LATEST PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 141, 4 June 1889, Page 2

LATEST PARTICULARS.

HAEROWING DETAILS. Received June 4, 12.30 p.m. Mbujoubnb, This Day. The residents in Johnstown paid no attention to the warning of the coming danger, and they might have taken refuge on the high lands adja cent. VVhile laughing at the idea of danger they were in an instant overwhelmed. Hundreds of houses topled from their foundations, floating on the crest of the wave. The flooi dashed them together until they were destroyed while the inmates were shrieking for help. Fears have beon felt as to the safety of the reservoir for more than a year. Damage is estimated at 25 million dollars. The towns of Southw ork, Mineral Point, Woodwall, Amboricaty, Morriaviile, and Sheridan were so completely destroyed that scarcely a building is left standing, and most of the residents have been drowned. For 12 miles round Johnstown, every town, village, railway, telegraph line, mill, and house, has been completely swept out of existence. The floods in Conneinaugh valley are now receding and the weather is clearing in the other parts of the country. Serious floods have occurred, and every river draining from the Allighanies is a raging torrent, and many collieries have been swamped. The railway bridge over the Pottornac at Harper's ferry was only saved by loading it with locomotives. Washington and Eichmond were both over -flowed, and the bridges at Petersburg and Arpotomore all washed away. Belief is being energetically organised for the stricken districts. Two trains on a Penaylvania railroad were swept away and everyone on board drowned. Johnstown was piled up high with debris, to which people flocked for refuge from the raging waters, and by some means it caught fire, and every minute floating houses, crowded with people, were dashed by the torrent into the flames. The railway officials compute that fully 1500 people, poor wretches, were roasted to death.