Brad, the facts surrounding the dam failure well-established, and this is not a matter of "perception".
It is a fact that John Parke, an engineer employed by the club, worked valiantly trying to save the dam. Which is not to say the very wealthy club members were the least bit concerned about the dam other than the inconvenience a failure might cause them personally. I'm pretty sure that no members of the Carnegie or Mellon families were shoulder-to-shoulder with Parke's crew as they worked to stop the dam from collapsing.
The real problem was that the dam had been substantially modified to the point where it was unsafe. Between the time the dam was constructed by the railroad and when Parke became involved, repairs were done by a fellow who knew nothing about dams; he removed the discharge pipes, effectively making it impossible to lower the water level behind the dam. It was not a matter of "if" the dam would fail, but rather "when".
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