Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; heavy use of commas has been retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. With the exception of the Frontispiece, all uncaptioned illustrations are decorative tailpieces. Page vi: “Westenhouse was printed that way.” Page 134: Quotation marks added to surround the paragraph beginning “In the coming down”. Page 143: Closing quotation mark added to the paragraph ending “upon the suffering.” Page 151: The closing quotation mark in paragraph ending “the Lord knoweth them that are his.” appears to represent the close of a quotation within a quotation. Page 170: Extraneous closing quotation mark deleted following “she wore a heavy, plain, gold ring.” End of Project Gutenberg's The Ashtabula Disaster, by Stephen D. Peet