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