"They would be cousins of mine," Koenigsberg said. The Costlows died during the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, sending a churning wall of water through the Little ...

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 ...

The verse from the Song of Solomon is a perpetual reminder of the Locust Street church’s role in the 1889 Johnstown Flood and its aftermath. “I think that we here at St. Mark’s take that ...

According to NOAA, seeing a collar cloud is rare. It is a circular ring of clouds that surrounds the upper part of a wall cloud. Wall clouds are generally on the south or southwest side, or inflow, of ...

In this 20,000-person burg, where past and present are encouraged to rub elbows and revitalization reigns, commemorating the catastrophic 1889 flood with a community race seems entirely apropos.

It was the club’s earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood. History shows club members did not replace draining pipes that had been removed, and screens they installed ...

If you look around your neighborhood, it most likely seems like housing prices are only going up. That's true for the ...

After reading David McCullough’s book about the Johnstown flood of 1889, Farabaugh decided to continue the story by writing about the subsequent disasters in 1936 and 1977. But because of ...

Late in May, 1889, rain was falling an inch per hour in the hills of ... “With the valley crowding up the way it was,” wrote David McCullough in his book, The Johnstown Flood, “the need for lumber and ...

was a fixture in the Morley family yard until 1889, when it was swept away in a flood that killed 2,209 people. It was recovered, and has been on display in downtown Johnstown for a long time ...

George O'Brien (Tom O'Day)Florence Gilbert (Gloria Allen)Janet Gaynor (Anna Burger)Anders Randolf (John Hamilton, Lumber Camp Boss)Paul Nicholson (Ward Peyton)Paul Panzer (Joe Burger, Ann's Father ...