Can't delete photos from iPhone 5 because their iPhoto library no longer exists

I have a good deal of photos, on my iPhone 5, that were synced via iPhoto. The problem is, the iPhoto library, they were synched with, no longer exists becuse, the hard drive that held them, crashed. I replaced the hard drive but, of course, when iPhoto is launched, there are no albums to un-select or delete and I'm stuck with not being able to delete them directly from the iPhone.
Short of erasing the iPhone, is there a way to delete these "lost in limbo" photos?
Thanks!
Teddy Alfrey

sberman,
Your first suggestion would be a good one; however, I don't have a backup of my iPhoto library. I'm using a MacBook Air with a very small hard drive and stored, nearly, everything on externals. That is, everything but whatever drives my iPhoto library. Since the only thing I use iPhoto for is syncing photos with my iOS devices, I wasn't particularly concerned with backing it up. I wasn't aware that these photos would be impossible to delete, otherwise.
Moving forward, I will look into externally storing my iPhoto "stuff."
I find myself wondering why the photos are locked down, to this degree.
Thanks for responding sberman!
Teddy

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