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STORY OF THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD,
MAY 31, 1889.
Distance of dam from Johnstown, 10 miles. Fall in that distance. 300 feet. Water reached Johnstown
one hour after dam broke, or about 4 p. m. Altitude at dam is 1,576 and at Stone Bridge, 1,162 feet, making
a drop of 414 feet.
Following is given as the depth of water at given points along the stream: South Fork 60 feet.
Viaduct 97 feet. Railroad Bridge 72 feet, Gautier Works 72 feet, Conemaugh Borough 54 feet, Johnstown,
36 feet, and at the Stone Bridge 56 feet.
It carried away 42 houses and a plaining mill at South Fork; at Mineral Point 55 houses, I planing
mill, a saw mill and stores.
In Conemaugh. 114 buildings, 38 railroad engines. 35 passenger and Pullman cars, 220 freight cars; at
Franklin 28 houses and stores; Woodvale 357 houses, street car barns. Johnson Company Steel Works.
Cambria Woolen Mills, flour mill, tannery. Two bridges at Conemaugh and an iron bridge at Woodvale.
When the flood struck Johnstown the weight of water and all it had gathered in its course is esti
mated at 246.000.000 tons. It carried away 2, 00 houses in the city, besides a large number of mills, etc.
making over 3.000 buildidgs swept away, entailing a loss of about $10.000.000 and over 3.000 lives.
If the destruction was great. so were the gifts of sympathetic people. $2.300.000 in money was
contributed, besides clothing, food and other necessities of life to the amount of $1.000 000 or more. In
addition to this, several hundred thousand dollars were contributed by benevolent associations.
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