p. 496 | Johnstown Flood Losses and Relief

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 31.

Johnstown Flood Losses and Relief

IT is stated that the most reliable estimate of the loss of life in the Johnstown flood is now put at over 10,000. The total relief already afforded the sufferers in the Conemaugh Valley is said to be about $2,200,000. The number of persons to be fed has varied from a maximum of 31,950 to the present commissary roll of 7,000. Considering the number of sufferers, the loss of life, and the utter destruction of property, the amount contributed was not large. The contributions in money to Chicago, immediately after the great fire, from all parts of the United States and from the rest of the world, amounted to five million dollars.