03 Jun 1889
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Newspaper
Winona Daily Republican
Location
Winona, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1889
Page
1
E S Morgan offers easy wallpaper selections from leading English and American manufacturers. Parlor drawings include prime age designs. Specialities are odd wall coverings like Anaglypta Cortexa and Lincrusta Walton with Cretone and Tapestry papers. Fine stationery and foreign correspondence papers also stocked. Engraving of cards and invitations available.
Lana Holston reports from Johnstown on June 8 that the flood disaster, triggered by the river surge and火 fire from overturned stoves, claims thousands of lives. The confluence of wreckage, debris, and a burning funeral pyre creates a scene of unimaginable horror, with many bodies unrecovered and vast numbers unidentifiable. A relief train with provisions arrives as track repairs begin and rescue work continues along the Conemaugh valley.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania the disaster leaves wreckage of locomotives and freight cars in the river bed under debris. Over Woodville and Conemaugh Borough many homes vanish as 1500 residents face likely losses. more than 100 bodies removed and eleven railcars of coffins arrive for burial as a special force directs interments.
Johnstown and surrounding towns face massive deaths after the torrent. Dr. Foster notes most victims died amid wreckage, not by drowning, as about 300 bodies have been recovered. Morgue at the Fourth ward schoolhouse crowds men, soldiers guard access, and relief must extend beyond Johnstown to Conemaugh Woodvale Kernville and Cambria City as aftermath continues.
Mass death toll and relief efforts unfold as Johnstown flood debris reaches flames along the Conemaugh. Telegraph operators, families, and officials are reported lost or saved amid vast destruction. Red Cross mobilizes while governors issue proclamations for aid.
A Sunday robbery of a dead woman’s body led to capture and lynching by a search party. A head with a diamond ring and a little girl’s finger with a gold band were found among the loot. A later clash with Hungarians left three more dead in the nearby stream as ex mayor C. L. Dick fired on one assailant. Johnstown is guarded by 300 officers. The rest of the piece notes fashion waists and dressmaker models.
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