So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood ... At 3 p.m. on May 31, 1889, flood waters broke through the South Fork Dam, towering twelve miles away and 300 ft.

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 ...

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 ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Johnstown Flood National ... The official death toll was set at 2,209 from the flood on May 31, 1889. The program provides a rare opportunity to view and learn ...

Foreign-born residents comprise only about 1% of the population in Cambria, Somerset and Bedford counties. That rate, among a combined 250,000 people, is well behind the state average of 7.4% and the ...

Yamila Audisio is an immigrant from Argentina who has developed a deep appreciation for Johnstown’s history. She has studied the Great Flood of 1889 that took the lives of more than 2,200 people. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, PA — The Path of the Flood Trail in Cambria ... This 14-mile trail honors the historic route of the catastrophic ...