Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From October, 1926, when the Neosho River overran its banks in Kansas and Oklahoma to last week when the Mississippi attacked levees in southern Louisiana, flood conditions have prevailed in the Mississippi Valley. Since the middle of April the Mississippi has been on the greatest flood of its history. Last week best estimates of the situation gave the following summary...
...inoculate 25,000 persons. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make appropriations. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi invited the President to visit the flooded area. The President declined, listening instead to a report by Secretary Hoover, who returned to Washington. From New Orleans came reports that business was as usual, that the danger to the city had been exaggerated by a Nationwide, sensation-seeking press. Newspapers were accused of having published pictures...
...give its last full measure of support to the nine men who seek to stave off Princetonian victory today, reached a high pitch of vociferous enthusiasm, as these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space was covered by the surging flood of humanity which over-flowed onto chairs, tables, mantlepieces, and bookshelves. Windowsills were converted into benches and the piano into a grandstand, while one determined enthusiast was even found up the chimney...
Newspaper accounts in no way magnify the seriousness of the flood situation in the South. I have just come from Arkansas which has had to combat not only the overflow from the Mississippi river but floods from five rivers which flow across the State and empty into the Mississippi. For four days the city of Little Rock, of over 100,000 inhabitants, was completely cut off from the outside world except by telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous...
...partly, doubtless, the result of the instantaneous communications and the widespread publicity of the modern world that the greatest flood in the nation's history arouses little more interest than the leading murder trial of the movement. In the days when news was exaggerated around all the campfires in the wilderness, the whole-hearted sympathy of the people would have turned towards the Mississippi valley; but now the city of New Orleans, its fate still hanging in the balance, causes less excitement than the struggle, several years ago, to save the life of one man trapped in a Kentucky cave...