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TJIE STORY OF JOHSSTOWX.
VI. MARCH ur Tin; DliSTKOVHK 6i
A Day of KuiuTeal Gloom- -Rush of Waters Down the Valley— John Baker's
Heroic KiJe— Kava^es at South-Fork- -First Victim of the Flood— Shafers
Fate—All Engineer's F^scape- -Railroaders ] )r. .« ned Sad Scenes Along the
Route—The Viaduct Washed Auay- Miiv ral IViint Obliterated—The Hish
Bridge Cone- A Perilous Journey—Terrible Loss of Life and Property at
East Concmaut^h— Franklin Borough I'lunged into Mourning.
VII. WRECK OF THE DAY EXPRESS 73
.A Thrilling Episode—The Fated Lassenu' r Trains at Flasi Conemaugh—
Hours of .Anxious Waiting—An F^ngineer's Shrill Warning—The Avalanche
of Death— Hurrying to the Hills for Safety— Drowned and Carried .Away
by the Flood—Vestibuled Coaches Burned— Kound-House Wiped Out
Locomotives Buried— How Two F'air (lirls Ferished— Statements of .Awe-
Struck Survivors— .A Disaster Unparalleled in Railroad .-Vnnals.
VIII. WOODVALE AXXIHILATED 83
A Pretty Tov.n FMoiteJ Out of Existence—The Struggle for Life— Remarkable
Rescue of a F'amily—A Frail Bridge and Its Solitary Occupant— One
Taken and Two Saved—The Woolen Mill Partially Wrecked—Total Destruction
of the Gautier Works—Three Hundred People Perish— Some of
the Dead —An Aged Couple Go Down to Death Together— Ffappy Homes
Desolated— .Affecting Details—Not a House Left in the Borough Proper.
IX. THREE THOUSAXD I'ERSOXS PERISH 95
The Death-Dealing Wa\e Moving Onward— Its .Accelerated Speed and Resistless
Power—Peculiarities of the Advancing Mass— Mowing Down Entire
Streets and Drowning the Inmates of Hundreds of Houses— Devastation
in Conemaugh Borough, Johnto\\n, Kernville, Milhille and Cambria
—Xo Warning and No Time to Fly— Miles of Wreckage — .\ppalling Loss
of Life and Property—The Saddest Desolation Human Eyes Ever Beheld-
X. ACCUMULATED HORRORS 107
The Dreadful Sights and Sounds of a Xight of Unutterable .\gony—Dying
in the Rain and in the Darkness— Falling ISuildings and Crashing Wreckage—Conflagration
at the Railroad Bridge— Dead Bodies and Living Beings
4 Consumed—Calcined B^nes and Roasted Flesh— Dramatic Episodes— -A
Gruesome Spectacle Near Nineveh— Fleads, ,\rms and Legs Sticking Out
of the Sand and Muck — Recitals that Surpass the Wildest Flights of Fiction
XI. GLIMPSES OF THE HAVOC iig
Awakening to the Full Reality and Extent of the Devastation—What the
Dawn of a New Day Disclosed— Miles of Barren Waste and Heaping Wreckage—Walking
Over and Crawling Under Squares and Streets of Chaos
Cellars Packed with L'irt and Stones and c'orpses— Landmarks \\'iped Out
—A Survey of the Fragments that Buried .Veres of Johnstown, Conemaugh
Borough and Kernville Fathoms Deep.
XII. FATE OF PASTORS AXD CHURCHES 133
Abundant i rovision in S'piritu.tl ,Matters--l'lacts of NVorship and Ministers
— Sanctuaries Wiped Oft the Face ot the Fl.irth— Clergymen and their Families
Drowned—F~ire and I'lood Comliine to Destroy a Sacred Edifice— Pe-
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