FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination of natural "Acts of God" and engineering failures. On May 31, 1889 ... a narrow canyon from Johnstown, Pa. The water over topped ...

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 ...

Johnstown is famous for its floods, but not many people know that it’s partly responsible for originating a hefty tax on all ...

How a foot race helps one Pennsylvania town remember a historic ... commemorating the catastrophic 1889 flood with a community race seems entirely apropos. Johnstown has “had its time,” said Rich ...

A museum that commemorates the flooding of a Pennsylvania town was forced ... more than 2,000 people who died after a flood swept through Johnstown in 1889, according to Heritage Johnstown's ...

Bosley was among several representatives of the five national parks of Western Pennsylvania ... earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood. History shows club members ...

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 ...