A 40-foot wall of water roared down the mountain, destroying everything in its path. The 1889 Johnstown Flood wasn’t just a natural disaster—it was a catastrophe built by human failure.

FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably ... More than 4 square miles of downtown Johnstown was obliterated. The lake and dam were the property of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club ...

It was the club’s earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood. History shows club members did not replace draining pipes that had been removed, and screens they installed ...

“To one city in the U.S., the words ‘The dam has broken’ have for generations meant hell and anguish.” So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood. Last week ...

Farabaugh — whose new book, “Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel ... levels reached within 18 feet of the top of Wilmore dam. “Johnstown is still looking for its next chapter.

On Memorial Day 1889, 133 miles northwest of Frederick, the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River in Pennsylvania ...

THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD 1926 re-creates one of the greatest disasters of the late 19th Century in the USA. In May of 1889 over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania died as a result of the dam ...

It was this community’s Johnstown Flood ... and soon Curtis Pond was overflowing its banks and dam and flooding the whole area. “The course of Tatnuck Brook where it unites with Kettle ...

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 335 Locust St., Johnstown, will host a special Community Common Prayer Service commemorating the 130th anniversary of the 1889 Johnstown Flood and the role that St ...