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