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