Show SID FATE or bmw by he S italin it llin H jure 4 mayor I 1 of williamsport William sport telegraphed to governor heaver today to day as follows alie houses of alie people nearest alio river hate been carried away with all they possessed thousands of people are homeless and without anything bat tie lollies upon backs many people are in abool uto want for the necessaries of life at of business inen called yesterday thousand dollars were subscribed dead animals and nil limb of fifth are lodged upon tho streeta Bt reeta arave fears of an epidemic are entertained 1 na million dollars is a low estimate of alie loss on 1 amber along and oilier losses are large the surround suffered juat as bad 0 INDEMNITY BOM JOHN STOW juno 4 I 1 notice hie Kecia tary ot alio south fork club daiil yesterday club had cot filed an indemnity bond as claimed by ahe citizens of that complaints had never heon boale about taco safety of llie dam by auy of tha johnstown citizens HB is undoubtedly correct us to the bond but is misleading as to the second part of ins is no shadow of a doubt that the citizens of cambria county frequently complained and at the lima the dam v as constructed ted a very vigorous effort was made to put a stop to the work it is rue the leader in this movement was not a citizen of johnstown but he was and is a carpo mine owner in cambria county his mine adjoins the rei property he related to roe saturday the story of liis labors in an effort to protect the people in aliat valley ite was frequently on alie and his own engineer inspected ins petted the work lie pays the embankment was principally of shale and ilay and that straw was used to stop the leaking of the water while lie work was going on ho called on alie sheriff of cambria county and told him it was hid duty to apply to lie court for an injunction The feher iff promised to give alie his attention bit instead of going before the court he went to the cambria iron company for consultation an employed was sent up to make an inspection and as ills report was not favorable to the reservoir work he went no further hut the gentleman he had not failed to make public his protest at the time and to renew it frequently this recommendation men dation for an injunction and protest cre spoken of by the citizens ot Altoona as a hackneyed subject THE t to the rigged sides of prospect hill the same to which several hundred terror stricken people fled to escape the flood an associated press correspondent scrambled this afternoon he came upon llie pneumonia scourge which bids fair to do tor a number of escaped victims what the flood could not death has pursued them to their highest places and the terror will not die every little house on the bill and there are a hundred or two of them biad thrown its doors open to receive the bruised and half clad fugitives and every one was now a rude hospital half the women who bad scaled the were BO overcome with friglet the biad been bed ridden ever since there biad been pneumonia on the hill but only a few isolated cases today however several fresh cases de among alie flood fugitives and a local physician said alie prospects for a scourge are all too promising alie enfeebled condition of the patients the unhealthy atmosphere pervading the valley and llie necessarily close in alie iwo ale are crowded render the spread of alie disease almost certain to dav a ray of lifilie came in alie baturo of a car load of provisions and another aiom columbus diio containing lean tresses and bidding all specified for the propped hill sut ferera on aliis eminency stands tha bria City hospital in this rambling a ergat work is being dono through the combined agencies of medical and brotherly love alio wards were dragged from the flood evening the charred body of a young woman was uncovered a distance above alie stone bridge on her finger was found a slender cold on the plate of which were engraved the initials K J B she wore a stripped woolen drees and a black underskirt onder skirt several yellow flags noticed sticking up from a block of wreckage above tho bridge this was a new plan adopted by lie sanitary corps to indicate at aliat boint atie bodies leave been located ahe flags are still up and day will dawn upon the imprisoned remain people who liall lost friends and supposed they biad drifted into this fatal placa peered down into the clia mass in a vain endeavor to recognize the beloved features MORE FAVOR FOB CREMATION II 11 is not believed now aliat the fire in the wreck at the bridge can ba extinguished for weeks ahe hand of providence is in it the suggest ion made by the yesterday that the bodies nut buried be allowed to be cremated in the interest of the public health which aroused such a storm cf indignation among the survivors is viewed with more calmness today to day is a growing sentiment that it is after ull the beet solution cf the problem weeks and months would be red to remove the stupendous mass by artificial means and meantime the remains of humanity buried therein would be dealing pollution and death to all of the ding country FIENDS the retentive eyes of the amateur photographers camera may be seen gazing from every lull are no place scenes about johnstown and the little camera appreciates eliat fact artists and their paraphernalia pher nalia may be seen absorbing all the sunlight and alt the scenes there will bo no lack of pictures of the johnstown flood at a meeting of iio of the knights of pythias held liere this afternoon 1 i brou was appointed to financial aid all knights of pythias funds will there turu be kent to croupe at johnstown six improvised morgues are in johnstown and in liera die bodies are held until decomposition renders it unsafe to keep the unknown dead the number of tho latter is grow ing hourly alie pestilence in johnstown and alio blotted disfigured of flech cannot bo held much longer alio bodies of stalwart workmen lie beside alio llio remains of dainty bailies lai lies many of whom are still decked with boatly ear gitig and jagels en almir nit hand poor throng tore awestruck awe struck fact a it the of la the liopo of recognizing alio misi ing gnep so as to accord tho body a decent burial A wealthy young named ale recently became to a johnstown lady ass mss carrie dielia they were to ba wedded in alie middle of june and both parties were pre piang for tho the boier heard of the terrible flood but knowing alio residency i his dear one was up in the hills ha fel liello fear tor her bacety to make fure however ha started or johnstown arriving 0 day near tha fourth street be met sir diehl lod you are aate he exclaimed then Js carrie well she was in the valley alien alie floods came was the mournful reply then lie beckoned the young man to enter the chamber of A moment later ole was kneeling beside a roush bier alij was lifting u cold white lice from alib lifeless lie i lipped a gild ring anil put it on ins own then he etolo quietly out one ot alia thou danils made to mourn by the burstion of the south fored im A frequent visitor at these horrible david john all over lio ridia n grey horse and to acl one lie meets w hom lie knows ha exclaims have you soeki my sisters hardly waiting torn reply ho gallops away cither to seek ingress to a morgue or to ride along the bank aoe week ago lewi was woith liis all being invested in a large cammi wion business today lie owns diio horse lie rides the clothes on liis bark and that IK bill in tho fierce ae were bunel five of liia near relatives his anna lizzio aad maw the latter was married and her little boy and bacq alo were drowned the hood and lira claimed among its victims not only the living but the dead today to day a handsome coflin vaa found half burned in barred wreckage down near the point inside was found the body of a man shrouded for burial but BO ahmit the head and face an to be alio supposition 11 the elioue in which tho dead man was laid had been crushed in the debris and finally consumed by fire I 1 II 11 klin claims the distinction of being the only new yorker in johnstown Johnf town who escaped the flood and the honor of having rescued or assisted to rescue sixty people his base of operations was tho merchants hotel and his plan was to lift alie persons from alie of the houses swimming hy among he saved were llev phillip who as he elidea elided by was trying to hold bis wife and two cli ildren above the water by means of a able on which ha placed them and raised the bad to liis licad alie couo beung against the hotel and bared just loep enough lor allm rescue to be complete klein hat been nor kinf liard of the victims BlU IARY OF alie aggregate report of contributions to the flood sufferers for tuesday was the Iii ilian Con nril dik june 4 the proceedings ce in the council held today to day were uneventful slayer warner cf the commission in compliance with a request of bif t bear went over the provisions of tha act of congress Con gresa explaining pla ining alie benefits which would result from an except ance of ita terms the indians were evidently favorably im and asked time for a consideration they eaid the matter waa of great importance to them and they did not want to be hurried the council adjourned until juna C when it is expected the indians will be pre p ired to discuss the question and have their decision in fanton SAN FRANCISCO june 4 the ale will tomorrow to morrow print eliat win 1 mhd murderer of angioi 1 snell tha chicago babler g now in canton china busar june 4 there is considerable alir in lie clyde sugar market prices advanced aj on alie reports eliat america had bought tons |