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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1889
Page
1
A wartime note from a South Fork companion states this final message as a torrent engulfs and carries her from earth to her post of honor in the great beyond.
Washington forecast for Tuesday from June 3 calls for rain along the coast of New England and light rain inland with a slight warming. Eastern New York should see light rain and a warmer trend with southeasterly winds.
Salem records show National City Bank of Lynn files for $25,000 against Lyman B. Frazier for tort with attachment. Capitol City Bank of Des Moines Ja sues Elizabeth K. Haskell and W. A. Haskell of Granger City for $8,000 in contract. John O'Gillray of Montreal assigns to Morwar Co. liabilities around $250,000. H Taylor Montreal railway suppliers halt payments. creditors audit books. Estimated liabilities $100,000, assets $40,000.
At 11:85 last evening John Clancy age 17 was found by a Station 2 officer in the tobacco store of H A Brock at 19 Water street. He had entered through a transom. Michael F Beatty was found waiting outside. Both were arrested.
Members vote in favor of the Central wharf site for the chamber’s new building. The item appears among page notes on recent meetings and civic matters, reflecting local business support for the location.
Concorp New Hampshire June 3 The biennial session of the Legislature will convene Wednesday forenoon. Many members are present tonight with others arriving tomorrow. Candidates for legislative offices are in town working. Caucuses and nominations will occur tomorrow evening. On Wednesday the Legislature in joint convention will elect David H. Goodell of Antrim Governor as no choice was made at last November's polls.
The inquest began this morning with testimony from a brother of the murdered man identifying the body found in the catch basin as Dr Cronin. James F Boland and Dr Lewis the dentist also testified to the identification by birthmark and other means.
Doherty and Wadsworth's silk mill in Paterson New Jersey burned tonight causing about 75000 dollars in damage insured.
Preparations are nearly finished for the Gilmore jubilee concerts at Mechanics Hall starting tomorrow evening. The Boston chorus conducts its final rehearsal tonight at 7 30 with seating in balconies for conductor and chorus. Soloists include Miss Barton Miss Campbell Herr Danckwardt Myron W Whitney and Signor Liberati, joined by Gilmore’s band and a 1000 voice chorus for a brilliant program. Seats are on sale at Music Hall and Mechanics Hall.
The Boston central branch of the Irish National League met with Hon. W. W. Doherty presiding. Members collected 24915 for the Parnell defence fund from various branches and agreed to elect delegates to the national convention for July.
A compiled arrival and departure list shows steamers reaching Boston Montreal and Liverpool from Liverpool New York and other ports with vessels including Samaria Istrian Borderer Dana British King Lake Superior Circassian and many more. The report cites multiple ships arriving at Boston Philadelphia Montreal and Liverpool as well as several departures and paths near The Lizard Prawle Point and Dover with routes to Bremen Antwerp New York and Rotterdam.
Descriptions of Johnstown after the disaster tell of eight thousand dead, collapsed streets, and townspeople living in tents and mud. Reports detail looting, a lack of medical aid, and a toll of thousands missing as relief efforts struggle to count the dead amid mass casualties and ongoing floodwaters.
In Kernville Johnstown Penn June 3 conditions are dire as most residents drown and the living cannot tend to the dead. A lean-to serves as the dead committee HQ while corpses are boxed and buried. A milkman who overcharged narrowly escapes lynching after his milk is seized and shared with the needy. The body of the Hungarian lynched in an orchard was removed by friends during the night.
Two hundred fifteen corpses were received at the Pennsylvania railroad depot, washed, casketed and laid in rows for identification. Many were unrecognizable, with embalming in waiting rooms and nonrecognition rates high. Unknowns buried at Adams street schoolhouse, while more bodies arrive daily.
Reports from Washington and Pittsburgh describe a White House conference on the Conemaugh River disaster. President Harrison, General Noble, and Surgeon Hamilton weigh river pollution risk from decomposing bodies and the role of Pennsylvania authorities. A Masonic committee urges immediate federal sanitary action to avert an epidemic along the Ohio basin.
Direct telegraph from Harrisburg reports James A Beaver approving calm, no troops needed, and relief efforts in Johnstown. 900 troops on hand, 6000 to 10000 dead or missing feared, property losses projected at 25 to 50 million dollars, with food, clothing, medical aid organized and 2000 bodies embalmed or buried.
Citizens urge action for the coming week to address pestilential conditions as aid efforts aim to mitigate inflows into river beds and reduce health risks.
Johnstown Penn June 3 men urged to work not idle and leave if refuse. Officials station on avenues and railroads, employment bureaus to place workers. Violence reported as robbers shot. corpses and valuables recovered from wreckage. relief needed to avert greater suffering in days ahead.
C W Linthicum, drummer for a Baltimore firm, recalls the Johnstown flood near Lang Hollow. He describes a 30 foot wall of water sweeping the valley, the train rushing back to the hills, and a rope-and-bell line saving seven people. He notes hundreds dead and attempts to save more before the bridge disaster swallowed others.
The Pennsylvania railroad main line remains closed west of Lancaster while a Washington route reopened near midnight. One hundred sixty carloads of heavy timber are moving to damaged bridge sites, with four million feet of spruce and pine secured from multiple yards. A patched route to Altoona should enable tens of thousands of east and west bound travelers to depart within 36 hours, as crews repair bridges from Montgomery to Tyrone and Snow Shoe via Bald Eagle Valley, Lock Haven, and Williamsport. Freight and mail schedules are uncertain and no update from Lock Haven since Friday.
Telegraph dispatches report Western Union has established a temporary Johnstown office on the hill with seven direct wires. Messages for the inundated region are delayed with relief and press priority. Wires between Harrisburg and Pittsburg and along the Pittsburg and Erie line are down, and overall service in the flooded area is severely impaired. Southward, direct links are also disrupted with Richmond reachable only via New Orleans.
Between four and five thousand coffins have been ordered or sent from Pittsburgh with 2200 dispatched this morning and 2000 more ordered at noon. Only caskets go to Johnstown as funeral homes lack capacity for rough boxes. Another firm shipped 490 caskets and 500 shrouds. The claim of a coffin famine is denied. Two Cincinnati carloads were sent toward a destination on the Baltimore and Ohio line.
A nameless rider on a bay horse warned Johnstown residents to flee toward the hills as a forty foot flood surged through Conemaugh. The rider, presumed dead, vanished with horse and bridge as the waters overwhelmed the scene in a chaos of ruin.
Mrs Ogle, manager of the Western Union office in Johnstown, died at her post on June 3. She refused to flee the approaching danger and remained at the telegraph to warn others, earning lasting fame as a heroine of the highest order.
Reports from Johnstown Penn June 3 recount a church flood at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Cambria City where water rose to fifteen feet. the Virgin statue survived untouched amid wreckage. The city census showed 29,400 residents, with the directory now in Altoona printers. The Johnstown postoffice was swept away, and some bodies were found with bullet holes, blamed on self inflicted death during the panic.
Johnstown Pennsylvania June 3 The press faced extreme disruption as eight or nine correspondents vied for the single wire and the Associated Press finally gained a lone communication link. The improvised AP office sat in a former tile factory that served as a morgue with candles and candles in bottles. Operator Harry Orr of Pittsburgh kept forty words a minute while eleven stations fed the circuit to major cities as W C Connellly Jr. rushed to beat rivals by train to the scene. After seventy two hours of near continuous work, Connellly retired to his Pittsburg home.
In pursuance of a call by the Citizens' Permanent Relief Association a large meeting at the Mayor's office organized sub committees and fundraising. Drexel & Co. started the fund with 10,000 dollars, reaching 45,000 by afternoon. direct subscriptions to Drexel total 103,705, with overall funds surpassing 148,000. Major gifts came from Philadelphia firms and rails, plus 25,000 and 20,000 pledges from rail and iron companies to be dispensed locally. New York leaders formed a relief committee with Mayor Grant as chair, securing about 60,000 on the spot, including 15,000 from the stock exchange and 10,000 from the produce exchange. The movements anticipate larger future raises, with theatres planning benefit shows. Fire and police departments authorize solicitation by officers.
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