The Johnstown Horror!!!
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James Herbert Walker. The Johnstown Horror!!!
CHAPTER I. The Appalling News
CHAPTER II. Death and Desolation
CHAPTER III. The Horror Increases
CHAPTER IV. Multiplication of Terrors
CHAPTER V. The Awful Work of Death
CHAPTER VI. Shadows of Despair
CHAPTER VII. Burial of the Victims
CHAPTER VIII. Johnstown and Its Industries
CHAPTER IX. View of the Wreck
CHAPTER X. Thrilling Experiences
CHAPTER XI. New Tales of Horror
CHAPTER XII. Pathetic Scenes
CHAPTER XIII. Digging for the Dead
CHAPTER XIV. Hairbreadth Escapes
CHAPTER XV. Terrible Pictures of Woe
CHAPTER XVI. Stories of the Flood
CHAPTER XVII. One Week After the Great Disaster
CHAPTER XVIII. A Walk Through the Valley of Death
CHAPTER XIX. A Day of Work and Worship
CHAPTER XX. Millions of Money for Johnstown
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The terrible situation on the second day after the great disaster only intensifies the horror. As information becomes more full and accurate, it does not abate one tittle of the awful havoc. Rather it adds to it, and gives a thousand-fold terror to the dreadful calamity.
Not only do the scenes which are described appear all the more dreadful, as is natural, the nearer they are brought to the imagination, but it seems only too probable that the final reckoning in loss of life and material wealth will prove far more stupendous than has even yet been supposed.
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Among the lost is H.G. Rose, the District Attorney of Cambria county, whose body was among the first discovered.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, this afternoon sent five hundred tents to this city. They will be pitched on the hillside to-morrow. They are sadly needed, as the buildings that are left are either too damp or too unsafe for occupancy.
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