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History of the Johnstown Flood: With Full Accounts Also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
PREFACE. The su mmer of r 889 .' iJl ever be memorable for its appalllng disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the. nineteenth century-a blow scarcely paralldcd in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a centre of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. On both sides of the Allc-· ghenics these ravages 'v'cr~ felt in terrific power, but on the western slope their terrors ,,,,ere infinilely multiplied by the bursting of the South Fork Reservoir, letting out millions of tons of water, which, rushing madly down the rapid descent of the Conemaugh VaHey, washed out all its busy villages and hurled itself in a deadly torrent on the happy borough of Johnstown. The frightful aggravations which followed the coming of this torrent have waked the deepest sympathies of this nation and of the world, and the history is d~manded in permanent form, for those
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; The Conemaugh Valley in Springtime-Jobnstown nnd its SuburooFoulldl:; d a Hundred Years ago--The Cambria Iron Works--His·; tory or a Famous Industry-AnlcdC3n Manufactuling Enterprise; 'Exemp!ified-M aking Be,semet Sl~e1-Social and Educnliooal; Features-Thc Busiest City of its Size in tbe State, · · · 15; CHAPTER H; Conemaugh Lake-Remains of an Old·time Canal Sy~tem-Used (Ot; the: Pleasure of SpOr1smen-The Hunting and Fishing Oul>Popular; Distrust Growing into IndiR'erence-The Old Cry of; "Wolf! "-Building :1 Dam of Str:1w Bnd Mud-Neglect Ripening; into Fitness for a C:llrutrophe, · · · · · · · · 31; CHAPTER III; Dawning of the Fat31 Day-Darkness aod R3in-Rumors or EvilThe; Warning Voice Unheeded-A Whirlwind of Watery DeathFate; of n Faithful Telegrapher-What an EYI:-WilnC5S Saw-A; Solid Vall of W:ter Rushing Down the
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; The Conemaugh Valley in Springtime-Jobnstown nnd its SuburooFoulldl:; d a Hundred Years ago--The Cambria Iron Works--His·; tory or a Famous Industry-AnlcdC3n Manufactuling Enterprise; 'Exemp!ified-M aking Be,semet Sl~e1-Social and Educnliooal; Features-Thc Busiest City of its Size in tbe State, · · · 15; CHAPTER H; Conemaugh Lake-Remains of an Old·time Canal Sy~tem-Used (Ot; the: Pleasure of SpOr1smen-The Hunting and Fishing Oul>Popular; Distrust Growing into IndiR'erence-The Old Cry of; "Wolf! "-Building :1 Dam of Str:1w Bnd Mud-Neglect Ripening; into Fitness for a C:llrutrophe, · · · · · · · · 31; CHAPTER III; Dawning of the Fat31 Day-Darkness aod R3in-Rumors or EvilThe; Warning Voice Unheeded-A Whirlwind of Watery DeathFate; of n Faithful Telegrapher-What an EYI:-WilnC5S Saw-A; Solid Vall of W:ter Rushing Down the
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