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86 /•///." .v7.)A'J' OF JO//\S7\)U-X. niiJ-air. Bridyxs many times liea\'icr had nourished tlic denioHsher, }'et this frail blructm-L-. built with no thoiiL;ht that a lloui.1 would (_\ cr try to Jay i: low, emerged iuih.iviu(
I! VOD I -ALE . IWiniLA TED. '^7 taincd their hold until the swL-lling tide overturned ihc cars. looseniuL; their :_;'rasp and drowninL, all hut nine of the hapless untortunates. Ani.îii; the rescued \\-ere workniv'n. two yoinii; tiirls and a hii\-. Tlirir escajie from the fate^that o\XTtook their companions was one ol the surprises of a flood marked h\' niany curious features. Tlic Gautier Wire .Mills and Steel Works, pint of them in Woodvale and part in Concmaugh Borough, wxrc .soon licked up. the si.\ or cif^ht immense departments furnishing a morNul of which the il(.)o.l made speedy work. Tl leir demolition was complete, not one lirick tarr_\-im,' ahove the stone foundations Heaps of sand entombed what machinery the ruthless wati-rs did not thrust from its moorin-s and grind to powtler. Lart^'e rolls of barbed wire entangled with the rubbish and wound tightly about scores of the four hundred men. women and children who by this time were fighting for life in the turgid current. Held in the inllexible gvlp of the wire, fastene.l liy timbers, or sinking from exhaustion. _\xmng and old met death in forms unutterahh- hi.rrdile. Clinging to logs or fragments of buildings, some ran foul of obstructiijus ^\llich crushed titem into distorted, shapeless corpses. C)thers swam or Hoated long distances only to be pulled under at last. Chililren were wrenched from the arms of agonized parents, wlio perished in their turn, .\cconling to the closest enume-
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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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— c ONTENTS. I. HOMES IN THE WILD
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THE STORY OF JOHXSTOWX. Brother—
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24 THE STORY OF JOJ/XSTOUW. Jirowl
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' 26 THE STORY OF JOHXSTOlVy. "Colo
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EARLY SETTLEMENT. Genekai, Campbell
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Page 124 and 125: XII. FATE OF PASTDlvS AND CHURCHES.
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' St. FATE or PASTORS A.\D ClIURCHE
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X!I!. ADVENTURES AND ESCAPES. Xo Sc
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lUSPOS.SL or THE DEAD. 191 the ('li
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DJSP(1S.!I. OF TflK PK.in. 205 'I'h
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Miss a ' Fitzharris. Mrs. Dr. John
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his Robert, his Mrs. 220 TffE STORY
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TJ/F. ' 224 ' sro/xY OF yoj/.\sj\ur
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The\- 232 THE STORY OF JOILXSTOWX.
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250 TlIF liii- STORY OF JOHSSrOWS.
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.\7>/;A' MILITARY Al'TIlORITV. 293
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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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Fl.OOn RKLlliF COMynssiOX. 1,11 IiK
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FLiHW REIJEr COMMISSUW. 325 lit Si.
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The FLOOD RELIEF C0.1LULk
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He and 354 '^J^^'^ STOR 1 ' ( '/•
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XXVI, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. Hosts of
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LIGHTS AM) S/r.-lDOWS 357 nianded e
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Slick Liiitrrs Axn sifAPows. 359 ha
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' Run A Run LIGHTS A.\D SIL\lH>]rs.
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380 THE STORY Ol' jnjfXST(i\':\. Yo
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