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THE DISASTER WHICH ECLIPSED
HISTORY
THE
JOHNSTOWN
FLOOD

ILLUSTRATED

PUBLISHED BY
RICHARD K. FOX,
FRANKLIN SQ., NEW YORK.

PRICE, 10 CENTS.

Copyrighted 1889, by Richard K. Fox.

PARIS UNVEILED

—OR—

An Expose of Vice AND Crime

—IN THE—

GAY FRENCH CAPITAL.


Depicting in a truly graphic manner the
doings and sayings of the liveliest
people on the face of the earth
in the liveliest capital in
the world.


Handsomely and profusely illustrated with
innumerable Engravings.


Translated from the French Expressly for
Richard K. Fox


PRICE BY MAIL, 25 CENTS.


RICHARD K. FOX, Publisher,

Franklin Square, New York

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HORROR!


THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER WHICH ECLIPSED HISTORY.


A DEATH-DEALING DAM.


Hundreds upon Hundreds of People
Swept Away by the Flood.


There is not one chance in a million that the Conemaugh riverwould ever have been heard of in history had it not been for itsaction on Friday evening, May 31.

The Conemaugh river is, or rather was, a simple little streamthat meandered through Northwestern Pennsylvania and made gladby its peaceful murmurings those who dwelt by its bankside, or boretokens of affection in the way of pleasure-seeking picnickers, moonlightparties or across-stream excursionists upon its placid bosom. Itwas one of those inoffensive creeks, termed by courtesy a river, thatthe Hudson river of the East, the Mississippi of the Middle or theRed river of the West might call a stripling.

There are times when even the still, small voice arises in itsmight and asserts its supremacy, and the wee small river of Conemaughdid that self-same thing on Friday evening, May 31. Allalong the banks of the listless, yet ever flowing, little alleged riverthe farmers were preparing for their anticipated harvests; the fishermenof the section—amateur fishermen indeed, for they were onlyequal to the fish—small and incomplete as was the Conemaugh, suchas you and I, reader, who took pleasure in flinging their worm-crowded2hooks into the stomach of a log and then going home formore bait; bonny fairies, brisk young tillers of the soil, toilers, andseeming-tired miners, these and all other human concomitants that goto make up such a quiet, thriving bailiwick dwelt in the locality.

And so went on the listless life of the denizens of the ConemaughValley, nestling at the foot of the Alleghen

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