Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Derby Eve banquet of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler extended his thanks for the colonels' aid during last winter's great Ohio flood, announced that he would break his rule against appointing more colonels by issuing up to ten new commissions in 1938. Named new general of the order was Colonel John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads...
...horse race. It is the most famed U. S. horse race and indubitably- in crowds, excitement, importance to the U. S. scene-the biggest. Last week the amiable, horsey city of Louisville was busy removing traces of the $52,000,000 damage left by last winter's flood in preparation for the one day in the year when it is the sporting capital of the U. S. For its 50,000 visitors, who it hopes will leave about $1,500,000 behind them, Louisville this week will provide a program aimed at making this 63rd Derby the noisiest, gayest...
...yards, roofs and beds in the city are always fabulously scarce. This year Louisville's Derby Festival Committee rounded up accommodations for 20,000 Derby refugees, in everything from $1 rooms to 12-room houses at $1,000 for the weekend. At Churchill Downs, main refuge during the flood which did it $8,000 damage, renovations this year include 3,000 new seats, 150 new boxes. With 70,000 paid spectators and 5,000 admitted free in the infield, the crowd should equal the biggest in Derby history. If, as anticipated, 24 horses should go to the post, this...
...about ten miles the Littlefork was a river of logs. Piled on its ice all winter by 600 lumberjacks were 11,000,000 feet of white and norway pine destined for the company's lumber mills at International Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River. If flood waters washed the logs over the piles driven to impound them, they might shoot away from the mill down the Rainy, into Lake of the Woods; if the river went down as far as it rose logs would lie stranded on the banks; and in either case the last...
...Nett River Bridge over the Littlefork. Against this dam a log jam 40 feet thick and three miles long formed quickly, booming and groaning with the pressure from back stream. Meanwhile in Duluth and International Falls the toughest bars filled up with other lumberjacks waiting for the flood to subside and their own special job to begin. These were rivermen, skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them had drifted in from points north and north-west where log driving is still an annual affair. They had what the Scandinavians call "snus" (pinches of snuff) in their lower...