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BUFFALO, N. SATURDAY. JUNE 1. 183 PRICE ONE CENT. SuTSS TIE Mil IN THE SUNDAY NEWS." THOUSANDS MISSING, driftwood: have floated down the swollen torrent of the Conemaugh.

attained its normal depth at all points. From Greensburg toSangllollow.the limit of the present trouble, scores of people throng the streets. road Indicated that the situation is hourly growing worse. Many Villages Swept A war. Rt-imvillb.

June 1. It is thought all Gill EDITION wi, 1 01 lives ii MuMi Johnstown Swept Away by the Breaking of a Reservoir. Ml" HUMES BESTEOIED. Hundreds of Bodies Afloat-The Rivers Clogged With Houses. THRILLING SCENES LAST NIGHT.

The Flood Reaches rittsbnrg at 3 M. Graphic Accounts of the Calamity. Blairsvillb Intersection, Pa. June t- A reliable courier has arrived here and states that 1,500 Uvea have been lost in the great flood. PmsBUBo, June 1-tA telegraph operator in the Pennsylvania railroai' tower at Bang HE.

DON'T GET IT." Mr. Hickman Demands the Music Hall Prize Fair Fund. We Did the Work, Propose See the Mouey Applied," Says Jndje Stern. Hon.vtArthur Hickman has addressed to Judge Stern a note directing him to pay over to the Music Hall Real Estate Commissioners the proceeds of the receut prize fair. He baa not received the money, however.

Following is his letter: ABTHUH W. HlCRMAM, CoUMbBLOH AT LW, 3 Gskkan Is. Ca'a Burrawi, Hay 31, ISjja Hon. Jacob Stern. Chtrfrman.

Buffalo: Mt Dbas Juihjs The announcement in Lb Erpres of this morniug that the suu-committsw will attend to tha ntt at th dwn.i i dbginea on Music Hall ana the balance of be disbursed as may seem beat, la conuectioQ with the report of the Music Hall air coiuroiitee yesterday, was a surprise to tbe Real Estate Commlssiouers. Inquiry of Mr. Genrger discloses the fact that tbe executive committee yesterday did take BLUMxi. iou wm see at once how absurd such a proceeding would be on the part of the executive committee. They are clothed with no power to liquidate the dehta of the Association, or to settle disputes bet ween the Association and its ctoditora.

Many of the accounts are not adjusted and can only be settled by the Association's officer. Tbis fund belongs tu tbs Association and must be paid to its proper officer. The committee in no sense stand for tbe association except as trustees to receive the proceeds of the fair and pa them to tbe treasurer of tbe usme. iou will please see that none of the association's debts are paid or adjusted out of this fund. Yours truly, ARTHUR W.

HICKMAN, Sec Real Estate Com. M. A. Surrogate Stern, when asked about the matter this afternoon, said: "As this concerns the publicldo not think it would be a violation of propriety In letting you have Mr. Hickman's letter.

"Of coarse it may seen, annoying, but wa have overcome so many things during the fair and have had so much criticism that we are used to It, We attach no importance to tha letter. "The snb-comroittee he speaks of was appointed with full power to close up all matters relating to the fair and tbs disposition of tho proceeds. In due time it will make a full and detailed report of its proceedings. Tha moneys are now and will remain on denoslt subject to our order with the treasurer, Mr. K.

A. Georger of the German Bank, who was chosen by the German Young Men's Association for that purpose. 1 are very anxious to do our full dutT. We want to give entire satisfaction to tbs public wbo so generous It save, and be source of gratification to the association, who will be so fortunate as to receive this money. going to ran svway with the funds; neither are we going to take advles) from the secretary of the Real Estate Committee.

If it were ponstble for him to re alize anything he wopld see how absurd it would bo on 6nr part so to dov "Mr. H. says we have no power to Una id ate the debts of the association, or to settle disputes with its creditors. We have no desire to do so. We had the power to raise th money, but have nothing to say about its dis position.

According to his view we have done th i rty work, all that is necessary for as to do is to lift our coat tails and be kicked out the clean work can be done by the fellows who were afraid to soil their hands. The record will be written np in the near future and the public will be given an opportunity to look behind tha curtain. Many of the accounts are not adjusted so he says. If that is so, then the "sooner this committee gets to work at them the better for all concerned. 'Mr.

ought to be like Tilden, 'Insist on tY TKasnKjunnmitM certainly will do likewise. He also says 'that the funds belong to th association and must be paid to its proper officers. We fel grateful to him for help ing us out of this trouble. It relieves us very much. We had no doubt about It before, aud now that he has given us his opinion we ara sure that the funds belong to the association aud must be paid to the proper officers.

Truly a second Daniel came to judgment. "1 think tho public wbo have so gen. 1 erously contributed have some rights. Tho chief beneficiaries ought give us, and wa are justly entitled to. their earnest and undivided support.

Our recommendations should, and 1 have no doubt will, receive reasonable consideration. All admit that without ns the result could not hare been accomplished. Ws labored night and day for mouths to secure this great sum of money. We assured the publlo that if this debt was paid Music Hall would be self-sustaining. Ws are in honor bound to the community to see that the floating debt Is discharged; that methods be adopted that will secure prosperity Xo tho Association so that this Association will never again appeal to tbs public for help.

It can bo done. We propose to stand by until It la done." THE C0LLECT0RSH1P. A rumor has reached tbe PostofSce that Col. Morgan has been appointed Collector ol the port. FOUB tlLLEDL A Woman and Her Throe CMldttm Crushed Under a Falling Tn 1 During a 8tona Vkw Orlbaks, June 1.

Ob Wadsetter last, during the storm in Do Soto pariah, net oak tree was blown orer and fell npoa th dwelling of Joseph Raffle, crashing end kfe'. stantly killing Mrs. Kama, a aaogottr seed IT and two sons. Mr. Raffle himeelt waa KV- only one escaping injary.

Murder and Bale Philadelphia, Jane 1. Jowsyb 75 years of age. residing I In tab Dart of the cilr. shot and killed bla mm evening and then killed hlmeelf. Mr.

I berry, who waa 52 yean of as, ft tat id two weeks ago becsaes af WtBSBav. anoa. Today Oil lUrM Cam-ted W. M. OTI Cloeed Hicaeei aagimg aasetd ea Oednsr Peter Baubait, aced 91 jew taiclde tot day afttroaca Qdar street, ay aoagta.

la- tag I torn rammausaa trrtea. Information received is meagre, but for the most part accurate. At Lockport, two miles east, mora nan twenty people have been taken from the flood. The first great rush of water reached here at 7 o'clock last evening. This came from the burst dam above Johnstown.

It came like a frenzied whirlpool and befare the people could realize it they were in its grasp. Fortunately the people Jving on the low lying ground escaped. At 0:30, o'clock a great pile of driftwood was swept along and from it shriek upon shriek for "help, help, for God's sakea come." The horrified spectators on the shore saw three women, 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 pissed out of sight, the screams of the women and children blending in their pleadings for aid long after the raft was around the hend. Buildings Carried Away. All the buildings along the Conemaugh between New Florence and Johnstown have been carried away.

The railroad towers have been abandoned by the telegraph operators. The Covetown and New Florence bridges have been destroyed. Trains Stopped and Mines Flooded. A special from Shamokin says: The heavy rains of the past forty-eight hours has caused great damage. All collieries in this vicinity have been forced to suspend, and many are washed out No trains have arrived on the Lehigh Valley road since noon yesterday, the bridge west of here having been swept (way.

Advices from points on the Reading toad and branches show great damage. The trains are all late. The Jnniata Overflowed. Tyrone, June 1. The Juniata river bas overflowed its banks at this place and flooded the southern portion of the city, causing great da mage.

People had to be removed from their homes in wagons. All of the railroads centreing at Tyrone are greatly damaged. One man is reported drowned fit Curwensville. A dispatch from Clearfield says two young ladies were drowned there while endeavoring to escape from the flooded district Wiujamsport, June 1. The biggest flood since the memorable one of tia is now in progress on the west branch of the Susquehanna river.

Much damage is reported from points north of here, but communica tion of all kinds is interfered with. Land slides are reported all along the Pennsylvania roads north of here. At l.loarneld the water is rising at the rate of 1U feet pur hour. A half dozen bridges have been swept away and the streets of the town are overflowed. The people are going about in boats.

Log Booms Broken. The booms at Caledonia and Curwensville have broken and it is feared that the Lock Haven-boom will break soon, and the Will iamsport boom cannot stand the strain if this occurs. Log valued at $5,000,000 de- dend upon the illiamsport boom holding. The river is twenty feet above low water mark. The rain is falling in torrents.

Charleston, W. In Danger. Charleston, June JL The Big Kanawha river is on a rampage and this place is in danger of being submerged, The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bridge has been swept away. Father, Mother and Three Children Gone. New Florence, June 1.

The water is higher here than it was ever known before aud still rising. Ceuterville, across the river. 1. half Hiihrnergqfl, but no lives were lost here. Two persons were rescued from floating pieces of wreck and 4a others were seen floating past, besides many dead bodies, 'lbore Is probably not a bridge standing on the Conemaugh or Kiskiminetaa 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 hod been in his family. "Father, mother and three sisters," "Who are they?" he was asked. He could ouly say they had gone down in the flood. NIGHT OF HORROR.

It iq Believed at Cambria That 1500 Lives Have Been Lost, Blairsville Intersection, Jane 1. At Lockport, about 18 miles from Johnstown, the scene of the disaster, Eliiel 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 1500 people were lost. In the house with me on Chestnut street were 10 persons beside my self and I feel sure they were all lost. Up to 4 o'clock) the water, which was seven feet deep in the streets, remained stationary. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the great rush came. In 15 minutes the water rose fully 10 feet and in five minntea more I am sure 50 houses came floating down the streets.

There were people in every one of them, and God only knows how many were lost. As they were carried off 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 bad been carried very far. Ihe house was in was soon smashed to pieces, and I managed to jump on to a cellar door. In a few minutes I was rushed off into the nopa, and when looked back where Cambria City stood there was nothing but a great lake of water. It looks to me as if evert house had been razed or covered over.

The vast sheet of water was full of floating timbers, roofs of houses, rafts and other articles. The scene was indescribable. Th" cries of the men, women and children were fearful. I passed Paddy Madden's wife, my son's wife and a man clinging to the roof of a house. I called to them and bade them good-bye.

In 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. 1 saw people in the water ahead of me and all around. Many of them were struck by the crashing timbers and killed outright. They were so badly hart 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 not be comforted. Her nine children and husband are supposed to be drowned. Bain for 79 Honrs. PrriSHtJRO, June 1.

A Huntington, special says: It has rained 72 hours. Tester-day's fall was the heaviest ever known. The Hyndman bridge on the Bedford branch of the Pennsylvania Kailroad was carried away, and the Mount Dallas bridge undermined and rendered unsafe, so that Bedford Is completely cut off from the world. The rise in the Rays-town branch at Everett is so great that the principal streets are submerged, and many families have been driven from their homes. The Jnniata here is filled with floating out- 1 buildings, trees, Umter, of.

build-J mas and carcasses of cattle. The latest report from Cokstown is to the effect that the entire town is submerged, and a great number of lives have been lost there. Reports from the Kiekiminetaa river. Into wmcn tne conemaogh empties, are most distress! og. The river near ta Ailed wiih wreckage and a number of persons were noticed clinging to such Umbers as would bear their weigbL At BlairsvUls men are stationed on the bridges and banks in tbs hope of rescuing some of those who were being carried down the stream.

The volume of water is unprecedented. The iron bridge connecting Blairsville with Blaiisvilie Intersection hw been carried awar. and with a train of heavily-leaded cars standing upon the bridge to hold tl in place. This was the largest and strongest bridge on the West Pennsylvania road. It Is thought that alt of the West Pennsylvania Railroad bridges will share a similar fats.

Philadixtbia. June 1. Dispatches rs-eairsd up to midnight at tbs offios sf tbs the towns Id the Klskiniinetas Valley are submerged. Among them are Uvermore, StU ta bu rg, Apollo, Leeohburg ana Arenmore, DODUlationt of from 8000 to 10,000 each. A man rescued in the rirer here, who was swept away from Johnstown, says positively that not less than 1500 livee are probably lost in the valley ot the Conemaugh.

This point is 20 mites below Johnstown, and the work of rescuing men, women and children sweeping down the river hat been going steadily for ward an ntgnt. The town of Fork which contained about 3000 inhabitants, is in the course of the flood which swept down from the broken dsm to Johnstown, and it is believed that four-fifths of the town was carried away. Four- miles lower down was the village of Mineral Point, with 800 Inhabitants. It seems difficult to hope that any of them escaped. Six miles further down was Conemaugh, with 2500 peo ple, hut in this case the formation of the coun try afforded some chance for escape.

The town Itself was devastated. Wood vale, with 2000 people, lay still further down. It suffered greatly. Buildings Heaped In the Hirers. Pittsburg, June 1.

W. 2sT. Hays, su pervisor of the station of the Pennsylvania Kail road covered by the flood, telegraphed at 10 P. M. to Supt.

Pitcairn as follows: The destruction is terrible. The damn at Johnstown is gone between the bridge and tower west of Jolinitown. At some points the tracks are entirely carried away and the road bed none. The river for three quarters of a mile above the bridge is filled with buildings and driftwood 40 feet high. I cannot estimate the amount of the damage.

I wanted over tonieut rrom jonns- town to Sang Hollow four miles. Johnstown Is wined out. Sunt. Pitcairn who is at New Florence, 65 miles east of Pittsburg, telegraphs that over 100 me a. women and cLikiren passed bang nouow.

clinging to debris. Seven were rescued at Bang Hollow, two at Cone mailt? Furnace and two at New Florence. Only 47 ot ttie luu ana over passea iNew Florence. The loss of life and property wlU be terrible. The X'lood Reaches Pittsburg at 3 A.

Pittsburg, June 1, 3 A. M. The head waters of the flood from the Conemaugh and Kisklminetas rivers has just reached this city. It is coming down the Allegheny river very much as a tidal wave. Debris of all kinds is tnmbling about, and the river is rising very rapidly.

The banks of the Allegheny river are thronged with anxious watchers. Details of police and fireman from Pittsburg and Allegheny have secured available boats and are closely watching the fast increasing Hood with its cargo of dead. York, June 1. 1:30 A. M.

The lower parts of ihe city are Inundated. A genera) alarm has been sounded by the bells of the city, and families are moving. The water is within a lew feetof the bridges. A Cradle With a Gaby In It. BiiAiusviLLE, June 1.

Mr. Rhoades, agent at. Blairsville Intersection, saw a woman float by on the roof of a bouee, with arms outstretched, calling iu the most piteous tones to save her. "Oh, my God!" she cried, "save, save me." Just ahead of the house could be plainly seen a cradle floating with a little babe in it. The child seemed to be sleeping, but more than likely was dead.

A little after 2 o'clock an engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad snw three men drown at the railroad bridge in that time the water was fill 50 feet deep. What the Reservoir Was. Philadelphia, June 1. When General Manager Pugh of the Pennsylvania Railroad was shown a dispatch announcing the break ing of (he dam near he said this rojort continued a dispatch from Wilmore which stated that a man reported to the railroad operator there that ihe South Fork dam had broken and the water had carried away the "coal tipple" and telegraph tower at South Fork Station and also a portion of a freight train. The operator in the tower escaped, but several train bands are reported to have been drowned.

The reservoir at South Fork, which 1b said- to have burst, is described by a gentleman acquainted with the locality, to be an immense body of wate formerly usee as a water supply for the old Pennsylvania canal. It has been owned for several year by a number of PitU-burg men, who used it as a fishing ground. FULLY 1500 DROWNED. The Water Eose Tip to the Third Story Windows at Johns tow a in live Minn es. Bolivar, June 1.

A wrecking train left here early this morning to clear the tracks and re-establish communications. The people along the route between this place and Johnstown are well nigh paralyzed by fear. Joe Duffy was saved from the river. He estimates that fully 1500 people were drowned. He saw a number of persons about him sucked under the turbulent water and they never apoeared again.

Three quarters of the city of Johnstown was submerged. The water, rose np to the third stories of the houses In five inn tee. He saw the houses of one entire street washed away in a short time. He floated on th drift wood to Lockport and then jumped into the flood and swam about 25 yards to the shore. The family of John Thomas, including his wife and five children, wre lost.

The hired girl and a man named Harvey were also drowned. Duffy says he saw people carried off by the flood in crowds. CEKTERVILLE SUBMERSED. Rivers Dotted With tbs Bodies of the Drowned Bridges All Swept Away. New Fifliuwnt, June 1.

The water hen Is higher than It was ever hefore. Centervillet across the river, is half submerged, bat no lives were lost. Forty-five persons were seen floating past, besides many bodies. There is probably not a bridge standing on the Conemaugh or Kiskiminetaa rivers from Johnston to. Leechburg.

A little boy said his houre had Boated over the stone bridges. He was asked how many there had been in his family. "Father, mother and three sisters," he replied. "Where an they?" He pointed to the river and burst Into tears. LOCK HAVEN'S BOOM BURST.

Three Million Dollars' Worth of Logs En dangered by the Break Williams- port Threatened. Wili.iahsport, Shortly after midnight last night the boom at Lock Haven burst. The break opened np the river to all the logs above this place, which will be forced into the boom. Ihe boom oontaina 150,000, 000 feet of logs, valued at $3,000,000. In the stream above the boom thera are at least 60,000,000 feet of logs.

It a believed that not one of the logs will be saved. The loss will be serious, and will necessitate the closing during the seuon of all mills and entail great suffering on tha part of th paopla de pendent on them lor employment. Serenty Fsnori Burned to Death a Fire at Johnstown Bridge Annihilation. lfgw Fumiw-I, Jane 1.W. N.

Hays has Ju.t returned from Johnstown. He says tbe place is aanmuswo. conemaarh Is wracked mat Cambria Cityswept aw.y. Fully 1800 IItp. hmvebeen lost; 100 bodie.

a.ve bm neovend at Niu.vb. Bersnty persona ar rnortta to b.v. dmb ouriMa to death a fir. at Jo. image.

Ice eream soda, all navoraoc. Staddart Bros, arlTU TOO LATE TO CLASiWY- sUMenat a. wi iisa Bail Player on Bra. Aclta-man. Red Hot Talk.

Haw Kemmler WQi DU, llhtfitratcd. Fishing Tips. By a Local Expert What the Fair QlH Graduates WUl Weart An Honorable Man, By OpU P. Read. Seventh Eany Lemn in Shorthand.

Latent Development? In tlx Crmitn Tragedy. Howard Fielding in Jermy Mud. Ulxutrated. Bah1 Babble. A Clever Letter.

Metcalfe' Goadpy Letter From New York, dive Harper Illustrate the Latent Fasltiotu, LaUti Spttrting A'euw. Full Score. lb Bea Calied For." By F. W. Robintoiu niwtrated.

John Chinaman in Ainn ira. Illustrated. How to Sail a Yacht. Itltutrated. 1 What the Graduates WlU Wear.

Interesting Phones of Huiifii'j Work. Matt Endres on the lied Hot Lew DoeMotler Talks Alwd Minstrelsy. AU.thc Aeu From oerywherc THE CRONIN CASE. Tim Police Hunting High and Low for Tom Whelan, SuU liyan's Gousiu. Chicago, June The police are hunting uiuu anu tow lor iom vy neian.

a cousin or Sullivan, the ice man, and a brother of the suspended detective. There is a strong bus- piclon thathe is the man who drove the white I horse that hauled Dr. Cronin from his house to the cottage where he was butchered. Whelan's description. It is claimed, tallies closely with that of the mysterious driver, but owing to the blunder of somebody he has never been brought face to face with either Mrs.

Conklln, frank teaman or Thomas Joues, the blacksmith. Wbeiau lives in the same house with Sullivan. It is claimed that he is a Clan na Gael man. When rumors about his romp icity in tbe conspiracy got out Cbiet Hubbard detailed detectives to bring hira in. but though the officers have bunted everywhere for him.

he cannot be found. The Schools Are In No Danger. lX wouldn't give a '5-cent piece for insur ance on the boilers used in healing the schools," said Aid. McMasterlaat night, when the American Steam Boiler Insurance Cos agent offered an inspection and insurance scheme, to cost $37.50 per school for three years, with three inspections a year. "The inspection is worth having, however.

Our school boilers only carry about six pounds of steam. They are made to carry 75 to 100 pounds. If anything should let go they might scald the engineer, so they goutfht to be inspect but the schools are in uo danger whatever." The matter was laid over. A Live Man. -Editor Evening A'eitw; Tbe very serious operation of removal of a kid- ey from an adult patient, was performed by Lr.

K-swell park at tbe General Hospital yesterday. The patient came from Michigan for surgical treatment. This is tbe fourtti operation of this kind that has been performed by fir. Park, Tbe three preceding ones recovered. This remarkable operation shows tbe wonderful prog read ma.ie in surgery during tbe past '20 years.

In tbe present case, when the kiduey was removed it was very plain that speedy deth awaitfd the patient if the operation bad not been pertormed, as the kidney was full of abscesses, eontaiiiinga great deal of pus. B. Buffalo, June 1, 1SM. Doctors Answer Civil Service Questions. Eight candidates, some for the position of District Health Physician and some for the poet of Sanitary Inspector presented them selves before a Board of Civil Service Ex aminers, consisting of Dr.

Floyd S. Crego, Charles B.Wheeler and Eugene S. Blmpsou, in the supervisors chamber last evening. George S. Hubbell, the present sanitary engineer, was given a special examination.

He will doubtless pass, as he holds present pos session of the post, with no announced com petitors. Weather Indications. Washington, June 1. For Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio: Light rain, stationary temperature, followed by slightly warmer, westerly winds. Deputy Gethoefer Was Game.

A spirited horse driven by Frank W. Gethoefer, Deputy City Clerk, ran away at Exchange and Main street shortly after norm today. Mr. Gethoefer was thrown out, but gamely held on and stopped the horse. The Census will Show ILess Deafness.

Washington, May 31. It is claimed that there will be consider a ol falling off in tbe percentage of deaf Deo Die in the Census of 18? 0. owlnir to the extended sound disc in rented by a citizen of Bridgeport, named U. A. alea.

Answers to Correspondents. Stranger. Thera is no dime savings bank: in Buffalo. There is a savings system in the schools, and there is also oue in St. John's Church, aud probably in other churches.

Widow. A landlord can not compel you to pay three days rent when you ara unable to move. XVBS Of NEWS, The rain fall here for 24 hours ending at 6 last night was almost 1J4 inches. The uncommonly good Ha sbow.st Robbins circus was thoroughly enjoyed by a large number last night In spite of the rain. Tbe Council Committees on Side and Crosswalks, Taxes and Assessments and Public Buildings held unimportant meetings last evening.

Joseph Harris of Kane, tailor by trade, a memoer of Lodge I. O. is reported sick in Buffalo. His address or any information concerning him will be gladly received by the Secretary of New Era Lodge 410. BOMB PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE.

James F. Crooker, Superintendent of Education, returned borne yesterday from a week's rest In tbe woods of Potter county. Pa. His health is improved. Manager Jacobs says, anent tbe variety theater rumor, that he looks, upon Court Street Theater as bis pet house and that tbe preseut high class of attractions wilt be continued, next season.

Dr. Charles 8. Jones, bouse surveoo ai tha Fitch Hospital, and Dr. Q.W. tioler, bis assistant, have reaigDed.

Dr. ones wilt open so olltce here. Dr. Uoler will take oharee at the Infanr1 Summer Hospital at Charlotte Beach. Dr.

W. Wende succeeds Dr. Jones Hie assistant will be lit. T. J.

Corlett, tbe present junior assistant. Standard Time Absolutely Correct, On and after next Sunday, Jnne 2. yon can take the new "Erie Flyer' at Buffalo at 7:30 P. and be in New York the next morning at 7:45 A. M.

If your watch indicates any other time, at either end of the line, take it to a jeweler at ones, for it and. not tbe train is wrong. 30tjel DIED, Btrow-Ib this eltv Mav 31. lmo. al tbe residence of John O'Cooaer, 607 North Dfri-sioa street, Rer.

Job a Byron, brother ot Mrs. Ji-bn O'Connor. Mrs. Jobe Gleaaoo and seals of Kev. John Gieesoo of Bath, N.

aged 4H rears, Funeral and reauleaa hiah maaa w'll tw ald at St. Joseph's Cathedral Monday, June at 10 A.M. lt3 Bcentt Id thlseftr. Mavftl Iftaa. at If Joseph Burnet, aged 64 years.

FuoeraJ from bis late reaideaee, tiO Sycamore street, at 1:30 M. and from SL Peter's Freeeh Church at 2 P. M. Sunday Friends and snrjuslntanrss are mpsetfnlly invited to attend. BoMMCL In tbis cltr.

Mav 31. 1MB. Ellaahath Botvmel, wife of the late Frank Bom met. Funeral toatorrow as 9 o'clock from bar late residence, 45 Fifth etret- Friends and acquaintances an reap sat fwUy invited to attend. Gorrs In this city, Kay SB, William Oossa, sen of Jacob Goeta of Warsaw, K.

T4 aged 37 yean and 17 day- hssrsl froa the family resi-desos, 332 William street. Bandar aftsrtm at 2 clock and from 8t, Jesa ftvsftfeUea, Lets-eras Charon. Hickory stmt, sit :30 'etswfc. FrisM sad muletsaiss uietullj k. pleading with the conductors ot even gravei trains to tak thm aboard.

They are a most frenzied with anxiety arid apprehension In re gard to their friends who live at or near Johnstown. Strong men are as. terrified as women, who Join the request. General Alarm at York, Pa. York.

June 11:30 A. M. A general alarm has just been sounded on the bells of this city. No Homes and No Food. PrrrsnuitG, June 1.

Superintendent Pitcairn arrived at the Union Station at 6 o'clock this morning from the scenes of the disaster. He sas: Relief can not be sent soon enough to avoid suffering. There are no bouses for the people to sleep in and lo place where they can buy food, as I understand the situation. The stores are washed out as w-11 as the homes of the people. I do not wish to appear as attempting to tell anybody else his duty, but I considered it mine to let this community know the necessity ol the Train Mabter Kdward Pitcairn telegraphed from Nineveh to the superintendent at 7:30 A.

"There has been but 30 or 40 men, womeu and children rescued alive, and we took out about 40 bodies at this place," An other dispatch to Supt. Pitcairn states that ss tne waters are receding the bodies ot victims of Ihe flood can be seen lodged Iu trees and with arms and legs protruding from debris. A Bit ot Heroism. Bolivar, June A. M.

-A bit of ber'ism is related by one of the- telegraph operators at bolivar, tie says: I was standing ou the river bank about last evtmiiig wbmi a raft swept iuto view, H. must have been the nonr of a dismantled bouse. I poo It wer grouped two women and a man. They were evi dently bin mother aud sister, for both clung to hlii) as though atupetied with fear. As they ere whirled under the bridge here the mau could have saved himself if be bad wished by simply reaching up his hand aud catch-ine tbe timbers of tbe structure.

He appeared to see this himself, and the terapta- tiou must have been strong lor aim to. do hut in a Becoud more he was sien to resolutelv eh uke his head and clasp the women tighter around tmir waists. Hopes were tnrown out from the tree tops, but they were unable to catch them, thougb they grasped for the lines eattrly euouh. Then a. tree aught in their raft ana araga'ej alter unts way tuey swept out of view.

Information just received over the railroad say that tbe wrecking train which left here Ht o'clock last tiiirbt reached Ntiw Florence, six miles east of here, two hours later. They farther, although the plucky telegraphed that if Robert Pitcairn wants him to be will make an attempt to purU through the submerged tracks toXioeveb. That is where the Block station tower is reported to have beuo watsbeii away. One Great Valley of Mourning. Pitiable si xhts and scenes multiply more ran Idly to no cross ties.

Tbe Conemaugh is oue great valley of moarnmz. Those who have not lost friends have loat their homes or their sub- stance, and apparently. tb grief for the one is as ooinaot as tor tbe other. Albert Harvev. wbo left Cont-maugli lake last eveniug, has just arrived, hav'ug tramped through hills and mountain.

He says tbe great volume of water at ruck Johnstown about 3:30 in tbe afternoon. It did not find tbe people unprepared, as they, had notice from South Fork that the dam was threatening to go. Mauy however, diareirarded the notice and remaiue! iu tiieir nouses iu tiic lower part ot tne city ana were caught beiore they couhl get out, ouce the water was on tLera. nupurinienueut i ltoairn issued nti order to all PtmuaylTxiia Railroad em-nlores to keen a sham lookout for bodies in the rier and in the bushes end to return tbeio to their friend. Assistant buperiuteniJout Trump is stilt on the ground Dear Saug Hollow directing tbe movements of gravel aud construction trains whica are arriving as fast they ran be tilled up and started out.

The' road tied a of both the Pennsylvania Kailroad and Went Pennbjivaoia are oaJiy anu it win cost tne i alter, esTHH'Uilv from Hollvar Junction to Salisbury, mau thousands of dollars to repair TiijuriuS to smbanitmeuts aloue. tluunstowtt Fugitives Keturnlng, Johnstowk. June 1 A. M. The fuoittviM are- reuirmn to the pln' where a few houia ago they were happy and prosperous, but where all is now desolation, and In a few hours more the work of systematically search in bp for the victims of -the flood begin.

The water is still too elt to even at tempt to estimate the extent of the difaster, tint tnec tv in a ompiese w-reofc anu n-w tue his of lift will be iuimeuse. CLEAN IS FLOODED. People Rescued From Their Homes iu Boats The Alle sany ou a Rampage. fHPECIAt. TO THE IVEKtNO rTKWS.l Oi.ean, June 1 The waters of the Allegany river are the highest knowu in years, aud rapidly rising.

Several streets in the lower part of the city are flooded, and many houses surrounded and filled with water. Peopie are moving out rapidly. Several houses were surrounded during the night, and boats were called into use to rt-scne the inmates. Large quantities of lumber and logs are being swept away. The loss will be heavy.

FlnoUed and Yet Without Water. 1 Oi.ean, June 1 pecifll' The flood In the Allegany has broken the water works' supply pipe and the city is without water for fire protection and domestic use. RUM IN THE GENESEE VALLEY. What the Prost Left the Plood Swept Away Great Loss to Fanners He Mt. Moim" SPECIAL TO THE EVENING KKWSj Mt.

Morris, June 1. The greatest rainfall for years occurred in the Genesee valley last night and this morning. Rain commenced at intervals Thursday evening and culminated in a deluge hvt night. All the southern portion of Mt. Morris was under water from two to six feet, caused by a culvert over Main street being too small.

A culvert on the Dansville branch of the Erie is washed out. No trains this A. M. water fall was so heavy that gardens and plowed fields were terribly washed. What the frosts of Wednesday left the flood has ruined.

Many gardens are entirely ruined, the fiats for miles are covered with water. Canaseraga creek having overflowed IU banks. THE FLOOD AT WARSAW. Low Lands Under Water Ketchura Bon Lose $2000 Worth of Lumber Vanished Mill Lama fmxnkt, to tbi irmiKO irewa. Warsaw, Jane I.

No through trains are xtected on tbe Eris until night, otrinc to three washouts eaat of here. Allen's creek overflowed, its hanks this morning, doing mat damage ail along the border of the stream. The crop. on the low land down the Taller were nnder water this morning. The loss will be considerable in thi.

oountj. Ketchna Son in lumber lose $3000. Martfnrille dam was swept ar. Loss $500. Other losses are: Taber loe pood, $300; L.

Martin, dam, $100. Great Damage Along the Genesee Biver "Mm Dams, Bridges and Bail' oad Track hashed Away. fltClAX TO THI 1TMIN0 K1WS. Nuwda, Jon 1. Heavy rain for Just 84 hours oaowd a freshet.

Keshequa Creek is htghw Uun for, 25 years. Great damage to property. Mill dams and bridges were swept A culvert near Dalton was washed NctrsJasonthe Erieor W. Y. A P.

um tf track at Is gotw B. and the Spiritualists. eart annual meeting of Buffalo Spirit wlU be held at North Collins Ji4 Susan Anthony wUl be tfesk sra. So will Wiiiard J. Hull taissM.

a-Hilll drtak. 3ourners iu Every Family in JohnstownThe Mighty Waters Subsiding Details of the Awful Calflralty-jErery One Seems to be Dazed Families Wiped Out. Johnstown, June 1. The waters which overwhelmed this town yesterday, carrying death to. hundreds and mibery to thon-ands, are subsiding rapidly, but as yet it is impossible to obtain anything like exact informa tion concerning the extent of the disaster that bos visited this city and the districts surrounding.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are mourners in every family. Thousands' re it is certain that hundreds have been lost, and while many of those who are now missing and who are mourned as dead have doubtless beeni saved, the final df-Ath roll will beyond doubt be of appalling length. It is impossible to describe brteny the saddeuuees- with which the. disaster came. A warning sound was heard at Conemaugh a few minutes before tile rush of waters came.

But it was attributed to some meteoroligfnal disturbance and no trouble was borrowed because of the thing unseen. As the low, rumbling noise increased in volume, however, and came nearef a sus picion of danger began to force itself upon even the bravest, which was increased to a certainty a few minutes later, when, with a rush, the mighty stream spread out in width and when there was no time to do anything to save themselves. Many of the unfortunate were whirled mto the midst of the stream before could turn around, jtfen, women and children were struggling iu the stream, and it is (bought that many of them never reached Johnstown, only a inilo or two below. At Johnstown a similar scene was enaoted only on much arger scale, as the population is greater and the sweeping whirlpool rushed into a denser mass of humanity. It was a twilight of terror and the gaiberlnKsnsdeof evening ojoeed.in on a panorama of horror that has few parallels in the history of casualties.

Kvery Oue Seems Dazed. New Florence, June 1. Every one seeuu to be dazed, the disaster seeming to overwhelm the natives. Between this place and Bolivar the track ta washed out in many places and wrecking crews are busy at work repairing the most dangerous portions. At these points substantiate the wildest rumors that have gone out.

The last man from Johnstown brings the information that scarcely a house remains in the city. The upper portion above the railroad bridge has Iwen completely submerged. The water is dammed up against the viaduct, the wreck age and debris rintsluug the work that the torrent had failed to accomplish. The hridRe at Johnstown, which is a heavy piece of ma sonry, proved too staunch for the fury of the torrent. Some of the top stoucs however, displaced.

A Family of 10 Wiped Out. A story reaches here that a family consisting of father, mother and nine children were washed away in a crek at Lockport. Th mother managed to reach the shore, bat the husband and children were earred out into the river to drown. The woroun is crazed over the terrible event, Aftr night settled- down the- horror of -the -scenes was enhanced. Above the roar of the water rould be heard the piteous appeals from the unfortunate as they were carried by.

To ai'd to the apalling.ficetie a bnUlant jtJuuiim-tioniit up the sky. A measure received lnti last night from Sang Hollow states that this light tame from a hundred burning wrecks of bouses that are piled upon the Johnstown bridge. A supervisor from lip the road brings the in- formation that the wrockatco at Is piled up 40 feet above the bridge. Suddenness of the Disaster. Rolivak, June 1, Harry Fif-her, a teleuraph operator at Bolivar, Mays: (W knew nothing of the disaster until we noticed the river slowly rising.

Within threo hours the water in the river rose at least feet. Shortly before 0 o'clock ruins of houses, bed-. household utens Is, barrels and kegs came floating past the bridges. At 8 o'clock the waterway within six feetof the road-bed of the bridge. Tbe wreckage floated past without stopping 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 flrnt living persons passed. Fifteen people that 1 saw were carried down by the river. One of these, a boy, was saved, and three of them were drowned just the town. It was an awiul sight, oue that 1 will not soon forget.

York County Threatened. York, June 1. Thursday evening rain began falling, and since then there has been a succession of heavy and long showers. Ail th? streams in the country are swollen, and fields, roads and houses flooded. At Hentzelrs mill on the Little (Jonewago the water reached a height of IU feet above low water mark.

The mill was flooded. The dam contained a large amount of saw-logs, which were washed away. At Spring tirove, on the west branch of the Ca-dorous, southwest ot here, the stream has overflowed almost everything. Great excitement preva! Is there, veryone expecting the large dam to burst, wbich would cause great damaee. Part of P.

H. Gladfetter's large paper mill is flooded. It Is raining hard yet and the water is rising at the rate of 10 inches an hour. On the south branch the stream is rapidly rising. All this Immense body of water must pass the city, and it cannot be estimated as to what damage will The police have notified the people living in the lower section of tha city to prepare for the worst The Cadorous in this city is about six leel above low water mark and rapidly rising.

Should the situation become serious the fire alarm bells will be rung. A Hundred. Bodies at Nluevah. Pittsbcro, June 1. A special to the Leader from Greensburg, says: At 10 o'clock this morning 100 bodies of victims of the flood are lying at Kinevah station a wait ing identification.

Only 200 houses remain standing in the city of Johnstown, and tbe water, at this writing, is 30 feet deep on tne main streets. Th Situation at Pittsburg. PrrrrerrRo, June 19:30. The body of a man, evidently one of the victims of the flood in the Conemaugh or Kiekiminetas rivers, has just been taken from the Alleghany river at the foot of Sixth street. There are no marks yet discovered to lead to Identification.

Mayor McCallin has just telegraphed a request to Gov. Beaver to forward tents, blankets, etc, to Johnstown at the earliest possible moment. Subscriptions Opened. Ptttsburq, June 1. With the first edition, the Tim a headed a popular subscription fund for the relief ot the victims of to terrible catastrophe by giving $500, and makes an appeal for outside aid.

Although the edition has been on the streets but a short time contributions In small amount from laboring men and shop girls are coming in with aratifvinff results. The United Press (hat an MlOBCriuuonB mis miia may be sent to the Pittsburg Timm and will be forwarded to places aos neeueu. fUcoveriag Bodies. Tbs TUna" 10 A. M.

edition has tbs following: Bolivar, Juns 18:30 A Jf. At New Florence this morning seven bodies havs been taken from tbe water and debris oa the banks. One body has also been taken from the river at this point, that of a young girL None of them have been identified. The whole face of country between here and New Florence Is under water, and houses, bridges and buildings fill the fields and even perch upon tbe hills des afl tba way to Johnstown. Tbe backs of the river are lined with people who are looking as wail for booty as lor bodies.

Much valuable property was ot ried away in the hoo wsll as from houses sot TTMhnrt awai. Tbs river ha fallen again iMs its tbsanrl sad nothing in the stromas iuetf ssost its rat. angry osier, show too hot light It has faDoo fully 20 Friendship Citizens Fled From Their Homes in Haste Last Night. MANY NARROW ESCAPES. Floods Dumped a Brick Hodm Into Moss Brook, 8TMt a Bride Aif'ajr and Undermined a Farm.

0 SPECIAL, TO THE IV EN I KG NKWS.l June T. The floods worked terrible devastation hero last night. Mrs. Prosper Miller's elegant brick house at the south part of the village was undermined and fell a total loss into Moss brook, the furniture and all household goods being carried away by the stream. Mrs.

Miller and daugh ter were away from home at the time. Loss probably $5000. W. D. Ren wick's farm at the west end of town was undermined and a valuable Hol- stein cow lost.

Loss $500, The residents of East "Water street all had to leave their homes at night. The Erie bridge Is out and no trains are being run. The iuiWMn and the town is without fuel. No lives have heen lost, though several narrow escapes are reported. 1 WASHOUT AT CORNING.

Nearlj All Through Traffic to the East Delayed bj the Storm. CONDITION OF THE BOADS. The New York Central trains from New York were all on time this morning. Witb the Erie and Lackawanna trains affairs were A washout occurred near Corning. At 10:30 word was received at the Erie office that train 5, which should reach here at 6:45, was at Corning.

Train 6, which arrives here at 1 1, was there also. Tho Lackawanna train due here at 7:30 was also delayed by the washout. It is said that N. Y. P.

trains were also delayed. The Lake Shore, New York Central and West Shore roads reported everything all right on their lines as far as could be learned. Trains on ail of tbe roads came in on time. Tbe Buffalo, Rochester Pittsburg trains came in on time, but it is learned from a passenger ou one of the morning trains that on the south end of that road and on the Philadelphia Erie there are several bad wash outs. The train due in Rochester lasti evening bad not, it is said, arrived up to tbis noon.

Un the trie the through morning trainswere being held at noon, awaiting advices from down tha road. Vary high waXex was reported at Ualton and Ark port. Superintendent Van Etten went to the scene of tho trouble early this morning. The ex press train due here this morning was reported at Elmira awaiting orders to proceed. Tlie BuifaTo tSTSouth western division was reported all right, and it was believed the Nypano is all right as they made their connections at Balamanca this morning.

On the Rochester division high water is reported, but no information is given as to the extent of the damage The' Kypano is awaiting advices from the Buffalo division preparatory to sending tbei trains east this way instead of by way of Salamanca and Hornellsville. This would indicate that the western division of the Erie is also troubled. Broken bridges and washouts have caused considerable trouble to the W. K. Y.

P. Train 5, which should arrive at 8:35, had not arrived at 11:30, but was expected every minute. The 1:15 train was made up at Olean and it was thought would arrive on time. The railroad bridge between Emporium and Shippen disappeared in the storm and hasn't been heard from since. No trains will arrive from Emporium today.

Tbe roads from Olean 'to Buffalo are all right and trains are going and arriving from there In good shape. -Ihe Clearmont branch of the road is In de cidedly bad condition, and no trains are run ning on it. From Oil City to Buffalo tbs road is all light. A bridge at Newman, near Lara-bee, is in danger of being washed away on account of the tremendous high water and floating logs. Trains will be sent from Buffalo to Olean and Eldred today.

They may get further, but it is doubtful. The wires are down and in formation beyond is meager. Supt. Seabert of the Lackawanna went down to Corning this morning to superintend the work of opening the road. On tbe Erie and Lackawanna roads much difficulty experienced by the officials in getting informa tion, as the wires were down.

A Novelette Complete tn Each Paper. Each issue of the Slttday News, until further notice, will contain a completed novel by some favorite author. Tomorrow a story by F. Robinson "To Be Called For1' Is tbs special feature. Half a dozen other entertaining stories, suitable for pleasant summer reading, will be given.

New Schools to Be Do lit. The School committee last night decided to build new schools in Districts 5, 9 and 30. The proposition to build a new bouse in consolidated District 7 and 11 brought out, long discussion. Thomas Shields, representing Smith A to the committee that the city had the refusal of 80 feet adjoining the school at $25,000. The discussion brought out the fact that the Oak street end of the school lot could be bought for much less aud numerously signed petition that that be doue was read.

Aid. Beck said $25,000 was too much. Aid. Scheu thought $16,000 about right; $300 a foot for Elm street property was too high, he said. It was finally agreed to offer the owners $18,000 for th loc Aid.

Brak. th. At a msetlnt ot tbe Sanltarr Committee ot th. Common Council ywierday afternoon it was decided to adopt Aid. Drake's plan for mitigating tbe Hamburg canal nuisaac This is by centrifugal pump and flushing out tbe canal with pur.

water, thus driving the refuse throngh the trunk sewer. A Bnrclar at tbe Stat. Aroal. Charles Marr waa arrested yesterday by Sergeant Fozton and Special Flyan of Pr einct 7 on a charge of grand larotsy. He ia charged with stealing a pair of sieere buttons from Andrew J.

Lau and a coat and ert from another member of the 6Sth ReginMSt. Tbe property was taken from lockera in the Arsenal. Elephant JoMphs SwM.ly Hurt. Elephant Jo Josephs made a mhvetep on a Michigan aueet-car at Main and Seowa atrwta yesterday and, falling, waa dragged across Seneca street. B.

waa swiooalr braised, and Dr. Foster, his physician, says be will be eaa-fined to his home for tw. or three weeka. CAMLM MWI-COKM8KB. ow.

It ia stated that theTetieen tnfbesl ties experience SHeh aiana at th eordiaa et the popular recepttea liag Humbert ia Ser- lyaaotaa wans wsisoms graa teasm er Kaiser. Tl isssssas a sleeofcat tas lo 1 It (ttetaiserg te Wane cux In aieaaaaa weasemtwy sisli --a. i sieger. Ait' Hollow, twelve miles below Johnstown, says that about seventy-five dead bodies have floated post him down the river from Johns-, town. It is stated that the reservoir above Johnstown broke about 5 p.

m. and the water flooded the town, carrying away bouses by score and drowning probably hundreds of people. Wires are down and no communication can be had with Johnstown. Wrecked Buildings on Fire. W.

N. Hays, supervisor of the station of the Pennsylvania railroad covered by the flood, telegraphed to Superintendent Pitcairn as follows: "The destruction is temblThe bridge and tower. West of Johnstown at some points the tracks are entirely carried away and road bed gone. The river for three-quarters of a mile above the bridge is filled with buildings and drift wood forty feet high and is on Are, burning furiously, and is entirely beyond our control I cannot estimate the -amount of damage. I walked over from Johnstown to Sang Hollow (four miles).

Johnstown is literally wiped out." Superintendent Pitcairn, who if at New Florence, sixty-five miles east of Pittsburg, telegraphs that over 100 men, women and children passed Sang Hollow clinging to debris. Seven were rescued at Bang Hollow, two at Conemaugh Furnace and two at New Florence. Only forty-seven of the 100 and over passed New Florence. The loss of life and property will be terrible. Straggling for Their Uvea.

A special from Btairsville Station on the Pennsylvania railroad says: John Barton, a freight engineer says that at 3 p. m. yesterday be saw three men and a woman struggling for their lives in the Conemaugh river, just below Johnstown. The Western Union olSce in Johnstown was swept away At 1 o'clockjn the afternoon. The water in Cambria City, where are located the Cambria Iron works, is 35 feet deep and rising.

8. J. Herron, solicitor for The Times left Johnstown at o'clock yesterday afternoon and arrived in this city about midnight Mr. Herron tells a graphic story of the disaster that fell on the mountain city. "All of Thursday afternoon and night," he said, "rain-poured down in a deluge.

The little mountain streams 'swelled into torrents, pouring their waters into the Conemaugh river that passes directly through the centra of the city. "Soon tbe banks of the river overflowed, and the streets through the city began to disappear beneath the rapidly increasing current. Houses and bridges from above the city were swept away by the flood and added largely to the damage further down. The water rose so rapidly that many people could not escape from their homes and ran to the upper stories, from which they were rescued by men riding horses and mules. The scenes of.

rescue were most thrilling. Man and Hole Drowned. "Joseph Ross, a teamster, had in charge a pair of mules. He mounted one of them to aid some people. The mule fell into an excavation, carrying Ross with it and he was drowned.

When I left it looked as if 1,000 people were homeless. They were gathered on the mountain sides looking sadly at their homes buried in the wair. Bridges Swept Away. "The Cambria iron works were flooded, throwing 2,040 men out of employment, besides entailing a vast amount of damage to the mill The sweeping away of four or five large bridges added greatly to the horror of the scene. Twelve carloads of iron were ran out on tne Cambria linage in an attempt to save that structure.

The waters gathered strength and swept bridge, can and iron way as if they were straws. But one bridge remains and it is badly damaged. "Lam bar was swejdown witi fbe flood to vast quantities. It is estimated that 1,000,000 or more feet passed through the city yesterday. The railroad depots were thronged with victims of the flood, bat ther were res cued in skiffs.

Piano boxes and rafts were used for this purpose. All trains on the Penn sylvania railroad and Baltimore and Ohio railroad are diacontmoeu, toe tracfc being munargsa lor miles. Three Ptttsbargm Drowsed. Three dtiiens of Pittsburg are known to have been drowned. They occupied a house jnat below the dam a short distance above IMpeaaaacy sejiss" (a i inaan ea U-bt id Wastoa.

a i Jonnatown. Their names are Thomas SVll James Tight and a telegraph operator, nam ajwnown. Terrible agenee oa th. Ceveeaaagfc. BoLrvam, June The water is higher here thaa was aver known, and two-story koaaaa, bams, stasias, whole forests of trees, ontboosaa, ssnoka booses, railroad hridjsa, ssaisgrr tl rjuarlvAU Bail aawffh sm jsfM wu un BHflfet, Ms, aiTarttd mat aast nmwsnssi,.