On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed—and unleashed hell. A 40-foot wave crashed through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing over 2,200 people in one of the deadliest disasters in U.S. history.

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 ...

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 ...

Through an array of personal items, the stories of Johnstown’s three floods are being told. The “Relic Tales of the Johnstown Floods” exhibition is on display through the fall on the second floor of ...

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 ...