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Excerpt: ...the flood made more noise than those unfortunate creatures struggling in the water. The latter in trying to save themselves hadn't time to shriek. Pg 260 Michael Martin said: "I was on the hillside and watched the flood. You ask me what it looked like. I can't tell. I never saw such a scene before and never expect to again. On one of the first houses that struck the bridge there was standing a woman wearing a white shawl. When the house struck the bridge she threw up her hands and fell back into the water. A little boy and girl came floating down on a raft from South Fork. The water turned the raft toward the Kernville hill and as soon as it struck the bank he jumped on the hill, dragging his little sister with him. Both were saved. "I saw three men and three women on the roof of a house. When they were passing the Cambria Iron Works the men jumped off and the women were lost. Mr. Overbeck left his family in McM. row and swam to the club house, then he tried to swim to Morrell's residence and was drowned. His family was saved. At the corner of the company's store a man called for help for two days, but no one could reach him. The voice finally ceased and I suppose he died. A Brave Girl. "Rose Clark was fastened in the débris at the bridge. Her coolness was remarkable and she was more calm than the people trying to get her out. She begged the men to cut her leg off. One man worked six hours before she was released. She had an arm and leg broken. I saw three men strike the bridge and go down. William Walter was saved. He was anchored on Main street and he saw about two hundred Pg 261 people in the water. He believes two-thirds of them were drowned. A frightened woman clung to a bush near him and her long hair stood straight out. About twenty people were holding to those in the neighborhood, but most of them were lost. "John Reese, a policeman, got out on the roof of his house. In a second afterward the building fell in on his wife and drowned...

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• Plný název: The Johnstown Horror!!! Or, Valley of Death, Being a Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin
• Autor: James Herbert Walker
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 210
• EAN: 9781153806473
• ISBN: 1153806479
• ID: 11042770
• Nakladatelství: General Books
• Hmotnost: 294 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. March 2010

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