1889 Flood Survivors Project - William T. Davis

William T. Davis, age 94
2714 W. Chestnut St.
Altoona, Penna.
Phone W1-4-6918

At the time of the Flood he lived on Maple Avenue in Woodvale.

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - Otto C. Burggraf

Otto C. Burggraf, age 89
501 Oak St.

At the time of the Flood, he lived on "Clinton St. Place now Gately & Fitzgerald."

This is the present-day site of Flood City Cafe. 

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - David Baumgartner

David Baumgartner, age 76
307 Spruce St.
Windber, Pa.

At the time of the Flood, he lived at Mineral Point.

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - Mrs. Gertrude Rock

Mrs. Gertrude Rock, age 76
Phone 539-6170

At the time of the Flood she lived on "Wood St. which is now called Barkly."

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - Miss Etta Mae Berkebile

Miss Etta Mae Berkebile, age 81

Johnstown RD #4

Somerset Pike

At the time of the Flood she lived in Morrellville on B Street.

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - Emma R. Hayes

Emma R. Hayes, age 79
202 Walters Ave.
Phone: 266-3295

At the time of the Flood she lived on Sherman Street, which eventually became the Sanitary Dairy property and is now the Conemaugh Medical Park.

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - Mrs. Sadie McFeaters

Mrs. Sadie McFeaters, age 83
1039 Susquehanna Street
Phone 255-5317

At the time of the Flood she lived on Johns Street at the Point.

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - Ida Rhodes Herrick

Ida Rhodes Herrick, age 93
Born October 23, 1870
135 Barron Ave.
Phone 539-1696

At the time of the Flood, she lived "along the River side, not far from the PRR Station."

NOTE: She is the oldest respondent so far--she would have been close to 19 years old at the time of the Flood.

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors.

1889 Flood Survivors Project - D. P. Fetterman

D. P. Fetterman, age 89
523 Wood St.
Phone 535-1665

Have information that he could tell you.

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

1889 Flood Survivors Project - Mrs. Ethel Hopwood

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Mrs. Ethel Hopwood, age 75
1091 Edson Ave., Phone 535-4926

June 18th, 1963

I was 15 months old the time of the 1889 Flood. We lived in Coopersdale at 408 Cooper Ave.

My sister Mrs. Ida Graham, Box 306, Seanor, Pa. living at present with her daughter, Mrs. Paul Wiand.

Mrs. Ethel Hopwood

(Note: Mrs. Paul Wiand sent in a letter for her mother, in which she said the family took refuge in "the Academy" in Coopersdale the night of the Flood. It was #14 in this series, posted November 15.)

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1889 Flood Survivors Project - O. Schilling

11--14 63

Dear Sir, I have a book 'The Story of Johnstown.' May 31 1889--3 Thousand person perish Flood 1889. Early settlement 1769--picture of Johnstow (sic) Iron Works and Stone Bridge and Portage Tunnel and dam befor (sic) it broke. This book has 400 pages with name (sic) of meny (sic) people that died.

O. Schilling
364 Ihmsen Ave.
Johnstown, PA. 

Courtesy of Debra Orner - #Jayceesfloodsurvivors

December 8, 1941 - NIPPON ATTACK PLUNGES UNITED STATES INTO WAR - The Johnstown Democrat

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Stork News: Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Henderson - son, Mr. & Mrs. John Proko - daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Morton Stayrook - daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Newman Connelly - daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur M'Clintock - son, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Freeburn - son, Mr. & Mrs. William Van Scoyoc - son, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Kott - son

Ads: Thomas Kinzey, Friendly City Bank, Swanks, John Walters Co.

Joseph Varrato, Earl Klinsman, Richard Morgan, Anthony Noel, Richard Hamiley, William M. Thomas, Albert Piro, William Ament, Mart Scheidinger, Robert Kyler, Elmer Ostheim, Percy Shank, James Heslop, James Felix, Robert Miller, Edward Noll, Harry Irwin, Adolph Shonek, George Wilson, George Ross, Charles Sharpe, Francis Reik, Mrs. Ida Freen and Penn 

Traffic

Quaker Dry Cleaners and Home Furniture Company

Rothstein's

Donald Boyd, Dean Burns, Andrew Draksler, Police Chief Harry Klink, Virgil Dixon, Russell Jenkinson, George Stadmiller, Francis Varshal, David Sterling, James McCray, Marie Delaney, Anna Marie Cartwright, Joan Davis, Mrs. H.O. Englebach, Evans Payne, Daniel Torok, Frank Spadinak, Charles Yurasek, Francis Sirocky, Gallikers.

 Glossers

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Gately & Fitzgerald Furniture - Johnstown

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DeRoy's - Downtown Johnstown

Cletus Seeley, Clyde Goldberg, Merton Goldberg, A.W. Wertz, Mrs. Mary Sehas
The Johnstown Democrat - 8 December 1941