The following gallery represents over 60 sketches depicting the horrors of the flood.
The Johnstown Flood
Timely Warning to Escape.
Swept away on the train
Preparations for burial
The lists of missing and dead
Clearing the Cambria Iron Works
The river bank
Scene on South Clinton Street
Relief for Johnstown – Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Philadelphia
Wreck of the Day Express
The Break Two Hundred Feet Wide
Johnstown after the Flood
Distributing clothing and other supplies
Distributing supplies to the destitute
Interior of the morgue
Made orphans by the flood
Carrying supplies over the river
Nineveh Station, where two hundred bodies were found
A father’s despair at the loss of his family
The militia at rest
Map of the district swept by the flood
Meeting of friends and relatives after the flood
Taking dead bodies from a roof
The wrecked houses burning at the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge
The Village of Johnstown before the Flood
Johnstown Flood
The awful rush of waters
Child found thumping on a wrecked piano
Johnstown Flood
The remains of Cambria City
An engineer’s terrific race in the valley of death
Lynching and drowning thieves
A railroad train delayed by the flood
A mother and child perish together
Firemen on duty at the bridge
Locomotives swimming in the torrent
The children
How the Coffins Were Carried
Carrying children to burial
In the valley of death
Contributing to the Relief Fund in Philadelphia
General Hastings directing the police
Selling damaged goods
Encampment of relief parties
Distributing supplies from the relief train
Rescues at the signal tower
A crazed soldier commits suicide
Swept away by the torrent
Rioting
Mother and babe cast up by the waters
Valley of the Conemaugh near Johnstown
A woman’s body lodged in a tree
The bridge, where a thousand houses, jambed together, caught fire
Collection: Walker, James Herbert. The Johnstown Horror! or Valley of Death : being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin. H. J. Smith & Co. 1889.
