Word: conemaugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain, millions of tons of it, to make a wet and gloomy hell of high water as the swollen torrent swept 900 mi. south-west through ten sodden States. Pennsylvania got off comparatively easy this year. The citizens of Johnstown, which can never forget 1889, got worried when the Conemaugh went to five feet above normal after a 72-hr, rain, but few Johnstownians took the precaution of moving to higher ground. Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle," the downtown district where the Monongahela and Allegheny meet to form the Ohio, got its feet wet near the river banks, but there...
Died. John G. ("Paul Revere") Parke, 67, chief engineer of Pittsburgh Steel Co. who in 1889 galloped down Pennsylvania's Conemaugh Valley warning the people of the imminent water wall, half a mile wide, 20 ft. high, hurling a spearhead of trees, houses, machinery, rocks, tangled barbed wire and human bodies toward Johnstown (dead: 2,000); after long illness; in Monessen...