The Johnstown Horror, or Valley of Death

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Excerpt from The Johnstown Horror, or Valley of Death: Being a Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin HE whole country has been profoundly startled at the Terrible Calamity which has swept thousands of human beings to instant death at Johnstown and neighboring villages. The news came with the suddenness of a lightning b'olt falling from the sky. A romantic valley, filled with busy factories, ¿ourishing places of business, multitudes of happy homes and families, has been suddenly transformed into a scene of awful desolation. Frightful ravages of Flood and Fire have pro duced in one short hour a destruction which surpasses the records of all modern disasters. No calamity In recent times has so appalled the civilized world. What was a peaceful, prosperous valley a little time ago IS to -day a huge sepulchre, filled with the Shattered ruins of houses, factories, banks, churches, and the ghastly corpses of the dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.