. The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889 . r ihe perturbed , terrible, a sound that madeEither shore tremble, as if of a windImpetuous, from con! vapor- gainst some forest drivinic all hi> MuchtPlucks oti the brandies, beats them do«n andAfar; then, onward passing, proudly sweepsHis whirlwind rai;.-.—Dante. dozen ranie E\ENTY-THKEE lives and a million dollarsin propcrtx had been to the devoiir-insf Moloch. Far trom appeasing him. thiscosth orteriuL
. The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889 . r ihe perturbed , terrible, a sound that madeEither shore tremble, as if of a windImpetuous, from con! vapor- gainst some forest drivinic all hi> MuchtPlucks oti the brandies, beats them do«n andAfar; then, onward passing, proudly sweepsHis whirlwind rai;.-.—Dante. dozen ranie E\ENTY-THKEE lives and a million dollarsin propcrtx had been to the devoiir-insf Moloch. Far trom appeasing him. thiscosth orteriuL; merely whetted his ravenousappetite. The caiminatincr hnrror was tocome at Johnstown and it^ suburbs. Thehand takers, the e\-e dims and the heart throbspainfully over tlie t;rievous desolation. FromEast Conemauuh and Franklin, renewing; itsenerg\- at e\erv >itp. the tlood swooped upon;? .. Woodvale. The valley narrowed and the water reared its trowniiiL; cre-t lii-:her asitad- inL, the earth bare in its viutlictive passion. .An iron bridt^e am! dwellint;s. which dared dijpute its ri^ht ot \va\-, were contempt-s. 84 THE STORY OF JOIJXSTOllX. uoiisly brushed aside. Nothing was ton small to escape its notice or too largefor it to attack. Locomotives turned sdincrsaults, and liouses played leap-frog in the bosom ot the merciless current, \vhicli churned them into batterediron and splintered wood to its trail with wreckage. IIa\oc ruled thelioiir and chaos was monarcli of the daw Three lunuhcd jileasant houK-. sheltered the eleven hundred residents ofWood^•alc, bordering Franklin on the south and spreading o\-er the tlats fromConemaugh Creek to a commanding liill on the northwest. ^faple avenue, tlieprincipal thoroughfare, was lined ^vith pretty Imnies and Lra\ersed bystreetcars. An iron briilge on the northern end communicated with East Cone-maugh. On this bridge Burgess bloward C. E\ans, 1 )r. l)uncan ami a half-dozen neighbors were discussing the hiL;h ^\ater. w
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