Contents

Cover

Title Page

Map: “Bird’s-Eye View of the Conemaugh Valley”

Prologue: “Mr. Quinn Is Too Fearful”

Part I: Members and Nonmembers

1. Up on the Mountain

2. Down in the Valley

3. How to Make a Lake

4. “No Danger from Our Enterprise”

5. Rain

Part II: When the Dam Broke

6. Tap-Tap-Tap

7. A Monster Unchained

8. Cauldron

9. The Night of the Johnstown Flood

10. Alone in the World

Part III: Justice and Charity

11. Some Convulsion

12. Poor, Lone Woman

13. Frozen with Fear

14. Strict Liability

Epilogue: Song and Story

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources and Further Reading

Bibliography

Index

Photo Section

About the Author

Also by Al Roker

Copyright

About the Publisher