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Killer Waters

  • December 9, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

One of the deadliest U.S. floods killed more than 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1889. It was the first peacetime disaster tended to by Clara Barton and the American Red Cross, which previously had focused on battlefield relief.

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