Last Updated on March 29, 2013 by Dennis
The following gallery represents over 60 sketches depicting the horrors of the flood.
How the Coffins Were Carried
In the valley of death
The militia at rest
The lists of missing and dead
Distributing supplies from the relief train
Contributing to the Relief Fund in Philadelphia
Distributing supplies to the destitute
A railroad train delayed by the flood
The Village of Johnstown before the Flood
The remains of Cambria City
Rescues at the signal tower
Rioting
Carrying supplies over the river
Nineveh Station, where two hundred bodies were found
Made orphans by the flood
Taking dead bodies from a roof
Preparations for burial
Carrying children to burial
The river bank
Lynching and drowning thieves
A mother and child perish together
The awful rush of waters
Distributing clothing and other supplies
A crazed soldier commits suicide
Interior of the morgue
General Hastings directing the police
The bridge, where a thousand houses, jambed together, caught fire
The children
Locomotives swimming in the torrent
Firemen on duty at the bridge
Johnstown Flood
Scene on South Clinton Street
A woman’s body lodged in a tree
The Break Two Hundred Feet Wide
Selling damaged goods
Johnstown Flood
The wrecked houses burning at the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge
Map of the district swept by the flood
A father’s despair at the loss of his family
Child found thumping on a wrecked piano
The Johnstown Flood
Timely Warning to Escape.
Valley of the Conemaugh near Johnstown
Johnstown after the Flood
Swept away by the torrent
Swept away on the train
An engineer’s terrific race in the valley of death
Meeting of friends and relatives after the flood
Mother and babe cast up by the waters
Wreck of the Day Express
Encampment of relief parties
Relief for Johnstown – Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Philadelphia
Clearing the Cambria Iron Works
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.
