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Graphic reports on the Johnstown Flood...
Graphic reports on the Johnstown Flood...
Item # 601536
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June 07, 1889
THE PRESS, Philadelphia, June 7, 1889
* The great Johnstown flood of 1889
* South Fork Dam collapse
Fine front page reporting of the infamous Johnstown Flood, which happened just 7 days previous on May 31. One column heads at the top include: "Johnstown's Woe" "Another Day Amid the Dead of the Wrecked City" "Order Coming Out of Chaos" "An Army of Men Struggling to Remove the Debris That Chokes the Town" "The Gorge of Human Bodies" and more. Plus there are 3 front page illustrations of the destroyed city (see).
Presumed complete in 8 pages, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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