Author: George T (George Titus) 1840- Ferris
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781014751355
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Author: George Titus Ferris
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-07-27
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780282635299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Complete History of the Johnstown and Conemaugh Valley Flood: Embracing Also a History of the Floods in Williamsport, Lock Haven, Sunbury, and All the Flooded Districts in the State of Pennsylvania, Also in Washington, D. C., New York, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia Chapter II. The Spectacle of the Conemaugh Valley after the Flood chapter III. Whatjohnstownwas chapter IV. The Fatal Trap and how it did its Work chapter V. Scenes and Incidents of the Great J ohnstown Tragedy chapter VI. Scenes and Incidents at J ohnstown - Continued chapter VII. The Adventures of a Hero who Saved Forty Lives chapter VIII. Perils and Terrors of the Great Flood - Continued chapter IX. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 542
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Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With full accounts also of the destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek.
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1416561226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Author: J. S. Ogilvie
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0271045388
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Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-26
Total Pages: 245
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication chronicles the catastrophic event known as the Johnstown Flood. The floor occurs after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam ruptured after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River, the flood killed 2,209 people and accounted for $17 million of damage (about $534 million in 2022 money).