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