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p. a JiOBRIS 4- Kew Castle, DEAR ing to yours of the 21st, would say TEE the MAPLE SYRUP you bought of us to he Absolutely Pure and the finest we have ever seen. Yours Respectfully, Thurher, D. o. STJ-mraer SPECIALTIES Wo have just received; Fancy Spiced Oysters in Glass Jars.

California Crop Egg Plums. Cross Imported Gherkins, Chow Chow, Cauliflower and Piccalilli. Cross imported Scotch Jams. Fancy Cut Canned Salmon. Wilson Cass Cream Soda Crackers and Health Biscuit.

LOWEST FBICES. 80 WASHINGTON ST. S.M. YOUNG ISDN ARE SELlilNO LakeHerring PICKEREL AND jsro- 1 White Fish -rc-stir CANNED CORN 4 cans for 26 cents. THE BEST IN THE CITY We keep the biggest stock of imiu Of any grocery hoase in the city.

Try us. S. M. YOUNG Si. son, 122 Washington St 153 6 G.

A. McGREADY. Insurance AND HEAL ESTATE OFFICE IN Kurtz Law Building, First Floor, cor. Pittaburg ana Court Sts. MAI 31 TRANSIENT LOCALS, 10c A LINE.

local on second page.) The First Reports Did Not Tell AIL CITY NEWS. picnic Wednesday. Sheaf flour. Try it. 206itf uses Golden flour.

206itf Sheaf flour is made at the City Mills. Sheaf flour is the whitest in the market. 206ttt Fish at Black No. 102 Pittsburg street. at M.

C. Black 102 Pittsburg street. Jit Sheaf flour makes the whitest bread you ever saw. 206ttf 8. M.

Young potatoes only 25c per bushel. 206t2 delivered the Memorial addreis at 3,000 PEOPLE GO DOWN IN THE AWFUL CALAMiTY, MASY IN CITY. RVINED lIOMEfii BY THE THOVS- AMBH AND WHOLE FAMII.IES SWEPT OUT OF EXISTEMCE. News From the Scenc of the of Dead Bodies Awaltingp Castle Asked For Fiineral Knppltes. 8 i)ecial to the 011 8 0 WN, June telephone from Ligonier: The lake was the property of the South Fork Fishing Club, composed of Pittsburgh and Allegheny millionaires.

The magnificent dam was built at a cost of $200,000. The property consists of between 600 and 700 acres, and is located about nine miles above Johnstown. The great dam was buit to form a reservoir for the old Pennsylvania canal. The dam has a base of three hundred feet in thickness at the bottom, gradually narrowing to a width of about 50 feet at the top, and is 75 feet high, and from 800 to 1,000 feet long. The main portion was formed of the heaviest and most solid stone masonry.

The lake formed by the reservoir is actually about 2h miles long, but is generally called three miles, and has an irregular width, varying from one half to three quarters of a mile. The greatest depth of water is 90 feet, and over a considerable portion the average depth is 70 feet. Special to the ews JoiixsTOwx, a June 1,10 a. m. (Via.

telephone from streets are ntrewn with dead bodies and only abaiit 200 houses are left standing. The main street was 42 feet deep under water, and the lowest calculations are that fully 3,000 lives are lost. The is one beggars all description. Wliole families have been wiped out of existence. In hundreds of instances where death has not visited houseliokls the savings of a lifetime have been washed away by the awful disaster.

Millions of property have been destroyed and the disaster is the worst in history. Special to tlie kws PrTTSuriiGH, a June 1, 1:30 p. m. Latest reports of last flood confirm what was at first only feared. The disaster is unparalied in the history of the nation.

Johnstown is literally wiped The greatest loss of life is in Johnstown, Conemaugh, Kerrville, Cambria, Cooperdale, Sheridan, Bolivar, Wood vale and Merrellville. What the aggregate will amount to is at present beyond computation. The rivers are still rising rapidly. The Allegheny as it flows through Lettsburg is literally hidden beneath debris, The Postal Telegraph Company advices came from its oi)erator at Ligonier twenty-one miles from Johnston, He wires the information that the first rei)orted loss of life was not in the least exaggerated. He says that at least 3,000 people were drowned and that there are only two hundred houses left in Johnstown and Cambria City combined.

On Main street, Johnstown, the flood is forty feet high. This is the street in the centre of the town, and on it are located the Opera Housg, Hotel and all the principal business houses in the city except the Cambria Iron oilices. Five thousand men have been detailed by the Pennsylvania Company to clear away the wreckage. Superintendent Pitcarian has called upon the citizens of Pittsburg to hold a mass meeting at their earliest convenience to devise ways and means of relief. Chief Brown, of the Department of Public Safety, of this city, and Chief of Police Kerchler, of Allegheny, this morning ordered the relief force to patrol the banks of the Allegheny to look out for floating bodies Up to one 70 bodies have been taken from the river.

At Nineveh lOOdeac bodies are waiting identification At 1 the water on Main street in Jolinstown is 30 feet deep. A reporter saw Mr. Robert Pitcharin, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania milroad who had just returned from the immediate scene of the disaster and the scene even at Snag Hollow, four miles this side of Johnstown, was appalling beyond de scription. saw suffering and almost insane people floating past us within only ten or twenty feet of us, so that it seemed we could almost reach out and save them We screamed to them to jump and we might be able to effect their escape. They either could not liear us or were afraid to leave their logs or other means of floating; yet what more could we do than scream to them lo jump and strike out for us.

They did not hear 'us and down they went though It was terrible, simply terrible, sir, tell you. And then to think of the thou sands of others we did not see. But now, to come down to a practical suggestion: let me tell you that thousands of people from Johnstown are xxMieting down upon the hills, chilled fifom the rain, half-clad, without a home in the world and no place within many miles where they can get even food or shelter. ughbs Special to the Kxws.j ear ittsburg June A report just reached this city that a raft was rescued about five miles from here upon which was a whole family, consisting of father, mother and two children. The children had died from and the weather and prostration.

The father was exhausted when rescued, and had lain down to die beside the bodies from which he says life departed about three this morning had devoted all of his strength to them from the maddened waters. The river is lined with rescuers for miles. Sorrow and sympathy for the hundred of the floating dead is causing indescriable sickness, There is scarcely a house for a hundred miles along the river, but has a rescued body, dead or on the verge of death. It is thought that 150,000,000 will not cover the damage, not taking into account the ives lost. PiTTSBTTRou, June J.

Herron, solicitor for the Times, left Johnstown at two Friday afternoon and has just ar- rired in this city. Mr. Herron tells a story of the disaster that fell on the mountain city. of Thursday afternoon and night rain poured down in a deluge. The little mountain streams swelled in torrents, pouring their waters into the Conemaugh river, that passes directly through the center of the city.

Soon the banks of the river overflowed and tiie streets through the city began to disappear beneath the rapidly increasing current Houses and bridges from above the city were swept away by the ilood and largely to the damage further down. The water rose 0 that many people could not escape from their homes and ran to the upper from which they were rescued by men riding horses and mules. The scenes of rescue were most thrilling. Ross, a teamster, had in charge a pair of mules. He mounted one of them to aid some people.

The mmle fell into an excavation, carrying Ross with it and he was drowned. When I left it looked as if one thousand people wwe homekiss. They were gathered on the mountain sides, looking sadly at their homes buried in the water. Camhria Iron Works were flooded, throwing nibn out of employment, besides entaiHng a vast amount of damage to the mill. Tfte away of four or five large bridges added greatly to the horror of the scene.

Twelve car loads of iron were run out onto the Cambria bridge in an attempt to save the structure. The waters gathered strength and swept bridge, cars and iron away as if they were straws. But one bridge remains and it is badly damaged. Lumljer was swept down with the flood in It is estimated that UPO or more feet passed the town Eriday morning. The were thronged with victims of the flood, but they were rescued in skiffs.

Piano boxes and rafts were used for this All trains on the Pennsylvania and Baltimore Ohio railroads are discontinued, the tracks being submerged for miles. At Friday afternoon the water was still rising and the people were panic-stricken. There is no doubt but that the loss of life will be heavy. Three citizens of Pittsburgh are known to have been dirowned. They occupied a house just the dam a short distance above Johnstown.

Their names are Thomas Fallon, James Tight and a telegraph operator, name unknown. W. N. supervisor of the station of the Pennsylvania railroad covered by the flood, telegraphed at ten last night to superintendent Pitcairn as follows: destruction is terrible. The dump at Johnstown is gone between the bridge and tower.

West of Johnstown, at some points the tracks are entirely carried away and the roadbed gone. The river for three quarters of a mile above the bridge is filled with buildings and driftwood, forty feet high, and is on fire, burning furiously and is entirely beyond our control. I can not estimate the amount of damage. I walked over last night from Johnstown to Sang Hollow, four miles. Johnstown is literally wiped Superijitentdont Pitcaini, who is at New Florence, sixty-five miles of Pittsburgh, telegraphs that over one hundred men, women and children passed Sang Hollow clinging to debris.

Beven were rescued at Sang Hollow, two at Conemaugh Furnace and two at New Florence. Only forty-seven of the one hundred and over passed New Florence. The loss of life and property will be terrible. A special from Blairsville station, on the Pennsylvania railroad, says: John Barton, a freight engineer, says that at two p. m.

yestoiday he saw three men and a woman struggttng for their lives in the Conemaugh river, jnst below Johnstown. The Westera Unkm office in Johnstovro was swept away at four Friday afternoon. The vrater in Cambria City, where are located the Caanbria Iron Works, is thirty-five feet deep and rising. Pennsylvania railroad ofQcials in Pltts- buTgh stole that they iuive advices that over two hundred dead bodies have been coanted floating down stx'eam at Johnstown aXone, while all along the line many additional lives have been lost. Johnstown is described as wholly submerged, only two houses being entirely above the water line A special train has left Pittsburgh with Pennsylvania raUroad ofiBcials, newspaper men and telegraph operators on board.

A telegraph office willheopeaedat the nearest available point to Johnstown. A speciiU from Tyrone, says the Jimiata river has overflooded its banks at that place and flooded the southern portion of the ciky, causing great damage. Peojrte had to be removed from their homes in wagons. All the railroads centering at Tyrone are greatly damaged. Cine man is reported drowned at Cnrwensville.

A dispatch from Clearfield says two young ladies were drowned there while endeavoring to escape from the flooded district. AGreensburg, special says; Reports from Johnstown are to the effect that hun dreds of lives have been lost. Houses have been carried away bodiiy. People fortunate enough to escape are fleeing to the mount ains. Eighty-five persons were seen' ing past a point near New Floi'enoe clinging to driftwood.

All the buildings along the Conemaugh between New Florence and Johnstown have been carried away. The towers have been abandoned by the telegraph operators. The Covetown and bridges have been destroyed. The heavy rainii of the past hours have caused great damage. AH collieries in this vlciiiity Imve been forced to suspend, and maiey are washed oni Nn trains have amved dn the Lehigh Valley riMd since neen, the bridges west of here havicg been swept away.

Advices from points on the Raiding and show great dwnsge. The trains are all late. Reports from the Kiskiminetas river, into the Conemaugh empties, are most distressing. The river near Sjiatsburg is filled with wreckage and a number of persons were noticed clinging to such timbers as would bear their weight At Blairsvilh) men are stationed on the aa4 banks in the hope of rescuing some of those who were being carried down the stream. The volume of is unprecedented.

The iron bridge connecting BlairsviUe with Blairsville Intersection has been carried away, and with it a train of heavily loaded cars standing upon the bridge to hold it in place. This was the largest and bridge on the West road. It thooght ftataH ttiNraii FeMnsjdfsmnla railroad bridges w81 a sijnilar 1Mb. All of the towns in ttie Kiskiminotas iey are submerged. Among them are Liv- armore, Saitsburg, Apollo, and Arenmore, having a population of from 8,000 to each.

The inhabitants along the river have been warned, but are almost panic stricken at the idea of their great loss of property, which is inevitiible. Later re- portfi from Coketown are to the effect that the entire town is submerged and a number of lives harve been lost at that place. ramk cks June wires are down or unworkable twelve miles from Johnstown. News received here by the Pennsylvania railroad officials corroborates the statements that Johnstown is nearly wiped out. The signal tower people at Sang HoUow state that up to eight last night they had counted 119 persons floating past on wreckage, some alive and some dead.

They rescued a boy, name unkno-wu, who said he and his father, mother, brother and two sisters were swept away with their house. He was washed off from the building, but the others were in it when it was carried over the new stone railroad bridge at Johnstown. The house went to pieces then, and he thinks all were drowned. The alarm of danger seems to have reached Johnstown about one p. m.

The railroad officials at once began carrying people out of town, some on regular trains, others on hastily improvised specials. Superintendent Pitcairn happened to be in the vicinity and took charge of the work. The water flnally came down like a tidal wave, sweeping every thing before it. illiamsport June biggest flood since the memorable one of 1865, is now in progress on the west branch of the Bttsquehanna river. Much damage is reported from points north of here, but com munication of all kinds is interfered with.

Land sfides are reported along the Pennsylvania road north of here. At Clearfield the water is rising at the rate of 13 feet pel hour. A dozen bridges have been swept away and the streets of the town are overflowed. The people are going about in boats. The booms at Caledonia and Curwensville have broken and it is feared that the I.ock Haven boom will break and that the Williamsport boom can not stand the strain if this occurs.

Logs valued at f.5,000,- 000 depend on the Williamsport boom holding. Tlie river is tweuty above low water mark. The rain is falling in torrents olivar Juno water here is higher than ever known and two-story houses, barns, stables, whole forests oi trees, outhouses, smoke houses, railroad bridges, county bridges, rafts, inverted and driftwood by the acre, from all of which imploring hands wei'e held out to those on the banks, willing but impotent to help, have floated down the swollen torrent of the Conemaugh. Information received is meagre, but for the most part accurate At Lockport, two miles east, more than twenty people have been taken from the fiood. The first rush of water reached here at seven last evening.

This came from the bursted above Johnstown. It came like a frenjiied whirlpool and t)efore the people could realize it they were in its grasp. FVwtunately the people living on the low ground At 7:30 a great pile of was swept along and from it came shriek upon shriek for help, for sake A man rescued in the river here who was swept away from Johnstown says positive ly that not less than 1,.500 lives were lost in the valley of the Conemaugh. This point is twenty miles below Johnstown and the work of rescuing men, women and children sweeping down the river went steadily for ward all night. The horrified spectators on the shore saw three women, to one of whom clinging two children, neither of whom was appar ently more than an infant.

The rapidity of the current and the position of the raft in the stream prevented any attempt to rescue them and the raft passed out of sight the screams of the women and children blend ing in their pleadings for aid long after the raft was around the bend. The stream then became thick strewn with men, women and children clinging to all sorts of temporary means of salvation Two men and a woman clung madly to the top of huge trees, the men emulating the females in their shrieks for help that it waa not possible to give. Just at dark a lafl was noticed chnging to a log. James Curry se cured a long line and ran along the river bank. The noose of the lasso fell over the neck and shoulders and a moment later the little fellow was hauled to the bank.

He was soon restored and stated that his name was Edward Harstea, thir teen years of age. He had lived with his father, grandfatJier and mother in Cambria City, a part of Johnstown. At four their home had been caught in the volume of water let loose by the bursting of the dam. They had all climbed upon a mass of driftwood and were carried along. Their raft went to pieces against a bridge pier and ho has not seen his relatives since, but thought that they were ail drowned.

PREBirKiCKSBUBG, June oi the most disastrenis storms that has visited this section for fifty commencod here about ten Thursday night and con tinueswith unabated fury. Bridges wew washed outon the Richmond, Fredericks burg Potomac railroad between QuanUct and Richmond. All trains north and south have been abandoned here. Trains will not run before noon to-day. The part of thf city bordering the river front is entirely submerged.

The water is rising at the rate of twenty-two inches per hour. CHABLBiiTOK, vV. June rains of Thursday have caused considerahli damage in this of the counUry. Yester day morning the Chesap(Mike Ohio rail- rosd bridge across Cubin creek was carried away and the boom in Coal river was taker out by the flood. Some are entertained that the lower part of the city wil be flooded.

The Kanawha and Elk riven are still rising rapidly. Tha Bradford boon: on Elk river above the city broke during the forenoon and is letting out thousands of logs, ties and other timber. Loss of life ii feared. BRAUN, I- IRTISne TMLIM. ijls BIO- uip Midsummer Suitings WHICH WILL SOLD VERY CHEAP OUR 18 CUSTOM-MADE SUITS Are selling very rapidly.

Come and leave your measure. Good Pants made to order for FOUR DOLLARS. BRAUN DOES HIS OWN CUTTING. This expense saved to bayersu Fumisliiiig Goods Everything new and fashionable. Big line of Straw them.

BARSAINS AT FOSTOFFICL laoiSm sale to-night at No. 10 South Jefiferson street. A full line of groceries will be oflered for each night. The sale will continue until the entire stock is sold. If you to secure a bargain attend this sale.

It Additional Local on Fourth Page. JAMES McCONAHY, 20 Washington CORNBR OP TIIE DIAMOND. WATGHliEE, JEWELEB, OFTIOI.A.l<r. American Watches Of all Leading Manufacturers. AGENT FOR Geneva Non-Magnetic Watches FINE JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, CLOCKS, Etc SPECIALTIES: SUPERIOR FITSJN SPECTACLES.

ink atch kpaikino and nokaving Oflici 1 Watcli Examiner of the P. L. and Pennsylvania R. U. SPECML SALE THIS WEEK IN: CLOTHING $2.25 for nobby Short Pant Suits in mixtures In all wool Short Pant Suits in handsome cassimeres and cheviots.

for extra quality Short Pant Suits, imported material, very stylish. For Long Pant Suits, sizes 12 to 18 good and stylish. I.OITIS SCHWARZ, No. 23 Washington Street. PAT TRAVERS, Salesman.

GREAT SI.AtrGHTER OF PRICES -IN- Fresh, Salt i Smoked Meats. COMNIENCINC SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1880, I will sell Dothini: but First-elftsa Meats at ttie Bottom Pncea: Best Cuts Fresh Meats Round Steak He Rump Roast, trimmed 8 Chuck Roast and Steak 10 Shoulder Roast 8 Chuck -8c Boiling Meats, 4, 5, 6, and 7 cents. mm 1 A Hams, II lie. Bacon, lie; Shouhlers, 9 SlflClK. KIJ JILJbi A JL iSl mkat at this pkh strictly cash You who want the very oest nieat the at prieos call at Bon-Ton Meat Market.

119 Washington Street, isot GEORGE MERKLE. SOOTT Sc CO. Agents for IPIO own laxative. hss sss WASHINGTON and MILL Sm J. H.

PRESTON. I R. C. OAIIOT. Manufacturers of and UeaUrd in Rough and Dre 8 I Lam, Shingles, JL LJ JNlL JDJlIj JTL Moaliihnga, Etc, Grove and Yarti Rear of P.

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