The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise ... - JohnstownCafe

XI.
GLBIPSES OF THE HAVOC.
Awakening to the Ftll Rf.\litv ^nd Extent of the Deva-^tation — What the Dawn
OF A New Day r)i^0Lo--En — Mii-Es uf Barken Wa-te and HE\i'iNii Wkec kage — Walking
Over and Ckawlim, Under SyUAKES and Streets of Chaos — Cellars PArKED
WITH Dirt and Stune-, and Corpses — Landmarks Wiped Ovt — A Survey of the
Fragments that Buried Acres of Johnstown, Conemaugh Borough and Kernville
Fathoms Deep.
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Whose bouchs .li.l hiriul %i [th \
A slurni,.Tr,jl4n;rx. .all it \si'
Shook cioun inv nicll.iu haii-
And left nie ht-re to wither, '-
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BALTIMORE .V
OPi:S \\'HICH stirvivud that awful 1-riday ni^lit
withertd and died, their nielh^w hanoin,L;s oone.
when the morning; df a new day re\'ealed ineasuralilv
the wide-spread desolation. Iiieh li}'
inch the riotous waters had slunk away in the
deep shades, afraid to look upon the e\il they
had wrou.iiht. Little b\- little the streets and
the wreckage and the ra\ a'_;ed iJistricts emerged.
*^ '^~' I)av dawned, and it \\'as not all a hideous
OHIO r>KPOT,
dream. The sun rose, the birds sang and th.e
real awakening had come. People hestirrecl themselves to reach dry places.
or to lend a helping,' hand to those whom the flood still kept prisoners. They
must hunt for their friends till the\- find them— alive possilily. dead probably.
Impassable streams their hridLjes washed out diviiled the towns. and stretches
of mud-laden water brooded where srpiares and blocks hud becTi yesterday.
Rafts were rigged up for errands of merc\ and did ;^ijod service. Floaters
half-dead from e.xposure. wear\- lodgers on the drift. cryinLj children and weeping
women were piloted to firm ground and cared for as kindly as th.e scanty
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