![]() Traveling forty miles an hour, with swells as high as sixty feet, the deadly floodwaters razed the mill town-home to 20,000 people-in minutes. ![]() Gathering speed as it flowed southwest, the deluge wiped out entire towns in its path and picked up debris-trees, houses, animals-before reaching Johnstown, fourteen miles downstream. Though they telegraphed neighboring towns on this last morning in May, warning of the impending danger, residents, used to false alarms, remained in their homes.Īt 3:10 P.M., the dam gave way, releasing twenty million tons of water. May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall-nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours-swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to breach the South Fork Dam in central Pennsylvania. A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood-the deadliest flood in US history-from New York Times bestselling author, NBC Host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |