Photos by George Kollar/Courtesy Johnstown Area Heritage Association / Vehicles are piled along the river banks in the West End of town. JOHNSTOWN — Forty years ago this week, a storm described as a ...

The National Park Service honored those who lost their lives in the 1889 Johnstown Flood this weekend as the Johnstown Flood ...

The Johnstown Flood killed 2,200 people and changed America’s approach to disaster relief, dam safety, and public accountability.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Emergency officials rushed to evacuate about 3,000 people below a dam near Johnstown on Wednesday after hours of heavy rains triggered plans to ensure the safety of downstream ...

After the Johnstown flood, residents and outside volunteers mounted a massive reconstruction. On May 31, 1889 the South Fork dam in Cambria County failed, sending a flood wave through Johnstown that ...

The small headline of the Engineering News article shown here belies the gravity of the disaster: the deadliest dam failure in U.S. history. The South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania was a 72-ft-tall, 931-ft ...

The last Friday in May dawned wet and stayed that way. Merchants in blue-collar Johnstown, Pa., hauled their wares to their buildings’ upper stories to wait out the expected flooding. Families moved ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A privately owned dam collapsed in western Pennsylvania 125 years ago on May 31, 1889, unleashing a flood that killed 2,209 people. The terrible stories from the Johnstown Flood of ...