On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heavy rains and poor maintenance by the dam's owners. The burst dam sent a wall of water and debris, 40 feet high and half a mile wide, 14 miles downstream to the bustling industrial city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2000 people lost their lives in the disaster. This documentary tells the story, and tells us that the disaster was easily avoidable.
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The Johnstown Flood (Full Documentary)
The Johnstown Flood (locally the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on May 31 1889 after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh .
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