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           __  __  \u003Cbr>COUNTY  \u003Cbr>_—_—_—   —-——  \u003Cbr>PARISH  \u003Cbr>SCHOOL DISTRICT_.  \u003Cbr>_   —  —  \u003Cbr>OTHER  \u003Cbr>—   | TY OF:  \u003Cbr>Book No.  \u003Cbr>Enter informotion  \u003Cbr>in spoces  \u003Cbr>to the left as  \u003Cbr>instructed   |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Year  \u003Cbr>ISSUED TO  \u003Cbr>Uscd   | CONDITION   |  |\n|  | ISSUED   | RETURNED   |\n|  |  |  |\n\nPUPILS to whom this textbook is issued must not write on ony pageor mark any port of it in ony way,consumable textbooks excepted.  \n1.Teachers should see that the pupil's name is clearly written in ink in the spaces abave in everybook issued  \n2.The fallawing terms should be used in recording the canditian of the baok;New;Good;Fair;Paor;Bad.  \nMcGraw-Hill School Division  \nA Division of The McGraw·Hill Companies  \nCopyright OMcGraw-Hill School Division,a Division of the Educational and Professional  \nPublishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by anymeans,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying,recording,or by any information storageand retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nMcGraw-Hill School DivisionTwo Penn PlazaNew York,New York 10121  \nBook Design and Production:Kirchoff/Wohlberg,Inc.  \nPhoto Credits:APWide World Photos,4;APWide World Photos,14;The Bettmann Archive,8,9;Brown Brothers,Cover;Brown Brothers,12;Brown Brothers;16;The Granger Collection,1;TheGranger Collection,New York,TP,3;The Granger Collection,New York,10,11;The GrangerCollection,New York,15,T;The Johnstown Area Heritage Association Archives,2;The JohnstownArea Heritage Association Archives,5;The Johnstown Area Heritage Association Archives,6,7;TheJohnstown Area Heritage Association Archives,13;UPI/Bettmann,15(B).  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nISBN 0-02-278561-2/5  \nThe Great Johnstown  \nTOTOGRAPHIC MAP OF JOIINSTOWN AND ITS VICINITY.  \nIn 1889,Johnstown,Pennsylvania,was a city of steelmills and factories.Visitors often complained about air pollu-tion caused by smoke from the steel mills.But the people ofJohnstown were proud of their city.The steel mills were busyand prosperous.People came to Johnstown from all over,look-ing for jobs.The population of the Johnstown area had dou-bled in ten years,and the city was still growing.  \nOn Thursday,May 30,most of Johnstown turned out fora typical American Memorial Day celebration.Firefighters,army veterans,and bands marched in the big parade.  \nBut while Johnstown enjoyed the holiday,a big rainstormwas headed its way.The storm had started earlier in theweek in the atmosphere over Kansas.From there,it movedeastward.In many places,more than 8 inches of rain fell in asingle day  \nWestern Pennsylvania was already having an unusuallyrainy spring.The rivers and creeks that flowed down from theAllegheny Mountains were running high.Everyone knew whatthat meant.Johnstown was built in a valley where the LittleConemaugh River joined Stony Creek.Floods were always aproblem.People who lived near the river banks were used toseeing the streets flooded after the spring rains.  \nBy Friday morning,families who lived on low groundcould see that this flood was going to be a bad one.The ris-ing waters would soon reach their front doors.Some familiesleft their homes to take shelter with friends who lived up on  \nthe hillsides.Others just moved  \ntheir best furniture to the  \nTO1OGRAPIIIC MAI OF JoINSTOWN AND IT9 VICINITY,  \nEvery so often,someone would wonder aloud about theSouth Fork dam 14 miles up river.What if it broke?  \nPeople in Johnstown often talked about the dam.Some ofthem were really frightened.Others insisted that there wasnothing to worry about.The dam was 37 years old.It hadheld so far.  \nThe South Fork dam was really just a huge wall of earthand boulders that was built across the bed of a mountainstream.Water collected behind the dam—enough ","cbCaibCtjV2jls94","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibCtjV2jls94","pdf",3224035,"English","# The City in 1889\n## Memorial Day and the Storm\n## The Valley Flood Problem\n# The South Fork Dam\n## History and Neglect\n## Club Management and Drainage","[{\"question\":\"What triggered the flood in the Great Johnstown story?\",\"answer\":\"A large rainstorm moved from Kansas eastward, and unusually heavy rainfall caused rivers and creeks feeding the valley to run high.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did people fear the South Fork dam could be dangerous?\",\"answer\":\"The dam was an aging earth-and-boulder wall that had held water for years, but there were concerns about its condition and ability to drain the lake.\"},{\"question\":\"What drainage mechanism failed or limited water release from the lake?\",\"answer\":\"Discharge pipes that had once drained water were removed and never replaced, leaving water to drain mainly over a spillway that did not work effectively due to a screen 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