Gallery, Page 3
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China serving platter found in the Schultz residence – the house that had been up-ended by the flood and pierced by a tree.
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Silver teaspoon found in the flood debris.
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Brooch found by young Carrie Potter during her rescue on the day of the flood. Carrie (whose married name was Bryan) treasured the cameo for the rest of her life.
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Toolchest, with all its tools intact, found on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. Since all the telegraph lines were down, debris floating down the river gave the outside world its first clues that a disaster had occurred upstream at Johnstown.
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The contents of homes piled up with equipment from factories in the great heaps of muddy junk.
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Shuttle from the woolen mill, the only building in Woodvale to survive the flood.
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