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