Cover
Title Page
Contents
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