The Johnstown horror!!! or, Valley of death; (1889)

Author: Walker, James Herbert. [from old catalog]
Subject: Floods
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Chicago, Ill. [etc.] National publishing company
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: The Library of Congress
Book contributor: The Library of Congress

THE JOHNSTOWN HORROR
OR
Valley of Death.
CHAPTER I.
The Appa.lling Ke^^rs.
On the advent of Summer, June ist, the country
vas horror-stricken by the announcement that a terrible
calamity had overtaken the Inhabitants of Johnstown,
and the neighboring villages. Instantly the
whole land was stirred by the startling news of this
great disaster. Its appalling magnitude, Its dreadful
suddenness, its scenes of terror and agony, the fate
of thousands swept to Instant death by a flood as
frightful as that of the cataract of Niagara, awakened
the profoundest horror. No calamity In the history
of modern times has so appalled the civilized world.
The following graphic pen-picture will give the
reader an accurate idea of the picturesque scene of
the disaster
:
Away up in the misty crags of the Alleghanies some
tiny rills trickle and gurgle from a cleft in the mossy.....Read more