id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 41271 Johnson, Willis Fletcher History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. .txt text/plain 93213 5132 80 that the house had been swept away in the flood from the lake, no one out-buildings, trees and barns were carried on the angry flood of waters houses, bridges, railroad cars, logs and tree branches were jammed "When the South Fork dam gave way, 16,000,000 tons of water rushed down mass of water came down the Conemaugh river. When the big flood came the houses were picked up like below, fully an hour before the flood came in "a solid wall of water feet high came rushing down the Conemaugh River, carrying before them the Cambria Iron Company's bridge gave way I was in the house of a stood one-half of the water-works of the Cambria Iron Company, a the Johnstown flood was started at the Post-office Department to-day by of water on the Conemaugh shed at Johnstown up to the time of the flood Pennsylvania Railroad bridge the river rose thirty feet above low-water ./cache/41271.txt ./txt/41271.txt