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

XVI.
SOME OV THE XlCriMS.
The Frightfvl Roll of thi: Lo,t— A Garland for Those Whu Have Gone Before —
Well-Known Peoplk Cvt Off— How Professional Men. Merchants and Private
Citizens Met an Untimely Fate — Commlnities Fearfillv Decimated— Cambria's
Long List—Whole Families Blotted OrT — Familiar Ficukes Missing From Thkir
Accustomed Hacnts-Terriule Gaps in Society and Business That Can Never
Again Be Filled-
See before ii5, in our journev, broods a mist upon the ground ;
Thither leads the path we walk in. blendiu.t; with tliat gloomy bound,
Never eve liath pierced it.-^ shadows l.) the mystery they screen,
Those who once have passed within it never more on earth are seen.
Now it seems to stoop beside us. now at seemin distance lowers.
Leaving b.inks th.it tempt us onward hrisjlit with summer-^reeu and H.Avers:
Yet it blots the vv av forever, there our juurnev ends at last.
Into that dark cloud we enter and are gathered to the past. -Bkvasi.
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'MICK!'' THE a;.;oreL:ate loss of life is so ovtrpowcnntj
it is not possible to detail individual cases with the iniimteness
svinpathetic interest would prompt.
Ihoiisands
of the victims are worthy of the richest garlaiuls
allection can weave. To pay a lovint; tribute to hundreds
of the dead would be a grateful task. How
sadb.- the\- are missed, now that matters begin to run
in the old channels and the full extent of the calamity
is fairlv realized: The ;.,'rave has closed over multi-
/ tudes who bade as fair to live and prosper as aii.\- in
the Keystone State. No pen can portray, no pencil il-
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^ EENs.-HOFF lustratc tlic shocklnfT- intlescribable change one dread-
ALVAR AKERs
f„l hour effectcd iu tlic population of the Conemaimh
Valley. It is appreciated in some measure since those who survive have taken
up once more the burdens and responsibilities so awfully interrupted. Every
brow wears the mark of -rief and a shadow dwells in every breast for the
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