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