we continue to look back on the events leading up to and after the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. Even in the face of mortal danger, the citizens of Johnstown immediately turned their thoughts ...

SOUTH FORK -- Wednesday marks the 128th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. More than 2,200 people lost their lives in the flood when the South Fork Dam gave way and flooded the city.

The 136th anniversary of the 1889 Flood will be recognized May 31. Flood National Memorial will commemorate the victims of the flood that occurred on May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, ...

On Memorial Day 1889, a neglected dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania gave way after days of heavy rain, unleashing 14 million tons of water onto the town below. The flood swept away entire ...

It's a sobering way to end a visit exploring the history and human toll of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Jim Cheney is the writer behind UncoveringPA, Pennsylvania's most read travel blog.

PITTSBURGH – A privately owned dam collapsed in western Pennsylvania 125 years ago on May 31, 1889, unleashing a flood that killed 2,209 people. The terrible stories from the Johnstown Flood of ...

The Great Flood of 1889 killed more than 2000 people, swept away 1600 homes, and caused $17 million in damage. And it wasn’t the last time Johnstown would flood. A lithograph of the 1889 ...

In this 20,000-person burg, where past and present are encouraged to rub elbows and revitalization reigns, commemorating the catastrophic 1889 flood with a community race seems entirely apropos.

"They would be cousins of mine," Koenigsberg said. The Costlows died during the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, sending a churning wall of water through the Little ...

As residents prepared for Memorial Day 1889, little could they have imagined the violence on the horizon. (funky upbeat music) The disaster known as the Johnstown Flood was decades in the making.