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