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