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8o THE STORY OF JOIIXSTOWX. the same fate. The bod\- of the former was seen b\' two ladies, who stood on the high bank, near the railroad bridge at Johnstown, watching the workmen explode dynamite to clear off the wreckage. Probabl}' the concussion loosened the bod\', wiiich was almost concealed b_\' l>oards and rubbish. The younger Mrs. Swineford was not found for four months, when her body was taken from a cellar in ^filh'ille, Cyrus H. Schick, a prominent manufactiuer of Reading, was returning from a protracted tour in the west for the benefit of his health, with his wife and her sister, Miss Eliza Stinson. Xorrisiown. Mrs. Schick gave this account "Our partv was comin
irjf£cA' OF T//K DAY EXPRESS. Si six bundrt-d others fn.im ditt'creiit trains, in the liotels. Telegraphic communication was cut ott and the an.\iet\' C)f rehuives and friends for tiilings cannot be depicted. Meanwhile the grossest exaggerations circulated. Not until the wires coultj be restored to service were an.xieties relieved or ajipreliensions confirmed. Se\ en (->f the involuntar\' guests at Altoona had seemed passages for Kurope and others had pressing business engagements. How their plans were disarranged may be imagined. Mrs. George \V. Childs, of Pliiladelphia' and two or three distinguished ladies, were reported lost. Fortunateh' the limited train, on which the}' were going east, reached Altoona safely. It had been stopped belov.- South Fork in the forenoon, on account of a washout at Lilh's station. Tuwartis noon tlie fârs of the station-master at South Fork induced him to urge the conductor to have the train pulled over the bridge. Orders from the train-dispatcher could not be liad. owing to breaks in the telegraph lines, and the conductor at tlrst refused to assume the responsibilit}- of moving the train. Consenting at length, it was drawn up a mile, crossing the bridge at noon and getting to Altoona in the evening. This providential movement saved the Limited from sliaring the fate of the Day F-xpress. Mr. George, of Lill_\', who was on the first section, and eight others left East Conemaugh at 4:25, driving to Ebensburg. They had a bundle of dispatches for friends of the passengers andbrouLrht the first news of the disaster to the county-seat. The citizens refused to credit the report that trains had been washed away, towns expunged as a child would wipe a pictured \'illage off a slate, miles of road-bed removed, the course of the Conemaugh diverted and hundreds of people si.\ept to destru.ction. It was too horrible to contemplate such a calamity as possible in this age of steam and electricity. All night the telegraph operator. vliss I^lowl. kept sem.ling messages to accessible points —messages calculated to stir the public heart to its utmost depths, although half the sad truth was not known for days thereafter. The enormous resources of the ccinipany \\ere at once put into retpiisition to reopen the railroad. From South Fork to Sang Hollow, four miles west of Johnstown, the tracks and all the bridges except one were wiped out. In the gap above Johnstown the water seized tracks covered with trains, tore them to pieces and dispersed freight, buildings, cars and engines over miles of territory .\t East Conemaugh it altered the course of the ri\er and for two miles annihilated the road-bed itself. With the strange f.italit\- which niatie it everywhere the attendant of the flood, fire swelled the fi iglitful damnê. Thousands of men worked da\' and night. \et it was two weeks before trains could run through. Consider that tiie traffic of the strongest railroad corporation on earth, with unlimited men and mone\' at its disposal, was effectualh' blocked for thirteen days, and an idea can be formed of the character and magnitude of the ravages. .Articles belonging to the passengers of the I)a_\' Express were picked up
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XXIl. FLOOD RELIEF COMMISSION. PkoM
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t'Sliiuates of losses, the claimant
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FLiHW REIJEr COMMISSUW. 325 lit Si.
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