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The 1889 Johnstown Flood: A Dam, A Fire, And No One To Blame

On May 31st, 1889, a sixty-foot wall of water hits the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania at forty miles per hour. The bodies pile up against the railroad bridge thirty feet high. Then the pile catches fire.

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