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Died. John H. Waters, 74, president of National Radiator Corp., of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered at the Treasury Department during a hearing on the reorganization of Johnstown, Pa.'s. United States National Bank, of which he was president; in Washington...
...Revere") Parke, 67, chief engineer of Pittsburgh Steel Co. who in 1889 galloped down Pennsylvania's Conemaugh Valley warning the people of the imminent water wall, half a mile wide, 20 ft. high, hurling a spearhead of trees, houses, machinery, rocks, tangled barbed wire and human bodies toward Johnstown (dead: 2,000); after long illness; in Monessen...
...that to survey a right of way for the Mexican National Railway. In 1883 he went to the Pennsylvania and began to make himself known. He could speedily dig out traffic stalled in snowdrifts; he reconstructed in short order a section of the main line washed out by the Johnstown flood. At 38 he was jumped over a dozen heads to the job of General Manager West of Pittsburgh. When the Pennsylvania bought the dilapidated Baltimore & Ohio, Leonor Loree was sent in as president...
...when I played host for my fellow townsmen when I invited the Bonus Army here, as I have often said I invited the officers and God sent the Army, well I and many others of this city are still thanking God for sending us the Army. We of Johnstown have now partly paid our debt to those who sent us help at a time when we needed it. that time was May 31, 1889 when we were visited with the flood that caused some 4,000 or more to be drowned. . . . Now Mr. Editor the sentence reads-'Eddie McCloskey...
EDDIE MCCLOSKEY Mayor,Executive Office Johnstown...