Johnstown flood the day the dam burst
An account of the great Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood of 1889, when a dam failed and over two thousand people died, making this one of the worst peacetime disasters in the history of the United States.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley Heights, NJ :
Enslow Publishers,
c2003.
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| Series: | American disasters
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Table of Contents:
- Dangerous proposition
- The dam in the mountains
- Prepare for the worst
- "The end of the world"
- Relief and recovery
- The future.
