On Memorial Day 1889, a storm pushed Pennsylvania’s South Fork Dam past the breaking point. What followed was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history.

Water is crashing over the top of the dam, and dozens of boaters have been sucked into its deadly current! A similar disaster took place on Memorial Day in 1889, when the South Fork Dam in western ...

On Memorial Day 1889, 133 miles northwest of Frederick, the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River in Pennsylvania burst. Twenty million tons of water surged into the river to Johnstown ...