Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost every river in the state went wild, and the worst of all was the Kansas, which Kansans call the Kaw. Its waters rolled into Manhattan (pop. 18,996) in raging flood, and businessmen along the main streets had to be taken out in boats. More than 20,000 people were driven from their homes in Topeka, the state capital. Flood water spilled over the Santa Fe railroad tracks near Emporia and for 55 hours stranded 337 passengers in the crack passenger train El Capitan. Rancher Bill Brandt landed his small plane on a nearby highway 15 times to bring...
Worse than '03. The roaring tide delivered its most crushing blow at a target that was expected to resist it. The Kaw flows into the Missouri River at the Kansas Cities. There the low-lying industrial districts are protected by flood walls as high as 22 feet, built to cope with high water equal to that of the previous record flood in 1903. The flood of '51 roared over the levees, covered the Santa Fe's great transfer yards and shops, inundated the spreading stockyards, coursed through factories. Rescue workers had a hard time convincing some oldtime...
...Then Fire. Then fire was added to water. The flood ripped up a crude oil storage tank and hurled it against a high tension wire in Kansas City, Mo. The flaming tank drifted into more gasoline and oil storage tanks. Flames shot up 500 feet into the air as the tanks exploded. Flaming oil and gasoline raced on top of the flood, while firemen in boats vainly poured flood water back on to the fire. The blaze, fed by more than one million gallons of oil, demolished seven square blocks. The Star called it "Kansas City's most disastrous...
...more than 100,000 people in Kansas and Missouri were driven from their homes, and 41 were killed. Flood waters covered 1,500,000 acres. Major General Lewis A. Pick, chief of the Army Engineers, estimated damage at $750 million, the costliest flood in U.S. history...
...news was a pleasurable surprise across the country. Everyone recalled how the 1939 tour by the King & Queen drew the biggest crowds ever known in Canada. A flood of messages descended on Ottawa from practically every city and hamlet, begging to be included in the itinerary of the Prince & Princess. But such details will have to wait until Buckingham Palace reveals how long Elizabeth and Philip intend to stay (they will probably also visit the U.S.). The Ottawa Journal suggested that the Princess might stay a while as Canada's governor-general: "There could be no better experience...