The special detail of workmen who have been at work looking up safes
in the ruins and seeing that they were taken care of report that none
of the safes have been broken open or otherwise interfered with. The
committee on valuables report that quantities of jewelry and money
are being turned daily into them by people who have found them in the
ruins. Often the people surrendering this stuff are evidently very poor
themselves. The committee believes that as a general thing the people
are dealing very honestly in this matter of treasure trove from the
ruins.
Three carloads of coffins was part of the load of one freight train
this afternoon. Coffins already are scattered everywhere about the
city. Scores of them seem to have been set down and forgotten. They are
used as benches, and even, it is said, as beds.
One enterprising man has opened a shop for the sale of relics of the
disaster, and is doing a big business. Half the people here are relic
cranks. Everything goes as a relic, from a horseshoe to a two-foot
section of iron pipe. Buttons and little things like that, that can
easily be carried off are the most popular.
[Illustration: MADE ORPHANS BY THE FLOOD.]
Grandma Mary Seter, aged 83 years, a well known character in Johnstown,
who was in the water until Saturday, and who, when rescued, had her
right arm so injured that amputation at the shoulder was necessary, is
doing finely at the hospital, and the doctors expect to have her around
again before long.
There has not been a photographer seen about the place to-day. The
experience of the nine who were arrested and set to work on the ruins
yesterday has scared off the rest.
Out of the twenty-five Chinamen in Johnstown only three escaped the
flood. Vice-President Frank Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
arrived to-day on his special locomotive, having opened a way through
from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. He is now going to push east over the
main line as rapidly as possible. It is not likely that the line will
be opened for three or four days yet.
A woman made insane by the loss of her husband and all her children
has been wandering about the edge of the gorge this afternoon, moaning
and shrieking incessantly. She is one of several women who have been
thus affected by their affliction. For a continuation of this terrible
calamity see POLICE GAZETTE each week.
LIFE AND BATTLES
----OF----
JAKE KILRAIN
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THE “POLICE GAZETTE” DIAMOND BELT._
WITH PORTRAITS of PROMINENT PUGILISTS
This book is Superbly Illustrated with
Numerous Artistically Executed Pen
Sketches and Wood Engravings
drawn on the Spot by the
“POLICE GAZETTE” SPECIAL ARTIST.
----ALSO----
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HISTORIC CRIMES.
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