Human Ghouls and Vampires on the Scene--A Short Shrift for Marauders--Vigilance Committees Enforcing Order--Plunderers of the Dead Relentlessly Dispatched--Outbursts of Righteous Indignation, 238
The Cry for Help and the Nation's Answer--President Harrison's Eloquent and Effective Appeal--Governor Beaver's Message--A Proclamation by the Governor of New York--Action of the Commissioner of Pensions--Help from over the Sea, 249
The American Heart and Purse Opened Wide--A Flood of Gold against the Flood of Water--Contributions from every Part of the Country, in Sums Large and Small, 265
Benefactions of Philadelphia--Organization of Charity--Train loads of Food and Clothing--Generous spirit of Convicts in the Penitentiary--Contributions from over the Sea--Queen Victoria's sympathy--Letter from Florence Nightingale, 281
Raising a Great Relief Fund in New York--Where the Money came from--Churches, Theatres and Prisons join in the good work--More than One Hundred Thousand Dollars a Day--A few Names from the Great Roll of Honor, 292
Breaking up the Ruins and Burying the Dead--Innumerable Funerals--The Use of Dynamite--The Holocaust at the Bridge--The Cambria Iron Works--Pulling out Trees with Locomotives, 299
Caring for the Sufferers--Noble Work of Miss Clara Barton and the Red Cross Society--A Peep into a Hospital--Finding Homes for the Orphans--Johnstown Generous in its Woe--A Benevolent Eating House, 309
Recovering from the Blow--The Voice of the Locomotive Heard again--Scenes Day by Day amid the Ruins and at the Morgue--Strange Salvage from the Flood--A Family of Little Children, 319
The City Filled with Life Again--Work and Bustle on Every Hand--Railroad Trains Coming In--Pathetic Meetings of Friends--Persistent Use of Dynamite to Break Up the Masses of Wreckage--The Daily Record of Work Amid the Dead, 341
Scenes at the Relief Stations--The Grand Army of the Republic in Command--Imposing Scenes at the Railroad Station--Cars Loaded with Goods for the Relief of the Destitute, 353
General Hastings' Headquarters--Duties of the Military Staff--A Flood of Telegrams of Inquiry Pouring In--Getting the Post-office to Work Again--Wholesale Embalming--The Morgue in the Presbyterian Church--The Record of the Unknown Dead--A Commemorative Newspaper Club, 358