. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . y following the telephone is the Phonograph, an inven-tion based on the same principle of science, but brought aboutby different means. The phonograph is made to talk and sing,thus enabling one to read by the ear instead of the eye. THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD. Fly for your lives! The dam is going! Such was thewarning the inhabitants of the towns received from the lips ofa man who rode madly through the valley, warning every onehe saw, on that sad afternoon of May 31, 1889. It w
. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . y following the telephone is the Phonograph, an inven-tion based on the same principle of science, but brought aboutby different means. The phonograph is made to talk and sing,thus enabling one to read by the ear instead of the eye. THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD. Fly for your lives! The dam is going! Such was thewarning the inhabitants of the towns received from the lips ofa man who rode madly through the valley, warning every onehe saw, on that sad afternoon of May 31, 1889. It was five inthe afternoon. The people were beginning to think of leaving 332 THE JO HNS TO WN FL 001). their work and going to their peaceful homes, when this dreadnews broke upon their ears. They could not credit it, and asthey heard the news, they looked doubtingly at each other. Tomost of them, it seemed impossible. The dam was away up inthe mountains, on private grounds, and few had ever seen it ordreamed how vast it was. Besides, they reasoned, it had brokenonce or twice before, and no great harm was done. All these. WARNING THE INHABITANTS. causes served to lull their fears. But even when they werewarned, it was too late, so impetuous was its course. Nothingcould have stayed the mad waters in their descent into thedoomed valley. The Johnstown flood followed a long rain storm in theAlleghanies—a storm of several days duration. All the riversrunning east were swollen, and the immense dam of the hugeConemaugh valley burst with a thunderous report. The reser-voir was a large one, four miles long by one broad, and overseventy feet deep. This vast body of water swept a wavetwenty feet high at the rate of twenty miles an hour, right down THE JOHNSTO WN FLOOD. 333 into the narrow and deep valley, where were eight villagesboasting a population of 58,000. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, thelargest of the towns in the valley, lay at the junction of StonyCreek and the Conemaugh river, and h
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