"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 ...

The response to the 1889 Johnstown Flood marked the first time the Red ... and the present day church was built and consecrated on May 31, 1891, the second anniversary of the 1889 flood.

Both the 1874 church building and the nearby rectory were swept away by the flood waters of May 31, 1889. On the empty ... middle class and the leaders of Johnstown to be taken care of so 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 ...

From this sheltered spot, a half mile as the crow flies from Johnstown Flood National Memorial ... mirrors the route taken by a deadly deluge more than 100 years ago. On May 31, 1889, an earthen dam ...

When the South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania collapsed on 31 May 1889, the Red Cross had only been formed for eight years. The Johnstown Flood was its first major peacetime disaster relief effort and ...

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 ...

The town of 30,000 was situated in a floodplain at the confluence of two rivers—but on May 31, 1889, those rivers began rushing ... it was,” wrote David McCullough in his book, The Johnstown Flood, ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. PITTSBURG, April 9. -- A special from Johnstown, Penn., says: "A large part of the town is flooded ...

After reading David McCullough’s book about the Johnstown flood of 1889 ... So when the South Fork Dam failed on May 31, 1889, the resulting wave that caused over 2,000 fatalities had a direct ...

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