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On the Johnstown Flood...
On the Johnstown Flood...
Item # 666493
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June 06, 1889
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1889
* The great Johnstown flood of 1889
* South Fork Dam collapse
The top of the ftpg. has column heads: "HUNDREDS OF FUNERALS" "Burying The Dead at Johnstown" "Few Mourners and No Ministers Present" "Difficulties to Be Surmounted" "In Clearing the Streets of Ruins" and: "SAD WORK AT JOHNSTOWN" "The Search for the Dead Resumed" "Dynamite Used ON The Ruins" "Piled Against the Railway Bridge" "Traces of the Day Express Found" and more.
Four pages, two stray blue pencil marks near the top, some archival mends to margins inside, good condition.
Category: Post-Civil War