Graphic reports on the Johnstown Flood...

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June 05, 1889

THE PRESS, Philadelphia, June 5, 1889

* The great Johnstown flood of 1889
* South Fork Dam collapse

Fine front page reporting of the infamous Johnstown Flood, which happened just 5 days previous on May 31. One column heads at the top include: "THE VALE OF TEARS" "Johnstown Struggling to Bring Order Out of Chaos" "Trying To Count the Lost" "Only 8000 Survivors Registered of a Population of 30,000" "A Regiment Ordered Out" "The 14th Goes to the Ruined City to Do Police Work & Help Maintain Order" "Dynamite Used in the Wreck" "An Effort Made to Disintegrate the Mass of Debris..." and more. Among the subheads throughout the front page are: "How Many Are Gone?" "Among the Hosts of Dead" "Struggles For Life" "Pushing to the Front" and more.
The front page also features 3 illustrations of the disaster scene, headed: "Where 1000 Lives Were Lost" and "Johnstown Before The Disaster" and "On the Conemaugh Four Miles Below Johnstown".
Presumed complete in 8 pages, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition.

Category: Post-Civil War