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...Kansas and Missouri, sweat-stained thousands set out to clear their homes after the nation's costliest flood. In the muck and debris left by receding waters, people fought rats, flies and fumes from gas leaks. Raging waters of the Kaw and the Missouri had killed 41 people, sent 500,000 fleeing, caused $875 million damage, flooded 2,000,000 acres. While the flood rolled on -less dangerously-into the Mississippi and past St. Louis, local, state and federal officials began to discuss what could be done for the future. Major General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Army Engineers...
...Ottawa, Kans. Daily Herald (circ. 6,194) was just starting its afternoon press run when the flood waters from the Kaw River began lapping at its doors. In the basement, pressmen rigged a block & tackle to hoist the electric press motor above the water, finally gave up the race when the flood kept coming. Then the Herald staff waded waist-deep out of the shop to set up an airplane shuttle service between Ottawa and a printing plant in Chanute, 80 miles away. The Herald didn't miss an edition...
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...
...Kansas City Star, recovering from the first shutdown in its 66 years, knew just how they felt: it always does. In its Midwestern heartland the Star is much more than an institution: it is part of the bloodstream, a landmark as indigenous as the Kaw River, waving wheat, stubbled prairie, Prohibition and Republicanism...