Although the club and its members were not held legally responsible for the disaster, the perceived injustice led to changes in American courts in the legal interpretation of the definition of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...