Well, that one single night Penn and his folks was to the hotel Johnstown was wiped out.

'Dam bust an' flooded her, an' the houses struck adrift an' bumped into each other an' sunk.

I've seen the pictures, an' they're dretful.

Penn he saw his folk drowned all'n a heap 'fore he rightly knew what was comin'.

His mind give out from that on.