HER.]

[Illustration: SWEPT AWAY BY THE TORRENT.]

[Illustration: LYNCHING AND DROWNING THIEVES.]

[Illustration: DISTRIBUTING SUPPLIES TO THE DESTITUTE.]

[Illustration: A CRAZED SOLDIER COMMITS SUICIDE.]

[Illustration: MADE ORPHANS BY THE FLOOD.]

[Illustration: A FATHER'S DESPAIR AT THE LOSS OF HIS FAMILY.]

[Illustration: VALLEY OF THE CONEMAUGH NEAR JOHNSTOWN.]

[Illustration: MEETING OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AFTER THE FLOOD.]

[Illustration: MOTHER AND BABE CAST UP BY THE WATERS.]

[Illustration: RELIEF FOR JOHNSTOWN-PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION,
PHILADELPHIA.]

[Illustration: THE MILITIA AT REST.]

The Gautier Wire Works was completely destroyed. The buildings will be
immediately rebuilt and put in operation as soon as possible. The loss
at this point is complete. The land on which it stood is to-day as
barren and desolate as if it were in the midst of the Sahara Desert.

The Cambria Iron Company loses its great supply stores. The damage to
the stock alone will amount to $50,000.

The building was valued at $150,000, and is a total loss. The company
offices which adjoins the store was a handsome structure. It was
protected by the first building, but nevertheless is almost totally
destroyed.

The Dartmouth Club, at which employees of the works boarded, was carried
away in the flood. It contained many occupants at the time. None were
saved.

Estimates of the losses of the Cambria Iron Company given are from
$2,000,000 to $2,500,000. But little of this can be recovered.

History of the Works.

The Cambria Iron Works at Johnstown were built in 1853. It was the
second largest plant of its kind in the country, and was completely
swept away. Its capacity of finished steel per annum was 180,000 net
tons of steel rails and 20,000 net tons of steel in other shapes. The
mill turned out steel rails, spike bars, angles, flats, rounds, axles,
billets and wire rods. There were nine Siemens and forty-two reverbatory
heating furnaces, one seven ton and two 6,000 pound hammers and three
trains of rolls.

The Bessemer Steel Works made their first blow July 10, 1871, and they
contained nine gross ton converters, with an annual capacity of 200,000
net tons of ingots. In 1878 two fifteen gross tons Siemens open-hearth
steel furnaces were built, with an annual capacity of 20,000 net tons of
ingots.

The Cambria Iron Company also owns the Gautier Steel Works at Johnstown,
which were erected in 1878.

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