-1:52 P.M.

The AO tower between Mineral Point and East Conemaugh.

Wilson was not perfectly cool about it. From South Fork Wilson had another telegraph sent to Pickerell in Mineral Point which Pickerell received at 1:52 and sent on ahead to East Conemaugh, Johnstown and Pittsburgh.

                                                                                                    SOUTH FORK, MAY 31, 1889

R.P.   [to Robert Pitcairn]                          O.D. VIA MP [Mineral Point] & AO [tower]

THE WATER IS RUNNING OVER THE BREAST OF LAKE DAM, IN CENTER AND WEST SIDE AND IS BECOMING DANGEROUS.

                                                                                         C.P. DOUGHERTY

So one sees that Wilson's commensurate body temp with the circumstances was not channeled into a message, and that to Pitcairn, not Johnstown, that was an unambiguous, e.g. EVACUATE! message. "IS BECOMING DANGEROUS," is too "cool" for the circumstances.  We are one hour and twenty-three minutes from Lake Conemaugh being channeled into the valley, destination Johnstown.