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about the camp, tlifu started o\-fr town to draw his saviiii^s troni the hank anil
purchase a suit of clotlles. Two hours later he returned. >oiue\\h.it tlu; worse
tor liquor. 'l"he General expostulated with him and he promised not to toncli
another drop. Then he went dov, n the railroad track towards the stcnie briih.;e.
Once he stoppetl to treat an aceiuaintance from a bottle lie larried in h.is pocket.
Both had a swii; ami •jim" ^ta^^ertil alon-. A train dash.ed around th'.'
curve, the locomoti\e bore him vlown. Ins lei,'s w (.-re cut oil and a mutii.ited
corpse was all that remained of the Connecticut tramp. The officers and men
providei_l a tine cotiin and Ljave the Nictim such a funeral as a [irince mii;ht
envv. The wantlerer hail reacheii home at last
General Hastintrs crossed over to [ohnstown on Suuda\- morniiiL; and
consulted witli Sheriff Stineman and Bnri^ess Hoerle as to the advisabilit\- of
calling out the National Guard. These ofiicial> objected streiiuor.sh . claiininLj
anv ill-
the troops were not neetied and that their presence woukl onh' irritate
disposed persons. Members i. if Batteiy T> and the \\'ashinL;ton lnfantr\- hael
arrived bvthis time, without waitin_' for order.s. The\ were abrujHh ^ent back
to Pittsbur;;h. Lieutenant Ganimel. who had chan,'e of the men. said :
•\Ve would like to have stayed, hut we had to obey order.s, and we took the lir-.t train for
home Even the .'.hort time we were there the hfty-ri\e men had pulled out thirtv-tive bodies."
On Suuda\" ni;.jht another consultation was held, at which the Sheriff and
Burtjess consentecf to sicu a request, to the Go\'eruor for troops. It was
argued that thousands of imported laborers wcuild be cleariiiL; the wreckage
and that an orL;anized boily of men mii,dit be required to quell disturbances.
AccordinL;K' the Fourteenth Ri L^iment was summoned, an action deprecated
by many inllueiitiai citizens of Johnstown, wlio believed the a