Central Pennsylvania, a centre of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century - a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. THE RAILROAD BRIDGE ESCAPES, RESCUES, SEARCHESÄESTRUCTION ON THE SUSQUEHANNA AND JUNIATA RIVERS AND THE THROW OF JOHNSTOWN THE MASSING OF THE WRECK AT THE SWEEPING OUT OF THE CONEMAUGH VALLEY THE OVER. Cambria County Archives - History, History of the Johnstown Flood bookĪLL THE FEARFUL RECORD THE BREAKING OF THE SOUTH FORK DAM
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