Lancaster Daily Intelligencer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • Page 1

,.5" -yf -J Xl mffWr; 7, wmTT V-Vr CA vr VY TcTrS-EHS adsSeAF FASHION te Mi ti us, r-s VOLUME XXV NO. PAGES. LANCASTER SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1889. EIGHT TWO CENr ill i7 fTf LiT 1a 1 BKl9Miir I I 171 llllli LPSZ VMIV lVll tVVVV bBl VVAVAVlVli i ibsv MANY LIVES LOST. TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF THE FLOOD IN CAMBRIA COUNTY.

BANKS OF A RESERVOIR BREAK HER A I1WIMI CITIZENS JeKMTHW.N PEIlSMM TIE JW6RT WATERS. DETAILS OF TIE AWFUL CALAMITY. A Hundred Redin el EafeHiMlM revfrrd AlSiKVth. Are Rt OVER A HUNDRED ARE BURNED. The Town Inundated and Mtn, Women and Children Are Carried WltKthe "Wllr Torrent of the Cenemaufth Hirer Dteaster Nr.vv Flerksck, June 1.

W. X. Heys, Pennsylvania railroad official, has just returned from Johnstown. He snya the place Is annihilated, Jjenematigh wrecked and Cambria City swept away. Fully 1,200 lives have been lest.

One hundred bodies have been recovered nt Nineveh. Seventy jcrseus are reiertxl te liave burned te death In the fire, nt the Johnstown bridge. Hang Hellew is the nearest point te Johnstown that can be reached tills morning. All telegraph communication be tween these tw points arc cut and it is yet impossible te secure deflnite Information. The gray morning light does net seem te hew either hope or mitigation of the awful fears of the night.

We are at New Florence, 14 miles from the scene of destruction at Johnstown. It has been a hard night te evcryliedy. The weary, ever-worked newspaper men who bav been without rest and feed since yesterday afternoon, and the operators who hae handled the messages, nre even new prearing for the work ofthe lay. There 1ms been long vv ratigle ever the possession of a special train for the press, between the rival morning papers and it has delayed the erk of ethers he re anxious te get farther cast. Even here, be far from the washed out towns, the horror is in our midst.

Seven bodies have been found en the shore near this town, tw being In a tree, a man and a woman, here the tlde had carried them. The country people are coming into the rows centres in large numbers, telling sterici of disaster along the river banks In sequestered places. THE PEOPLE WAIUVED. But They Remained lu Johnstown te lte Swallowed My the Floed. Jehn McCarthy, a carpenter, he lives in Johnstown, reached New Florence at half past 4 yesterday and says the scene when he left was indescribable.

People hid been warned early in the morning te move te the highland, but they Old net need the warning, although It whs repeated a nuuiber of times up te 1 o'clock, when the water poured into the cinder street several feet deep. Then houses be-gun rocking te and fro and Anally the force of the current carried buildings across streets and vacant lets and dashed them against each ether, breaking them into fragments. These buildings were freighted with peer wretches he se shortly before had laughed at the cry of danger. McCarthy says in some ases he counted as many as 15 persons clinging te buildings, McCarthy's wil'e was vv llh him. She had threo sisters he lived near her.

They saw tlui heuse in which these girls lived carried aw ay and then they could stand it no longer, mi they hurtled away. The husband feared his wife would go before he could drag her away and they left the flooded district and went inland along the country reads until they reached heie. It is said te Ijq next te impossible te get te Johnstown proper te-day in any manner row beat. The reads are cut up that even the countrymen refuse te travel ever them in their roughest vehicles. The only hepe Is te get within about three miles of Johnstew by special train or by hand car.

This ill be dene by the Associated Press agent vv ithinlhe next hour. liATKlt The waters are new receding here as rapidly as they rese last night, and as the banks uncover the dead are showing up. Already nine dead bodies have been picked up within the limits of tills borough since daylight. Nene of them have a i yet been recognized II ve of tliose found are women. One lady, probably 25 years old and rather handsome, hadclased in her arms a baby about six months old.

The dead body of ii young man was dis covered in the brandies of a huge tree which had been carried down the stream. The body of another woman has just been discovered in the river here. Her feet was discoerod abeve the surf.tce of the water. A repe was fastened, about it and it is new tied te a tree "awaiting assistance te land it. rneM a iiersu hoof.

Jehn I Weber and his wife, an old couple, Mike Metzgar and Jehn Ferney, were rescued near here early this morning. They hail been carried from tlicii home in Cambiia City en the reef efa house. There were secn ethors en the reef of the heuse when it was carried oil" by the angry waters. They weie all drowned. They nre unknown Weber, they having drilled onto the reef from floating debris.

AVcber and ills ife were almost helpless from exposure. They were uuable te walk when taken oil the reef at this place. They are new at the hotel here. The banks en both sides of the river at this place are crowded with anxious watchers, and with horrifying frequency their vigils aie rewarded by the discovery of a dead body. Within the last half hour three floating bodies have been recovered at this iKlnt, and hundreds of people from Johnstown and up river tow nsare hurrj iug here in bcarch of their friends and were ept aw ay in last night's tliKsl.

The 10 it intense excitenieut prevails here. The street corners are crew (led itli pale and anxious people who tell of the aw ful calamity with kited breath. Squire Bennett has charge of the dead bodies and he is h.iving them prn-mrry cuied for. They arubeingpreiMredferburi.il, hut will be held here for identification. Four bevs baveJUstcome from the river bank alove here, who say that en the oppeslto side a number of lsslies can be seen lying In the mud.

They found the body of a woman en this side. She was cevered with debiis, but they pulled her out. fehe had only a few tatters of clothes en her and the body was badly bruised. Ne news can be received from Johnseon audit may be many hours before i) can get any. OJE IIUNDIIKU UU.UI AT NIXKVKll.

It. 11. Itegurs, justice of the xace at Mncvh, Iim wired tliv coreuer at Ureeiu- burg thai 100 dead bodies have been found at that place, and lie aaka whal'te de with theai. Frem this one ean estimate that the lern or life will reach mere than 1,000. Ne ene knows.

)ie one can guess the sickening sight that is exported te be met by the correspondents when they arrive at the scene above. A report has Just been received that persons are en an Island near Nineveh, and that a man and iretnan are en a partly submerged tree. The report has just 'reached here that at least 100 peopte were consumed in the flames at Johnstown last night. It Is said te have been an awful horror, but information cannot be obtained here. The ntr is filled with thrilling and most Incredible stories, but none of them has as yet been con tinned.

It Is certain, however, that ev en the worst cannot be imagined. Hew can anybody tell hew many are dead," said a railroad engineer this morning. "I have been at Sang Hellew with my train since 11 o'clock yesterday and I have seen fully 500 persons lest In the flood. J. W.

Ksch, a brave railroad empleye, saved IB lives at Nineveh. OVEK A IIUKDHED BUltXED. FIre Reasta People at the Brldca at Johnstown. The most awful culmination of the awful night was the roasting of a hundred or mere people in mid-flood. The ruin of houses, old buildings and ether structures swept against the new railroad brldge at Johnstown, and from an overturned steve or nema such cause, 'the upper part of the wreckage caught fire.

There were crowds of men, women and children en the wreck, and tlieir screams were seen added te the awful chorus of horror. They were literally roasted en the" flood. Soen after the fire burned itself out ethers were thrown against the mass. There were some 50 pcople in sight when the ruins suddenly parted, broke up and was swept under the bridge Inte pitchy darkness. The latest news from Johnstown is that but two houses could be seen in the town.

It is also said that only three houses remain in Cambria City. The first authentic news was from W. N. Hays, of the Pennsylvania railroad company, who reached New Florence at 9 o'clock. He says the valley towns are annihilated.

The Associated Press new has the only wire lictwcen New Florence and Pittsburg and has its connections with the main circuit. Detalls are meagre, but will be furnished at the first moment possible. Four ether bodies were seen, but owing te the mass of wreekage which is coming down the river they could net be recovered and passed down the Ohie river. a nenv nr.cevKHKii at riTTsmiHe. PtTTsnuiui The iwxiy of a Welsh woman, 60 years of age, was taken from the river near Niispeuslen brldge, this city, at 10 o'clock this morning.

A citizens meeting has been called te ad-vIfe means teaid the suflcrers ofthe Johnstown flood. The Pennsylvania railroad officials have already placed cars en the Liberty street for the purpose of receiving previsions and clothing and up te this hour many prominent merchants have made heavy Following are the reports from the morn I ng papers: A TKftmiJIK lATASTMOl'HE. Many Lives Mlettcd Out My the Floed In Western Pennsylvania. The Heed at. Johnstown has resulted in an uvvful catastrophe.

"It is said that the reservoir alieve the town broke aleut five o'clock Friday evening, and the immense volume of water rushed down te the city, carrving with it death and destruction. Houses with their occupants were swept away, and scores, probably hundreds, of hWiIe were drowned. Tlierowasne communication en Friday night with Johnstew but a telegraph operator in the Pennsylvania railroad tower at Sang Hellew, twelve miles west of Johnstown, says at least seventy-live dead bodies haie floated past. The wires are all down, and no trains are luuning east of lllairHvllle, which is about twenty-five miles west of Johnstown. The latest information comes through Pennsylvania rail read 'ellicials, who aver that ever iWUiIe.ul bodies have been counted Meating down the stream at Johnstown alone, liile along the line many additional lives have been lest.

It is asserted that there me but two houses in Johnstown entirely above the water line. train bearing Pennsylvania read" elllclnih and a large number of nevvspaiicr men lias left Pittsburg for the sccne. Telegraphic communication Is entirely cut oil'. A special from Grecnsburg says: report has just reached here that the greater portion of Johnstown has been flooded and hundreds of lives lest. Houses are floating about, and the pcople who are free are p.iulc-strickeu and are lleeing te the mountains." At a iwlnt near New Florence eighty-five porfaens have ltecn seen floating down the rlv ar en driftw oed.

One report comes that buftw reefs of the houses at Johnstown can be seen. The Covctewn and the New Florence bridges have been washed away and all the along the Cencmaugh between New Florence and Johnstown have been carried away. The railroad towers have been abandoned by the oitcraters. At a ipiarter of eight -o'clock a boy was rescued by a man in the signal tower of the railroad company at Hellew. Illsname is unknown, but he said that with his father, mother, brother and two sisters he was swept away in the light fr.imu heuse which was their home, lle was washed away from the building, but said the ether members ofthe family were in it lien It was swept ever the breast of the new Mone railroad bridge at Johnstown that it capsized a few seconds later mid they ere all drowned se far as he could tell.

The railroad o)erater officially reports that before dark they were able te count 111) persons clinging te buildings, Wreckage, or drowned and floating In the current. If tills information Is te be credited the damage lu tlie town proper must be in the nature of a clean sw eci. As carlv as ene o'clock the alarm was sent te Jofiustewii that there as danger from the dam. The railroad officials were notified, and In a very short tiine began te carry people from the town te places of safety en regular trains and hastily improvised rescuing trains. Anether sccial from Urecnsburg says: "Johnstown Is completely submerged, and the less of life is Inestimable.

Houses are going down the rlver by the dozen, and pcople can be seen clinging te the reefs. At Cakctewn, a vlllagoef several hundred inhabitants, the houses are almost entirely covered, and a great many houses at lllalrs-vllle are submerged. Scarcely a dwellinir in the vicinity of Sang Hellew can be seen. The bridges at llellvar and Nineveh, it is recited, have given way, and that at Salts-burg, it is feared, will be carried away. Pcople here he have friends In the flooded district are eagerly waiting for news at the telegraph olllce, llrcat uneasiness prevails.

The rlv er at Llv ermore Is rising and great destruction will fellow." iiik scx.nk or Tin: disaster. Johnstown, the sceno of the great disaster, is en the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, 'J7tl mile from Philadelphia, and seventy-eight Pittsburg. It Is the hc.idimarterh oftte great Cambria Iren cemiauy, and its acres of Iren works fill the narrow Uislu in which the city Is situate). The rolling mill and lfcsscmer steel works employ tf.Ooe men. The mountains rlse quite abruptly en almost all sides and the railroad track, which fellows the turbulent ceurse ofthe Ceuemauuh river is nltove the lev el of the Iren works, which must have lieeu inundated by the flood.

The summit of the Allegheny mountains reached at Oallltzeu, about ill miles east of Johnstown. Johusinvvn'ageographical situation is one that renders it ieculi.irly liable te terrible less of life In the event of such casualty that of Friday. It is a tewu built In a basiuef the meutitulnu and girt about by streams, all of which nnally And their way Inte the Allegheny river, and thence into the Ohie. On one aide of the town flews the Oenetnangh river, a stream which during the dry period of Mm summer drought can be readily crossed In many ly stepping from stone te stone, but which speedily become a raging mountain torrent, wnen swollen by the spring freshets or henry summer rain. On the ether aide of the town 1 the Steny creek, which gathers up it own share of the mountain rains and whirls them along toward EKts-burg.

The awful flood caused by the sudden outpouring of the contents of town reservoir, together with the torrents of rain thai had already swollen these streams te triple their usual violence is supposed te be the cause of the sudden submersion of Johnstown and the drowning of se many of its cltliens. The water, unable te find Its way rapidly enough through Its usual channels, piled up in overwhelming masses, caryylng before it everything that obstructed its onward rush upon the town. JOHNSTOWK LITKRAU.Y W1MSD OUT. N. N.

Hays, superintendent of the section of the Pennsylvania railroad covered by the flood, telegraphed at 10 o'clock, Friday night te Superintendent Pltcairn, in Pittsburg, as fellows i The destruction is terrible. The dump at Johnstown Is gene between the bridge and the tower west of Johnstown. At seme points the tracks are entirely carried away and the roadbed Is gene. The river for threo quarters rf -a mile above the bridge Is filled with buildings and driftwood forty feet high, and Is en fire, burning furiously and is entirely beyond our control. 1 cannot estimate the amount of damage.

Johnstown is literally wiped out." A dispatch from Grecnsburg, Westmoreland county, says: "The telephone) exchange at New Florence reports that the city of Johnstown is practically washed away, and that the number of persons lest will be several thousands." "Twomen rescued at Bolivar unite In saying that in the, Cenemaugh valley, outside of Johnstown, at least 1,600 lives were lest. "The town bridge nt Grecnsburg has Just succumbed te the seething cauldron, whose maddening rear can be 'heard a long distance up the valley. "The water is still rising, and it is thought the West Pennsylvania railroad will be without a alngle brldge In the morning. The screams of ene woman, as the ether bridge went down, were heartrending. She was floating en something net discernible, and her cries were heard until lest in the distant rear of the torrent." A special train from Pittsburg, carrying reporters get te Bolivar at lltW.Frtday night, and could get no further.

They found that the tidal wave struck Bolivar Just after dark, and in llve minutes the Cenemaugh rese from six te forty feet and the waters spread out evor the whele country. Soen houses began floating clinging te the debris were men, women and children, shrieking for aid. A laTge number of citizens at once gathered oil the county bridge and they were reinforced by nuinlwr from Garfield, a tevvn'pn the opposite sde ofthe river. They numberbf ropes and theso were thrown into the boiling waters as persdua drilled by in ofTerts te Have HelllQ peer, beings. Fer half an hour all Qftbats were fifulUess until at last, when the rescuers were alxjftit giving up all hepe, a little boy'estrldoa shingle reef, managed te catch held of one pf the ropes.

He caught it under his left arm and was thrown clo-Iently agalnst'an abutment, but managed te keep held and wall successfully pulled en te the bridge, aiuld.the cheers ofthe onlookers. Ulsrjanie was Hcssler and his rescuer was a train hand named Carney. The lxy was about 10 years old. His story of the frightful calamity is as follews: ''With my father. I was spending the daynt my ifrandfithe.r.'s heuse in Cambria Cfy.

In the heuse At the time were ThoeJore. Edward and Jehn Klntz. and Miss Mary Kintis, Mrs. J.1NLV JXiVVb, Tracv Glrscii. four children, my father and my self.

Shortly afler 5 o'clock there was a neise of rearing waters and screams of pcople. We looked out the deer and saw persons running. My father told us net te mind as the waters would net rlse further. But seen we saw houses being swept away and then we ran up te the fleer above. The house was threo-sterics, and we were at last forced te the top ene.

In my fright I jumped en the bed. It as an old-fashioned ene with heavy pests. The water kept rising and my boil was seen afloat. Gradually It was lilted up. The air In the room grew clese and the heuse was moving.

Still the bed kept rising and pressed the At last the Kst pushed the plaster. It yielded and section of the reef gave way. Then suddenly 1 found myself en the reef and was. being carried down stream. After a little this reef com menced te part and I was afraid I was going te lie drowned, but just then another heuse llh siilngie reef floated by and 1 le craw 1 en It and floated down until nearly dead with cold, when I was saved.

Alter I was freed from the house I did net see my father. My grandfather was en a tree, but he must have been drowned as the waters were rising fast. Jehn Klutz, was also en a tree. Miss Mary Klutz and Mrs. Mary Klutz I saw drown.

Miss Smith was also drowned. Jehn Hirsch waH in a tree, but the four children were drowned. The scenes were terrible. Llve IksIIcs and corpses were floating down with me and away from me. 1 would hear persons shriek and then tliev would disappear.

All along the line were people who were trying te save us, but they could de nothing and only a few were caught." The boy's story Is but oue incident and shows what happened te oue family. ed only knows vv hat has happened te the hundreds who wero in the path of the rushing water. It is impossible te get anything in the way of news, save moagre details. ANOTIIKK OF HOItltOlt. All eye-witness nt llellvar Bleck station tells a story of unparalleled horror which occurred at the lower brldge which cresses the Cencmaugh at this point.

A young man and two women wero seen coming down the river en a part of a fleer. At the upper brldge a repe was thrown them. Tills they all failed te catch. Between, the two bridges the man was noticed te point towards the elder woman, who, It Is sup-iKised, was his mother. He was then seen te instruct the women hew te catch the reiH) hlch was being lowered from the ether bridge.

Down came the rati with rush. The brave man steed with )iis arms around the tw6 women. As they swept. under the bridge he reached up and seized the rejic. He was Jerked violently away Irem the two vv omen, who failed te get a held en the life Hue.

Seeing that they would net be rescued he dropped the repe and fell back en the raft Inch fleated en down. The current washed the frail craft in tow ards the bank. The young man as enabled te sclze held of a branch of a tree. The young man aided tliovt.ve women te get up into the tree. He held en with his hands and rested his feet en a pile of drill; weed.

A piece of floating debris struck the drift, sweeping it away. The man hung with his body immersed in the water. A pile of drift seen collected and he as enabled te get another secure footing. I'p tlie river mere was asuuuen crasn and a Boctlens ofthe bridge was swept away and floated down the stream, striking the trte and washing It away. All three were thrown Inte tlie water and were drowned before the eyes ofthe horrified sj-octaters just opieslto the town of llellvar.

Early in tlie evening a woman with her two children wcrosecu te pass under the bridge at Bolivar, clinging te the reef of a coalheuso. A rejKi was lowered te her, but she shook her head and refused te desert the children. It was rumored that all three were saved at Cokevlllo, a few miles lolew Bolivar. A later rejiert Irem Lockpertsays that the residents succeeded in rescuing flve people from the IIckk, two women and three men. One man succeeded-in getting out of the water unaided.

They were kindly taken care of by the pcople ofthe town. A little girl jmsscd under the brldge just before dark. She was kneeling en a part of a fleer and had her hands clasKsl as If In prayer. Every effort was maile te save her, but they all proved futile. A railroader who was standing by remarked that the piteous nppoarance of the little waif brought tears te Ids eves.

All night long the crowd steed nlsnit tlie ruins of the bridge, which had Ik-cii sw ept aw ay at Bolivar. Tite ater rushed ust with a rear, carrying with it parts of louses, iurnlturp and trtce. The flood bad evidently npent feree up the valley. Ne mere living persons were being carried past. Watchers wMiManterns remained along the banks nnttt-daybreak, when the first view of the awful devastation of the flood was witnessed.

i i THK 1XHAL PAMAOE. Heavy Hataa Swrtl the Creek and the 8nejwttnnnn Btrer. The principal topic of conversation en the streets te-day is the terrible storm of the past few day. About the station of the Pennsylvania railroad everything Is confusion. On account of the washouts and floods en the Western division no trains have arrived here from Pittsburg since early Friday morning.

The Indications are that there' wlll.be nene bore before Monday. The tralnnhetwren Philadelphia and Harrlsburg are rtHtnlHg all right. A telegram was received "here this morning for men te repair tnvekanear Alteena. ('. W.

Bessier, an assistant engineer, leR during the forenoon. wtth rlfly men. At Marietta the river is rising rapidly but high water ianet expected before Sunday morning. -There ta a large ipian tlty of lumber en rivtjfWiks, and this Islielng moved te nlaee of safety. All the available teams )n BriettA and vicin ity were hired te-day by night all the lumber will be dnuger, Abreak.

occurred at lht canal al Wild Cat en Friday afternoon, but the fall extent of the dam-age dene cannot Wascertnnied until the water subsides. The railroad (rocks at Chick les will 1x5 submerged by evening, at the rate the river krrisingi'but net much damage will bodene, everything that can destroyed will be moved te a place 'of safety. IIF.V. AM1NT.O r. ertbCll AT JOHNSTOWN.

Alneug the residents of Johnstown is Hev. Alenzo P. rector of the Episcopal church, son of Dlller. There were many callers at Mr. Dlller's store today te make inquiry as le his son, but he could net gl ve any Information, lte has as yet been unable te reach Johnstown by telegram, nor has he received any message from his son.

He or ene of his sons would have Ien en this morning's train for that town, but en account of the washouts and destruction of bridges Johnstown could net be reached. He hopes that his son is safe, but says the suspense Is a terrible strain. This aftornoen about fifty men, tinder Bess Carpenter put te work at DlllervlHe doing work for the bridges which have been swept away en the western division ofthe Pennsylvania railroad. Reports from overy section of the county show that the rainfall yesterday and last night was very heavy. The wind was high and many trees were blown down.

The streams were all very high tills morning, but little damage was dene by thelr rise. The wheat Is all blown down and lies very flat in many places. Tobacco and corn fields ware badly washed, and much ofthe toltacce that has been set out was swept away. Sevcral enterprising Philadelphia newspapers Issued lata editions this mernlnp, On Niagara Express, which arrives hote 1ri.Hfi a niimtier nf tinuslmvH mrtrn hntirilfw nf i moors whfch sold like het cakes, And everywhere en the streets crowds' of pcople could be ncerl reading the news and discussing the torrlbie calamity MAMlTKh Ilfl Kxpected te be Iteprleved and TtiliikrriHjin.Nnrtliqrn Central division, the i eon-ImnrlHeninent Futu. dltlen of the tfcu.s!'-Heih-iy'"iOr'eadlaB( en.

InliiiNOii waa. visited by his counsel, inn feiiniy, prison at Media, en "Friday and Informed V-ii ter the flrsl ume ei uie acuen ei me jmnien beard In commuting his sentence te Imprisonment for life. Sheriff Green has net yet rceelv ed tlie commutation pacrs from Harrlsburg and the news has net ct been officially inade known te him. Jehnsen received tlie Information with very littlp outward show of rejoicing at Ids csc.iM) from the hangman's noose. He said that lie had Ikscii given an Intimation seme weeks ajHUMr seme ene lu thu prison that he would" hang, and he had been expecting te hear Of the commutation and probably his complete pardon.

"I am iiiiioceut," he said, "and, although I am thankful for havlugcsMitcd the awful f.ite or hanging- en the gallows, 1 think it very hard le have te remain in prison tlie remainder of mv life for a crime I never committed. I hope something will turn iii) before long te show who murdered Jehn' BfitniilCM, was an awful crime and Uie man who did Jl mij'ht te be hung." Jehnsen flunked Ids counsel for what they had dene in his, liehalf, and said he knew that If it had net been for Mr. Robinson and Mr. Bcaslcy he would have long age died en the gullevv s. Had the pardon heard failed te commute Jehnsen's sou-tence and a further respite been granted him, another eflert would have been uiade te get the charges against Charley Wilsen anil litis VJliepaz irieu in cenn, aim incy would likely have been brought up at the June term.

But new that Jehnsen's neck is saved, It Is prebable that It will never be known bother "Dig Charley" and "Dutch Gus" had any connection with the mysterious murder of Farmer Jehn Sharpless. There Is a feeling of relief there that the case lias at last reached an end, and the decision of tlie pardon beard is generally commended by the best thinking ami respocUvble portion of the community. With ene exception, the press of Media, Chester and ether parts of the county appreve ofthe commutation. Probably Murdered The lieily of Mrs. Margaret Lcimlucr, eged thirty-six years, was found early Tuesday eyening by her husband, Jehn Lclndner, lu the rear ofthe garden of her home, en the Annapolis read near Baltimore.

Her husband says that they did net llve happily together and had decided te lait, and that she went out and shot livrsclfwith a pistol, leaving tills mes-sage written en the bureiu witii chalk: Geed night. New t.ike tlie ether one. This, he says, referred te his own pistol. Jehu East, a neighbor of LclndnerH was vvflli hm when the body of ills wlle was found, and IjCindner asked him te leek at Ids pistol, which was up stairs. He did net de se, however, saving he had better wait for tlie coroner.

The coroner bus begun an inquest at which several wituesgei testified that Mr. Lciuducr told them that If she met a certain woman she would kill her or l.flft 4 islIA tftlllrBAb LlllfU Kill IlCrsC'll. CUIII, 7iit.c, nJ Jehn ICnstmau told him that when he and Lclndner came upon the body of the dead woman suspected that seme ene had been there before who wished seme oue elwe te be the llrst te discover tlie remains. East is credited also with saying that the iHisltleu ofthe woman's ledy lying at lull length iiiKin the gieuud with her clothing arranged nicely alsiut her, vv as net such as would have likely happened lu a case of suicide. Consequently his suspicions were aroused.

JIcnvQ much importawel attached te East's testimony. Algonquin Officer. The Algonquin club, of this city, met last evening at the heuse of 11. Moere, llast King street, for the purpose of electing officers for tlie ensuing year and iiiak-Ingarnuigeiiieut fertheiraumial excursion. The following were selected: President, II.

C. M'sire vlui president, Hev. J. Max, Hark, U. treasurer, VA.

II. Garvin secretary, Jehn Black. Auusl 5th was Hiected lis the day of opening i-amp, te continue for ene week, and auuxccutlve committee apeinted te take charge of the details. Thu camp will be at Yerk Furnace, en tlie Susquehanna. Will Atti-iiil the Fuuei-al.

Henry Gast, whose funeral will take place to-uieriovv afternoon, was ene of the eldest members of the tinpire Heek mid ladder remp.iuy. There Is no lire company at present, but tlie members recently formed an association, the members of which will turn out te the funeral tomorrow' afternoon, startlug from hotel ljiucastr ene o'clock, DAMAGE TO RAILROADS. TIAHiC WEfiTEM AM CENTRAL FEW-RUT AM A RAIIRIAM KSftfKI. Tracks Washed Out and Bridge Carried Away The Beem at Wtlltamspert Bursts The River Pntt.ADM.rm Junk 1. All indications point le the present trouble being the worst ever experienced by the Pennsylvania railroad company.

During the' btluard nf March, IftSe, the read was blockaded en the Yerk division and east of Alteena, for nearly flve days. That memorable block ado was caused by snow alone, the read net being damaged In any way. The present suspension of traffic, caused by the washing away of bridges and viaducts, heavy landslides, long and deep washouts and the (all of heavy masses of rock from mountain sides te the tracks liolew, between Alteena and Johnstown, a distance of almut 40 miles and east of the former city Is expected te last fully as long as the snow blockade of a year age. At the office of the general manager it was' stated this morning that the new brldge across the Cenemaugh river at Johnstown, which was, reported te have been swept away hy the water, Is still standing as firm as, ever, but the approach Utcrete for a dlstance or 300 or 400 feet between the station and brldge has been washed out. Information received from that point is very 'meagre.

An official of the read there telegraphs that it is Impossible te doscrlbe the calamity and that followed It. Ne particulars were given beyond this. The wires te Wllllanispert are stllldevvn. A dlstch received from that elty by wey of Reading stated that the lumlier Isxim hsd broken at 0 o'clock this morning, and the water was rushing through the upper end of the town, Almut 2 o'clock this morning word was received nt vVilllumspert, that the boemnt Leck Haven had breken, and that the place wes overflowed. Mince then no news has been rocclved as te the condition of affairs as the wires between 'VYilllamspert and Leck Haven went down iinniodlately after the sending ofthe dispatch, and communication has net yet been restored.

The positions of the east and west lieuud through trains en the Pennsylvania main rtne.as placed in these dispatches last night, remain unaltered. The New Yerk A Chicago Limited, cast bound, is still at Wllmorej Atlantic Express and Seashore Express are at rortagel pay Express from Chicago an i mall train are at Cene; iliaugh. The Philadelphia express cast-bound from Pittsburg Is at Bolivar Junction. The three west bound trains from New' Yerk te Chicago are still nt Alteena. Ne deflnite Information eyi be given as te when these trains will move from the stations at which they are new laid up.

On the Middle division, between Harris- and Alteena, the line Is very luully blocked, out ralif lias ceased ratling una tne flood In the Juniata is likely te te decrease. As seen as the water falls the extent of the treuble can be ascertained and the prospects for running trains stated with seme degroeef accuracy. Frem Harrlsburg north te wiiiianmperij the Middle dlyislen, and no trains will be ....111 fl.M tMnll h. imm I1UU, jaA.V. ueyeiKl Williams-pert, en tne i-miauei plda A Erle branch, the small amount of information received is enough te show that the running of trains is out of the question.

On the Northern Central branch, between Harrlsburg and Baltimore, there are several bad washouts and no trains have yet been run en that division. On the Philadelphia division, lictweeii Harrlsburg and Philadelphia, the storm was net of sufficient violence te de any serious damage, and the read therefore Is clear betvvecn these cities. At Havre de Grace, the river Is re-IHirtcd te be very high, but no serious damage lias as yet been rcertcd. 'Vice President Frank Thomsen, of the Pennsylvania railroad company, left this morning en a special train for tlie sccne of tlie blockade, and the eflerls te clear the line and restore travel wilt lie made under 'bissuiicrvlslen. w'fLrdAjKsi'eitr riAMW.v.

A dispatch received from Wllllanispert at 1 o'clock this aflorneon stHi'cs. that the city is flooded mid the water still rlsftitf. Up te 1 o'clock no news or any sort nau lscn recclv ed from Leck Haven as te the statoef Ifalis there and tlie condition of that water-swept city Is only a matter of conjecture. The last news rccclucd showed that tlie place was overflowed by the bursting ofthe lumber boom located just above tlie city. ABOUND HAHKIWHUltO.

Pcople lu the Southern J'art uftlie City NuOVr. llAiililsnuiii), June 1. The great rain storm has entailed a less of thousands of dollars te the people, of Harrlsburg, in the east and south ends of the city. Tlie water rese abeve banks of Paxton crock In several Instances and swept away bridges. In many cases it reached the first story of house.

Last night huudredsef fa inities were in distress, and forced te leave their homes. Majer Fritchey conducted the relief expedition, which utilized ull the beats te had, and while the ralu came down lu torrents he his assistants did geed work, While thus engaged, the major and ene of his officers narrowly escaped drowning. The Susquehanna river at tills point Is 18 feet obevo low water mark, and its depth increases every hour. independence Island iscempletcly covered. Thotracksef the P.

It. it. south of here are covered, by about two feet of water. Trains from the cast step here and at this writing the probability is that It will Is) sevcral hours before traffic; te the West will be resumed. Karly this morning llartnian's tannery, at Tenth mid Stale streets, was totally destroyed by lire supjioHed te be of incendiary origin.

The stock was iusurcd. Advices Just received from jsiints up the river, say that the beautiful llsli houses evv nod by Harrisburgcrs, about ten miles fieni here, were washed away, as were t-hedsuud out houses of every kind. Tne grout embankments here have caved in, culverts and sewers demolished, and great trees were laid prone. A jKirty of new spjcr men, representing New Yerk and Philadelphia Journals came hore early this morning with the exiiectuthm of reaching Joliustewii. Finding travel te the west at standstill from tills jielnt home of them went down the Cumberland vailey with the intention of bearding a Baltimore Ohie train and going te tlie WBst by a circuitous route.

A Lllw l.Kt nt Yerk. Yiiiik, 1. The Heed in Coderus creek here reached Its greatest height about this morning, when all brldges save one were under wutcr. Business placcsand residence In low sections were flooded te great extent and the damage In this city aloue will amount te V). The injury te the Spring Grove juper mills near this cily, heavy.

By neon Iho water had fallen sufficient te restore tiavefever nearly all bridges. In attempting te catch ttemudrlrt weed James Mclivuiue lefct hl baunce and fell Inte the raging torrent and was drowned, A number of bridges In the county have been swept away and the less In the county exclusive of the city is estimated at THE SFSQUKIIANXA HIGH. Part or Ifarrtshitnr Innndatod-Peeple FleoFerftare Uarrlsliurg was In the midst of a dcluge all day long en Friday, There was a steady downfall since before daylight Friday morning, and up te 10 at night 41 Inches of rain was registered at the signal service station. Danger efa disastrous flood In the Susqucnanua river Is Imminent. Old lee- iile say the Paxton crock, which scjsiratc Oast Harrlsburg from the main section of the city, and Is a raging torrent, Is higher new than during tne great flood eflt05.

Pcople were taken from thelr houses In Slbletewn In beats, and cellars along Cameeon street are lilted with water. Great fears are expressed for the safety of the people living en tlie low lands. Furnaces along the river below the city are banked. Stoclteu Is partially Inundated. Ne trains have arrived from Pittsburg since Friday uierhlng, owing te a big washout near Lilly's station.

Passengtr (rains for the North wero cancelled ewinir te reports of high water at Wllllanispert. A landslide Is rcnertcd en the 1'eniisvlvanla railroad nt ltockvllle, five miles west of Harrlsburg. Tim Allisen hill branch of the East liar- 'rtsburg meter line Is-net in operation owing maw-me ureas in me main sewer, near Cameren and Market streets. There are ever ,000,000 worth of legs In the boom at WllUanivrt, representing the entire season's output nf lumber, and grave fears are entertained for their safety. Tlie lioem cntniauy has put every available man te work, and overy ixmslble means will tie adopted te save this vast quantity of lumbar.

The rain has fallen In a steady dowupeur and shamed no signs of a cessation Friday evening. News has been received in Wlllinmspert stating that the booms at Curwcnsville and Caledonia have broken and that It is only a question of a few short hours until the Leck Haven Iraem gtves way. There are new ever 00,000,000 feet of leg's lu the boom at Wllllanispert, with 60,000,000 mure strewn along the banks. Theso, with the legs from the broken booms, will be swept Inte the already over-crowdod structure In Willlamspert, AtShamoklnalltliecolllorlos were forced te suspend and many were drowned out. At 2 o'clock en Friday; a belt of ball lightning struck en the towerof the First Prosbyterlnn church, lu Carlisle, and breke off perta of the meulding.

It then descended and struck the sidewalk with a tremendous report and tore up a number of the bricks. Miss Emma Kelly was walking en the street and was se shocked that she had te tie takeu Inte a heuse and he services of a physician required. E. lb Kramer was standing In a store and his neck and left ear were bunted Inte blisters. Emma Knnerstnan was burned upon the hand.

The electric lamps lu many (daces wero lighted by electricity fiem the mlt and a uuinlrar of pcople sustained slight shocks. A MEHSAti Ot SORROW. CitiCAXe, June 1. Capt. J.

K. FlUpat-rick, or the Central jwllee detail, has received the following dispatch from his brother, Peter, who was chief of pollceof Cambria Imrntgh, located across the river from Johnstown, Pa: "Rose her husband and child and my wife and three children were all drowned, Heme of Beb's children." The persons referred te lu the message are Rese Brady, Captain Fllpatrlck'a sister, J. Brady, the huriband, Ellen Brady, daughter, Mary Fitzpatrlek and her three children, two lieys and one girl. "Beb" Ia MiinlhAit KvhJi llvlnc itiAi-n tirhn had nlne chlldruTV. CKIiayW An Incident In the Career J1 ff am rlaka f'liillHlluulnMMM llitjrtien Commissioner On the sboend of May, 1805, President Andrew Jehnsen Issued a proclamation offering rewanl of twenly-flve thousand dollars for the arrest of Beverly Tucker, lu the Kiino proclamation a hundred thousand dollars vi as elfered for Jefl'orsen Davis and rewards were offered for the errest of Clement C.

Clay and his clerk Cleary, Jacob Thompson and Geergo N. Saunders. The eM)tilng varegraph or the proclamation dec-lares that they Incited the atrocious murder of Abraham Lincoln, Ne More Tickers. Financial circle worn considerably exercised en Friday uftorueoit ever the announcement from the resttitm ofthe New Yerk stock oxchange ttfter o'clock that beginning With te-day quotations will in the future only be obtained by incssonger, telephoiie or private wire. The niove was inadd te exterminate the bucket shop.

Tlie Gidd and Stock Telegraph -euiaiiy ....1.1 (u.fr lineii jtttlfitiitltr 111. "Willi 11111 lit-. M. IB WIHCIIIIIJ fiirirtediiflhuiiievuiiiid would say neth ing, but It seem thin tncir contract wim the New Yerk Exeliange expired yester-day and the governing committee determined net te give quotation it or the Commercial Telegraph company. Brokers will therefore have te depcud upon their private wires.

Thcircustemcrs will practically no in tne uarK us 10 uie condition ofthe market, and it is exiiected that unless some arrangement is made Immediately the business transacted will be considerably curtailed, if net attend with uuy mure serious consequences, ArrmiRliur Fer 4th or July. At a meeting ir Geergo H. Themas pest Ne. HI, held en Friday evening ctdebra-tlen erthe coming Fourth or July was discussed. It was finally doclded te appoint a committee or llve te consider tlie advlsl- blllty or tbe Grand Army liavinga eclebra- tien en that day, and irse, te rejiert a pro-gniinme of excrciscs.

The coinmltteo op-ieluted consists or Capt. Charles Dentins, A. V. Hurst, Thes. J.GIlgore, 11.

R. Brone-man and J. K. Barr. This committee will report at the meeting or the pest en next Friday evening.

A Hushei- en the Beading. A trial trip was made between Reading and Philadelphia by Philadelphia Reading onglne Ne. 1,016, designed by Reading mechanics and built at the Baldwin loce-niotlvo works. The distance, llfty-elglit miles, was cevcrel In seventy minutes, the fastest time ever imuie en tne riinaacipma Reading railroad main line. The new locomotive is Intended for the Philadelphia Atlantie City railroad, and It Is equipped with all the latest improvements, it is Intended te make the run te the seashore in ene hour, Cie-ilng Entertainment.

The closing literary and musical entertainment of tlie Yeung Peeple's association or St. Paul's Reformed church was given en Friday evening, with a large audlcncd' present. Selection were sung by the Misses Ixs-her, Mrs. Hunter, William Slough and Mrs. Charles Heflmcier, and there were recitations by Hurper Foreman, Misses Byrne, Getz and Stiihr.

All the entcrtaliiinentH given by this society the past winter were greatly enjoyed, and the society vv ill keep up Its organization. l'ald the Damages. Florence Hamilton wan heard. by Alder man llalbecli en Friday evening en a ch.trga of maliciously damaging a water cooler, the prejcrty of Geerge Smith. Tlie i-ave was dismissed njieu tlie payment or costs by the defendant and the purchase of a cooler te tuke tlie place of the ene dainagfHl.

HelcHHvd from Jail. Iivl Gast was scut te Jail attha April court for foiling te comply itli an order of the court te maintain his vvife. The case wus compromised en Friday, Mrn. Gast withdraw tliv fcult aiid, be was re'eaed from jail. THE PAGE- AMIVERSJ ITS TH1RTV-FHIRTH AMVAL iTIUC.

rv HPin riiBiv vtviim tlie Oration Delivered by J. nausman, and th Hen. 11. F. Hushes, Vhlkvlel; Mtt.tKRsviLi.K, May 31.

The ana aaries of the literary societies willi the slate normal school are all occasions for reunions of former sta and friends of the school. -f During the afternoon and earl; ere the street cars were leaded te their uti capacity with Weeds and member Cj Page society, coming visit their si mater, te take part Hi the exerdses of evening ana te renew tne inenasnif former days. Many warm ana greetings were Thei notwithstanding the weather, was. Uie chapel being oil filled. 1 The decorations were bcautifuL consisted) of baskets and cresses of flowers tastefully arranged among exotics ami petted plants or great 9.

IUK.U. uieiiiiiinu) nubile aciieehf In Yerkttitih'tr. nr ever the evening's exercises. Upen the chair he, In a neat, brief speech coined the public te the anniversary clscs. The Page oration was delivered' vv.

if. Dausmnii, in Ajmivnmer.fr spoke or "Our Natien Unity." showed that our government Is dntttnd te the want of the i.l tt a vrtfil! IambT tlta ff-tmnnf i Kovernmont waa the first te demon that a irovemtucnt by popular will possible. The task of the frnmers of i constitution was a difficult one. Tber no historic path for our sUtesntenta low. The Roveltit lenary war left an empty treasury, a heavy debt httff Iain soldiers, rue nriusn oensMwiv, the outgrowth of centuries efexper ft unvernment.

but the ceMtltutkit United States Is the result of wi i liens or a single period, in our nauc liidiciarv is supreme. The speaker i the wonderful Influence Washington upon laying the proper foundation of 1 government, and the greater Influence cried by Chief Justice Marshall and successor, Justice He closed. -i. sek.L nuunidH m.v A i predicting a most I Qq. ine onuien was UJ.

a-anta was one ofthe best the IlwiJ" ind the pleasure of hearing. Miss A. MaudTaylei recited a number of sele. recited In a manner se tn entertaining as te elicit RNS, of applause She, was tv Hen. II.

F. Hughes, livcrea mu nonerary bajjtiw, A'AiC of which was Republl Administered Through The evlls resulting fret tlen of political besw "heelers'' was fully "pull'i was defined flew frcm it shown. money Used in cend palzn and of Intense cussed. Thafollewin The point te down alj It arise Mere thoreu. nation.

True civil sc fusm si M.MMW tHUVm Sswti i-l Ziti HMinin umu uni proved ami declared by formation of assecli '-W. The speaker thought muuv tyranny will In the near n.i.l hlt.A nvnnf imllnll gixxl a government as it doservt. fA The address full of yaluabH -i tlens, and tlie audlcnee certalnly.V by them. 5 The musle under direction etLTl -M balm's orchestra was exception, Al and was praised by everybody. -S The Pagoltes can congratulate the that their 31th anniversary was ai TUB MAY CLUB.

llt ik A MMiinrumuiil lltflfr IfttVA Made Fer the Anaim! Trlpi The Bay club or this city held their lar monthly meeting at Hetel last evenlmr. There was a geed and much interest wasnianlfested. Ai mlttee waa aiinelnted te go te Baltln leek at a bout which will be engaged the annual trip. The club leave IJincaster en August will take the beat at Uavr The l)eat will be provisioned anjLpverythlnKwiH be take at least twenty members," mero than twcnly-Hve, TJey will thirteen days, and win, return nyr liilleilclphlu.w licreimi trip win enu. will visit even- city mid town" of 'W en the Chesapeake and rivers emptying! It.

Including Baltimore, folk, Richmond, Fortress Menree, naiKjIls. MU Vernen. Yorktown and places. They will also go ent alengj Atlantic coast. The ciuu wm new i last baiuiuet.

Iiefere the trip, en Ffl evening, June ltli( at; llotel Laneaste MemorlullJaratTerre lllll. The observance, of. Memerial Tcrre Hill took phu-n o'clock l.n tit fl I order. A Brand street parade wa by the enler, headed by the Terre; hand, oiter wnun tney ppctjrcujiijj ceinetery, wliore soldiers' and P. O.

grav'cs took place. It i almut 1,000 lcrsens gatherei" tery. Thore waa a speaker's sta. -j inthoceinetory. It was i rated and there as an arch at the enf or tlie rcmctery with the inscription; Memery or the Dpdu," in wmie loners.

Before the. conclusion of the de there was a rain storm dlMwrsed thu crowd, The church. were threw ejicn, jwd the peofie in te he-artlie iiifinerial addresses bv Rev. A. B.

Savier, of Terre UIU: Khuler. or Beartown, Hen. Val. UI ijsbanen.Rcy. Jas.Oiithric.ef Valley 3 In the evening Itev.

Jas. Guthrie dellf a. memorial sermon te a crowded the Evangelical church. Ha took for inri Iho Davs of Old." '5i 1 Death of Jeuus II. GtngrteU.

Jonas B. Olugrlcii. son of County iiilsslencr Jehn Gingrich, died at hla deiu-c, Ne. 'Hi North rrince street a early hour this morning, tie nati Hiitr.irnr fiem Briidlt'a disease for mnntlis Ids deuthwas loekedll past row ecks. He wasa priuterhyj nrL-al nt Ills trode ill tills cMy I compelled te step by fe'''" leaves a widow anu oue i nx.naA.1 was a popular young i i.

iu and his death ill be I mourned by a large circle or fri was a inemlier or Monterey ledgo and Ridgely Encampna H7. Ills funeral will take place ea ttnriinen at 2 o'clock 'from bis fc np.ir ijnidisvllle'i ServVsa be held at the Old Mennenil chttltAj o'clock. is 'IH-I fB-'' ill. ti vi at jr Vaafcafe- t31 K- "UK .1 i i HS2r.Js..