History of the Johnstown Flood / Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek.

by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Corrections

The use of larger or small capitals for “P.M.” and “A.M.” varies and have been left intact. Several apparent errors were noted, but have been allowed to stand, and are included in this list. The spelling of ‘Pittsburgh’ frequently omits the final ‘h’. Both variants are retained. Variants in other place names are retained as well.

An apparent confusion on p. 279: “Fonda, N. Y., June 5.—The people of Johnstown, N. Y....” is retained. Fonda and Johnstown N.Y. were and are neighboring communities.

In lists of contributions, missing or incorrect punctuation has been rendered consistent.

The following corrections were made where the errors are clearly inadvertent. Several instances of possibly nonstandard spelling have been noted with ‘sic’, which have been retained.

Page	Correction	Explanation
viii	[108/106]	Corrected page for Chapter VIII.
	13[7]	Completed page for Chapter X.
17	Franks[]town Turnpike	Missing hyphen at page break.
43	here and there[.] Each	Added stop.
97	[‘]To the hills	Added single quote.
101	as soon as [we] were in it	Added ‘we’.
129	The Pitt[t]sburg lady	Removed extra ‘t’.
135	so we [we] did not pay much	Removed redundant ‘we’.
149	especially the [woman], fainted.	sic
151	that were intrusted to us.[”]	Closing quote added.
177	and Mary, nineteen years.”	Added missing quote.
182	SITE OF THE HU[R]LBURT	Elsewhere spelled Hurlburt.
204	the Hotel Hurlbu[r]t	Elsewhere spelled Hurlburt.
224	train was on a sid[]ing	Missing hyphen on line break.
225	to[-]day	Missing hyphen added.
287	amounted to $687,872[,/.]68	Comma replaced with decimal.
294	Thomas Garner & Co[.]	Period added.
297	Saugerties[,] N. Y., $850;	Comma added.
301	débris / debris	Both the accented and unaccented spellings are retained, here and elsewhere.
306	nine hundred men [a]t work	Added missing ‘a’.
317	was discovered w[h]ere anybody	Added missing ‘h’.
319	there was ample water t[e/o] cover	Corrected typo.
	amount of water i[n/t] contained	Corrected typo.
320	ninety million cubic feet[.]	Added missing ‘.’.
321	Ho[u/a]ng-ho	Changed to agree with other instances.
322	But the b[r]each grew	Corrected typo.
327	A large rock was split assunder	sic
328	and caused great dam[s/a]ge	Corrected typo.
329	the Danube again o[u/v]erflowed	Corrected typo.
	its turbulent waters i[u/n]to	Corrected typo.
332	At Whitehall, [N.G./N.Y.]	Corrected typo.
	one hundred and nin[e]ty feet	Corrected typo.
358	Baltimore and Ohio Rail[a/r]oad	Corrected typo.
377	turned in[]to them by people	sic
407	Allegehenies	sic
414	draughty as a seive	sic
434	ever beat our time[.]”	Added ‘.’.
458	[Caniesto/Canisteo] river	Corrected typo.