Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery

The following gallery represents over 60 sketches depicting the horrors of the flood.

The bridge, where a thousand houses, jambed together, caught fire

Map of the district swept by the flood

The awful rush of waters

Preparations for burial

Nineveh Station, where two hundred bodies were found

Made orphans by the flood

Contributing to the Relief Fund in Philadelphia

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 1

A father's despair at the loss of his family — A father’s despair at the loss of his family

Swept away by the torrent

A crazed soldier commits suicide

Taking dead bodies from a roof

Encampment of relief parties

Distributing supplies to the destitute

Child found thumping on a wrecked piano

An engineer's terrific race in the valley of death — An engineer’s terrific race in the valley of death

The militia at rest

Timely Warning to Escape.

The Village of Johnstown before the Flood

Valley of the Conemaugh near Johnstown

Relief for Johnstown - Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Philadelphia — Relief for Johnstown – Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Philadelphia

Rescues at the signal tower

Scene on South Clinton Street

Johnstown Flood

Locomotives swimming in the torrent

Interior of the morgue

Wreck of the Day Express

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 2

The lists of missing and dead

The wrecked houses burning at the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge

The children

Carrying supplies over the river

Rioting

Clearing the Cambria Iron Works

A railroad train delayed by the flood

Johnstown after the Flood

The Break Two Hundred Feet Wide

Johnstown Flood

General Hastings directing the police

Distributing supplies from the relief train

A woman's body lodged in a tree — A woman’s body lodged in a tree

The river bank

The remains of Cambria City

The Johnstown Flood

Distributing clothing and other supplies

Mother and babe cast up by the waters

In the valley of death

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 3

Meeting of friends and relatives after the flood

Carrying children to burial

Swept away on the train

How the Coffins Were Carried

A mother and child perish together

Lynching and drowning thieves

Firemen on duty at the bridge

Selling damaged goods

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