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A few years back, I read McCullough’s “The Jonestown Flood”.
There is no level of imagination that can come close to picturing what that must have been like.
McCullough’s book was monumental——you felt like you were there as the catastrophic events unfolded.
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I’ve got a copy of HISTORY OF THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD by Willis Fletcher Johnson printed in 1889.
The description of the flood will give you nightmares. After the flood, lowbrow “Eastern European” immigrants (Huns) were found looting the dead. They were promptly strung up or shot.
First descriptions of the new fangled “electric arc lights” used to illuminate the scene at night as they tried to free bodies from the packed debris. It was packed so tight they finally had to use Black powder bombs to break up the mess.