Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millions of words have been written about the flood; most of them endlessly reiterating news of thousands homeless, of counties and parishes inundated, left readers with a deep but vague impression of the great disaster. Had a reporter explored the flood area with an eye to specific highlights, notes for his story might have read somewhat as follows...
...Poydras, La., one Ted Herbert, deep sea diver, dived into the Mississippi, set off more dynamite at the Poydras Cut. The current pulled his diver's helmet over his head, almost drowned him. Diving a second time he discarded the helmet, and, as he had no other diving equipment dived naked like a South Sea Islander. Superstitious, Diver Herbert said that if he let his picture be taken, certain death would follow...
...Pineville, La., waters lapped toward the grammar school. Elmo Rich, 11, waded in them, stepped into a deep hole, drowned...
...Vicksburg, Miss., steamer-captain Harris Clifford landed a boatload of refugees; nursed a deep flesh wound where an insane Negress refugee had bitten him in the hand...
...Waterproof, La., water many feet deep swirled through streets, inhabitants for the most part left. But telephone women, their switchboards mounted on scaffolding, stuck to their posts, kept service continuous...