History of the Johnstown Flood: Including All the Fearful Record; The Breaking of the South Fork Dam; The Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; The ... Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Sur - Softcover

Johnson, Willis Fletcher

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ISBN 10: 1451002327 ISBN 13: 9781451002324

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2010

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Excerpt from History of the Johnstown Flood: Including All the Fearful Record; The Breaking of the South Fork Dam; The Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; The Overthrow of Johnstown; The Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Orga

Some Heroes of the Flood - The Ride of Collins Graves at Williams burg Recalled - John G. Parke's Heroic Warning - Gallant Self sacrifice of Daniel Peyton - Mrs. Ogle, the Intrepid Telegraph Operator - Wholesale Lite Saving by Miss Nina Speck.

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PREFACE. The su mmer of r 889 .' iJl ever be memorable for its appalllng disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the. nineteenth century-a blow scarcely paralldcd in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a centre of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. On both sides of the Allc-· ghenics these ravages 'v'cr~ felt in terrific power, but on the western slope their terrors ,,,,ere infinilely multiplied by the bursting of the South Fork Reservoir, letting out millions of tons of water, which, rushing madly down the rapid descent of the Conemaugh VaHey, washed out all its busy villages and hurled itself in a deadly torrent on the happy borough of Johnstown. The frightful aggravations which followed the coming of this torrent have waked the deepest sympathies of this nation and of the world, and the history is d~manded in permanent form, for those

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; The Conemaugh Valley in Springtime-Jobnstown nnd its SuburooFoulldl:; d a Hundred Years ago--The Cambria Iron Works--His·; tory or a Famous Industry-AnlcdC3n Manufactuling Enterprise; 'Exemp!ified-M aking Be,semet Sl~e1-Social and Educnliooal; Features-Thc Busiest City of its Size in tbe State, • • • 15; CHAPTER H; Conemaugh Lake-Remains of an Old·time Canal Sy~tem-Used (Ot; the: Pleasure of SpOr1smen-The Hunting and Fishing Oul>Popular; Distrust Growing into IndiR'erence-The Old Cry of; "Wolf! "-Building :1 Dam of Str:1w Bnd Mud-Neglect Ripening; into Fitness for a C:llrutrophe, • • • • • • • • 31; CHAPTER III; Dawning of the Fat31 Day-Darkness aod R3in-Rumors or EvilThe; Warning Voice Unheeded-A Whirlwind of Watery DeathFate; of n Faithful Telegrapher-What an EYI:-WilnC5S Saw-A; Solid Vall of W:ter Rushing Down the

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1451002327
• ISBN 13: 9781451002324
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 462