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Telegram Herald Domestic News June 14, 1889
Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan
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Johnstown flood aftermath: estimates put deaths at 3,000-4,000; 1,500 men clear ruins, militia keeps order, relief reaches $468,000, and railroads and citizens begin rebuilding.
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- Illegible ink
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ABOUT 4,000.
Not More than That Number Perished at Johnstown
1,500 MEN WORKING ON THE RUINS.
Loafers Endeavor to Inaugurate a Strike and Are Driven from the Town by the Militia—Citizens Return Thanks for Aid.
NOT SO MANY LOST.
Johnstown, Pa., June 13.—The general opinion among well-posted people here is that the loss of life in the Johnstown flood will be between 3,000 and 4,000. It was generally given out that Johnstown and the boroughs adjoining had a population of 35,000 people, but this is a very high estimate, and conservative people put the population between 25,000 and 28,000. Colonel Rogers, who has charge of the registration, states that from all he can learn the population only amounted to about 20,000, and this accounts for 10,000 people supposed to be lost. The reports sent out from here to the effect that 12,000 to 15,000 people were missing were based upon the supposition that there were 35,000 inhabitants in these boroughs.
The first real work under the supervision of the State commenced at 6 o'clock a.m. The whistle at the Cambria Iron and Steel Works was the signal for the men to commence, and about 1,500 started in with their picks and shovels.
During the morning a crowd of worthless loafers in some manner secured an entrance to the town and wanted to inaugurate a strike among the workmen. Some of the laborers were already dissatisfied at having new bosses over them and only wanted a chance to complain. James McKnight, of Pittsburgh, one of the State contractors, got wind of the trouble brewing and went among the men and informed them that he would have no kicking, and that all those who wished to quit would have to do so immediately. And about 100 of the men left, but the loafers remained around and Mr. McKnight went to General Hastings and demanded protection for the men. A detachment of militia from the Fourteenth Regiment were detailed to the place and they drove away all the men who refused to work. This caused General Hastings to issue an order to the soldiers not to admit anyone to Johnstown proper without an order.
Johnstown, Pa., June 13.—Order is coming out of chaos. Military discipline has shown its effects at the end of the first day of Adjutant-General Hastings's reign, and Johnstown has decided to nestle meekly under the wing of the Commonwealth until she is strong enough to take care of herself. General Hastings has his large staff in working order and expects to have 2,500 men at work clearing the ruins soon.
C. B. Clark, of Altoona, has at last consented to turn over the proofs of his directory of Johnstown. By means of this it is hoped to form a complete registry list and eventually a full list of the dead. This is to be put upon the State record as there will be endless litigation following the disaster.
A meeting was held in Alma Hall by the citizens of Johnstown Wednesday, at which the leading business men who survived the flood were present. Colonel J. P. Linton presided. Remarks were made by several of those present touching the great work before them and the necessity of united and individual action to rebuild the town, and the cultivation of fortitude to bear up under the burdens and griefs so suddenly thrust upon them.
A series of resolutions were proposed and adopted thanking James R. Scott for his untiring efforts to bring order out of chaos, and the people in Pittsburgh in particular, and the citizens of the United States generally, for their prompt and generous assistance. They pledge united support to the State officials in every way in their power in the work now undertaken, to the end that the work may be expedited.
For the first time since the calamity, the people are commencing to talk of their financial losses, and this seems to worry them as much as anything else, and to say that a vast number of the former merchants are disheartened is putting it mildly. The Pittsburgh wholesale merchants are offering all the old merchants here some very generous inducements to start up again, and several of them have issued circulars offering all the credit desired.
ALTOONA, Pa., June 13.—The famous viaduct near South Fork, on the reconstruction of which 500 workmen have been engaged over a week, was completed yesterday afternoon, and at 6 o'clock the first engine crossed over it. The trestle is 85 feet high and 445 feet long. The rails have been laid for single track to Johnstown from the Fork. Grading will be completed in two days more, when the traffic is expected to be opened through to Pittsburgh.
Seven thousand men are at work on the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad on the eight lost bridges and thirty-four miles of railroad washed out. Work in the shops at this place has been stopped and all available forces are out on the line.
Competent authority computes the destruction in the Juniata valley at $7,000,000, fully half of which is on the Pennsylvania railroad.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 13.—The committee of Odd-Fellows from this city last week to visit the scene of the Johnstown disaster report a loss to the order of 33 members, 34 wives and 109 children by the flood. Three hundred members lost their household goods and 225 owned houses and stores, which were lost.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 13.—A Harrisburg special to the Times says Governor Beaver and his Cabinet have become dissatisfied with his scheme to take $1,000,000 out of the State treasury to pay the expense of clearing away the Johnstown wreck. Offers to indorse his bonds are few and far between, and he will probably try to raise enough money to pay the expense by loans from citizens who will take the chance that the Legislature, when it meets in 1891, will reimburse them.
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 13.—The following commission has been appointed by the Governor to distribute the funds contributed for the relief of the sufferers by the recent floods in the State: Governor Beaver, Edwin H. Fitler, Thomas Dolan, John Y. Huber, Robert C. Ogden, Francis B. Reeves, of Philadelphia; James B. Scott, Reuben Miller, S. & Marvin, of Pittsburgh; John Fulton, of Johnstown, and H. H. Cummin, of Williamsport.
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 12.—Additional contributions for the flood sufferers were received by the Governor Wednesday from all sections of the country. The total amount received to date is about $468,000.
Not More than That Number Perished at Johnstown
1,500 MEN WORKING ON THE RUINS.
Loafers Endeavor to Inaugurate a Strike and Are Driven from the Town by the Militia—Citizens Return Thanks for Aid.
NOT SO MANY LOST.
Johnstown, Pa., June 13.—The general opinion among well-posted people here is that the loss of life in the Johnstown flood will be between 3,000 and 4,000. It was generally given out that Johnstown and the boroughs adjoining had a population of 35,000 people, but this is a very high estimate, and conservative people put the population between 25,000 and 28,000. Colonel Rogers, who has charge of the registration, states that from all he can learn the population only amounted to about 20,000, and this accounts for 10,000 people supposed to be lost. The reports sent out from here to the effect that 12,000 to 15,000 people were missing were based upon the supposition that there were 35,000 inhabitants in these boroughs.
The first real work under the supervision of the State commenced at 6 o'clock a.m. The whistle at the Cambria Iron and Steel Works was the signal for the men to commence, and about 1,500 started in with their picks and shovels.
During the morning a crowd of worthless loafers in some manner secured an entrance to the town and wanted to inaugurate a strike among the workmen. Some of the laborers were already dissatisfied at having new bosses over them and only wanted a chance to complain. James McKnight, of Pittsburgh, one of the State contractors, got wind of the trouble brewing and went among the men and informed them that he would have no kicking, and that all those who wished to quit would have to do so immediately. And about 100 of the men left, but the loafers remained around and Mr. McKnight went to General Hastings and demanded protection for the men. A detachment of militia from the Fourteenth Regiment were detailed to the place and they drove away all the men who refused to work. This caused General Hastings to issue an order to the soldiers not to admit anyone to Johnstown proper without an order.
Johnstown, Pa., June 13.—Order is coming out of chaos. Military discipline has shown its effects at the end of the first day of Adjutant-General Hastings's reign, and Johnstown has decided to nestle meekly under the wing of the Commonwealth until she is strong enough to take care of herself. General Hastings has his large staff in working order and expects to have 2,500 men at work clearing the ruins soon.
C. B. Clark, of Altoona, has at last consented to turn over the proofs of his directory of Johnstown. By means of this it is hoped to form a complete registry list and eventually a full list of the dead. This is to be put upon the State record as there will be endless litigation following the disaster.
A meeting was held in Alma Hall by the citizens of Johnstown Wednesday, at which the leading business men who survived the flood were present. Colonel J. P. Linton presided. Remarks were made by several of those present touching the great work before them and the necessity of united and individual action to rebuild the town, and the cultivation of fortitude to bear up under the burdens and griefs so suddenly thrust upon them.
A series of resolutions were proposed and adopted thanking James R. Scott for his untiring efforts to bring order out of chaos, and the people in Pittsburgh in particular, and the citizens of the United States generally, for their prompt and generous assistance. They pledge united support to the State officials in every way in their power in the work now undertaken, to the end that the work may be expedited.
For the first time since the calamity, the people are commencing to talk of their financial losses, and this seems to worry them as much as anything else, and to say that a vast number of the former merchants are disheartened is putting it mildly. The Pittsburgh wholesale merchants are offering all the old merchants here some very generous inducements to start up again, and several of them have issued circulars offering all the credit desired.
ALTOONA, Pa., June 13.—The famous viaduct near South Fork, on the reconstruction of which 500 workmen have been engaged over a week, was completed yesterday afternoon, and at 6 o'clock the first engine crossed over it. The trestle is 85 feet high and 445 feet long. The rails have been laid for single track to Johnstown from the Fork. Grading will be completed in two days more, when the traffic is expected to be opened through to Pittsburgh.
Seven thousand men are at work on the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad on the eight lost bridges and thirty-four miles of railroad washed out. Work in the shops at this place has been stopped and all available forces are out on the line.
Competent authority computes the destruction in the Juniata valley at $7,000,000, fully half of which is on the Pennsylvania railroad.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 13.—The committee of Odd-Fellows from this city last week to visit the scene of the Johnstown disaster report a loss to the order of 33 members, 34 wives and 109 children by the flood. Three hundred members lost their household goods and 225 owned houses and stores, which were lost.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 13.—A Harrisburg special to the Times says Governor Beaver and his Cabinet have become dissatisfied with his scheme to take $1,000,000 out of the State treasury to pay the expense of clearing away the Johnstown wreck. Offers to indorse his bonds are few and far between, and he will probably try to raise enough money to pay the expense by loans from citizens who will take the chance that the Legislature, when it meets in 1891, will reimburse them.
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 13.—The following commission has been appointed by the Governor to distribute the funds contributed for the relief of the sufferers by the recent floods in the State: Governor Beaver, Edwin H. Fitler, Thomas Dolan, John Y. Huber, Robert C. Ogden, Francis B. Reeves, of Philadelphia; James B. Scott, Reuben Miller, S. & Marvin, of Pittsburgh; John Fulton, of Johnstown, and H. H. Cummin, of Williamsport.
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 12.—Additional contributions for the flood sufferers were received by the Governor Wednesday from all sections of the country. The total amount received to date is about $468,000.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Charity Or Relief
Infrastructure
What keywords are associated?
Johnstown Flood
Relief
Militia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Governor Beaver
What entities or persons were involved?
Adjutant General Hastings
Governor Beaver
James Mcknight
C. B. Clark
Colonel J. P. Linton
Where did it happen?
Johnstown, Pa.
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Johnstown, Pa.
Event Date
June 13
Key Persons
Adjutant General Hastings
Governor Beaver
James Mcknight
C. B. Clark
Colonel J. P. Linton
Outcome
estimated 3,000-4,000 dead; 1,500 men at work clearing ruins; relief contributions about $468,000; railroad bridges and miles of track destroyed.