Old South Fork Dam

Pressure building, watch out below.
Cracks developing, much too slow.
No one watches the water flow.
Dam starts to go. Dam starts to go.

Concrete breaking, the rush begins.
Wall of water crashes through inns.
Houses tumble like bowling pins.
Woe -- no one wins. Woe -- no one wins.

People screaming, possessions tossed.
Debris alarming, what a cost.
Two thousand dead, beneath the cross.
Johnstown is lost. Johnstown is lost.






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The disaster began with the bursting of an earth dam fourteen miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1889. The dam emptied in half an hour, sending 20 million tons of water roaring down the Conemaugh Valley at speeds of up of to 40 miles an hour and drowning more than 2,000 people. In 1977 another flood drowned 74 people.