Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge proclaimed that "the situation is indeed grave," appointed a special committee- Secretaries Hoover, Mellon, Wilbur and Dwight Filley Davis-to cooperate with the Red Cross, which called for a $5,000,000 flood relief fund...
...Knowlton's Point, Ark., 18 flood-refugees were giving thanks for their narrow escape from the growling > waters which had driven them from their homes. They had been picked up by the Government launch Pelican, which lay just outside the Knowlton's Point levee, waiting to transfer them to the steamer Wabash, approaching from up the river. Suddenly the levee broke. Pent waters boiled through the gap, sweeping the Pelican with them. Caught in the channel formed by the break, the Pelican twisted, spun, sank. All on board were drowned...
...Daily for ten days the plane returned, "bombing" the hole accurately with supplies which saved the refugee's lives. ... A corps of flyers bravely patrolled a 400-mile stretch south of Memphis, in land planes. If forced down certain drowning awaited them. No respecter of greatness, the flood sadly hampered the glory-cruise of William Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, who last week started down the Mississippi from Cairo, accompanied by a large party on the river steamers Cincinnati and Cape Girardeau. Refugees, clinging to ridgepoles and treetops, beheld the Thompson showboats, lonely, imposing Noah's Arks...
...those of us who have been reading the stories of the flood situation in the South, it may seem that there is much exaggeration, but from my own observation of conditions in Southern Illinois, Arkansas and Tennessee last week, I do not feel that the stories printed in the Metropolitan papers are at all over drawn. To be sure, those of us who visited Memphis and the surrounding country had very little opportunity to see much of the extended flood areas. We did, however, see sufficient to convince us that the local people were probably right when they said this...
...first view of the flood came at about 3 o'clock in the morning when we reached Southern Illinois and the Cairo district. For more than three hours the train crept very slowly over road beds which were almost entirely submerged. It gave one a rather creepy feeling to go along mile after mile and watch the water from one tram windows--water which in many cases was over the rails on which we were riding, and which entirely hid from our view the rails next us on the embankment...