Show ITS ITS LIGHTS AND SHADES BUT few if any incidents that have transpired in the history of this country have presented more intensely aute abely dramatic than has toe the johnstown flood its occurrence horrified the nation mation and the wave of this sentiment traveled to the utmost bounds of the civilized world the gloom of this deep shadow I 1 was relieved by a wave of beneo bene o lence whose activity was exhibited exhibited by streams of substantial relief in aid of a stricken and afflicted people added to this redeeming phase of the visitation were the many deeds of self sacrificing heroism that occurred in the hour of peril the tears of the nation shed over the catastrophe had scarcely dried on the chepkof cheek of the republic when they burst out afresh fam the fountain foun ta in of joy oy as the recitals of brave deeds were perused courage wilen exercised for the relief of those in peril has a powerful moving force upon the tender lender bearded them to form a higher estimate of the human i race scarcely had this brighter sentiment spread when the clouds again gathered and the ie darker dee deeds ds of men caused the full horror of the situation to resume depraved wretches set to work robbing the dead wrenching bracelets from the wrists of delicate ladies who had been drowned and aln fingers gerl 3 were severed from their hands that human hl u vultures might seccie secure able rings adorning them this brought upon the perpetrators of those acts to describe no ido language Is adequate i the rage of the people cognizant of umu the result was the beating shooting or hanging of the thieves that all the stories relating inci dents dente of this character WOM were absolutely true we are not paito pre believe yet numbers of case the kind were probably never discover discovered dd nor told it to is a notable fact that most of joae the accused parties artles were 40 A hune Italian i sor negroes the intense popular hatred existing against adlist those races in wame districts d would necessarily lead to false accusations how easy for an unscrupulous ruif ruffian flau to shoot a man down at such a time for a special specia or personal reason and cover the crime of deliberate murder by shouting to the pop populace place A 1 I found him plundering the dead 11 this trial judgment and execution would at once be accepted by a people laboring under the excitement of the catastrophe even the undertakers entrusted with the prepa preparation raWn of the bodies of the victims for burial buria were wece caught pilfering the oo rpsa and now tho the state statement comes that agat large sums of money subscribed forthe for the relief of the aa been pocketed by Meal beOf kofl lebed relief committees this was to be expected however at the beginning when flurry usurped uie the place olace of wisdom many of the fek lows sent to work in the capacity ot of acted ted as 88 loafers lolling X rv relievers reli lievers evera ac lazily about and feeding upon tho the supplies fo forwarded crded for the borbot of the helpless survivors of t the bp ft flood such men me h would b be e capable i bae of robbery doubtless these cormorant t are being if they have not ta ready been gradually e eliminated I 1 oneff the most sinister features connected with wibb the darker of the g great ret disaster was the advent of a nuni number ber of she devils in the far form aa of procuresses procures ses sm these depraved creatures appeared appeared d on the scene in search of orphan gris girls and young women who had belk beeh left unprotected gadi by the ity iti their purpose was by hellish and deceptive devices to which jbf they resort to lead their away to a life of immorality and shame hame perhaps this phase of the dramatic W waft the moet damnable of au while those blacker blacked conditions tr must lust be considered la in the CO coltom centam of the painful subject as an they are naturally viewed with tl a froni from ba as they ive are i feeling of un unutterable dis disgust gust tae the picture as a whole it is one with here and there a glint pf af sunlight it strikes the beholder beho klor with terror thrills him with admiration and inspires him with loathing certain it ia that the light and shadow in ing the extreme phases of dj human nobility and depravity have mot at johnstown and engaged in a struggle for mastory mastery it is a drama of extra ordinary ord luary intensity in these days of disruption and violence what will be the next occurrence of magnitude way anay be justly deemed a question appropriate to the character acter of the times |