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Remove Images Take Five Disasters that won’t destroy your home The Johnstown Flood by -Anthony Pignataro September 29, 2005 Long before David McCullough got famous writing fawning hagiography on Harry Truman and George Washington, he penned this white knuckle account of the 1889 dam bursting that wiped out Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing 2,209 people. Along the way McCullough shows us all the crooks and fools who caused one of the worst disasters in American history.