St. Mark’s congregation continued meeting in the “Ark,” a temporary small wooden structure furnished by the American Red Cross. The response to the 1889 Johnstown Flood marked the first time ...

Five days after the flood of 1889, 67-year-old Clara Barton arrived from Washington, D.C., along with workers from the American Red Cross. It would be the organization’s first major crack at disaster ...

Red Cross volunteers have been working non-stop to ease the burden of flood victims. The organization has opened five ...