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.
Draws from letters, diaries, historical records, and interviews with survivors to provide an account of the 1889 flood that killed over two thousand people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
When a cheaply constructed dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania bursts under the onslaught of torrential rains, Christina and her family struggle to escape the floodwater which bears down upon their town.
