Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery

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

Johnstown after the Flood

Johnstown Flood

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

Distributing supplies from the relief train

Timely Warning to Escape.

Swept away by the torrent

Rioting

The Break Two Hundred Feet Wide

The Village of Johnstown before the Flood

Contributing to the Relief Fund in Philadelphia

Selling damaged goods

Rescues at the signal tower

The children

Made orphans by the flood

The river bank

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 1

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

Valley of the Conemaugh near Johnstown

Swept away on the train

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 2

Interior of the morgue

Encampment of relief parties

Taking dead bodies from a roof

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

A mother and child perish together

Distributing supplies to the destitute

Clearing the Cambria Iron Works

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

Johnstown Flood

A crazed soldier commits suicide

The militia at rest

Locomotives swimming in the torrent

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 3

Wreck of the Day Express

Mother and babe cast up by the waters

A railroad train delayed by the flood

Lynching and drowning thieves

Preparations for burial

Carrying supplies over the river

The awful rush of waters

The remains of Cambria City

Nineveh Station, where two hundred bodies were found

Child found thumping on a wrecked piano

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

In the valley of death

Firemen on duty at the bridge

The wrecked houses burning at the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge

General Hastings directing the police

Scene on South Clinton Street

Meeting of friends and relatives after the flood

The lists of missing and dead

The Johnstown Flood

How the Coffins Were Carried

Distributing clothing and other supplies

Map of the district swept by the flood

Carrying children to burial

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