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MAP OF THE DELUGED CONEMAUGH DISTRICT.
HISTORY
OF
The Johnstown Flood.
INCLUDING
ALL THE FEARFUL RECORD; THE BREAKING OF THE SOUTH FORK DAM;
THE SWEEPING OUT OF THE CONEMAUGH VALLEY; THE OVER-THROW
OF JOHNSTOWN; THE MASSING OF THE WRECK AT
THE RAILROAD BRIDGE; ESCAPES, RESCUES, SEARCHES
FOR SURVIVORS AND THE DEAD; RELIEF
ORGANIZATIONS, STUPENDOUS CHARITIES,
ETC., ETC.
WITH FULL ACCOUNTS ALSO OF THE
DESTRUCTION ON THE SUSQUEHANNA AND JUNIATA RIVERS, AND THE
BALD EAGLE CREEK.
BY
WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON.
ILLUSTRATED.
EDGEWOOD PUBLISHING CO.,
1889.
Copyright, 1889, by
WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON.
PREFACE.
The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters byflood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenthcentury—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands.Central Pennsylvania, a centre of industry, thrift and comfort, wasdesolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. Onboth sides of the Alleghenies these ravages were felt in terrific power,but on the western slope their terrors were infinitely multiplied by thebursting of the South Fork Reservoir, letting out millions of tons ofwater, which, rushing madly down the rapid descent of the ConemaughValley, washed out all its busy villages and hurled itself in a deadlytorrent on the happy borough of Johnstown. The frightful aggravationswhich followed the coming of this torrent have waked the deepestsympathies of this nation and of the world, and the history is demandedin permanent form, for those of the present day, and for the generationto come.
CONTENTS.
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