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