As we approach its 135th anniversary, we continue to look back on the events leading up to the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. The remains of the former canal basin in South Fork eventually came ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

May 30—SOUTH FORK, Pa. — Members of the Johnstown community will get a chance to retrace the path of the 1889 flood on Tuesday — at the site where the dam broke and on the city streets where ...

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 ...

FARGO — Flood ... On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam located 14 miles up a narrow canyon from Johnstown ...

But which of these natural disasters was the worst in the state? The Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, was the worst natural or weather-related disaster in Pennsylvania. The flood was caused by the ...