The Rich Men's Dam That Drowned a Steel Town

On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania gave way, sending nearly four billion gallons of water down a narrow valley onto a steel town of 30,000 people. More than 2,200 people died. This is the true story of the Johnstown Flood: the private lake of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and the changes its wealthy members made to the dam, the warnings that never reached the town, the fire at the Stone Bridge, Clara Barton and the Red Cross, the man listed among the dead who came back 11 years later, and why no one was ever held responsible. #JohnstownFlood #AmericanHistory #Pennsylvania #HistoricalDisaster #TrueHistory Chapters: 0:00 The Lake Above the Town 0:58 A Rich Men's Lake 3:24 The Day the Dam Broke 5:26 Fourteen Miles 7:17 The Stone Bridge 8:46 The Night in Alma Hall 9:51 Counting the Dead 11:19 An Act of God 12:54 What the Flood Left Behind Footage and photos: Pixabay, Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress. Music: "A Distant Call" by Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz, Tone Seeker (YouTube Audio Library); "Mysterious Emotional Piano" by tyops (CC BY 4.0) - https://freesound.org/people/tyops/so... "Curse Of Old" by Density & Time (YouTube Audio Library); "Love's Aftermath" by Asher Fulero (YouTube Audio Library); "Red Shift" by The Grey Room / Density & Time (YouTube Audio Library); "Kayak" by The Grey Room / Density & Time (YouTube Audio Library) Image credits (Creative Commons): Conemaugh Viaduct Johnstown flood 1889 - panoramio (1).jpg - Ron Shawley (CC BY 3.0) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Art Drawing of the fire at the stone bridge 1889 - panoramio.jpg - Ron Shawley (CC BY 3.0) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... 777 tiny tombstones, Grandview Cemetery (12036794766).jpg - daveynin from United States (CC BY 2.0) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... City hall - panoramio (4).jpg - Ron Shawley (CC BY 3.0) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Johnstown City Hall.png - TylerTrim (CC BY-SA 4.0) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... South Fork Fishing and Hunting Clubhouse 2.jpg - Niagara (CC BY-SA 3.0) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... South Fork Hunting and Fishing club Dam Before it broke in 1889 - panoramio.jpg - Ron Shawley (CC BY 3.0) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... All other images are in the public domain (Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, National Park Service, HAER/HABS).