The Johnstown flood a thriving city of 30,000 inhabitants and many great industrial establishments nearly wiped from earth . . . : the above narrative is gathered from the accounts of correspondents, eyewitnesses, refugees from the unfortunate district, and other sources, and is a most clear and interesting narrative of this terrible catastrophe
"Many thousands drowned or burned to death ; property worth many millions of dollars destroyed. An avalanche of water sweeps down the Conemaugh Valley destroying everything in its descent. A blockade of wrecks of houses, timber, etc., at the railroad bridge ; miraculous escapes and rescues ; whole f...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Johnstown flood : |b a thriving city of 30,000 inhabitants and many great industrial establishments nearly wiped from earth . . . : the above narrative is gathered from the accounts of correspondents, eyewitnesses, refugees from the unfortunate district, and other sources, and is a most clear and interesting narrative of this terrible catastrophe / |c by Herman Dieck, A.M. |
| 260 | |a [Philadelphia : |b J.C. McCurdy & Co., |c 1889.] | ||
| 300 | |a 224 pages : |b illustrations, map ; |c 19 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a The illustrations (p. [9]-[24]) are bound before p. [1]. | ||
| 500 | |a Contains 19 chapters with chapter 19 designated in table of contents and in text as "Chapter XVIV." Last sub-heading in chapter 19 is "How France has suffered." | ||
| 505 | 0 | |g CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks. -- A Similar Catastrophe never before Occurred in the United States. -- The Cause of the Calamity. -- The Dam of Conemaugh Lake. -- The Largest Reservoir of the World. -- Construction of the Unsafe Dam. -- Ignorance or Carelessness shown in the Construction. -- Location of Johnstown. -- Its Industrial Importance. -- The Lower Towns. |g CHAPTER II. Difficulties Surmounted by Correspondents in Obtaining Intelligent Information about the Disaster. -- The First Reports were not Exaggerated. -- The Facts bear them out, and are Even Worse. -- Another Account of the Dam that Broke. -- The Watchman's Views. |g CHAPTER III. A Graphic Description of the Valley of Death, by a Reporter who was among the First to Enter Johnstown after the Catastrophe. -- Death Everywhere. -- A Charnel House Twenty Miles Long. -- Sixty Acres of Burning Debris. -- The Loss of Life and Property. -- What a Reporter of the Public Ledger saw. -- The Horror of Fire added to that of Water. -- Bodies along the River Banks. -- Heartrending Scenes. -- Ruffianism. -- Scenes on Stony Bridge. -- In Johnstown. -- The Loss of Life. |g CHAPTER IV. Impossibility of Obtaining a Fair Report of the Actual Losses. -- A Viat to the Dam that did it. -- The Water Gates Permanently Closed. -- It was Built of Dirt and Rubble. |g CHAPTER V. The Break of the Dam. -- A Spoiled Sensation. -- Paul Revere nonest, but many other Cases of Heroism. -- A Graphic Description of the Disaster. -- Railroad Employees Escape on a Locomotive. -- The Masses of Water Arrive at Johnstown. -- Terrible Destruction. -- A Once Prosperous City now Nearly Ruined. -- Johnstown Before and After the Disaster. |g CHAPTER VI. The Gorge at the Bridge. -- Description of an Eye Witness. -- Unheeded Warnings. -- Breaking of the Boom. -- Roasted to Death. -- Heroism and Self-sacrifice. -- Her Last Message. -- A Boy's Experience. -- Miraculous Escape. -- Refused to Desert Her Children. |g CHAPTER VII. Remarkable Stories of Escape. -- A Mother's Efforts to Save Her Children. -- A Terrible Visitation. -- A Thrilling Narrative of the Flood. -- Race between Engine and Flood. |g CHAPTER VIII. Destruction and Death Everywhere. -- The Day Express Disaster. -- The Pennsylvania Railroad's Last Train. |g CHAPTER IX. After the Flood. -- A Proclamation by the Governor of Pennsylvania. -- Conservative Estimate of the Losses. -- An Appeal for Aid. -- The Situation of the Conemaugh Valley. -- What Followed the Break of the Dam. |g CHAPTER X. Relief for the Afflicted from all Parts of the Globe. -- Unprecedented Calamity and Grand Charity. -- Arrival of Relief Trains. -- Great Energy Shown by the Sufferers. |g CHAPTER XI. The Orphans of the Flood will be cared for. -- At the Relief Station. -- The Grand Army in charge of the Work of Receiving and Dispensing Supplies. |g CHAPTER XII. Johnstown People Crazed by their Sufferings. -- Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania Visits Johnstown. -- General Hastings in Command. -- Districting the Ruined Area. -- Several Stores Opened. -- Latest Estimate of Loss of Life. -- Passengers Lost from the Day Express. |g CHAPTER XIII. A New Ray of Hope. -- Rehabilitation. -- Merchants to get long Credit. -- Report of the Transportation Bureau. -- A Generous Offer made by Philadelphia Bankers: The Relief Committee. |g CHAPTER XIV. Inundations and Destruction of Life and Property in other parts of Pennsylvania. -- The Bald Eagle Valley in Centre County. -- Muncy. -- The Juniata and the Susquehanna Valley. -- Lock Haven. -- Newport. -- Harrisburg. -- Renovo. -- Columbia. McKean County. -- Sunbury. -- Bedford. |g CHAPTER XV. The Flood at Williamsport. -- Loss of Life and Property. -- Thirty Persons Drowned. -- Damages to Buildings and Contents. -- Millions of feet of Lumber Carried Away. -- Sufferings Among the People, whose Houses were Destroyed by the Flood. -- The Bell's Gap Road. -- Huntingdon County. -- 300 Houses Destroyed, In the Cumberland Valley. -- Tyrone. |g CHAPTER XVI. Disasters and Floods Everywhere. -- Cumberland. -- Harper's Ferry. -- Point of Rocks Inundated, The Potomac Floods. -- At Washington, D. C. Frederick and Port Deposit, Md. -- Lancaster and Shamokin Pa. -- Richmond, Va. -- Etc. |g CHAPTER XVII. The Countless Benevolence of the American People. -- The Clouds are Passing Away. -- From 5000 to 7000 People Perished during this Calamity. -- A Retrospect. -- The Reporters and the Telegraph Operators. |g CHAPTER XVIII. Back to the Fated Valley. -- Up at the Mighty Dam. -- Homes Once More. -- The Epidemic. -- The Commission at Hand. -- A Bank Open. -- Another Sabbath. -- The Red Cross Relief. |g CHAPTER XVIV. Floods of History. -- In Holland and China. -- How France has Suffered. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a "Many thousands drowned or burned to death ; property worth many millions of dollars destroyed. An avalanche of water sweeps down the Conemaugh Valley destroying everything in its descent. A blockade of wrecks of houses, timber, etc., at the railroad bridge ; miraculous escapes and rescues ; whole families anhilated. The wonderful benevolence of the American people, relief organizations everywhere ; money, food, clothing and furniture lavishly contributed. General Hastings in command in Johnstown." The above narrative is gathered from the accounts of correspondents, eyewitnesses, refugees from the unfortunate district, and other sources, and is a most clear and interesting narrative of this terrible catastrophe. | |
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