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Author : George Titus Ferris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Floods
ISBN : NWU:35556035206747
Author : George T (George Titus) 1840- Ferris
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014751357
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Titus Ferris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0282635297
Excerpt from The Complete History of the Johnstown and Conemaugh Valley Flood: Embracing Also a History of the Floods in Williamsport, Lock Haven, Sunbury, and All the Flooded Districts in the State of Pennsylvania, Also in Washington, D. C., New York, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia Chapter II. The Spectacle of the Conemaugh Valley after the Flood chapter III. Whatjohnstownwas chapter IV. The Fatal Trap and how it did its Work chapter V. Scenes and Incidents of the Great J ohnstown Tragedy chapter VI. Scenes and Incidents at J ohnstown - Continued chapter VII. The Adventures of a Hero who Saved Forty Lives chapter VIII. Perils and Terrors of the Great Flood - Continued chapter IX. 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.
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN : ERDC:35925000406741
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Floods
ISBN : UOM:39015008840186
Author : Frank Connelly,George C. Jenks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Floods
ISBN : UVA:X001542272
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465572240
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734010385
Reproduction of the original: History of the Johnstown Flood by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Author : John Stuart Ogilvie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN : MSU:31293006759116
Author : John James McLaurin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : City and town life
ISBN : CUB:U183006444082
After exploring the early history of the settlement and industrialization of Johnstown, the author presents in great detail the catastrophic flood that destroyed the town in 1889 and the aftermath of this disaster.
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN28YS
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416561224
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0788417150
History of the Johnstown flood This book, "History of the Johnstown flood," by Willis Fletcher Johnson, is a replication of a book originally published before 1889. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
Author : Willis ,Johnson
Publisher : Delmarva Publications, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a center of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. On both sides of the Alleghenies these ravages were felt in terrific power, but on the western slope their terrors were infinitely 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 Valley, 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 demanded in permanent form, for those of the present day, and for the generations to come. This is a new edition of “THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD” by Willis Johnson including all the appalling 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, with full accounts also of the destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, and the Bald Eagle creek. This edition has all new photos, a linked table of contents for both chapters and illustrations, and any typographical errors that appeared in the original edition have been corrected.
Author : John James 1841- [From Old McLaurin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016014252
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
