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