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S: TJIE sroKV OF JO/fXSTOWX. in luhiistuwii and fifty niiks iKnvn the ri\cT. One trunk contained a soft braid t)f Lôlden hair, several photographs, tender letters an(i a hah-do/.en rich dresses. Sonic of the hodiesof tlie mii-sin.^' were not reco\tre(L Three or fonr may liave been liurie^l anion^' the •unknown." or burned at the railroad bridye. or floated out of nie.rtal siuht to be sei'n no more luuil the Judum^nt I )ay. The doom of the unfeirtunatc tra\elers. who came to a tragic end amid surroundings peculiarly sad, must al\va\ s rank with the most pathetic and startlinu' episodes of a catastrophe unequalled in the nineteenth cen'"ur\". Iêt some recording angel, like Uncle Toby's, drop a tear to their memory, or preserve them from Oblivion, the gaunt Philistine that sooner or later comiuers us all. » _.fii-;5^5aE3i=ii'c "i-A- N^.-^V^^-^^- WHERE MRS, b. SWINEFORD WAS FOLNC.
VIII \VOOlJ\ALE ANXnilLATED. A Pretty Town Blotted Ol't of Existence — The Struggle for Life— Remarkable Rescve of a Family— A Frail Bridge and its Solitary Occupant — One Taken AND Two Saved — The Woolen Mill Partially Wrecked — Total Destruction of THE Gautier Works— Thsee Hundred PEorLE Perish — -Some of the Dead — An Aged Couple Go Down to Death Together — Happy Homes Desolated— Affecting Details — Not a House Left in the Borough Proper. " There came o'er ihe perturbed waves. Loud-crashins, terrible, a sound that made Either shore tremble, as if of a wind Impetuous, from con!lictin.rr vapor- sprung. That 'gainst some forest drivinic all hi> Mucht Plucks oti the brandies, beats them do«n and Afar; then, onward passing, proudly sweeps His whirlwind rai;.-."— Dante. vancfd. a dozen E\"ENTY-THKEE lives and a million dollars in propcrtx' had been sacririct.'d to the devoiirinsf Moloch. Far trom appeasing him. this costh' orteriuL; merely whetted his ravenous appetite. The caiminatincr hnrror was to come at Johnstown and it^ suburbs. The hand takers, the e\-e dims and the heart throbs painfully over tlie t;rievous desolation. From East Conemauuh and Franklin, renewing; its energ\- at e\'erv >itp. the tlood swooped upon W'oodvale. The valley narrowed and the ; .. water reared its trowniiiL;' cre-t lii'-:her asitadinL,' the earth bare in its viutlictive passion. .An iron bridtê am! ranie dwellint;s. which dared dijpute its ri^ht ot \va\-, were contempts'
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The Story of Johnstown ITS EARLY SE
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Oipyrij;lued, JAMES .M. ('LACE, \V
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PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. Any commercial
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XII. FATE OF PASTDlvS AND CHURCHES.
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XXIl. FLOOD RELIEF COMMISSION. PkoM
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Modesth' Jl.OOn REIJhl' COMMISSIOX.
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t'Sliiuates of losses, the claimant
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FLiHW REIJEr COMMISSUW. 325 lit Si.
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XXVI, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. Hosts of
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