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

AD I T.yn 7t debris that had collected
at tlie east end of the Baltimore >.\: Ohio depot, and they wi^re rescued
through the second-story w indow of the Diniocriit otfice. Mr. and Mrs. Carney
and two children, ani.1 Mr. and Mrs. Jo^eph Beiter and two children were taken
in. Mr. Belter's leg was broken, antl he was severeh" injured In" timbers in the
watt^r. One of his ciiildrenwah dead. .\fter theCarnevs h.id been safely
landed thev missed their baby, a girl fifteen months old. On Saturday, eigjiteen
hours afterward, the baby was fiuind C'U the pile of deliris at the office
ali\"e and well, and placed in the arms of it^ almost frantic UKitlu r.
George Irwin, of Hillside. Pa., was found, on Saturday, in a clump of
bushes beside the railroad tracks, a mile below Johnstow n. _
His tongue protruded
from his mouth ami he gaspet! for breath. Brand\' revived him and he
was soon able to gi\e this account of his adventures ;
" I was visiting friends in Johnstown, We were submeride. The}" all drowned,
except the oldest boy, wh.o floated to Blairsville and landed in a tree. Miss
Caddick held to a fraction of the buildinLT. which, tloated out of the swirl, and