Word: umpqua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evacuation of Salem's Memorial Hospital, and 1,000 other Salem people packed their belongings and fled for high ground. Elsewhere in the state, people were drowned as their cars washed over fallen bridges or were electrocuted by torn power lines. At Reedsport, a railroad bridge across the Umpqua River was opened for a three-story house which floated out into the Pacific Ocean -the fourth house to float by. In Idaho, snow slides and rising water cut off village after village in the southern part of the state, necessitating rescue work by helicopter. In Central Idaho, a bulldozer...