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