lbfteiii0ttii) fflmiril-i Din ni- u in j 1 1 i, hi in tfti M iyy Y skcom) yj:aii 1IjATTS3IOUTII, NEBRASKA, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE :5, 1SB9, NUM15EK MM 1 fortl. ositi' fort acc said ted t f ca tt..' .' pre Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of par ty. fttri'Dtli anti wliileoiiiPtiPs-). Morn econo mical I ii. tn tli; ordinary kind, and cannot be old in competition Willi the multitude of low temt. sh-trt w-l:;lit alum or ptio-i-lia'c lovli-rt. Solil . n eilnn. I'iiVAI, liAKl.NO i'UWIiKU Cor, li Wall bt. '. V. GIVIG SOGIKTJiS. x 'V t-j X X x x x--" - X X . PASS l.L; No. in:. I. O. O. F.-Meets Vevcry Tui'flay evening of each week. All transient brothers are retyped! ully Invited to tend. Ii I,AT TMOLT Til KNCA.M I'MKNT No. 3. I. O. O. K.. meet every a'teroHte Friday In each inoitth in the Maonic Hall. Visiting Brothers are invited to attend. II.ATrMolJTlI L.OHCK NO.fi. A. F. A. M A Meets on the firt and llnrd Mondays of eacn montii nt tnetr l.an. All transient brota era are cordially imiled to meet Willi us. J. ii. itlCHKV, V. M. Wm. Hats. Secretary. v'EHKVSKA CHAITKK. NO. 3. It. A. M icets sec.iiid and lo.irtli 'luesda of each month a-t Mason V Hall. Tran.scieut brother are invited to meet with us. f. E. '.Vhitk, H. P. W'yt. 1'vk. Secretary. tl"r. ZION COMMA l)l:V. NO. 5. K. T. Meets first and third Wednesday night of each month at Mnson's hall. Visiting bothers are cordially invited to meet wild us. H'M. II A VS. Kec. F. K. Wiin K. E. C. pi.A'rrSMOUTH UHHiK NO. 8. a. v. w. A Mset" ever aJte-riinte Friday evenins; Hi Hoc k wood hall at i o'cIock. All transient broth ers are respectfully invited to attend. I- S. I.rson, At. W. ; ! . lioyd. Foreman : S. C. Wilde. Recorder ; Ionard Anders Overseer. 'IMtlO I.ODUK Kit. 81. A. ). V. V. Meet everv ai'ernat Friday evening at K. of P. hill. Trai:sl..it brolhers are respectfully in- CWKS CAV1 N.3. MODI'KN woodmkn of America Meets second and fourth Mon day evening at K. of I. hall. All transient brother are requested to meet with us. I,. A, KewcnriiT, Ve'ieralilu (Jonsul ; S. K, Nile' Worthy dviser; S. C Wilds, Hanker; W. A. Jioeek, Clerk. v ted to a: tend. F. P. limwii. :asier ork Co' mS"n;tl 1. K- nisrer. Foreman ; F. n. Steinikcr - Overseer; W. II. Mtli'-r, Financier; O. K. House won h. Kecoril r; F. .1. Morirtn. Beceiv er ; Win -Orelirtn. (inide ; Win. 4.udwiK. Inside Vatcli : L. liken. Outside Watci Mavor. C'e'rk. Tre;isurcr, - - - F. M. ten II EY W K Fox - James Patterson, JR. - I'.vitoN Clark Attorney, fcnmneer, Folice Jiide, Marshall, Couucilmen, 1st ward, 4 2nd 3rd " 4th 51 It " H. U. .sritMiDT S Ci.ifkohd I. II. DUNN Brekknfkld. J A 1C li:. A SlllPMAN I D M .lO-NKS , )M B Mi'kphv CD 1 Clf AS. llKMI'LE. ,. CON I'C'ON.NOR. P M C1 LLKN. I J I) SIMPSON, I L O'NEIU J W Johns v,Ohaikmik FRKI) fiORUEK W II N EffKLL. P.oard Pub. Work ks GOUTY OFFICERS. Treasurer, Deputy Treasurer, - Clerk. Deputy Clerk, Kecorder of I) -eds lioputy Recorder Clerk of District Co Jrt, 8heri2. Surveyor. -Attrcey. Supt. ofFub school. Cojuly Judue. 1). A. Oampxkll THOS. lOI.MCK Bird Critciifikii Frank Dickson W. II. Pool . ' John M Leyda W. t:. Showaltf.r J.C ElKRNKAR H. C. S-hmidi Matthew Okkino Ma ynako Spink C. ItUSSKLL HOARD OF U PF.RVISOH8. A.B.Todd. LOflr FilLTZ, A. l;. Ukkmox, Cli'm., Plattsmonth Weeping Wnter - E in wood PLATTSMOUTH BOARD OF TRADE President Ko.Lt 1st Vice President ?rd Vice President B Windham ..A. B. Todd , v m Neville F. HernnanD K. Gulhuiau C. Pattemon. Secret nry Treaurr I1RF. F -rORi. J. C. Ri-hev. r. t. White, J J. A. Conn -r, H. r.lsnn.t, V. Shenuau, F. Jor- oer. J. V. v, eckUaon. MeCON!HI POST 45 G. A. R. ROSTFR. I K PirK''V CoT.nisnder. Hen-.;. IIfuflk Senior Vice " 8. Carrioan Junior " ..... iE. SILKS AaJuTanT, A. SniPMN jam "hkson. ..." ,r;:t inrH.uN -T. Kttv.. ..guarror Mnster .s. rirt. t. t!.('i'RTi F"-"1 Chnplaln id .Jiurday eveniJiJ ATTOKSEV. 8. F. THOMAS, oorne' -al-I.aw and Notary Public. OSlce In FiVziera d Plock. l lat;niouth. Neb. TTOKNEV,A x Hl.TI1VAN " imiij IImtc-, Las side, ri-utsuioutli. Neb. f . 1 ' CP'MKIS. WO,.FARTH. Pt.1T' an Fancy Or-cwres, Glasware anf r-KK0i Flour and Feed. Kine Joh Work a pj.ccialty at The l3BAf.D o'Vice. A VESUVIUS OF WATER Thousands of Lives Lost by Flood and Fire In Pennsylvania. A Moan tain Lake Breaks Loose and Bashes Down the Oonemangh Valley, Sub merging and Destroying. DISASTER WITHOUT PRECEDENT. Fire Unite with Water: In the Macrl fiee of Life, nl adds to the Meenes of Horror. An Extreme In Calamlty- Pittsbcro, June, 3. Jobnsnto, the city completely swept out of existence last Friday ereuing was located 78 miles eofet of here in the center of Cambria county, was located on the Conemaugl river at the mouth of a "pack Buddie, through which flows the south fork of the Conemaugh from the Alleghany mountains, and was a city of 8,000 in habitants engag -d in iron, steel, wire, cement, hrebiick, leather and woolen manufacturing. Before the railroad came in (many years ago) the small river was used for transporting, and ab iut nine miles up this "saddle" in the mouu tains above Johnston had been-construct-ed a monster dam backing up a water reservoir of a mile in area and 30 feet in depth, which was used as a water reserve for canal purposes on the river. when railroads came in the canal was dispensed with, and parties bought the L.ke and used it for a fish pond. Friday evening after a day of torrents of rain and the Conemaueh was out of her banks, this dam gave way. May at 5 o'clock, and caused the terrible calamity of death and de struction to Johnstown and towns locat ed along the Conemaugh valley. A second teriable catastrophe was caused by rafts, houses, cars, engines, and debris lodeinir atrainst ths reat stone bridge below Jt liustown where it accumulated and burned makinr an awful end for these who escaped death by water in floa'ing around with the torrent. TELEGRAPHIC ACCOUNTS. Braddock, Pa., May 31. The telegraph wires have been down absolutely for six or seven miles below the immediate scene aud being in unworkable shape for three or four miles distant, it was after 7 o'clock before and accurate outline of the effect of the tidal wave could be learned. The chief officials of the Pi'tsburg end of the main line of the Pennsylvania railway re ceived most of their information from the signal tower at Sang Hollow, six miles west of Johnstown. At a quarter of 8 o.clock a boy was rescued by a man in the signal tower of the railroad company, His name is unknown, but he s lid that with his father, mother, brother aDd two sisters,he was swept over the breast of the new stone railroad bridge at Johnstown; that it capsized a few seconds later and they were all drowned as far as he could tell. The railroad operators officially report before dark they were able to count 119 persons clinging to buildings, wreckage, or drowned and floating in the current. If this is to be credited the damage in the town proper must ba in the nature of a clean sweep. As early as 1 o'clock an alarm was sent to Johnstown that there was danger from tha dam. The railroad officials were notified and in a very short time began to earry psople from town to places of safety on regular trains. Supt. Pitcairn, of the western division of the Pennsylvania road, was on his way to South Fork, and was notified of the im pending trouble. Saxo Hollow, Pa., June 2, 1 a. m. The first accounts sent out of the Johns town disaster are far below tha wildest estimates placed upon the extent of the calamity, and, instead of 2,000 or 3,000, t is probable the death-list will reach 8,- 000, many say 10,000. Of these, 700 or 800 were burned in the fiery furnace at the viaduct, and 2, 000 coffins have been orderel for bodies already rescued. It is known that two passenger trains, wo sections of the day express, on the 'ennsjlvra'nia railroad have been thrown into the maddened (omnt and the pas senger drowned; 'Pliei trams were held at Johnstown from Friday at 11 ft. m. and were lying on a siding between Johnstown and Conemaugh stations. The awful torrent came down the nar row defile between the mountains, a distance of nije ri'.es acu pWii a. faij of COO feet in the disl.-ince, swt rpmg . aray the Tillages of South Fork, Mineral Point, Woodvalrj and Conemaugh, leaving but one building standing, a wooden mill, i where but an hour before h id stood hundreds, and dashing on with ' ' I THE KOAR OF A CATARACT and the speed of the wind, upon the fair city at the foot hills. The plane in which but Yesterday sat Johnstown, sits in the mountains like jewel in a queen's diadem. The great Qautier steel works sat in this plane, and the city below it, the railroad tracks bounding it at the base of the mountains on the north. Here is where the trains were standing when the tide of watercame down onthem with such resistless force that the heavy trains, locomotives, Pullmans, and all were overturned and swept down the torrent, and were lodged against the great stone viaduct along with forty-one locomotives from the Johnstown round house, the heavy machinery and ponder ous frame work of the Qautier mill, the accumulated debris of more than a thousand houses, furniture, bridges, lum ber, drift, and human beings. The low arches of the stone viaduct choked up immedirtely and the water Iwcked over the entire level of the valley upon which the city stood, to the depth of what, from the water marks, indicate about thirty-eight feet. In the great sea thus formed hundreds, perhaps thousands of people were 8TKUGGLINO FOR LIFE. The scene today is ond of the most harrowing possible for the imagination of man to conceiye. The accumulated drif gorged up at the yiaduct to a height of forty feet and then took fire from the up setting of stoves and lamps. Then were strong men made sick at the sight. As the fl imes crackled and roared among the dry tinder of the floating houses, human bodies were seerr pinioned between the house roofs, locomotiycs, iron beams, freight, passenger, Pullman, and baggage cars. The scene was horrible beyond descrip tion. Persons of all ages, from infancy. few days old, to the wasted figures of i t t a i e jL . age, were ournca ueiore me eyes or ine beholders, and no rescue from such a fate was possible. Strong men turned away with agonized expressions and women shrieked at tho horror af t?ie scene. The dead have been computed at not less than 8,000, and the number may even exceed this estimate. This seems incred ible, but until the waters have abated and the work of removing the dead from this tremendous mass, it will be impos sible to tell how many lives have been lost. It is now evident, also, that the damage to property will reach about $11,000,000. THE BREAKING OF THE DAM. Pittsburg, June, 2. Mr. Croanse pro prietor of the South Park Fishing Club hotel, came to Johnstown this afternoon. He says that when the dam of Cone maugh lake broke, the water seemed to leap, scarcely touching the ground. It bounded down the valley, crashing and roaring, carrying everything ueiore it. For a mil its front seemed like a solid wall, twenty feet high. The warning given the stricken city was sent from South Fork village by Freight Agent Dpchert. When the great wall that held the body of water began to crumble at the top, he sent a message begging the peo ple of Johnstown for God's sake to take to the hills. He reports no serious acci dents at South Fork. Richard Davies ran to Prospect hill when the water raised. As to Dechert's message, he says, just such messages have been sent down at each flPd since the ake was made. The warning so often proved useless that little attention was paid to it this time. "I cannot describe the mad rush," he said "at first, it looked like dust. That must have been spray. qould see bouses gqing dawn before it like a child's playing blocks set on edge in a row. As it come nearer I could see houses totter for a moment then rise and the next moment be crushed like eggshells against each other." Chrles Luther is the name, of, a boy who stood on an adjacent elevation and saw the whole flood. He said he heard a grinding noise up the valley, and look ing up he could see a dark line moving siowiy towards nim. lie saw tuat it ws a house. Ifigb in, the air would b,e tqs sed a og qc a team which would fall back with a crash, Down the valley the flood moved and accross the little moun- iin city. For ten minutes nothing but moving houses was seen and then the waters came with a roar tr-d rish. This laated or two ho a.nd then it began to flow more steadily. hcman vcltcres. The pillaging of houses in Johnstown is something awful ta ccnteipie and, describe. It makes one ' feel almost ashamed to 'call himself a man and know that others who bear the same iiame,have converted themselves into liuuiou vul tures preying on the dead. Men are carryiug shotguns and revolvers and woe betide the stranger who looks cvea suspiciously at any article. Ex-Mayor Chalmer Dick, -of Johnstown shot a man in Johnstown today for rob bing a dead woman's body. The story related of Mr. Dick is that h saw the mango to the dead body of a woman and take of several rings that she had on. lie pulled ont his revolver and fir ed. The bullet struck the maoIIe fell forward into the water and his body was washed away by the current. A Hungarian with two companions was caught in Kcrnville rifling a body. The indignant crowd beat and kicked the men severely, placed a rope arouud the neck of one of them, and swung him up to a tree, keeping f u si I :.. : strangled. Tlie men were then released and chased by the crowd, who, it is said, stoned them into the river, where they were drowned. A deputy sheriff, named Porter, shot a negro who was robbing store. The number of persons who searched the debris for pluuder today, is surpris ing, i'oorly clad laboring men may b seen carrying away fine ornamental clocks and rich bric-a-brac. Pianos by .41 ..mm . m tne dozen are scattered along tlie river but they are ruined. One of 13 Huga- rians were lynched and four were stown- ed into the river and drowned for roll ing the dead. BETWEEN FIRE AND FLOOD. New Florence, Pa., June 1, The most awful event of the awful night was the roasting of a bundrl persons or more in mid flood. The ruins of houses, out buildings and other structures swept against the new railroad bridge at Johns town and piled up fifty feet above the flood and from an overturned stoye or some such cause, the upper part of the wreckage caught fire. There were crowds of men women and children on the wreck, aud their screams were added to the awful chorus of horror They were literally roasted in the flood. Soon after the fire had burned itself out thers were thrown aaingt the mass There were some fifty persons in si ht when the ruins parted, broke up, and were swept under the bridge into pitchy darkness. The latest news from Johnstown is that but one or two houses could be seen in the town. It is also said that only three houses remain in Cambria Ciy. The Catholic church was also destroy ed by fire this morning. A number of people were on be roof when the struct ure took fire, and all of them were con sumed in the flames. June 2. The tire in the wreck burned all last night and has spread rapidly all day and the upper part of the drift is burning tonight. A fire engine is station ed on the riyer bank and others will be gotten there by the Baltimore & Ohio. The natural gas has been shut off, owing to the many leaks in Johnstown. No fire is allowed in the city. Chief Evans, of the Pittsburg fire de partment, arrived this evening with engines Nos 2 and 15 and several hose carts and a full complement of men. A large number of Pittsburg physicians came on the same train. THE 6ITTJATION UNCHANGED. The situation here has no.t changed, and yesterday's estimates of the los of life do not seern to be exaggerated. Six hundred bodies are now lying in Johns town, and a large number have already been buried. Four immense relief trains arrived last night, and the survivors are being ell cajeel fp, A portion of the police force of Pitts burg and Allegheny ara on duty and better order is maintained than prevailed yesterday. Communications viU restored be tweea Gauibrla City and Johnstown by footbridge. The work of repairing the tracks between Sang Hollow and Johns town is going on rapidly d trains will proh&vly be running by tomoraow morn ing. Not less than 15,000 j'gers are here. A CONDUCTOR S STOHY. In a talk, today, Conductor Bell, of the first section of the day express, laid up at Conemaugh on the night of the disaster, said: "The 6rst and second sections stopped stda Vy 8$de at Cone v.att&ht Iri4ay afternoon, cn account of the washout at Lillys. The second sec tion was next to the hill, the first on the outside. Suddenly I saw what I locked like a wall of water. was hirty feet h'h. Ve barely had time notify the passengers and they nearly aU fled up the hillside. Cbne old man wh,o. wih his son eturnedj for sone reason, was drowned. NEW GOODS ARRIVE DAILY Complete in all departments. Handsome lino of .Neopolitan and pattern HUTS.. RIBBONS, PLUMES, COLLARS CUFFS . BELTS GLOVES FANS ' HANDKERCHIEFS SASH RIBEON. AVe cordially invite Indies to call ami yet prices wo can save you money. ' Moore & Studebaker. . Ovo dfor v-rf of Joe's clothing si ore. Two cars went down into the current. I do not know how many were drowned. We saw two persons on top of the cars. 'The water set fire to a lot of lime, and the fire caught two Pullman cars, whii h were destroyed, but no person was burutd all the p-issengera having left tli e train before the cars took fire. There were about two hundred persons on my sec tion, which was of diy coaeb.-s. 1h passengers went back to the tars, m;d later were cared for by the people of Conemaugh. Afterward they t.ere taken to Ebensburg. They expected to goeut to Altoona this afternoon. The friends of those in the Chicago limited need feel no anxiety, as it was not in the Hood ut all." AXOTI1EU STOUT. Johnstown is the most complete wreck that the imagination can poi try. Proba bly five hundred houses have been swept from the face of the earth as completely as if they had never been erected. The main street from end to end is piled fif teen to twenty feet high with debris and in some instances is as high as the roofs of the houses. This great mass of wreck age fills the streets from curb to curb and frequently bus crushed the fronts of J buildings in and filled the space with reminders of the terrible calamity. Front the woolen mill above the island to the bridge, a distance probably of two miles, a strip of territory nearly half a mile in width has been swept clean, not a stick of timber or one brick on top of another being left to tell the tale. All day long men, women a.nd children were plod ding about the desolate waste, trying in vain to locate the boundaries of former homes. Nothing but a wide expanse of mud remained for their contemplation. These losses, however, are as nothing compared to the frightful sacrifices of precious human lives to be seen on every hand. During all this solemn Sunday Johnstown has been drenched with tha tears of stricken mortals, and thn air i.s filled with sobs and sighs that come from breaking hearts. There are seenes enacted here every hour and every minute thut effect a!l beholders profound. LEFT alone. An utterly wretched woman named Mrs. Tenn, stood by a muddy pool water trying to find some trace of a hnp py-home. She was half cra.;d with grief and her eyes w-re red and swollen. As the writer stepped to her side she raised hec pale and haggard face and re marked: "They are ull gone. Oh God, be merciful to them. Jly husband and my seven dear children have been swept down with the flood, and I am left al&ne We were driven by the flood Into the garret, but t!to followed us there. Inch by inch it kept raising until our heads were pressed against the roof. It was death to remain, so I raised i win dow, and ona by one placed darlings on some di I ft vo,ud, ti ustlng to the Crea tor. As i liberated the last one of rnV sweet tittle boys, he looked U me- and said: 'Mamma, you, M.vays told me the Lord would era for me; will be look after ire now V I saw him drift away from sight foreyer, T.i3 next moment the roof crashed in, and I floated outside to be rescued fifteen hours later from the ! roof of th3 hounj In the valley. If I eould only find one of my darlings, I could bow to tha will of God, but they are all gone. I have 1 -st er -rykhiug on earth now, but vsy iifs." A Happy Woman. Happy is tho wom in without bodily ills, but happier is the woman wUa hav ing them knows of the saving propertita of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. When relieved, as she surely will be upon a trial of it, she can contrast ln-r condition with her former one of suffer ing and appreciate health a none can who have not for a time lxen deprived of it. The "Favorite Prescription' rnr. rect unnatural discharges and cures till "weakness"' and :rregularities. I OFFERED r an fnciirnMo ciihu of Catarrh the Head by ttm proprii tors of DR. SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY. Symptom of C'utnrrli. Ijcndarhc, obstruction of noon, rliHeliiircs fuilmir Into throat, sometimes prof umi, wiiit umi nirrlil, at others, thick, tenacious, iiiucouh, purulent, bloody and putril ; ev-a weak, ririKiiifr in ears, deafness, difficulty of clearing throut, rxpeetu vation of offensivo matter: brcutli oti 'iiHive; ainell and titsto impaired, mid f'"'-ral l''iillty. Only a few of tlie symptom likely to I , pres ent at onee. ThoiiHiindn of iikch result lu ua sumption, nnd end in tho frrnvo. liy its mild, soothing-, and iicnilnir proprrtl. Dr. Eatre'H Remedy cures tho worm chhcs. 6()o. The Original EIITLS Liver Pills. Hi v dalVM o Iurrtu Vraftti' bit Ac llarmltu. Unequaled as a Uver 1111. Pmnllcf.t.rl.pnn tmt, eiiwicHt to tako. n IN-llct a Dow, JULIUS PEPPERBERG. MANUKACTUKfc.lt OK AND WHOLESALE & RETAIL Choicest Brands of Cigars, including our Flor de Pepperbergo' and 'Buds FULI, LINK OP TOBACCO AND SMOKEKS' ARTICLES always in stock. Nov. 2. 1885. Collection Hotico- I respectful!- request all parties in debted to me to cull anil ssttle t lit i r ac counts before June l&t. Ai.ki:i;ij Snri'MAN M. ). Drink Champaign Mist. I)liiou Cool and Itefrushing. Fur sln hy K. W. Cook at Smith A: iJlack" old stand, tf Summer rSlijkpciM at lu-i-wood'. Plenty of feed, flour, meal at IIeinc-1's mill, tf "raliaru and Tlie Xew iifrwoorix. How, only ;5. at House and lot on Uitchio jilaca forale on easy payments; ii'iu:rc at Joij.nhon linos. Hardware store tf WO SMOKE OR SMELL To the ne iv toil, oil Store lost i tccivcdiit J!iiioii Hi oh. tali umi Necthcm. TJjcy will not explode. Freeze .ur lce crcam w,f" tI)C I't'otnin freezer boiu uy Juiinson liros. Uwlm GIVEN AWAY. Fifty Dollars in clean Cash To Le rivcn awav bv C E. "iven awav bv Wescott, the J'oss C.'otliier, Lack dollar's wcrlh of goods bought from o;ir Elegant t-tock entitles the puicha.ser to one chance I to h'v this J AM) PRTZE Drawing takes place Cctuber 15th, 18.0, The money io on Exhibition in our Our stock is show window, complete. "We carry only reliable good?, at tlie lowest bottom figures Sell have lAire hick lieaaaciic, liillouo Icniluclie. nizztncM, C'oirtiiloii, liidlaeMlou. Bilious Attackw, hii.1 all (if-runircmenM of tM stomaob anxl bowel. 25 cu. by drug-g-lsu. strictly one price and no JVIunkey business. C. E. W : tt, Th e Lots Clothier. 7