Dark Records The Johnstown Dam Collapse and Flood 1889 Posted: February 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 On Memorial Day of 1889, western Pennsylvania was caught by a massive storm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For J&J, the 1889 Johnstown Flood. For Vick’s ... It was a harrowing journey, among the dazed and wounded. Looters were spotted. “I saw would-be robbers on every corner,” Giannini later ...

After reading David McCullough’s book about the Johnstown flood of 1889, Farabaugh decided to continue the story by writing about the subsequent disasters in 1936 and 1977. But because of ...