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These sites describe the great flood of May 31 1889, which struck Johnstown PA causing over 2200 deaths and making thousands more homeless.
http://www.johnstownpa.com/History/hist19.html
Concise article describing the course of the flood and its aftermath.
http://www.nps.gov/jofl
National Park Service site with many photos and eye-witness accounts. Includes information for visitors.
http://www.johnstownpa.com/History/hist30.html
Three articles published in the immediate aftermath of the flood.
http://smoter.com/flooddam/johnstow.htm
Article by Walter S Frank. Footnoted history of why a reconstructed dam failed. Civil engineering perspective.
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nws/johnstown.html
Short article drawn from contemporary accounts. Published by the NOAA Photo Library.
http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgpenn.htm
Poem about the flood by famously bad poet William McGonagall, with historical footnote and links.
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