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	Johnstown Flood
		It is certain that the residents of South Fork, Conemaugh, Woodvale, and Johnstown, in the Conemaugh Valley, were in constant dread of the consequences of the bursting of the reservoir.
		Repeatedly, during time of flood, reports had been circulated that the reservoir dam had broke, and finally, when this report proved to be true, the people were incredulous, and their incredulity is responsible in part for the loss of life.
		Above the roar of the flood, the crash of falling timber, and the swirl of rushing waters were heard the groans of the dying, the wails of the mangled, and the agonizing cries for help from strong men, fainting women, and helpless children.
	www.voicenet.com /~ginette/flood.htm (1586 words)

	Johnstown Flood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By 1889, Johnstown was a town of Welsh and German immigrants.
		The area surrounding the town of Johnstown was prone to flooding due to its position at the confluence of Stony Creek and Little Conemaugh River, forming the Conemaugh River, and to the artificial straightening of these rivers for the purposes of development.
		The inhabitants of the town of Johnstown were caught by surprise as the wall of water and debris bore down on the village, traveling at 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) and reaching a height of 60 feet (18 m) in places.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnstown_Flood (1899 words)

	History of the Johnstown Flood
		The relief effort of the Johnstown Flood -- Information on the immediate flood relief efforts, including the intense interest of the mass media, and the tremendous outpouring of charity from around the world.
		The Johnstown floods of 1936 and 1977 -- Information on the flood of 1936, the river channelization project that occurred in its aftermath, and the 1977 flood.
		The Johnstown Flood Museum's education home page-- This section features a wide variety of flood image galleries, period maps of Johnstown, primary sources, timelines, eyewitness accounts and more as part of three educational "threads" on different flood-related themes.
	www.jaha.org /FloodMuseum/history.html (1822 words)

	The Johnstown Flood, 1889 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Johnstown was typical of all mill towns of the Late Gilded Age.
		Johnstown in the 1880s was the largest of the towns developed along the river valley.
		Having the largest population of around 10,000 in 1889 Johnstown sat at the center of the economic, entertainment, and social life of the area.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/johnstown/page2.html (390 words)

	Johnstown Flood of 1889 - Historic
		When the full story of the flood came to light, many believed that if this was a "natural" disaster, then surely man was an accomplice.
		Founded in 1794, Johnstown began to prosper with the building of the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal in 1834 and the arrival of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Cambria Iron Company in the 1850’s.
		Johnstown had been built on a flood plain at the fork of the Little Conemaugh and Stony Creek rivers.
	www.johnstownpa.com /History/hist19.html (640 words)

	May 31, 1889 Johnstown Flood by The New York Times
		Telegraphic communication with Johnstown has been re-established, and the work of succor to the living and of burial of the dead is going forward under direction of organized volunteer crops of physicians and ministers from Pittsburg and every other city in the reach of the stricken and desolate valley.
		Attempts at disorder and violence by small gangs of tramps have been vigorously suppressed, and several marauders have been lynched and shot to death, for the people in the solemn earnestness of their work of succor and rescue have not the patience to wait the tedious process of law.
		Johnstown, June 6 - The certainty of the towns along the Conemaugh and Allegheny Valleys being subjected to ravages of an epidemic of typhus, or at least typhoid, fever this summer has been doubly assured by the course pursued by the persons who are now engaged in clearing the debris in the river at Johnstown.
	www.johnstownpa.com /History/hist30.html (1484 words)

	Johnstown Flood DVD narrated by Richard Dreyfuss - Production Notes
		Recreating 1889 Johnstown, a bustling, historic city, was a challenging assignment to accurately convey the size and scope of the flood as well as the Victorian era in which it took place.
		Johnstown Flood was looking great and Executive Producer, Michael Bussler, decided he wanted to have it narrated by the best narrator in the industry.
		The Flood Museum provided the film with a tremendous amount of additional pictures of Johnstown and the aftermath, many of which were never before published.
	www.johnstownflood.com /production_notes.aspx (1062 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Johnstown Flood
		The story of the Johnstown flood is surrounded by myths and legends of the rich versus the poor.
		Richard Burkert of the Johnstown Flood Museum disputes that in his film commentary, which is an alternate film soundtrack on the DVD.
		The flood waters carried a huge mass of debris into downtown Johnstown, where the debris jammed against the strong stone bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/dvd/jonsflood.html (1854 words)

	PHMC Doc Heritage: The "Great Johnstown Flood" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As a result, serious floods that caused significant loss of life and property damage have occurred throughout the state, including Johnstown, during the past two centuries.
		Nevertheless, the "Great Johnstown Flood" differed from others there and elsewhere in that on May 31, 1889, twenty million tons of water that formed a wall thirty-six feet high traveled fourteen miles going approximately forty miles per hour struck the town.
		As for the vast majority of Johnstown's residents, the heavy rains of May 1889, the storms of the month's last few days, and the rising water in the streets, seemed not to alarm them.
	www.docheritage.state.pa.us /documents/johnstownflood.asp (1570 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Johnstown Flood
		Indeed, she used it to escape the 1977 flood, and her grandmother used it in the 1936 flood.
		While the Johnstown Flood is a compelling story, reminding us that society is fragile in the face of nature, Johnstown Flood reduces that tale to a litany of suffering.
		The story of the Johnstown Flood is a microcosm of America in the Industrial Revolution.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/johnstownflood.php (1112 words)

	The Johnstown Flood
		Today the flood is documented at the Johnstown Flood Museum, housed in the former library built after 1889 with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie.
		Johnstown, situated as it is in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania has many amenities and is well worth a visit at any time of the year.
		While in Johnstown, the Holiday Inn Downtown was "home base." I must say that after a day of "flood immersion" a room on the sixth floor had a certain sense of security about it although one need not worry today about Johnstown being swept away by the rampaging waters of any river.
	www.mestern.net /usa/pennsylvania/johnstown/index.php (1108 words)

	Quick Tour of the City of Johnstown, PA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Johnstown was then declared to be a “Flood Free” City (from 1939 to 1977).
		Johnstown is a small city that’s growth was restricted by the narrow valleys; but its mills were the longest.
		Johnstown’s early importance in iron making was a result of the presence of coal, wood, limestone, and iron ore.
	www.johnstown-redevelopment.org /city.htm (1360 words)

	Quick Facts about Johnstown Flood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		-Population of Johnstown in 1889 was 10,000; the population of Johnstown and surrounding communities was 30,000.
		-The distance between the destroyed dam and Johnstown was 14 miles; the average speed of the wave, on it's trip to Johnstown, was 40 miles per hour.
		The Johnstown Flood was the first major disaster relief effort for the Red Cross and Clara Barton herself was among the relief workers who came to Johnstown.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/jnyflood/page4 (366 words)

	THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD MUSEUM
		flooding was a way of life for nineteenth century citizens in the industrial city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
		Survivors whose homes and businesses had been swept away by the flood waters had no choice but to temporarily live in tents while they began the awesome task of rebuilding the city and their lives.
		The Johnstown Flood Museum, located at 304 Washington Street in Johnstown, PA, was constructed in 1891.
	www.paturnpike.com /tools/newsletters/fall97/fpage4.htm (674 words)

	Pennsylvania Highways: Johnstown Flood
		The Johnstown Local Flood Protection Project (JLFPP) was among the earliest flood control projects undertaken by the Pittsburgh District of the US Army Corp of Engineers under the new act.
		The city reeled not only from the damage of the flood, but also the damaged image of a "flood-free Johnstown." However, the project diminished the destructive power of the flood by reducing the level of water in the city by 11 feet, and a crest six feet lower than the 1936 flood.
		Filmed in and around Johnstown a year before the last disastrous flood which was one of the reasons the Johnstown Jets, the team used as the basis for the Chiefs, folded.
	www.pahighways.com /features/johnstownflood.html (5039 words)

	JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, PENNSYLVANIA EVENTS
		Perhaps not really a flood at all, as a rushing mountain of water came roaring down the valley, descending on the town.
		The dam itself seemed to be a constant worry to many of the residents of South Fork and Johnstown, and settlements in between.
		Johnstown's downtown area was flooded, but this happened nearly every spring.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/johnstown.html (1525 words)

	Johnstown
		The 1889 flood was remarkable really because a dam upstream burst and made the usual flooding into a catastrophe of proportions that are still considered epic.
		Johnstown has several distinctions -- including its inclined railway, its huge cemetery of unknown dead from "the" flood, and the Cambria Iron/Steel Works -- one of the earlier large-scale iron smelting operations in the United States.
		This is not our favorite Johnstown flood book (there were three notable more or less contemporary books about the Johnstown flood, of which we are including two on this CD-ROM) but it is a fast read and contains all the errors, misstatements, prejudices, melodrama, and hype that characterized accounts of the flood at the time.
	www.betweenthelakes.com /states/johnstown.htm (854 words)

	The Johnstown Flood of 1977 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The flood swept through the area, resulting in the deaths of 77 people and damage in excess of $200 million.
		As bad as the flood of 1977 was, it pales in comparison to the Johnstown flood of 1889.
		The Johnstown flood of 1889 was one of the worst disasters in United States history.
	www.qsl.net /w5www/johnstown.html (175 words)

	Johnstown Flood
		In lives lost, the Johnstown PA Flood was the worst civil disaster the United States ever suffered.
		Investigators subsequently concluded that "the failure was due to the flow of water over the top of the earthen embankment caused by the insufficiency of the waste-way [spillway] to discharge the flood water." But the club and its members were not deemed responsible.
		This is a view from what remains of the breast of the dam today looking toward the buildings in the far background (the white area on the hillside), where once the clubhouse sat at the water's edge.
	smoter.com /flooddam/johnstow.htm (4075 words)

	Johnstown Flood National Memorial - Areaparks.com
		The story of the Johnstown Flood has everything to interest the modern mind: a wealthy resort, an intense storm, an unfortunate failure of a dam, the destruction of a working class city, and an inspiring relief effort.
		Elias Unger, the president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, was hoping that the people in Johnstown were heeding the telegraph warnings sent earlier, which said that the dam might go.
		Johnstown Flood National Memorial is located in southwestern Pennsylvania, about 10 miles northeast of Johnstown.
	johnstownflood.areaparks.com (198 words)

	History of the Johnstown Flood-Chapter 4
		The course of the torrent from the broken dam at the foot of the lake to Johnstown is almost eighteen miles, and with the exception of one point, the water passed through a narrow V-shaped valley.
		Breaking down the barbed steel wire mill and the tannery at the bridge, the flood went across the regular channel of the river and struck the Gautier Steel Works, made up of numerous stanch brick buildings and one immense structure of iron, filled with enormous boilers, fly wheels, and machinery generally.
		When it struck the railroad bridge at Johnstown, and not being able to force its way through that stone structure, the debris was gorged and the water dammed up fifty feet in ten minutes.
	prr.railfan.net /documents/JohnstownFlood/chapter4.html (2631 words)

	Johnstown Flood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Johnstown Flood has its weaknesses (the firsthand accounts weren't written to be recited like dialogue), but it still does a fine job of explaining why the impact of May 31, 1889 remains with us.
		Johnstown Flood is the kind of movie I wouldn't have minded watching in school.
		Mark Bussler's Johnstown Flood is an excellent documentary about one of the worst tragedies to occur in America during the 1800s.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/johnstown_flood (570 words)

	Midweek Perspectives: Direct the Johnstown Flood Tax to today's flood victims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On the 70th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood Tax -- an 18 percent tax levied on liquor sold in Pennsylvania -- the commonwealth finds itself inundated by floods.
		Intended to be temporary (until Johnstown recovered), the tax grew over the years from a 10 percent surcharge to its current 18 percent level and the money became the province of the Legislature to use for other purposes.
		Johnstown fortunately was spared the brunt of the storms this time around, but such a use of the money would be a fitting tribute to the victims of the 1936 flood.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06186/703347-109.stm (502 words)

	Amazon.com: Johnstown Flood narrated by Richard Dreyfuss: DVD: Mark Bussler,Richard Dreyfuss,Patrick Jordan,Jennifer ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Fiercely thrashing at frightening speeds, the flood devastates the 14-mile valley between the Conemaugh Lake and Johnstown, Pennsylvania under the force of a 20-million-ton tidal wave.
		Johnstown Flood depicts this tragic event which claims more than 2,200 lives and wipes out 99 entire families and is still considered to be one of the worst disasters in American history.
		Patrick Jordan as Johnstown Flood survivor, Jennifer Lee Dake as Anna Fenn, survivor, Charles King as The old railroader, Patrick Jordan as Johnstown Flood survivor, Jennifer Lee Dake as Anna Fenn, survivor, Charles King as The old railroader...
	www.amazon.com /Johnstown-Flood-narrated-Richard-Dreyfuss/dp/B00009PSE2 (1807 words)

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		We are a non-profit organization that exists to showcase Johnstown's stories to the nation, preserving and interpreting the area's heritage through museums, historical collections and cultural programs.
		JAHA museums include the Johnstown Flood Museum and the Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center.
		JAHA maintains an extensive archive of objects, photographs and documents that are significant to the history of Johnstown and the surrounding areas.
	www.jaha.org (153 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Johnstown Flood Museum, Johnstown PA
		The Johnstown Flood Museum, located at 304 Washington Street in downtown Johnstown, is housed in a former Carnegie Library building.
		In 1973, the library building was purchased by the Johnstown Flood Museum Association (now the Johnstown Area Heritage Association), which utilized the facility as a small museum on the Flood.
		This gallery is used to examine topics other than the Flood story such as the Great Depression's effect on the community; the history of steel making in Johnstown; and the role of ethnic fraternal associations in the assimilation of immigrants into American culture.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/gl/15901.htm (978 words)

	The Johnstown Flood - @forums
		I'm not sure why it was on the Travel Channel, but while surfing last night, I saw something on the Johnstown Flood of 1889 in Pennsylvania.
		They were either drowned or crushed by debris (like entire railroad cars, huge pieces of earth, chunks of homes from towns between the dam and Johnstown, and huge bales of barbed wire from a nearby factory).
		I've actually been to the Johnstown Flood Museum in PA and it was surprisingly interesting.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=162981 (505 words)

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