These former residents of the Coal Region faced death as a wall of water smashed the city of Johnstown to splinters on the afternoon of May 31, 1889.
“Night of Horrors” – Schuylkill County natives who survived the Johnstown Flood in May 1889

These former residents of the Coal Region faced death as a wall of water smashed the city of Johnstown to splinters on the afternoon of May 31, 1889.
We recently acquired this colorized postcard of the Glen Burn Colliery near Shamokin
"We are men and all we ask is to be treated as such," wrote the miners in a public letter published during their 1886 strike.