And all the time all along the valley the work of recovering the dead
goes on with undiminished vigor, and as the workmen become accustomed
to the terrible scenes they apply themselves more diligently to their
duty and labor with a system that produces rapid results.
The great number of bodies not identified seems incredible. Some
of these bodies have lain in the different morgues for four days.
Thousands of people from different parts of the State have seen them,
yet they remain unidentified. At Nineveh they are burying all the
unidentified dead, but in the morgues in this vicinity no bodies have
been buried unless they were identified. There are at present thirty
unidentified bodies at the Fourth ward school house.
These bodies have been lying there for the past three days, and in
that time at least forty thousand people have viewed them, but no
one has identified them, and they have nothing in their clothing to
indicate who they are. During the past twenty-four hours sixty bodies
were embalmed and taken from this place. This morning five bodies were
brought in.
But to enumerate would be too great a task, when reports of additional
bodies being found are constantly coming in from all points along the
valley.
Judge Advocate Rogers, of Gov. Beaver’s staff, this morning decided
an important question which arose by the discovery of forty barrels
of whiskey in a building on Main street. Adjt.-Gen. Hastings was
disposed to confiscate it as a safeguard, according to a section in the
military code which prohibited the sale of liquor within the limits
of a military camp. Judge Advocate Rogers ruled that it was private
property, and a licensed dealer had a right to sell liquor. Besides, it
was not a military camp, but a posse comitatus, the militiamen doing
police duty.
Last evening employees of Lutz & Son unearthed ten barrels of beer from
the cellar of a building on Main street. The body of a man was found
close beside it. The driver was bringing his capture away when Major
Samuel Hastings arrested him. Adj’t-Gen. Hastings knocked in the head
of a barrel and let the beer run into the street. Under orders it was
all destroyed.
“You will not be paid for the beer,” said Gen. Hastings to the owners.
Among the bodies recovered in Kernville yesterday was that of a young
woman richly attired, wearing diamond rings and a gold watch marked “J.
J. L. to E. J. L.” The remains were taken to the chapel on the hill.
It is said that many cases of fever and diphtheria and pneumonia are
being concealed from the people here for fear a panic may seize the
workers, and if that should happen now probably no firm or people would
attempt to touch the work here perhaps for months. Disinfectants of all
kinds are being freely used by the car load, and, in addition to this,
a score of blazing piles in every direction shows that the purifying
element of fire is being applied as rapidly as possible for the safety
of the living.
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