The Johnstown flood of July 20, 1977, killed 85 people, 39 of them in Tanneryville, where the Laurel Run Dam broke. The storm began about 9 p.m. July 19, 1977, and ”just got stuck over the ...

A Pennsylvania museum dedicated to remembering the effects of a 19th-century flood is temporarily closed because of flooding. The Johnstown Flood Museum in Cambria County announced on Monday that ...

Officials said that Johnstown Flood Museum had suffered an "interior water leak caused by the recent extreme cold," and would be closed indefinitely until it could be fixed, Heritage Johnstown ...

Although the club and its members were not held legally responsible for the disaster, the perceived injustice led to changes ...

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 ...

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 ...

FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination ... of the South Fork Dam located 14 miles up a narrow canyon from Johnstown, Pa. The water over topped the dam, which rapidly eroded ...