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