05 Jun 1889
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1889
Page
1
The ad promotes Our White House chamber set as part of a Golden Age theme. It lists full size bedstead dresser wash stand chairs rocker towel rack and centre table in antique or natural ash. All pieces offered for twenty dollars with other house furnishings advertised to illustrate modern prosperity.
Reports from Johnstown Penn describe daily tolls and grim recovery efforts after the flood. Officials estimate thousands dead or missing as relief trains bring provisions and coffins and workers dig mass graves across the devastated districts.
A city man fills his home with furniture he designs himself. He adds one piece at a time and plans new designs as each is finished. The factory in the city allows others to imitate at low cost and to oversee construction.
The Cambridge board of aldermen met last evening and adopted an order granting the West End Railway Company permission to lay the Longstrat rail on Main Street and North Avenue.
The list shows official class stocks for Best & Belcher Ophir Bodie Crown Point Gould & Curry Hale & Norcross Mexican Sierra Nevada Union Copper and other mines with figures like 3.80 1.80 2.60 9.85 and 3.50 reflecting day’s quotations. The report includes names such as Yellow Jacket Occidental Commonwealth and other mines with varying price points.
A list of vessels arriving at or departing from multiple ports with dates in June. Names include Sjonia Baracoa New York Brince Baracoa Antwerp Rhyneland New York India New York Ema New York Maltimore Bremen America Bremen Argosy Hamburg Devonia Glasgow Darial Shields Elbe Bremen Vania Hamburg Anchorra New York Glas Moville.
The identified dead listed up to noon include Bessie Prosser William Mansfield Miss Bunting Mrs Mary Downey Paul Geddes Jones infant Annie Jones Gottfried Schutzeldieck George Gilles Schellerheimer Mrs D J Williams Fannie Prosser Eva May Parsons John Myers Mrs Legeh and others. The long list names many residents and local figures among the identified victims.
Johnstown dispatch describes 2200 workers en route to the ruins, with 26 foremen keeping order as hundreds of bodies are found amid wreckage. Superintendent Kirk plans a dramatic earth wall to redirect floodwater and flush the drift, a scheme he deems monumental and hopeful.
Johnstown Pennsylvania reports a flood refuge on Prospect Hill where hundreds fled their homes. Pneumonia outbreaks spread among the evacuees, with medical teams and relief shipments arriving from Altoona and Columbus. A hospital run by the Cambria relief effort treats burn injuries and illness while survivors recount harrowing rescues and near cremation.
Reports confirm three trains were swept by the flood near Johnstown Pennsylvania on Friday. Accounts list twenty to forty dead or missing from the day express with several sleepers and a parlor car destroyed by fire.
Six improvised morgues operate in Johnstown Pennsylvania as pestilence grips the city. Bodies are washed, searched for identification, and embalmed before burial in a mass unknown grave. Workingmen and ladies lie side by side amid the grim scene as volunteers seek recognition for a proper funeral.
Johnstown Pennsylvania June 4 Chairman Moxham reports horrific desecration of the dead and house looting after the disaster. He recalls a colored man entrusting a woman with watches and then again handing more while claiming risk of loss. The woman was arrested after pockets yielded watches and jewelry. Fingers had been cut from corpses for gold. Further discoveries followed.
Ogle a Philadelphia heir hurried to Johnstown to wed Carrie Diehl but found her dead after the South Fork dam flood. He kissed the cold face, replaced a ring, and vanished. David Lee Lewis, once a 60000 dollar trader, wandered the ruins seeking kin, losing nearly all in the disaster that took five relatives and two sisters.
The Rev Father Trautmein recounts a fatal accident at a stone bridge near Jonestown Pennsylvania where a crush trapped thousands. He describes frantic crowds, burning debris, and a lack of organized rescue as families shouted for relatives to be saved amid a furnace like heat and scorched air.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on June 4 a deranged Deputy Marshal Dick disrupted a tám of two Kansas City crooks. Detective McTighe and Officers Garrigan captured the pair after a struggle. Dick threatened to shoot but restraint prevailed and the men fled town aboard a box car.
Adjutant-General Hastings orders the Fourteenth Regiment from Pittsburgh to Johnstown to protect buildings and valuables as 2000 workers restore debris. Sheriff sought military aid to prevent further trouble and uphold order in the Conemaugh Valley amid protests at Governor Beaver's response.
Adjutant General Hastings refutes newspaper claims of wholesale lynching and robberies in Johnstown Pennsylvania since Sunday. He states no truth to the reports and notes residents locally have information while outsiders rely on press accounts.
The Masonic Relief Association train from Pittsburg arrived just before midnight and, after dawn, began distributing aid to victims. Volunteers handed out 100 women’s outfits and 100 girls’ outfits, plus men and boys items, food, flour, and provisions to relieve suffering in the crisis.
The indefatigable committee members dedicate themselves to relieving suffering through active fundraising and assistance efforts, rallying community support and organizing relief actions.
Dr Norvin Green president of Western Union Telegraph Company writes to Mayor Grant saying a general order allows free messages from all benevolent persons aiding Johnstown relief efforts The free wire service aims to speed aid to disaster sufferers and relief measures across the network.
Telegraph from Harrisburg reports Clerk T McGowan and mail on train 20 reaching Altoona and continuing via Ebensburg Blairsville and Pittburg. McGowan crossed rivers ferried and traveled by wagon and engine to deliver mails, ensuring all mails feared lost are accounted for. Through mails delayed at Altoona resumed over mountains with 132 passengers en route to Pittsburg.
A Cambria county mine owner described a history of protests against the South Fork reservoir during its construction and an attempted injunction. He and others warned of danger, while officials pursued accepted inspections. The piece notes prior warnings and public skepticism amid the dam controversy.
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