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