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