New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-08
ssains running drscs 70 Pttsburs over ths bridge.
THE FLOODS TERRIFIC RUSH.
MARES LEFT BIZ TEE FLYING SEA AS IT SWEPT
powN TIE OoNFMA UUH VALLEY.

$780, DOWN TG& OONEhAUoh fAhASs'
yoAnstown, Penn, June tspsciaD, -Peopls have
cot Jet ceased to wonder at the marvellous worS OF me
GOOD rs hundered along. seeking an outlet nom 'ne
valley where II found such q vast field for It's desuuce
/, i've work Above the stone bridge. which WIN tho
wrceksce Piled against u orpe another dam una ono
Ind Of that was wrcnched away, leaving pace
through which noatng houses dashed the waters were
bounded By rising hills. This MADE ooipng sea,
whore buildings were ground % pieces ana tossed aoout
ile chfu. But once having torn away the enc OF ne
bridge and having made an outlet Tor Itself mere inc
vr.t stream al water he'd unobstructed valley along
vlsch 10 race for miles Bridges, when struck by the
ytng sea- were hurled far ahead and then caught up
again and whirioi along with the rushing waters
Along the river stood the villages OF Cambria. sher1
dan, coopssdale Sang Hollow, Nnsveh and dozens OF
other settlements, and here one may see what won
,rrs,l work was done Houses along the low lands
wore shaved of Is cleanly II great scsmeter bad
been drawn along line. They were picked up. shot
across broad fields and cast high upon the hillside
They were tumbied over and as II stones on the
bed of mountain torrent, and spntsred against goat
roosuL Some were carried far UP in gnllies. whore
ihsy sn stand of them perched on rocks others
ssagas and held by tho eorners They are strangely
mt of place.
Where points Of high land juted out into tho course
fought BY the food. they we're melted away, and in
ether places deep burrows were ploughed through the
rising land IN some places trees were carried trom
ono side Of the valley across to the other as the wao
swung In that direction, over cultivated nsids
half mile long The roads BY tho size
OF the river were ripped to pieces, and for niles heaps
OF rocks Piled in Wild contyon, jagged ana uneven
over which q man can scarcely drag himself marx
the line once followed by the road. 1t Is more u"
the lower valley that bodies carried twenty miles Wo'e
left in great numbers, and this has ahdea 70 'n0
dtfao,Ity Of finding and recognising the dead
Examples Of tho fantastic work OF the nooa eio
seen BY the hundreds. One man was swept @onS
nom above Johnstown to tn, Poplar-st. erage run
ming over to Kearnviile, on the top OF DIS nouse'
q squsrely built yellow brick, structure houses
had been dashiug against the stone arcnos OK 'nc
bridge with such terrific force that The poopie IN
than came hImbiing from the roofs and the winoo"s
,,ne rata st as the structures crumoieo away anu
we're swallowed up In tho boiling hood tpos0 III rS
hsnks watched the yellow house. WIN tne SoLtety
man eainctng 10 the roof sweep on toward tno
ard waited for II to be shattered 1here was rs
room aor the great box to pass between TWO VI w
nrches and It shot safely betwoon mem, s,.nSs
fhsp carried diagonany across the two SuT Ma
sodsv ON the high bank below GruptoWn. t w.
ssrsy,d without the slightest injury Tnomas ,hrs
n rasfnan while climbing over some VIZ - T,r
nornnr near the Presby terrain Church' 10y mict,r.
= moreis saw among the rubbish sinsti Pntshed
srams which he thought he recogmteu.A n1 himseIf
u nm and found that 1t was pao'oSrapa Vi tho
Va b5me had stood several hundred yatos aooto '
M and he has found no trace OF that as So''