. The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889 . SJ3SI»5aC3BS!Ka»««==^ ^1 r- U-; // ^ y^ Yll. WRECK OF THE DAY EXPRESS. A Thrilling Episode — The Fated Passenger Trains at East Conemaugh — Hours cpAnxious Waiting — An Engineers Shrill Warning — The Avalanche of Death — HURRVING TO THE HiLLS FOR SAFETY DrOWNED AND CARRIED AWAY BY THE FlOOD—? Vestibuled Coaches Burned — Round-House Wiped Out — Locomotives Buried— How Two Fair Girls Perished — Statements of Awe-Struck Survivors — A Dis-aster Unparalleled in Railroad Ann
. The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889 . SJ3SI»5aC3BS!Ka»««==^ ^1 r- U-; // ^ y^ Yll. WRECK OF THE DAY EXPRESS. A Thrilling Episode — The Fated Passenger Trains at East Conemaugh — Hours cpAnxious Waiting — An Engineers Shrill Warning — The Avalanche of Death — HURRVING TO THE HiLLS FOR SAFETY DrOWNED AND CARRIED AWAY BY THE FlOOD—? Vestibuled Coaches Burned — Round-House Wiped Out — Locomotives Buried— How Two Fair Girls Perished — Statements of Awe-Struck Survivors — A Dis-aster Unparalleled in Railroad Annals. ? When life is old, tie Ihc heart wiH hold of thi,. JIIKILLING in the extreme was the wreck of theDay Express at East Conemaugh. The two sec-tions composing this train eastward left Piitsbur<,hat the usual hour on Friday morning, with aliberal complement of passent;ers. The swollenConemaugh. whose banks the main line of the Penn-sylvania Railroad follows for fortv miles, lookedthreatening as it bore off numberless saw-lo^rsand masses of drift-wood. At Johnstown thestreets we
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