Johnstown Flood
Books
- The Dam Above Johnstown: The South Fork Club, the Flood of 1889 and the Price of Neglect The South Fork Club, the Flood of 1889, and the Price of Neglect · Liszt Think
On May 31, 1889, twenty million tons of water released from a patched earthen dam obliterated Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in fifty-seven minutes.
- The Relief Machine Takes Shape…rs, to relief organizations, to families. The correspondents went to their editors. Within forty-eight hours of the line’s restoration, the Johnstown Flood was front-page news in every major city in the eastern United States. The physical connection of rail allowed for the rapid arrival of mort…
- The Suits That Named No One…idest legal extent over the next four years, and this chapter follows that reach to the point where it stopped short. Its claim is that the Johnstown Flood produced no verdict against the men who owned the dam, not because the record was thin — the club’s minutes and deeds, the Cambria Iron war…
- The Flood Enters the National Memory…ral cost was just beginning. The survivors had started writing almost immediately. Reverend David Beale published his account, “Through the Johnstown Flood.” Beale had lived through the water. He described the night, the morning, the people he saw, the sound. His book was one of the first. It w…