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lives were lost within a few moments.
THE MILL COAL MINE DISASTER.
The mine had always
Rolling Mill coal mine of the Cambria Steel Company, when 114
The third appalling loss of human life in Johnstown occurred on Thursday, July 10, 1902, caused by an explosion of gas in the
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been known as a safe one, and no serious trouble had ever been experienced since it was opened in 1862; it was in bed C, or the Cement seam of coal, which runs from three to five feet in thick- ness. At the time of the accident there were about 650 men working there, taking out 2,600 tons of coal per day. At the moment of the explosion there were about 450 men in the mine, and 150 of them were in the Klondike district. The mine was supplied with all the modern machinery and appliances for safety and was so regarded by all the workmen. A few days before gas had been discovered in small quantities in certain por- tions of the mine, but this was not unusual, as most mines have some; however, special warnings were posted announcing this fact.
The poisonous gas had collected in that part of the mine properly designated as section "No. 6, Right," in the Klondike district, which was opened in 1897. It is about two miles dis- tant from the main entrance on the Stonyereek river, and under- lies the farms of Yost Hochstein and Samuel Harshberger, near Roxbury. About 11:20 a. m. the explosion took place in No. 2 room of sixth right heading off the Main south or Klondike heading. Two men were working in the room with five others in the immediate vicinity, one of whom carelessly lighted a match, and in an instant these lives were taken, excepting a few who lived for a few days.
The machinery for operating the Cappell fan, the com- pressed air and other appliances, is located at the escapement opening at Mill Creek, 3.35 miles from the main entrance. The width of the mine is 1.78 miles, with an area of 2.300 acres, and having 95 miles of low pressure and 4 miles of high pressure pipes for distributing the compressed air.
Immediately after the explosion was heard by the mine foreman and fire bosses, who were outside of the danger line, they formed a rescuing party and started for the Klondike. These heroes were William T. Robinson, mine foreman; Henry L. Rodgers, Griffith Powell, John Retallack, Joseph Tomlinson, John C. Whitney, John R. Thomas, Thomas L. Foster, fire bosses, and William Blanch, foreman of laborers. Five of them who died from the effects of the carbonic oxide gas were: Will- iam Blanch, John R. Thomas, Joseph Tomlinson, John Retal- lack, and John C. Whitney.
Two others. Robinson and Rodgers, became unconscious and fell while in the dark chamber, but were rescued, and two
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others, Powell and Foster, escaped through an old passageway to the Mill creek opening.
These gentlemen had not gone far until they came in con- tact with the deadly current. Whitney was the first to feel its effect, but they all pressed on to give aid to the unfortunate men who might be living. In a few moments Whitney faltered and fell, when Powell and Foster, seeing that his condition was serious, started to take him back, and succeeded in carrying and dragging him for two hundred yards, when he became helpless. They were losing their strength; the deadly current was press- ing them, and they were compelled to lay their friend along the passageway, and make their escape by an abandoned route to Mill Creek.
While Powell and Foster were endeavoring to save Whit- ney as related. Rodgers, Blanch, Retallack, Tomlinson, Thomas and Robinson continued on their mission, and reached cross- heading No. 5 and replaced the brattice. A very strong current of deadly air coming upon them at this point, had its fatal effect on Retallack. Rodgers and Robinson started back with him, but they did not go far until all of them were overpowered and fell, but were resened by parties who had come in from the Mill Creek entrance. However, Retallack did not revive.
Tomlinson left the party at No. 5 to go to No. 4 to cut off the dreadful gas, but he was never seen alive. His body was found the next day, lying between two miners with a hand on each arm of his fellow workmen, as if he had been leading them to pure air and safety.
While Rodgers and Robinson were closing the brattice at No. 5, Thomas and Blanch went on to No. 6 to close others, which are nearer the Klondike, but they, like poor Tomlinson, never returned. The next day their bodies were found among thirty of their companions.
While the men underground were mingling with death, assistance was coming from the outside. Marshall G. Moore, mining engineer, A. G. Prosser, his assistant, and George T. Robinson, superintendent, with Josiah T. Evans, mine in- spector, William H. Morris, John Daniels, John Donaldson, William J. Williams, Charles Crocker and William Gardner, and Drs. Geo. W. Wagoner, B. E. Longwell, H. F. Tomb, Charles E. Hannan, C. B. Millhoff, F. B. Statler, J. S. Taylor, J. B. Woodruff, Emlyn Jones, J. B. Lowman and Dr. Updegraff of Bolivar, with many citizens, arrived at the Mill Creek entrance.
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Rescuing parties were immediately formed, and each started on its route to reach the stricken men. The physicians were carry- ing small tanks of oxygen, strychnia and other remedies to stim- ulate the heart. They remained in the mine until the living were rescued.
On Friday afternoon, about twenty-seven hours after the explosion, the party with whom William Gardner was search- ing, heard a plaintive cry for help from a dark recess where it was almost impossible to see, and upon search they found three men who had apparently lost their reason, with their eyes glistening like demons. Drs. Woodruff and Updegraff gave them stimulants, and food being provided they soon revived sufficiently to tell of their terrible sufferings and how they escaped death. They were not in the path of the current and attempted to reach the outside, but were soon overcome and protected themselves by getting in an old room. The air there soon became poisonous and their powers were fast declining and drowsiness was coming on. One of the men had carried his pick, and discover- ing the compressed air pipe, each one tried to make an opening into it, but their strength was not equal to the task; finally one of them succeeded in getting a small hole in it, when they all huddled around the aperture, gasping for the pure air which came in sufficient quantity to keep life. Again they started to make their escape, but the afterdamp forced them back to where they were found near the hole in the air pipe.
The explosion was among the largest fatal accidents in mine explosions in the history of mining. There were 113 deaths among the employes of the company, and one more-John Steffan, a Slavak-who was in the mine in the search of work. Rev. Martvon, pastor of the Slavak congregation, confirms this statement, and states Steffan was buried from his church. The following is a statement of the number of deaths with their nationality and the widows and orphans who survived. The names of the larger number are complicated and in many in- stances unpronounceable to Americans. In addition to these names, those of Irish parentage were Michael and Philip McCann, William and Daniel Lees of English; Gotfried Hepke, Gustave Lavendrofsky, Michael Sabot and William Shanzek were Germans, and John and Jacob Crook, Americans.
Nationality.
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Orphans
Polish
58
30
49
Slovak
25
18
37
Croatian
11
4
2
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English
5
3
12
German
4
8
Magyar
4
9
Welsh
22
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7
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2
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It was a peculiar explosion; considering the great loss of men, the damage to the mine was insignificant. There was no injury to it except that the doors on both sides of Klondike, of which there were twenty-one, were blown down, and some other stopping's were blown ont, but the doors were not blown to pieces, but thrown flat. The report was indistinct, and many of the workmen did not know it had occurred. One miner working in a room off the fifth right heading stated the concussion knocked him down and extinguished his lamp, but he relit it and went back to work. The men were at work on the follow- ing Monday. The greater number of the victims were found on their way out of the mine with their coats on and their dinner buckets in their hands. Mr. Moore is of the opinion, that had the concussion been more severe it is very probable it would have so alarmed the men working on the left side of Klondike that they would have hastened from the mine without delay, and thus probably reduced the appalling death list by perhaps two- thirds. The Journal of the Franklin Institute for August, 1904, has an excellent article from Mr. Moore, with maps, describ- ing this explosion.
THE BERWIND-WHITE MINE NO. 38 FLOODED.
On Friday afternoon, April 26, 1907, this mine, located about a fourth mile from Foustwell. was flooded, and seven men were penned in a passageway until the following Wednesday. While the men were at work the power suddenly ceased to operate the machinery. Michael Bolya, the very intelligent foreman, believed that a fuse had burned out, but sent one of his men to ascertain. He soon returned in haste with the as- tounding news that the water was pouring into the mine from an interior source. Bolya was familiar with the passageways and rooms, immediately collected his six associates, who were John Milhaly, John Hanas, Andrew Vartjin, Frank Susanj, Mike Slavic and George Mihaly, and started for the highest point in the mine, with their empty dinner pails and lamps. The
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water overtook them, but did not rise high enough to touch them at the point of safety.
Superintendent Daniel Thomas immediately set powerful pumps to work. which saved the men, but they were not able to reach them until the next Wednesday, during which time they had no food, but had found pure water dripping from the roof. On Friday Bolya kept tapping the air pipes to inform those on the outside they were living, but could not get a response until Saturday morning, when the welcome noise was heard that their signal was understood. The water was almost to the roof of the main passageway, and Bolya tried to run ten cars through it hoping to be able to crawl over them, but it did not succeed. Each of the men had a small miner's lamp, and by keeping one burning at a time had sufficient oil to prevent total darkness. They could do nothing except wait at the high place for outside assistance. Many efforts were made to reach them, but ali failed until on Wednesday Charles Ream made the attempt by wading through the water to his neck. Finding a most serious obstacle where the water almost came to a timber across the way, he placed his lamp on top of it and dived under; then re-taking his lamp he found the imprisoned men, and led them out the way lie had entered.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was incorporated by an Act of Assembly dated April 13, 1846. Among the commis- sioners named in the act to carry it into effect were John Lin- ton, William A. Smith, John Matthews, John Fenlon, Peter Levergood, Edward Shoemaker, Stephen Lloyd and Richard Lewis from Cambria county. Whenever they succeeded in get- ting subscriptions of $7,500,000 to the capital stock, and the sum of five dollars paid on each of the 150,000 shares at $50 par value, the governor was authorized to issue the charter. There was great difficulty in raising that much money. The company was permitted to increase the capital to $10,000,000, for addi- tional improvements. It was a single line road at first, but as rapidly as was possible was made a double track, although across the bridge, where the stone bridge now stands, west of the Johns- town station, it was a single line until about 1862.
It was constructed in sections. On September 17, 1850, it was completed from Harrisburg to the "Mountain House," a mile east of Hollidaysburg, where it connected with the Portage railroad over the mountains to Johnstown. In August, 1851, a
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section of twenty-one miles west from Johnstown was com- pleted, and with the portion constructed east from Pittsburg, left a gap of twenty-eight miles, which was closed on Decem- ber 10, 1852, when cars were run through from Pittsburg to Philadelphia, by using a part of the Portage road. Until 1851 through traffic was transferred from the Pennsylvania railroad to the Portage road at Johnstown, but after the section to Lock- port was completed that year the transfer was made at that place. Passengers and freight were transferred by teams from Beatty's station to Lockport. The road from Conemaugh to South Fork was used by the Pennsylvania railroad, and the Portage railroad. which were connected by a bridge constructed across the Conemaugh river just west of the overhead bridge at that place. The transfers of cars were made at the basin. The old bridge was taken down about 1875.
In 1854 the net earnings were $1,462,376; in 1874, $15,029,- 077, and in 1905, $40,531,582.
The old Pennsylvania railroad tunnel at Gallitzin was com- menced October 14, 1851, by Thomas Seabrooke, the principal engineer. It is 3,612 feet in length, and was used as a double track roadway until 1898, when the cars and engines being made too large to allow for two tracks, the Portage tunnel, which was completed about 1855, was relined and two tracks laid through it for the eastbound traffic. Its length is 1,630 feet. The old tunnel was used for the westbound travel until the new single line tunnel was completed in May, 1904, by W. II. Brown, chief engineer; C. S. d'Invilliers, engineer of construc- tion, and P. F. Brendlinger, the contractor. The first tunnel was completed early in 1854, and on February 15 of that year the first train was run through from Pittsburg to Philadelphia over its own line, with the late Thomas Clark of Pittsburg, formerly of Johnstown, as the conductor.
George W. Munson was the first agent at Johnstown. The freight and passenger station stood near the location of the old freight station until some time during the war, when the pas- senger depot was moved to its present site. When the road opened for through all-rail business on February 15, 1854, Mr. Munson was also the Adams Express agent. In December of that year there were but two passenger trains each way daily, except Sunday, when there was but one train, and in 1856 the trains each way had been increased to three. The fare at that time was two and a half cents per mile, costing $1 to kilpona ;
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$4.25 to Harrisburg; $6.95 to Philadelphia, and $1.95 to Pitts- burg. There were but two daily mails each way, except on Sunday, when there was none. The mail to Somerset was tri- weekly, and to Berlin but once a week. In March, 1857, there was a reduction of passenger trains to two each way, which con- tinued until the following February, when the Johnstown ac- commodation was added, which made the run to Pittsburg in four hours. In August, 1859, there were three through trains and two locals each way. On January 1, 1860, John B. Henry succeeded Mr. Munson, and in June, 1864, Robert G. Given was his successor, who continued until F. S. Deckert assumed the position, September 1, 1868. Mr. Deckert acted as such until 1870, when Thomas H. Nichols was appointed the passenger agent, and Mr. Deckert remained as freight agent until May 21. 1901, when he was succeeded by John J. Bowden, and Mr. Deckert became the passenger agent. On the death of Mr. Nichols, John L. Mcclellan was appointed passenger agent, who in time was succeeded by W. A. Donaldson, Charles Buchanar and Thomas H. Watt, who was appointed in March, 1889, and resigned November 17, 1900, when Mr. Bowden took his place, and continued until the exchange was made with Mr. Deckert.
It is probable the most remarkable accident ever occurring on any railroad happened on the Pennsylvania road, about three-fourths of a mile west of Mineral Point, and about six miles east of Johnstown, about 2:30 in the morning of February 23, 1907. The train was the Chicago Limited, commonly called the "Flyer," in charge of J. D. Smail, engineman, and M. W. Forbes, conductor, and which makes the run between New York and Chicago in eighteen hours. It consisted of three Pull- man vestibuled sleeping cars and a combination baggage car, and was making its usual speed of fifty-three miles per hour down the mountain. Suddenly the cars left the track and ran along the rails for about a hundred yards, when the three sleep- ing cars slid over a forty-foot embankment with a slope of about a foot and a half to one, on to the ice in the Little Cone- maugh river. There were fifty-four passengers in the cars, and the crew, and nobody was killed. One or two passengers were seriously injured, but not fatally, and several were bruised, but the marvelous feature is that it did not cause a single death. The weather was intensely cold; the ground was frozen so that the cars skidded over it, and the ice was so thick the cars did not break it. The general belief is that the accident was caused by
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the dropping of a brake rigging on the tender, which threw the cars off the track altho the engine did not leave the rails.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad constructed the Somerset & Cambria railroad as a branch of its Pittsburg division, which extends from Pittsburg to Cumberland, with the point of inter- section at Rockwood, a distance of 45.1 miles from Johnstown. The track was completed between these points on December 16, 1880, and the first passenger train over it left Johnstown on May 23, 1881, in charge of Conductor Smutz and Engineer Day- ton. There was but one passenger train on the branch leaving Johnstown at 10:20 a. m. and returning at 9:18 p. m. It is a single line road and has a heavy grade to Geiger's Summit, the point where the proposed South Penn railroad crosses it. The several elevations are: Sea level at Johnstown, 1,170 feet; Ferndale, 1,190; Kring's, 1,239; Hooversville, 1,671; Stoyes- town, 1,771 ; Geiger's Summit, 2,204; Somerset, 2,101, and Rock- wood, 1,808.
The Beech Creek railroad, operated by the New York Cen- tral railroad, extends from Williamsport to Rossiter Junction, where it connects with the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad. A joint line between Mahaffy and Patton, which has been extended to Cherry Tree and Westover, between the New York Central railroad and the Pennsylvania railroad, has been constructed especially to take out the coal. The first shipment of coal over the New York Central which reaches the main line of the latter company at Geneva and Lyons, between Rochester and Syracuse, was on September 1, 1893.
In the chapter on Rivers and Rafting the cutting and mar- keting of the white pine timber in the north of the county has been noted. The Tribune for March 22, 1861, in referring to the lumber trade, says: "We are told that Clearfield creek and its tributary streams are filled for miles with logs cut in this county and intended to be floated out into the Susquehanna, and thence to different points. The creek is so compactly filled in many places as to be completely bridged." There are still a few small tracts of virgin white pine in Carroll and Barr town- ships, and a little in Allegheny. About 1870 white pine was sawed and hauled to Ebensburg, where it was sold for $14 to $18 per thousand.
Thomas Griffith began to deal in hard woods as early as 1850, and at his death was probably the largest hard wood dealer
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in the country. In August, 1879, the hard wood timber on the lands of the William M. Lloyd estate, in the northern part of the country was sold at public sale. The pine, cherry, poplar and ash on 233 acres were sold at the rate of $2.65 per thousand feet, board measure. The white oak on abont 1,000 acres brought two cents per cubic foot, and the red oak on the stump one dollar per thousand.
The mountains were well filled with hemlock, which was sold as low as five dollars per thousand feet delivered on the cars or brought into Johnstown or Ebensburg, but at the present it is selling for $22 per thousand. In the decade following 1850 there was a fair market for oak, cherry. ash and poplar lumber ; maple and birch have been in demand since 1887, and beech for the past seven years.
As early as 1852 the oak forests of this county attracted the manufacturers of hogsheads for the molasses and sugar trade from the West Indies. That year Charles N. Peary, and two years later, A. A. Barker and other gentlemen from the New England states, came here and established "shook shops" wherever good oak could be secured, especially at Jolmstown, Conemaugh and Carrolltown. A bundle of shook consisted of enough staves to form a hogshead, which had been shaved and put together and prepared for everything but the heads, and then taken apart and bound with hickory to facilitate their transportation. At the end of fifteen years the shook trade began to decline, and in 1875 it had altogether ceased to be a factor in the limber business.
INDEX
Adams, Ann, Rachel, Samuel and Sol- omon. 22, 67, 71, 94, 193, 535. Adams Township, 39. Addison, Judge Alexander, 145. Allegheny Portage Railroad, 348. Allegheny Township, 36, 120. Amsbry, 218. Aqueduct, 3.40. Ashville, 41, 218. Associate Judges, 140. Attorneys, 141, 156, 174.
Baltimore & Ohio R. R., 464, 471. Barker, A. A., 112, 129, 130, 188, 191, 386. Barker, A. V., 154. Barnesboro, 42. Barnes, John F., 163, 172. Barr, William, 573. Barr Township, 39.
Barton, Clara, 472, 532.
Basin, Canal, 332. Bell, Smith & Co., 284, 414. Beaver Dam Run, 219, 226, 230.
Beaver, Gov. James A., 125, 252, 292, 472, 485. Bedford County, 29. Bedford Road, 93. Bedford and Somerset Pike, 98. Bedford and Stoyestown Pike, 98. Beech Creek R. R., 589.
Benscreek, 235. Berwind-White Mine, 585. Bessemer Steel, 426. Beula, 97, 204. Beula Road, 97. Blacklick Creek, 215. Black, Judge J. S., 147, 181. Blacklick Township, 39. Blubaker Creek, 215, 579. Board of Inquiry, 481. Board of Trade, 247, 323. Boroughs, 41. Braddock, General, 13. Brazilian Expedition, 539. Bridges, Conemaugh River, 224, 225, 316, 318, 320, 321, 422, 466, 470. Bridges, Stonycreek River, 312, 316, 317, 318, 320, 321. Brothers' Valley Township, 29, 33. Burgoon's Gap, 92. Burrell, Judge J. M., 147.
Cambria Borough, 42, 258. Cambria & Clearfield R. R., 575. Cambria County, 34, 576. Cambria Iron Company, 400, 418, 465. Cambria Steel Company, 437, 531.
Cambria Township, 31, 39, 120. Campbell, Charles, 14, 94, 302. Campbell, Gen. J. M., 112, 130. Canal, 330, 343, 346. Canan, Moses, 140, 184, 369, 377, 509, 537. Canoe Place. 92, 290.
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, 77. Carrolltown, 42. Carroll Township, 39.
Charter of Johnstown, 252.
Cherry Tree, 188, 290.
Chest Creek, 214, 215.
Chest Manor, 292. Chest Springs, 42.
Chest Township, 39.
Clear Fields, 55, 218.
Clearfield Township,. 39.
Clearfield Creek, 214, 216, 220. Coal, 573, 575.
Coke, 573, 579. Collins Family, 112, 135, 224, 381, 538.
Colonial Currency, Value of, 173.
Conemaugh Borough, 42, 241, 256.
Conemaugh River, 38, 221, 237. Conemaugh Township, 36, 39, 120.
Congressmen, 127. Conway, William B., 377.
Coopersdale, 42, 260. Courts, 126, 143. County Seat Contests, 155, 157, 158.
Cover, Adam, 304, 542.
Cresson, 42, 222.
Cresson Township, 39.
Croyle's Mill, 99, 225, 543. Croyle Township, 39, 573.
Dale Borough, 42. Daisytown Borough, 42. Dean Township, 39. Dean, Judge John, 151.
Dibert, John, 308.
Discovery of Coal, 573.
District Attorneys, 141. District Court, 155.
East Conemaugh Borough, 42, 467. East Taylor Township, 39. Ebensburg, 29, 43, 100, 204, 205. Elder Township, 40. Elder's Mill, 94. Elevations, 228, 315, 327. Explosion, 584.
Fall P. R. R. Platform, 448. Farragut, Admiral D. G., 275. Ferndale Borough, 43. Flick, Dr. L. F., 511.
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Flood Commission, 474.
Floods at Johnstown, 314, 345, 457, 527.
Forbes. Road, 26.
Fort Hill, 220.
Fort, Col. Boquet, 231.
Fox's Fording, 101.
Franklin Borough, 43, 468.
Frankstown Road, 94, 96.
Frankstown Township, 32.
Fritz, George, 427.
Fritz, John, 422. Fulton, John, 579.
Galbreath, Robert, 94, 95.
Gallitzin Borough, 43, 587.
Gallitzin, Rev. D. A., 43, 72, 509, 535.
Gallitzin Township, 40.
Gautier Department, C. S. Co., 431.
Geary, Gov. John W., 124, 159, 234, 244, 274, 318, 449.
Goughnour Family, 70, 201, 544.
Governors, 119.
Grant, Gen. U. S., 275.
Greeley, Horace, 275.
Griffith, Thomas, 589. Grubbtown, 43, 256.
Hamilton, Robert, 305.
Harrison, Benj., 275, 496.
Hastings Borough, 43.
Hastings, Gov. D. H., 43, 125, 315, 396, 472, 502. Haynes, Joseph, 307.
Hinckston's Run, 237.
Hite, A. J., 283.
Holder, Betsy, 177.
Horner, John, 293, 301, 546.
Hospitals, 532.
Huntingdon County, 30.
Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana
Pike, 98.
Indians, 2, 46, 51. Indians, Shawonese, 48. Indians, Susquehannagh, 9. Indian Trails, 91.
Jackson Township, 40.
Johns, Joseph, I, 79, 202, 240, 261, 302, 547.
Johns, Joseph, II, 84.
Johns, Joseph, III, 86.
Johnstown, 43, 240, 248. Johnson Street Steel Railway Co., 465. Johnson, Tom L., 310, 482. Johnston, Judge R. L., 112, 129, 138, 153, 156, 179, 255, 376, 381, 455. Jones, William R., 428. Judges, 126, 144, 173. Judicial Districts, 143, 173.
Kernville Bridge, 317. Kern, George W., 246, 282, 283, 307. Kickanepaling, 60, 93. Kittanning Trail, 92. King, George S., 135, 246, 247, 278, 308, 400.
Kopelin, Abraham, 156, 160, 179, 247, 440, 455. Knox, Judge John C., 149. Knox, Philander C., 259.
Land Titles, 290.
Laurel Run, 219, 237. Lee, Benjamin, 469, 495.
Levergood, Peter, 129, 133, 134, 246, 302, 304, 357, 548. Lilly Borough, 43. Linton, Ann, 573. Linton, John, 134, 138, 171, 281, 283, 340, 550.
Linton, Col. John P., 112, 129, 135, 156, 287, 551.
Lloyd, Rev. Rees, 205, 549.
Locks on Canal, 343.
Lorain Steel Company, 465.
Loretto, 43, 209.
Lower Yoder Township, 40.
Loyalhanna River, 194. Lumber, 573.
Maclay's, Samuel, diary, 194. McConaughy, James P., 305.
McGuire, Captain Michael, 73, 78, 94, 95.
McGuire, Captain Richard, 79.
McLanahan, James, 304.
Maps, Chest Manor, 292.
Maps, Howell's, 25.
Maps, Hudson and Morrison, 37.
Maps, Indian Purchases, 15.
Maps, Johnstown, 242, 253, 261.
Maps, Joseph Johns' Plot, 242.
Maps, Scull's, 7, 10.
Maps, Township, 40.
Magehan, Michael Dan, 114, 377.
Marshall, Judge John, 183.
Market House, 272.
Mason and Dixon's Line, 23.
Medical Profession, 494, 509, 530.
Memorial Hospital, 532.
Millville Borough, 43, 257.
Miller Seam of Coal, 577.
Mill Coal Mine Disaster, 581.
Miners' Strike, 429. Morrell, Daniel J., 43, 112, 129, 259, 305, 415, 432.
Morrellville Borough, 43, 258.
Moxham, 258.
Moxham, A. J., 248, 309, 464, 469.
Municipal Building, 272.
Munson, George W., 587.
Munster, 210.
Munster Township, 40.
Murray, Charles, 573.
Murphy, Robert S., 142, 248.
Myers, Matthews, 573. Myers, Michael, 573.
National Guards, 473. National Pike, 98. Navigable Streams, 180. Newspapers, 367.
O'Connor, Judge F. J., 155.
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INDEX.
Officers, Executive, Johnstown, 264.
246,
Old Families, 535.
Paint Creek, 235.
Patton Borough, 43, 215.
Penn, William; 1.
Pennsylvania Canal. 330. Pennsylvania Railroad, 357, 465-471, 575. 586.
Pershing, Cyrus L., 124, 135, 156, 163, 179, 285, 287, 384, 455, 515.
Phillipsburg Road, 99. Physicians, 494, 509, 530.
Platform, Fall of, 448.
Political Review, 102.
Pontoon Bridges, 470.
Population. 265, 279.
Poplar Street Bridge, 318, 457.
Portage Borough, 44.
Portage Railroads, 331, 347.
Portage Township, 41.
Postmasters, 207, 283.
Post Office, 281. Potts, Judge James, 156, 159, 162, 169, 171. 377, 440. Presidents, 103, 275.
Proctor, Jesse, 556. Prospect Borongh, 43, 257, 419.
Prothonotaries, 138.
Public Square, 271. 272.
Purchase, Susquehanna, S.
Quemahoning Trail, 93. Quemahoning Township, 30. Quemahoning Run, 233.
Rafting. 211. Railroads, 573. Reade Township, 41. Ream, Garrett, 100. Recorders, 139.
Red Cross Association, 472, 532. Registers, 139. Representatives, 132. Removal Contests, 155, 157, 158. Rhey & Matthews, 289, 307. 418, 419. Rhys, Rev. Morgan John, 204, 535. Richland Township, 41. Rivers at Johnstown, 311, 324. Rivers and Rafting, 211. Roads, 26, 98. Roberts, George, 140, 185, 206, 558. Rockingham Furnace, 235. Rosedale Borough, 44. Rose, Wesley J., 287, 561. Rose, William H., 135, 141, 156, 158, 247, 252, 254, 390, 516, 561. Roxbury, 44.
Sankertown Borough, 44. Scalp Level, 44. Schwab, Charles M., 424. Scott, James B., 472. Scott, Winfield, 275. Senators, State, 130. Settlements, First, 193. Seward, William H., 275.
Shade Furnace, 234. Sharpsburg, 305. Sheriffs, 137. Shcenberger, Peter, 403. . Shryock, John K. and William L., 171, 403. Smith, George Nelson, 112, 135, 377, 382. Slavery Days, 186. Somerset County, 30.
Somerset & Conemaugh Pike, 98.
South Fork, 44.
South Fork Dam, 226.
Spangler Borough, 44, 211.
Special Legislation, 176. Stineman, J. C., 132, 136, 138, 567.
Stonycreek River, 229.
Sionycreek Township, 41.
Storm's Mill, 208. Stoyestown & Greensburg Pike, 98.
Streams, Navigable, 180.
Summerhill Borough, 44.
Summerhill Township, 36.
Summitville Borough, 44.
Suppes, Conrad, 306.
Surveys, 269. Susquehannagh Indians, 9. Susquehanna River, 2, 211.
Susquehanna Township, 41.
Suter, John P., 115, 449.
Swank, George T., 159, 283, 372, 431. Swank, James M., 112, 201, 236, 288, 371, 383.
Taylor, Judge George, 150, 156, 179. Terry, Rev. S. H., 164.
Thomas, Daniel, 586.
Tiley, William, 573.
Titles to Land, 291.
Tunnelhill Borough, 44.
Tunnel on Portage Railroad, 361.
Underground Railroad, 186. Upper Yoder Township, 41.
Viaduct, 361, 466.
Vickroy, Edwin A., 112, 568.
Vickroy, Thomas, 43, 69, 309.
Von Lunen, Carl, Sr., 309.
Von Lunen, Louis, 573.
Wages on Portage Railroad, 354, 366. War, Revolutionary, 16. Washington Grays, 171. Washington Township, 41. Weiser, Conrad. 11, 55.
Westmont, 44. West Taylor Township, 41.
Whiskey Rebellion, 24. White, Judge Thomas, 147, 177.
White Township, 41.
Wilmore, 44. Wipey, Joe. 65. Wood, Morrell & Company, 414. Woodvale Borough, 45, 257.
Young, Judge John, 146. Zouave Hall, 276.
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