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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1889
Page
3
The Johnstown disaster prompts extensive relief work across Pennsylvania. Reports detail rescues from rising waters, mass burials, and grim tolls as relief committees, governors, and citizens mobilize. Officials warn of epidemic risks and coordinate aid locally and to Williamsport and Allegheny regions.
Reports confirm at least twenty to forty people died as two day express trains and an accommodation train were swept away near Pittsburgh and Johnstown. Relief trains arrived with provisions and coffins while looting concerns grew. By Tuesday about 300 bodies were buried as crews labored to inter victims and clear debris.
Rescue work continues amid ruin with bodies carried from the wreckage at five minute intervals. registration centers tally survivors and missing, while relief ships in from Pittsburgh supply coffins, foods, and medical aid as authorities estimate thousands dead and displaced across Johnstown and surrounding boroughs.
The General Assembly proposes amendments to multiple sections of Ohio’s Constitution to be voted on at the next November election 1859. The changes cover Article II III IV VII X and VIII with revised terms sessions circuits probate justices of the peace and county township and municipal offices plus a convention question in 1822. Section schedules adjust terms of judges and officials and set election timing and vacancies.
Ohio proposes amending Article XI sections to implement decennial reapportionment for General Assembly. The measure sets a commission of four electors to determine representation ratios and district boundaries, with county and ward lines guiding Senate and House districts, and a public vote on Legislative Single Districts Yes or No.
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