Category:Johnstown Flood

**Johnstown Flood**
	massive flood of Johnstown, Pennsylvania caused by the collapse of the South Fork Dam
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Instance of	flood; dam failure;
Location	Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Point in time	31 May 1889;
Start time	31 May 1889;
End time	31 May 1889;
Number of deaths	2,209;
	40° 20′ 25″ N, 78° 46′ 15″ W
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English: The Johnstown Flood, on May 31, 1889, killed over 2,200 people and caused $17 million of damage. It was caused by the failure of the South Fork Dam above the Little Conemaugh River.

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Johnstown Flood Museum‎ (7 F)

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Stereo cards of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Flood, 1889‎ (3 C, 58 F)

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The following 85 files are in this category, out of 85 total.

17534u Ruins of Cambria Iron Mills from stone bridge P.R.R., Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,480 × 6,223; 133.2 MB
17535u Debris at P.R.R. stone bridge, Johnstown Flood.tif 7,362 × 6,156; 129.69 MB
17536u Military post on Kernville Hill, Johnstown Flood.tif 7,421 × 6,206; 131.79 MB
17537u Military post on Kernville Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,429 × 6,189; 131.57 MB
17538u Cambria Iron Company office an store rooms looking from P.R.R. depot.tif 7,463 × 6,266; 133.81 MB
17539u Johnstown Flood, No. 5, Geo. Hamilton, Assistant Superintendent.tif 7,387 × 6,189; 130.82 MB
17540u Bed of lake looking from top of broken dam, Johnstown flood.tif 7,421 × 6,215; 131.98 MB
17544u Pontoon bridge across Conemaugh river, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,429 × 6,189; 131.57 MB
17545u Camp of relief corps, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,396 × 6,164; 130.45 MB
17546u Wreck of Pullman cars and engines at Conemaugh, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,370 × 6,173; 130.19 MB
17547u View taken looking up the Conemaugh Valley, Johnstown Flood.tif 7,387 × 6,207; 131.21 MB
17548u View of wrecked houses, looking towards Kernville, Johnstown Flood.tif 7,421 × 6,164; 130.9 MB
17549u Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. No. 15, General view of Johnstown.tif 7,413 × 6,214; 131.82 MB
17550u View of the broken dam looking from bed of lake, Johnstown Flood.tif 7,387 × 6,173; 130.49 MB
17551u View showing relief camps; Wood, Morrell & Co. store.tif 7,404 × 6,198; 131.32 MB
17552u Broken dam from roadway, Johnstown Flood.tif 7,379 × 6,223; 131.4 MB
17553u General view of Johnstown from Prospect Hill, Johnstown Flood.tif 7,404 × 6,231; 132.02 MB
17554u Cyrus Elders' house, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,387 × 6,215; 131.37 MB
1889 Johnstown flood - panoramio.jpg 1,950 × 1,083; 569 KB
1980-04-18-07 South Fork Dam at Johnstown.jpg 961 × 695; 515 KB
1980-04-18-09 Southfork Dam at Johnstown.jpg 939 × 700; 513 KB
1980-04-18-36 Lake Conemaugh spillway.jpg 956 × 690; 724 KB
1980-04-18-40 View through to lower side of dam.jpg 961 × 678; 526 KB
1996.164.5-2 bw SL1.jpg 1,024 × 1,004; 636 KB
Afro-Americans with wagons at flood site, some digging, Johnstown, Pennsylvania LCCN89712994.jpg 1,536 × 1,050; 202 KB
After the Flood at Johnstown -- Main Street.jpg 869 × 637; 197 KB
Alma Hall Johnstown, PA.jpg 720 × 960; 106 KB
Bird's-eye view of Johnstown, Pa., after flood LCCN2002707125.jpg 1,536 × 1,184; 213 KB
Cambria Company's store looking towards kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 LCCN2002707057.jpg 1,024 × 856; 127 KB
Cambria Company's store looking towards kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,454 × 6,232; 132.93 MB
Camp of relief corps, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 LCCN2008675501.jpg 1,024 × 853; 117 KB
Club House and Morrell Institute, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 3b26407u.tif 1,536 × 1,249; 1.83 MB
Club House and Morrell Institute, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 7,404 × 6,206; 131.49 MB
Club house press looking south, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889.tif 6,173 × 7,353; 129.88 MB
Dam, south fork, after Johnstown flood, Pennsylvania LCCN92509937.jpg 1,536 × 1,034; 143 KB
Debris at the P.R.R. stone bridge after the Johnstown Flood, by Ernest Walter Histed, May 31st, 1889.jpg 5,612 × 4,367; 4.47 MB
Galveston - 1900 wreckage.jpg 1,200 × 799; 333 KB
General view looking south, Johnstown flood LCCN92509963.jpg 1,536 × 1,090; 182 KB
Going for rations - Johnstown flood 1889 (6724242385).jpg 2,301 × 1,196; 812 KB
History of the Johnstown flood ... With full accounts also of the destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek (IA historyofjohnsto00johniala).pdf 687 × 1,072, 470 pages; 16.71 MB
JOFL destruction.jpg 375 × 180; 19 KB
Johnstown 1889 after the great flood - panoramio.jpg 1,912 × 1,464; 787 KB
Johnstown after the flood, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, 1889. (0f5cc7d63afa44fdb259676043d30da5).jpg 700 × 474; 73 KB
Johnstown after the flood, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, 1889. (c57b0f70fcb44c3281ee011b186dbed2).jpg 700 × 488; 85 KB
Johnstown after the flood, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, 1889. (e6f15f91903e4846b479e8e4bc00a15d).jpg 735 × 680; 68 KB
Johnstown Flood - disaster relief cph.3b08645.jpg 1,490 × 1,187; 896 KB
Johnstown Flood - general view of debris cph.3b08649.jpg 1,486 × 1,123; 855 KB
Johnstown Flood - Looking down Main St cph.3b08647.jpg 1,418 × 1,143; 799 KB
Johnstown Flood - looking west from Main St cph.3b08646.jpg 1,498 × 1,194; 809 KB
Johnstown Flood - Sisters of Charity building cph.3b08650.jpg 1,496 × 1,118; 791 KB
Johnstown flood 1889.gif 175 × 184; 32 KB
Johnstown flood debris.jpg 599 × 895; 105 KB
Johnstown Flood Dominion Park Montreal 1910.jpg 742 × 470; 270 KB
Johnstown Flood, 1889- Gen. view of debris -15 LCCN2005683592.jpg 1,536 × 1,165; 317 KB
Johnstown Flood, 1889- Landmark -26 LCCN2005683591.jpg 1,536 × 1,117; 232 KB
Johnstown Flood, 1889- Looking down Main St. -18 LCCN2005683590.jpg 1,536 × 1,199; 278 KB
Johnstown Flood, 1889- Looking W. from Main St. -20 LCCN2005683589.jpg 1,536 × 1,228; 254 KB
Johnstown Flood, 1889- Masonic Headquarters -25 LCCN2005683588.jpg 1,536 × 1,231; 298 KB
Johnstown Flood, 1889- Sisters of Charity building -12 LCCN2005683593.jpg 1,536 × 1,159; 290 KB
Johnstown flood. No. 11. View near Main Street LCCN2005680897.jpg 1,536 × 1,228; 283 KB
Johnstown flood. No. 8. Looking up the valley. LCCN2016651908.jpg 1,536 × 1,153; 231 KB
Johnstown Main Street 1889 flood.jpg 2,780 × 1,896; 1.34 MB
Johnstown Tree in House crop.jpg 1,024 × 1,024; 586 KB
Johnstown Tree in House.jpg 2,271 × 1,372; 1.53 MB
Location of man-made lake that caused Johnstown Flood.JPG 2,832 × 1,888; 2.1 MB
Remains of the South Fork Dam (11662746524).jpg 5,616 × 3,744; 9.86 MB
Remmants of house in Johnstown Flood.jpg 1,536 × 1,117; 387 KB
Ruins at Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889 LCCN92509957.jpg 1,536 × 1,105; 233 KB
Ruins of viaduct bridge, Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889 LCCN92509958.jpg 1,536 × 1,088; 238 KB
Schultz.jpg 200 × 257; 12 KB
The Flood at Johnstown - The scene at the bridge LCCN2004677330.jpg 1,536 × 1,085; 261 KB
The Flood, Warehouse of Cambria Iron Works LCCN2005676508.jpg 1,536 × 1,215; 205 KB
The Great Conemaugh Valley Disaster.jpg 2,592 × 1,467; 1.09 MB
The Johnstown flood - Main Street, looking east LCCN2004674658.jpg 1,536 × 1,170; 264 KB
The Johnstown flood, looking west on Main Street LCCN2002707062.jpg 1,536 × 1,248; 246 KB
The ruins at Johnstown, after the flood May 31, 1889 - Rothengatter & Dillon, photo's, Phila. LCCN90712948.jpg 4,096 × 3,313; 1.57 MB
The Ruins at Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889 LCCN92509960.jpg 1,536 × 1,068; 177 KB
The Ruins at Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889 LCCN92509961.jpg 1,536 × 1,072; 195 KB
Train wheels damaged and buried by the 1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania Flood 2 (27661992091).jpg 2,870 × 3,764; 3.77 MB
Unger House (11662683683).jpg 5,616 × 3,744; 8.51 MB
Views at Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Pennsylvania (bce06985-e69a-465b-9467-92e53bb8345c).jpg 3,072 × 2,048; 473 KB
Wea00785 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 1,492 × 1,052; 1.05 MB
What remains of the South Fork Dam (11717678065).jpg 5,433 × 3,622; 8.57 MB
Below dam looking up through Gap, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg 760 × 387; 47 KB
Stereoscopic view of Great Stone Bridge following a deadly fire in 1889 (a)2.jpg 2,737 × 1,405; 1.63 MB

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