Vast Johnstown Flood Destruction Figures in United States Calamity
A witness recounts the Johnstown disaster with vivid proximity to the South Fork and Conemaugh floods. Railroads and bridges washed away, Cambria City wrecked, homes and mills leveled, and thousands perished as fire followed the torrent. Rescue trains forced through debris, families scattered, and morgues overflowed with victims as the valley bears the immense toll.
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Cambria City
Cambria
Atending
Milla
Walla
Dawa
Moloch Hai
Desolation Reveals Great Conemaugh Disaster Wreckage
Eyewitness account describes widespread destruction along Conemaugh valley after the flood. Wreckage includes four tenders in the defile, wrecked freight and passenger cars, engines 1302 and 447, and a Day Express section, with many bodies recovered and scenes of mud, sand, and mangled iron. The narrative details the ruined village Conemaugh, the vanished fences, and the lingering horror of the flood’s toll.
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Morrillville
Aobort
Mojetul
Nancy
Pas
Woodvale
Pee Reader
Coma
Cawbris Company
Georea Henderson
Conemangh
Conemaugh
Chicago
Gong Se
Jeancy
Arlanda
A Visit to the Dam 2 Did Not Give Way to Prosare War
Eyewitness account describes the failure of an embankment dam during a flood near Woodvale Conemaugh Mineral Point and South Fork. The breach deepened, soil eroded, villages wiped out, and a rock channel opened as workers and engineers fought to relieve pressure and divert the rising lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodvale
Conemaugh
Mineral Point
South Fork
South Fork Club
Inka
John G. Parke
Win Thiake
Uoto
Col. Unger
Destruction of Dam and Flood Warning Echoes Across valley
Witness recounts the dam’s failure as water rose ten inches per hour. Telegraph messages warned towns below while South Fork residents moved furniture and evacuated. The dam held until 3 PM when a ten foot wide break formed, releasing millions of tons of water that drained away in forty five minutes.
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South Fork
Johnwtown
Grousde
Inet
Aly
Jobnetown
Bac
Floods in the East Swamp Mills and Mines
Flood waters from the Susquehanna threaten lumber yards and rolling mills in Columbia and Marietta while the Pennsylvania railroad bridge at Chickies is submerged. Dozens of mines in the valley face extended suspensions as pumps fail and water rises, with thousands of workers affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laxcastan
Columbia Fe
Orkey Hill
Columbia
Aylvasia
Marietta
Pronkstrost
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chickies
Pennsylvania
Sabington
Mariette
Mouse Cakmet
Burials Planned by Three Counties at Nineveh Meeting
Coury and county officials from Cambrys and neighboring areas plan a burial site at Nineveh for the deceased. Directors meet to discuss the plan with a likely election of a committee, a riverfront plot in Cambury county, and graves to be dug. Expense concerns are raised as bodies are decomposing, with Spiegel noting costs to be shared.
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Coury
Authoritien
Guuzxenves
Indi
Steelton flood swallows woman and child amid washouts
In Steelton the river recedes three inches hourly as tracks reopen by morning. A fatal boat accident near Christian and Frew streets claims a woman and her baby after logs capsize a boat. Stores open to aid sufferers. many bridges down to Williamsport with reports of numerous lives lost.
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Au Pex
Lynn Scrass
Linyi
Conemaach Amt
Railron
Millvale
Airee
Ealf
Angie
Cambria Trou Company
Poiites
Center
Balleand
Maiv
Locust
Washington
Union
Ginder
Iron Street
Stony Crosh Street
Napoleon
Somerset
Monroe
Jolstine
Olen
Pennaylynchin Steel Company
Norelock
Martin JL. Molstia
Christian Street
Frewick Street
Mra Holstine
Tts
Ana
Stoel Company
All Company
Williamsport
Susans
Williamaporat
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Valley of
Death
Johnstown
United States
Fouxstows, Pa
Eweilen
Lylag
Nineveh
Ning
Twana
Way
Lang Hollow
Ware
Andress
Wan
Morrelville
Pan
Hee Aris
Roma
Hole
John Town
Woodville
Gautier Iron-Mills
Cambria Tron Company
South Fork Lake
Steelton
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