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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539713" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pennsylvania Disaster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June,<br>Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom,<br>By the bursting of a dam in Pennsylvania State,<br>And were burned, and drowned by the flood-- oh! pity their fate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The embankment of the dam was considered rather weak,<br>And by the swelled body of water the embankment did break,<br>And burst o'er the valley like a leaping river,<br>Which caused the spectators with fear to shiver. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on rushed the mighty flood, like a roaring big wave,<br>Whilst the drowning people tried hard their lives to save;<br>But eight thousand were drowned, and their houses swept away,<br>While the spectators looked on, stricken with dismay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the torrent dashed against the houses they instantly toppled o'er,<br>Then many of the houses caught fire, which made a terrific roar;<br>And two thousand people, by the fire, lost their lives,<br>Consisting of darling girls and boys, also men and their wives. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the merciless flood reached Johnstown it was fifty feet high,<br>While, in pitiful accents, the drowning people for help did cry;<br>But hundreds of corpses, by the flood, were swept away,<br>And Johnstown was blotted out like a child's toy house of clay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! there were many pitiful scenes enacted,<br>And many parents, for the loss of their children, have gone distracted,<br>Especially those that were burned in the merciless flame,<br>Their dear little ones they will never see again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And among the sad scenes to be witnessed there,<br>Was a man and his wife in great despair,<br>Who had drawn from the burning mass a cradle of their child,<br>But, oh, heaven! their little one was gone, which almost drove them wild. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, heaven! it was a pitiful and a most agonising sight,<br>To see parents struggling hard with all their might,<br>To save their little ones from being drowned,<br>But 'twas vain, the mighty flood engulfed them, with a roaring sound. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was also a beautiful girl, the belle of Johnstown,<br>Standing in bare feet, on the river bank, sad and forlorn,<br>And clad in a loose petticoat, with a shawl over her head,<br>Which was all that was left her, because her parents were dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her parents were drowned, and their property swept away with the flood,<br>And she was watching for them on the bank where she stood,<br>To see if they would rise to the surface of the water again,<br>But the dear girl's watching was all in vain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for Conemaugh river, there's nothing could it surpass;<br>It was dammed up by a wall of corpses in a confused mass;<br>And the charred bodies could be seen dotting the burning debris,<br>While the flames and sparks ascended with a terrific hiss. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pillaging of the houses in Johnstown is fearful to describe,<br>By the Hungarians and ghouls, and woe betide<br>Any person or party that interfered with them,<br>Because they were mad with drink, and yelling like tigers in a den. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And many were to be seen engaged in a hand-to-hand fight,<br>And drinking whisky, and singing wild songs, oh! what a shameful sight!<br>But a number of the thieves were lynched and shot<br>For robbing the dead of their valuables, which will not be forgot. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mrs Ogle, like a heroine, in the telegraph office stood at her post,<br>And wired words of warning, else more lives would have been lost;<br>Besides she was warned to flee, but from her work she wouldn't stir,<br>Until at last the merciless flood engulfed her. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for the robbery and outrage at the hands of the ghouls,<br>I must mention Clara Barton and her band of merciful souls,<br>Who made their way fearlessly to the wounded in every street,<br>And the wounded and half-crazed survivors they kindly did treat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, heaven! it was a horrible sight, which will not be forgot,<br>So many people drowned and burned--oh! hard has been their lot!<br>But heaven's will must be done, I'll venture to say,<br>And accidents will happen until doomsday!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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And were burned, and drowned by the flood-- oh! pity their fate! 

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