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Cover Acknowledgments THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX About the Author By David McCullough Illustrations
Johnstown One of the few surviving photographs of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club shows two lake-side boathouses, boardwalks, a rowboat planted with flowers (at lower left) and several cottage fronts. The Moorhead house, once among the finest “cottages” on Lake Conemaugh, stands today at the edge of St. Michael, a coal town that, years after the flood, grew up around the abandoned summer colony. The heroic “resident engineer” at the club, John G . Parke, Jr. At left below, a small railing marks the crest of South Fork dam, the immense ends of which still stand above South Fork Creek. From railing to distant rooftops (the town of St. Michael) was once the ... FOUR MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH FORK FISHING AND HUNTING CLUB (Clockwise from top left) Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Robert Pitcairn, Philander C. Knox FOUR OF JOHNSTOWN’S LEADING CITIZENS (Clockwise from top left) Daniel J . Morrell, John Fulton, Captain Bill Jones, Tom L . Johnson A wide-angle view of Johnstown taken on the day before the flood gives the valley a broader look than it actually has, makes the hills appear too low-lying, but shows such principal features as the St... This view was taken from the same point several months after the flood and shows the extent of damage to the lower part of Johnstown (at left) and Kernville. Not shown are Woodvale (which sits in the ... With dozens of displaced buildings and tons of debris piled up behind it, the big stone Methodist church (at upper left in the view above) stands unmoved, looking over the desolation of lower Johnstow... A favorite subject for the swarms of photographers who rushed to cover the disaster was the house belonging to John Schultz. It had been neatly skewered by a huge tree and then dumped down near the Po... The photograph at right is almost certainly a fake. Though hundreds of corpses were strewn among the wreckage, few were found looking quite so neat and clean as this barefoot “victim,” and by the time... A view taken less than 24 hours after the flood shows the Cambria Iron offices (the big buildings on the left) and the swamped ruins of the city beyond. A t far right is part of the depot. Two Cambria... Weeks after the flood, workmen tackle the last remains of the debris piled against the Pennsylvania Railroad's massive stone bridge. In a view from above the Stony Creek, looking toward the Point (the stone bridge and the mills can be seen faintly in the distance), a slim island of surviving houses stands amid acres of mud and ruin... Gertrude Quinn, at the age of 5. This photograph was one of the few Quinn family possessions to survive the flood. Victor Heiser as he looked at 19, three years after the flood, when he had left Johnstown to begin his college education. For Richard Harding Davis, the flood was the first big assignment in a long, colorful career as roving reporter and author. For Clara Barton, “Angel of the Battlefield,” the flood was the first great test of her newly organized American Red Cross. ebook_33.html With their houses swept away, their money and belongings all gone, many families “made do” in rough hillside shelters such as these, built and furnished with the best they could scavenge from the deva... At the center of town, where the militia had set up camp, a young sentry stands guard while a survivor signs up for relief rations. The body of a child is carried into the Adams Street schoolhouse, a temporary morgue where 301 bodies were recorded in the log books. An artist’s drawing of the broken dam, seen from inside the empty reservoir, shows the spillway (at far right) and the bridge that crossed it. The breach in the dam was about 420 feet across the top. At the Pennsylvania depot survivors crowd one of the several commissaries set up by volunteers from Pittsburgh and other nearby towns. Scenes such as the one above and at left below were repeated many times, as survivors searched among the dead, or suddenly found a lost loved one among the living. But the illustration at right below,... ebook_40.html ebook_41.html At Grandview Cemetery, on a high hill above Johnstown, hundreds of plain marble headstones mark the graves of the flood’s unknown dead.
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