JOHNSTOWN. A city in Cambria County, Pa., 76 miles east of Pittsburg; on the Pennsyl vania and at the terminus of a branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Map: Pennsyl vania. C 3). It occupies, at an elevation of about 1200 feet, an area of five square miles, being situated in the irregular and narrow valley formed by the confluence of Stony Creek and the Conemaugh River. Among public buildings of note are the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hos pital, the Cambria Free Library (with over 14,000 volumes), the high school, and the city hall. There are 23 acres of public parks, and Grand View Cemetery is of special interest as the burial-place of 800 unidentified victims of the disastrous flood of 1S89. The city is well known as the centre of an extensive iron and steel industry, the Cambria Steel Company alone employing some 10,000 men. The Lorain Steel Company also has a large iron and steel plant here. Besides the manufactures of iron and steel rails, street cars. iron plate. etc., there are planing mills, brickyards, pottery and cement works, breweries, furniture factories, and other indus trial establishments. Coal. iron ore, fire-clay,
and limestone are found in the vicinity. Found ed in 1791, Johnstown was incorporated in 1889, its population then being about 25.000. On May 31. 1SS9, as a result of heavy rains. the dam across the South Fork, a branch of the Cone maugh River, 12 miles directly east of the city. hut more than IS miles along the stream bed, was carried away, thus releasing Conemaugh Lake, a body of water 2“. miles long. II miles wide at its greatest width, and in many places as much as 100 feet deep. The valley was quickly engulfed. Johnstown and surrounding villages were submerged. 2235 lives were lost. and prop erty worth. according to some estimates, as much as ten millions of dollars was destroyed. (See DAMS AND RESERVOIRS.) Aid poured in from all parts of the country, fully $3,000,000 in cash and material being contributed, and the city was quickly rebuilt and has grown steadily. Popula tion, in 1S90. 21.805: in 1900, 35,936.'