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What caused the huge number of fatalities during the johnstown, pennsylvania, flood of 1889?
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What caused the huge number of fatalities during the johnstown, pennsylvania, flood of 1889?

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Some people who had been washed downstream became trapped in an inferno as the debris that had piled up against the bridge caught fire; at least eighty people died there. The fire burned for three days.
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