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A River Runs Greedy: The Johnstown Flood of 1889
26 mar 2025 ·
39 min. 49 sec.
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A River Runs Greedy: The Johnstown Flood of 1889
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Welcome to Gilded Age Pennsylvania, where steel tycoons are cosplaying wilderness men, the rich are allergic to accountability, and a 40-foot wall of water is about to become the worst...
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Welcome to Gilded Age Pennsylvania, where steel tycoons are cosplaying wilderness men, the rich are allergic to accountability, and a 40-foot wall of water is about to become the worst “I told you so” in American history.
It’s 1889, and the South Fork Dam is hanging on by literal straw while the sky dumps 10 inches of rain like it’s trying to make a point. When the dam breaks? Johnstown is erased in minutes. Fire. Barbed wire. Mud. Death.
In this episode of Bygone Echoes, we uncover how a bunch of billionaires with zero engineering skills accidentally committed mass manslaughter—then just… ghosted. No lawsuits. No jail. Just yachts.
This is a story of disaster, denial, and ducklings (yes, really). Featuring mattress-floating survivors, a brick house that didn’t stand strong, and the birth of American disaster relief—because someone had to clean up after capitalism’s tantrum.
Greed caused it. The people survived it. History remembers it.
Kinda.
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It’s 1889, and the South Fork Dam is hanging on by literal straw while the sky dumps 10 inches of rain like it’s trying to make a point. When the dam breaks? Johnstown is erased in minutes. Fire. Barbed wire. Mud. Death.
In this episode of Bygone Echoes, we uncover how a bunch of billionaires with zero engineering skills accidentally committed mass manslaughter—then just… ghosted. No lawsuits. No jail. Just yachts.
This is a story of disaster, denial, and ducklings (yes, really). Featuring mattress-floating survivors, a brick house that didn’t stand strong, and the birth of American disaster relief—because someone had to clean up after capitalism’s tantrum.
Greed caused it. The people survived it. History remembers it.
Kinda.
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