Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery

The following gallery represents over 60 sketches depicting the horrors of the flood.

Taking dead bodies from a roof

Nineveh Station, where two hundred bodies were found

Encampment of relief parties

Interior of the morgue

Wreck of the Day Express

Johnstown after the Flood

Meeting of friends and relatives after the flood

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 1

Child found thumping on a wrecked piano

The wrecked houses burning at the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge

Mother and babe cast up by the waters

Swept away by the torrent

The children

The river bank

Valley of the Conemaugh near Johnstown

Firemen on duty at the bridge

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 2

Preparations for burial

General Hastings directing the police

Distributing supplies to the destitute

Johnstown Flood

Clearing the Cambria Iron Works

Timely Warning to Escape.

Contributing to the Relief Fund in Philadelphia

Carrying children to burial

The Break Two Hundred Feet Wide

Relief for Johnstown - Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Philadelphia — Relief for Johnstown – Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Philadelphia

Distributing clothing and other supplies

Scene on South Clinton Street

Johnstown Flood

Rioting

The Village of Johnstown before the Flood

The awful rush of waters

Locomotives swimming in the torrent

The Johnstown Flood

A father's despair at the loss of his family — A father’s despair at the loss of his family

A woman's body lodged in a tree — A woman’s body lodged in a tree

The remains of Cambria City

Swept away on the train

Made orphans by the flood

A railroad train delayed by the flood

Carrying supplies over the river

The bridge, where a thousand houses, jambed together, caught fire

An engineer's terrific race in the valley of death — An engineer’s terrific race in the valley of death

Johnstown Flood Mosaic Gallery 3

Selling damaged goods

In the valley of death

The militia at rest

Rescues at the signal tower

Distributing supplies from the relief train

The lists of missing and dead

A mother and child perish together

A crazed soldier commits suicide

Lynching and drowning thieves

How the Coffins Were Carried

Map of the district swept by the flood

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