Cincinnati Enquirer
Greensburg Tribune and Herald
Johnstown Daily Democrat
Johnstown Daily Tribune
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
Johnstown Weekly Democrat
London Times
Mansfield (Mass.) News
New York Daily Graphic
New York Herald
New York Sun
New York Times
New York Tribune
New York World
Philadelphia Press
Pittsburgh Commercial Dispatch
Pittsburgh Post
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Press
Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
Utica Saturday Globe
Index
Adams, Ignatius, 45
Adams, Solomon, Samuel, and Rachael, 27
Adams Street schoolhouse (morgue), 141, 192, 195
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 49
Allegheny Mountain, 24, 41, 44–46, 50
Allegheny Mountains, 19, 27, 45, 47
Allegheny River, 25, 37, 44, 51, 60, 199
Alma Hall (Odd Fellows), 155, 165–167, 169–70, 184, 185, 215
Altoona, Pennsylvania, 22, 32, 39, 48, 55, 86, 175, 176, 200, 201, 209, 213, 224, 240, 243
American Iron and Steel Association, 67
American Doctor’s Odyssey, An (Heiser), 265
American Notes (Dickens), 51
"AO" Tower, 95, 96, 113
Argyle Coal Company, 95
Arnold, Matthew, 46
Associated Press, 189, 208
Astor, John Jacob, 225
Atlantic City, New Jersey, 266
B&O Railroad, 35, 53, 154, 176, 184, 198, 200, 206, 229
Baker, John, 96, 221
Barton, Clara, 139, 203, 229–31
Baumgardner, Jacob, 99
Beale, Reverend David, 169, 186, 192, 202, 212, 222, 235, 265; experience in the flood, 165–67; named as emergency morgue head, 190
Bear Creek, 24
Bear Rock Run, 24
Beaver Dam Run, 25
Bedford, Pennsylvania, 27, 206
Bell, S. E., 123
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 179, 201
Benford, F. A., 157, 215
Benford, Walter, 156–57
Bennett, H. M., 103–107
Bens Creek, 24, 88
Bensen, Reuben, 172
Benshoff, Arthur, 195
Bessemer, Sir Henry, 69
Bessemer process (as developed at Johnstown), 68–70
Beverly, Massachusetts, 266
Bidwell, D. W. C, 20, 59, 92, 93
Bixby, Clarence, 208
Blairsville, Pennsylvania, 33
Blue Knob, 41
Bolivar, Pennsylvania, 34, 177, 180–181, 265
Booth, Edwin, 224
Booth & Flinn, 202
Boston, Massachusetts, 224
Boston Post, 254, 259
Bottle Run, 41
Bowen, John Eliot, 221
Boyer, Dan, 92–93, 100
Braddock, Pennsylvania, 32, 60, 72, 175, 212, 267
Braddock, General Edward, 175
Brinker, Mrs. A. D., 84, 154, 155, 187
Brinkerhoff, H. W., 244
Brooklyn Bridge, 51
Brown, Reverend G. W., 100
Brown, Henry S., 205–206, 207
Brownstown, Pennsylvania, 197
Bryan, Elizabeth, 116, 119, 122, 192
Bucannon, John, 92
Buck, Mrs. Ann, 172
Buffalo Bill (William Cody), 224
Burket, Mrs. John, 172
Burns, Robert, 46
Burt, F. B., 245
Butler, Charles, 156–57
Buttermilk Falls, 94, 112, 113, 118
Cambria City, Pennsylvania, 28, 30, 112, 167, 184, 185, 193, 199, 216
Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 19, 27, 46, 49, 80, 245
Cambria Iron Company, 23, 28, 38, 63, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 126, 127, 137, 156, 167, 209, 253; leads in pioneering Bessemer steel, 67–71; concern over South Fork dam, 71–75; plans to rebuild after the flood, 236–37
Cape May, New Jersey, 57
Carnegie, Andrew, 23, 48, 49, 57–61, 67–69, 71–72, 91, 132, 175, 264; early enthusiasm for Alleghenies as resort area, 44–47; reaction to news of the disaster, 255–57
Carnegie, Phipps & Company, 58, 61, 71, 255
Carpenter, C. A., 73
Centennial of the U.S. Constitution, 32
Chalfant, John W., 59
Chambers, James, 59
Chambers, Minnie, 171, 172
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 205, 206
Chapman, Reverend H. L., 22, 33–34, 83–85, 165, 190, 235; experience in the flood, 154–56
Chestnut Ridge, 177
Chicago, Illinois, 26, 31, 61, 85
Chicago Herald, 213, 246, 250
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 207
Chicago Limited, 103–104
Cincinnati, Ohio, 225, 226
Cincinnati Enquirer, 246, 249
Civil War, 23, 35, 45, 54, 68, 80, 97, 183, 229, 234
Clapboard Run, 24
Clark, Rose, 173
Clarke, Charles, 241
Clarke, Louis, 43, 242
Cleveland, Ohio, 267
Clifford, Hugh, 145
Conemack Old Town, 27
Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, 28
Conemaugh Gap, 149, 177
Conemaugh River, 24, 29, 37, 65, 81, 148, 177, 199, 208, 209
Coney Island, New York, 266
Connelly, Frank, 222
Connelly, William, 189
Coolidge, Calvin, 59
Cresson, Pennsylvania, 91, 175; development as summer resort, 44–47
Crute, F. Jennings, 206, 207, 208 Cumberland Valley Railroad, 205
Dale Dyke, 218
Daly, Augustin, 34, 215
Davis, California Tom, 30
Davis, Richard Harding, 139, 215–17
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 91
Day Express, 85, 86, 114, 192, 208, 209, 258; at East Conemaugh, 115–23
Deckert, Frank, 87, 97
Dibert, John, 81, 148, 168, 192
Dick, Chal, 202, 212
Dickens, Charles, 51
Diller, Reverend Alonzo, 195
Dougherty, C. P., 95–96, 174
Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, 59, 267
Durno, John, 108
East Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, 28, 94, 95, 96, 97, 103, 112–15, 214; trains held on morning of flood, 85–87; flood strikes, 115–26
East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 175
Easton, Levi, 123
Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, 27, 30, 200, 202
Eddyville, Kentucky, 68
Edgar Thomson works, 60, 71, 72, 175, 203, 267
Ehrenfeld, Emma, 93–97, 103–105
Eiffel Tower, 32
Eisenhower family, 91
Elder, Cyrus, 84–85, 148, 158, 190, 192, 253, 263, 267
Eldridge, Samuel, 192
Engineering and Building Record, 244, 253
Engineering News, 245, 246–48
Epidemics: diphtheria, 31–32; cholera, 52; typhus, 209; typhoid fever, 233
Erie Canal, 50, 51
Fallen Timber Run, 25
Fenn, John, and family, 195
Fire at the stone bridge, 149–50, 172–73, 197
Fisher, Squire, 82, 194
Fisher, George, 102
Fishing in the 1880’s, 47–48
Fitch, John, 213
Fitzharris, Christ and family, 195
Fletcher, John, 240
Flinn, William, 202, 209, 266
Forest and Stream, 251–52
Foster, Barbara, 191
Franco-Prussian War, 202, 209
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 218, 219, 223
Franklin, Pennsylvania, 122
Frick, Henry Clay, 49, 57–58, 59, 61, 67, 132, 212, 241, 248, 255, 256
Frick Coke Company, H. C, 57–58, 255
Fritz, George and John, 69
Fronheiser, Bessie, 146, 196
Fulton, John, 34, 75–77, 133, 148, 189, 209, 234, 253, 260, 263, 267; stature in Johnstown, 72–73; letter to Morrell concerning the South Fork dam, 73–74; delivers impassioned speech, 236–37
Galager, Herbert, 157
Gautier Steel Company, 28, 70, 82, 127, 146, 236
Geis, Mrs. Abbie, 158–62, 195
Geis, Foster and Quinn, 156, 159
Geis, John, 158, 159
Geis, Mrs. John, 188
George, F. N., 88
George, Henry, 190
Gibbs, George, 186
Giffen, Kate, 121
Goldenberg, Henry, 195
"Gospel of Wealth, " 60
Gould, Jay, 225
Graham, George, 120
Gramling, George, 99
Grandview Cemetery, 144, 267–68
"Great Strike" of 1877, 176, 201
Green Hill, 64, 184, 185, 191, 196, 253
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 32, 175, 189, 244, 245
Gromley, Christopher, and family, 111
Grubbtown, Pennsylvania, 28, 201
Haak, Charles, 117
Hank, William, 88
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 78
Harding, Warren G., 59
Harper’s Weekly, 218, 221, 223
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 91, 205, 240
Harrison, President Benjamin, 61, 225, 231
Hart, Captain A. N., 166, 169, 190, 202
Hartley, G. B., 156–57
Hastings, Daniel Hartman, 201–202, 209, 212, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 245, 248, 266
Haws Cement Works, 189
Heidenfelter family, 88
Heiser, George, 35–38, 66, 150, 195, 196, 234
Heiser, Mathilde, 35–38, 150, 195. 196, 234
Heiser, Victor, 35–38, 66, 139, 186, 191, 196, 222, 234, 259, 265; experience in the flood, 150–54
Helman, Sam, 100
Henderson, Thomas, 107
Heppenstall, Bill, 178, 214
"Her Last Message, " 223
Hess, John, 112–15, 121, 214
Hipp, Libby, 158–62, 191
Hirst, Mrs., 195
Hite, Mrs. Ellen, 246
Hoffman, Ben, 195
Hoffman, Gottfried, and family, 195
Holley, Alexander, 69
Homestead, Pennsylvania, 60, 212, 248
Hoover, Herbert, 59
Home, Durbin, 59, 199
Horner, Charles, 146
Horner, Daisy, 34
Horner, Jacob, 172
Horseshoe Curve, 53
How the Other Half Lives (Riis), 26
Huff, George F., 59
Hulbert house, 31, 148, 215, 258; destroyed by the flood, 156–57
Hungarians, 26, 143, 202, 229, 248; blamed for widespread crime, 210–13
Irwin, Pennsylvania, 175
Jackson, Robert Montgomery Smith, 45–46
Jeannette, Pennsylvania, 175
Jenkins, James and Ann (Jenkins case), 258–59
Jenks, George C, 222
Jersey City, New Jersey, 91
Johnson, Tom L., 133, 190, 267
Johnson Street Rail Company, 30, 190
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 20, 134–35; before the flood, 22–38; canal basin, 51; history of floods, 65–66; development of steel industry, 68–71; on the morning of May 31, 79–87; map, 129; flood strikes, 145–50; on the morning of June 1, 183–89; citizens organize after the flood, 189–90; statistics on deaths caused by the flood, 193–96; first relief arrives, 198–204; the press arrives, 205–210; Hungarian scare, 210–13; as the press described it, 215–21; legends, 221–24; massive charity, 224–32; recovery, 234–38; reaction to trials, 263; ceremonies for the unknown dead, 267–68
Johnstown City Council, 29
Johnstown Horror, The, 224
Johnstown Tribune, 22, 25, 26, 30, 34, 54–56, 62–64, 66, 83, 85, 97–98, 146, 149, 186, 232, 253, 264, 267
Jones, B. F., 5
Jones, Captain Bill, 69, 71–72, 78, 203, 229, 267
Joseph Home & Company, 59
Juniata Crossing, Pennsylvania, 208
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 119
Keenan, Tom, 207
Kehoe, Thomas, 107
Kelly, William, 68–69, 78
Keltz, S. W., 103–107
Kempel, Christian, 195
Kernville, Pennsylvania, 150, 153, 171, 185, 193
Kilrain, Jake, 224
Kiskiminetas River, 25
Krebs, Fred, 82, 167
Knox, Philander C, 42, 58, 132, 242, 255, 260
Knox & Reed, 242, 258
Koch, Henry, 164
Kress, Mrs. Charles, 215
Kuhn, William, 34
Kurz& Allison, 219
Lake Conemaugh, 39, 41, 88, 101, 108, 131, 149, 260, 264; activities on the morning of the flood, 89–93; last moments before the dam failed, 98–100
Lamb’s Bridge, 40, 41, 102
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 177
Laurel Hill, 25, 33, 77, 177, 189
Laurel Run, 24
Lawrence, J. J., 20
Leap, Mrs., 88
Lee, Dr. Benjamin, 209
Lee, Dr. John, 194
Leishman, John G. A., 58, 59, 61
Lenhart, Sam, 195
Levergood, Mrs. Jacob, 215
Levergood, Peter, 27
"Lewis the Light, " 232
Libby Prison, 35
Liggett, R. C, 112, 114
Ligonier, Pennsylvania, 33
Lilly, Pennsylvania, 24, 88
"Lime Kiln Club, " 207
Lincoln, Abraham, 23, 203, 257
Lincoln, Robert, 257
Linton, John, 80, 185, 209, 258
Lippincott, James, 42, 59
Lippincott, Jesse H., 243
Little, John, 257
Little, Nancy, 257
Little case, 257–58, 259
Little Conemaugh River, 24, 39, 53, 64, 81, 86, 94, 96, 103, 105–107, 113, 148, 167, 189, 198, 202
Lord Mayor of Dublin, 225
Loretto, Pennsylvania, 22, 33, 200
Lovett, John, 87
Lowman, Dr. John, 34, 155, 158, 170, 185, 190
Loyalhanna Creek, 25, 177
Macy, R. H., & Company, 225
Madison Square Garden, 224
Mail train, 123–25
Main Line Canal, 50–51, 54
Maine, U.S.S., 61
Malzi, Jacob, 171
Man Who Rode to Conemaugh, The, 221–22
Mann, Michael ("The First Victim"), 105–106
Matthews, Dr. William, 170, 190, 228, 234
McAchren, Maxwell, 163–64, 167 McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, 206
McDonald, Frank, 172
McGregor, James, 241–42
McGuigan, C. J., 124–25
McKee, John, 217
McKinley, William, 59
McLaurin, J. J., 192, 249
McMillan, James, 209
McMillan, James (plumber), 264
McNally, Mrs. Mary, 83
Medical News, 230
Mellon, Andrew, 58–59, 255
Mellon, T., & Sons, 58, 255
Memorial Day (in Johnstown), 22–23, 26–27, 32–33, 94, 164
Methodist Church, Johnstown, 34, 136, 152, 170–71
Metropolitan Opera House, 224
Metz family, 191
Miller, J. G., 123
Miller, Samuel S., 125–26
Millville, Pennsylvania, 28
Mineral Point, Pennsylvania, 94, 97, 109–11
Minersville, Pennsylvania, 213
Mitchell, Charlie, 224
Molly Maguires, 109
Monongahela River, 44, 60, 175
Montgomery, Christ, 110, 111
Montgomery, D. M., 117
Monument to the Unknown Dead, 268
Moore, Charles, 87
Moore, Mickey, 109
Moorhead, James N., 52
Morgues
and morgue records, 192–96
Morrell, Daniel J., 133, 175, 190, 260; leadership in Johnstown, 67–72; concern about the dam, 73–77; death, 77–78
Morrellville, Pennsylvania, 28, 199
Morris, William E., 52
Mountain, The (Jackson), 45
Mountain House, Cresson, 46
Moxham, 28, 31, 97, 190
Moxham, Arthur J., 190, 201–202, 229, 267
Muddy Run, 41, 90
Murr, Charles, and family, 195
Mussante family, 152, 153
New Florence, Pennsylvania, 34, 177, 178–79, 181–82, 189, 196, 221
New Haven, Connecticut, 119
New York Central Railroad, 53
New York, New York, 57, 116, 156, 218, 224, 243, 244, 252
New York Daily Graphic, 208, 223, 250, 255
New York Herald, 207, 211, 242
New York Stock Exchange, 225
New York Sun, 207, 209, 210, 214, 245, 254
New York Times, 203, 207, 216, 219, 246, 254
New York Tribune, 207
New York Post, 210
New York Witness, 252
New York World, 189, 203, 211, 218, 219, 220, 242, 245, 246
Newport, Rhode Island, 57
Niagara Falls, 102
Night Off, A, 34, 123–25, 215, 224
Nineveh, Pennsylvania, 177, 189, 209, 244, 268
North American Review, 263
Official History of the Johnstown Flood (Connelly and Jenks), 222, 251
Ogle, Hettie, 97, 195, 223
Ohio River, 37, 50
Oil City, Pennsylvania, 35, 36
Oklahoma Territory, 32
Orr, Harry, 189
Otto Run, 88
Overholt, Abraham, 49, 62
Packer, Hezekiah, 52
Paint Creek, 25
Pattison, Governor Robert, 268
Parke, General John G., 20
Parke, John G., Jr., 95, 98–100, 101–102, 131, 213, 214, 221, 247, 261; at the club on Memorial Day, 20–22; investigates Lake Conemaugh on the morning of the flood, 89–90; rides to South Fork with warning, 93
Paul, Elmer, 96
"Paul Revere of the Flood" legend, 221–23
Paulson, Jennie, 116, 119, 122
Pearson, Edward, 56
Peblin, Sam, 88
Pennsylvania, state of, 50, 53, 54
Pennsylvania Board of Health, 209
Pennsylvania Canal, see Main Line Canal
Pennsylvania Pike, 206
Pennsylvania Railroad, 26, 28, 35, 39, 45, 49, 53–54, 55, 56, 59, 91, 95, 116–17, 175, 182, 198–200, 239–40, 253–54, 267; conducts its own investigation, 125–26
Peyton, Daniel, 221–23
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 45, 50, 68, 116, 156, 203, 205, 206, 213, 216, 224, 230, 231, 239, 258
Philadelphia Record, 215
Philadelphia Press, 205, 206, 207, 213, 215, 220, 257
Phillips, F., 122
Phipps, Henry, Jr., 58, 61, 67, 241, 255
Photographers arrive at Johnstown, 217–18
Pickerell, W. H., 94–97, 110–11, 113
Pitcairn, Robert, 58, 61, 87, 94, 95, 96, 118, 132, 174–79, 182, 199, 239, 241, 254, 260, 267
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