Show JOHNSTOWN correspondence the following letter was sent to the mayor of johnstown by one of the relief committee of the clamber chamber of commerce SALT LAKE CITY june 1889 to the honorable mayor of johnstown pennsylvania my dear sir As one of the executive committee who has the raising of the funds for the benefit of the sufferers of your city and valley in hand I 1 was selected to attend to the ab shipping of some wearing apparel to you and have today shipped you by pacific express a case containing various articles of clothing which the express company has kindly consented to forward without expense and which I 1 trust may reach you safely in due course of time although this territory is nearly three thou thousand miles away from the place where this most terrible calamity occurred we all have felt the shock as though we were almost in s of you and could not only feel but also see tile the frightful havoc caused by that most terrible of floods for days the messages came over the wires in reading them the eyes would nil fill with tears and though we knew that money could and would be raised and sent to you as expeditiously as possible no ore one had the power to raise one single life or heal beal a broken limb or in any other way be of any aid to you excepting with such funds as a most generous community would gather and send to you yet were you on the spot and saw the hundreds of kind ladies and good men who with unceasing energy devoted almost they entire time to gather means to send to you you then would feel as though we were not only all of that same human family but that we all were kin kid ready to do what gladly others would have done for us had the calamity befallen us tonight a spectacle will be beheld within the borders of this city which whick since it was built was never witnessed here before six thousand people will gather in that wondrous building here called the tabernacle Taberna cleto to listen to a concert the proceeds of which will be sent to you knowing that all were ready to give with cheerful heart their wite to aid you we thought it best to devise a plan by which each one could give and yet each one receive their value back for once all tac factions have disappeared the mormon people and all others have combined to carry out that greatest of all teachings the greatest of them all is charity I 1 hope when these lines reach you that the worst of all your sufferings may be over that those who have within the past st ten days found naught but grief despair and sorrow can once more look upon the brighter side of life and looking cheerfully into the future resign the past to a kind providence and with that faith still clinging to them push onward and begin their lives anew the load which you have been obliged to carry has beena been a heavy one indeed within a month I 1 shall be on my way to new york city and going over the pennsylvania road remain one day within your city I 1 hope that I 1 by that time the ruins will have ave disappeared and A everywhere new houses will be going up characteristic of the energy of the people of our country who through names flames and flood and blood rise like the phoenix nix from the ashes with greater energy and majesty and strength such as could only come from aud and to a people who have made liberty the highest boon of man bowing before nothing else on each and only that one greater power the deity following is the reply received J JOHNSTOWN pa J june ude 19 1880 1889 DEAR sir BIB your very kind communication muni cation relating to sufferers frown from the recent flood received from the sympathies of friends far and near for their very substantial contributions in both money and supplies which have come forward with unprecedented prompt ness and liberality our citizens a ar very grateful and cannot express themselves as they feel to your good people whom you describe as ae holding a concert che tb proceeds of which are to be applied to the relief of sufferers we can only say thank you the crown jewel of charity 0 liberality to the stricken when you reach here and take a survey f the surroundings in person you can form a more correct idea of the true condition caused by the flood on may and the prospects of our people lor for resuming ng with wat fraternal regards for your favors shown us I 1 remain yours W C LEWIS treas fund corn com |