Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rehabilitation progressed, reliable reports of the flood and its aftermath came out of New England river valleys...
Further down the Winooski valley, at Waterbury, Vt., martial law was declared. Many a flood freak had occurred. The 300 inmates of an insane asylum escaped. ... A large house with all lights lit floated by at the first flood midnight.*... A crippled farmer nearly starved in his garret. . . . Hearing that Bolton, downstream village, needed food, a Waterbury undertaker furnished coffins to float a raft, which reached Bolton. . . . A rendering (glue, etc.) factory in the Winooski Valley was offered 3,000 carcasses of drowned dairy cows. . . . Excavators were imperiled by a store of dynamite that floated out of a construction camp...
Black River. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, 87, aunt of President Coolidge, told how the flood came to Proctorsville, Vt., shaking that hamlet at night "like a huge, grey monster...
...Merrimack was comparatively peaceful, though it and its tributaries destroyed some three millions worth of New Hampshire roads, and rose 25 feet to lash at and flood the textile mills of Manchester, Lowell & Lawrence. Hundreds were thrown out of work indefinitely...
Though they lack a legal status until Congress meets, the members of the Flood Control Committee of the House of Representatives gathered last week in Washington to begin drafting national legislation. The committee's chairman, Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, declared at the outset that nothing but flood control would be undertaken, that party politics would be kept...