to die, was cured by Dr. Miles' New
Cure.   Sold by Dr. Geo. Ross & Co,