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tar towards payin;:; tlie whcilf cost of rclit.-\-inu the afllictL-d rt'uion. The
(iovt-rnor arr;uiL;fd with eastern capitahsts for inoiie\ to nuet wliatever
)>eruniary oliliLiation-- the Stati; iiiiL;lit incur, tnistiiiu" to tlie next Lenishiture
for leinihiirseuient. It was a wise, statesniaidlke ,ict. sa\ ini; l\\v Treasnr\' a
lar-;e ,'mion;it and enabhiii; thi_' .uuhorities tn put on a stroni; force of workmen
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The health of the suflerers was also a serious consideration. W'itli thousands
of rottini; corpses anil dead animals, acres of filth and ruliliish, and cellars
hlled with decayin'.,' mattr- Kiggs, of the I'ennsvUania Railroad Compan\. in
charge at Nineveh
Reached MorrellviUe at 10 30 \ m, and walked up to Johnstown Keporteil in writing to
General Hastings, not being able to find him personalli the ri\ er and reportetl to
Moxham, Chairman of the Provisional Committee, and ad-, ised him to order at once through
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t;;e Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh five thousand pounds of copperas and two tnousand
h\e hundred pounds of chloride of zinc for immediate necessities. Made inspection of the
.-ntire borough of Johnstown, and of the Bedford-street Hospital The work of cremation of
dead animals, of disinfection of carcasses, which cannot yet be extricated, of hcuse-tu-house inspection
lif inhabited houses, of cleaning and disinfecting such hou,-,es. and of instructing the
people how to a'.oid disease as the result ot the unusual conditions in which the\' are living, was
at once inaugurated and is going on very sy-teniaticall\- .-ind ethciently under the superintend-