The Johnstown flood was one of the deadliest floods in the city even with the flood lasting 10 minutes. It was deadly to the souls that lived there. Lots of bodies were lost in the flood and unidentified, not knowing if they were alive or not. Many people survived the flood but then caught on fire and that's how most of the survivors of the flood lost there lives, with the fire going around killing all the souls he saw alive. A lot of people were killed, making the survivors of the flood and fire homeless, sad, and depressed. The Johnstown flood struck going around towards the city center destroying everything in its path. Gobbling the insistent people of Johnstown.
The Johnstown Flood was caused by the dam being made poorly and with heavy rain the dam burst. Sending 20 billion gallons of water towards Johnstown. 20 billion gallons of water were heading towards the city center of Johnstown. 2,200 souls were lost in this day's event. 777 people were unidentified. Residents of Johnstown were…show more content… The flood, coal or lamp set Johnstown on fire. The flood lasted 10 min. So residents of Johnstown that survived said “it felt like eternal.” After 2 hours the trapped flood breached the causeway to the stone bridge and water slowly drawn out. The flood did not stop until 2 hours so that means water was still floating until 2 hours past. The flood was terrible so they had to travel by boat to get across to other places.
The city center of Johnstown was going to be destroyed first then Johnstown itself it was striking and gobbling all the incessant people of Johnstown. 12 miles up Johnstown was the conemaugh river. Lots of people got killed by the fire. The Appalachian plateau was below the river valley. Johnstown was built on top of the river valley. So the Johnstown flood was waiting to be a accident to the whole city of Johnstown because of the poorly made
