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