Crandall, George, 255
Crane, Hart, 32–33
Crider, Cyrus, 258
Crook, Gladys, 15
Crowe, Elizabeth, 308
Cummin, Gaylord, 69
Custer, George, 60
D
Daily Courier, 56
Daily Gazette, 294–295, 327
Daily Register, 299
damage
costs of, ix, 50, 103, 277
from floods, 50, 277, 291–303, 313–341
from tornadoes, 7–17, 23–24
Daniels, Clifford, 14
Daniels, Clifford, Jr., 14
Daniels, Delbert, 258
Daniels, Luella, 14
Davis, George W., 104
“Day the Dam Broke, The,” 240
Dayton Daily News, 75, 99, 205
Dayton Evening News, 99
Dayton Journal Herald, 297
de Havilland, Olivia, 72
De Thebes, Mme., 291–293
Deeds, Edward, 87
Detroit Free Press, 319
Devine, Edward T., 303
Dickens, Charles, 32
Dickensheet, Joseph, 74
Dickensheet, Julia, 74
Dickerson, George L., 216
Dickinson, Charles, 255
Dillinger, John, 222
Dillon, Aron, 109
Dimucco, Dominick, 211
Dinnen, Frank, 226, 228–229, 331
disasters, x, 213–214, 303, 318, 338–340
Dixon, Edward, 12, 13
Dixon, Jeane, 293
Dixon, Opal, 12, 13
Donohoe, Alma, 64
Doudna, Edward, 139
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 172
Drew, John, 313
drowning, 32–34, 39–40
“drowning season,” 40
Drury, Robert, 162
Dunlap, Hazel, 64
Dunn, R. A., 303
Dutoit, Albert E., 139, 181, 200–201
E
Eagle, Pretty Voice, 60
earthquake, x, 303, 318
Eastman, John, 137
Eckert, Allan W., 139–140, 170
Edholm, Benjamin, 11–12
Edholm, Hanna, 11
Edison, Thomas, 238
Edmonds, T. J., 208
Eilleck, F. E., 284
Eis, Esther, 199–200
El Niño season, 17
Electrical World, 301
Eliot, T. S., 32
Ellion, Edward, 4
Ellison, Lulu, 175
Elman, Mischa, 88, 248, 266–267
Elmendorf, F. G., 7–8, 12–13
Ely, George Beckwith, 129–131
Engle, Cathrine, 200
Enoch, George, 314
Evening Independent, 307
Evening World, 194
F
Fanning, Ella, 167
Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), 339
Feightner, Clyde, 228
Finnell, J. R., 140
Fisher, Martin, 52–53
Fitzgerald, John J., 204
Fitzgerald, Rose, 11
Fleming, Stephen, 237
flood control legislation, 325–326, 329–330
flood control system, x, 54–55, 326, 332, 335, 337
Flood of 1882, 51
Flood of 1898, 52
Flood of 1912, xi
Flood of 1927, xi
Flood of 1937, xi
floods
aftermath of, 291–309, 313–341
cleaning up after, 291–309
damage from, 50, 277, 291–303, 313–341
polluted water, 55–58, 76
receding waters, 281–287, 299, 308–309
Flounders, Russell, 51
Flynn, Johnny, 85–86
Foose, John P., 67, 142
“For Annie,” 32
Ford, Addie, 105
Ford, Charles, 104–105
Ford, Robert, 105
Fort Wayne Daily News, 267
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, 212, 221
Fort Wayne News, 213, 293
French, Jeffrey, 286
Fries, Emerson, 86, 111, 185
Fries, Fannie, 86, 110, 151, 156
Fries, Mary, 86, 111
Fries, W. Otterbein, 86, 110, 151–152, 154, 156, 185
“Front Page, The,” 333
Front Page, The, 333–334
Fujita, Tetsuya, 8
Fujita-Pearson scale, 8
Furst, Marcus, 206–207
G
Gabel, Rita Rosemary Abel, 143
Gable, Clark, x, 222
Galloway, Simpson, 247
Galveston News, 319
Ganz, Rudolph, 88, 248, 266–267
Garland, Judy, 222
Garrett, Charles Wilbur, 30
Garrison, Wallace, 30, 34
Gebhart, Charles, 223–226, 228–229, 331–332
Gebhart, Tracy, 331–332
Geoghegan, Ambrose Denton, 324
Gibbs, George, 335
Ginsty, Louis, 259–260
Gone with the Wind, 333
Gonschrlitz, J. E., 162
Goodman, S. J., 162
Gore, Albert B., 132–133
Gore, Flora, 132–133
Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio’s Miami Valley, 317
Grand Traverse Herald, 176
Grant, Cary, 334
Grant, Ellsworth, 248
Gray, Philander, 173–174
Gray, William, 173–174
Great Baltimore Fire, 318
Great Dayton Flood of 1913, The, xi
Great Flood of 1913, x—xiii
Great Flood of 1937, xi
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, xi
Green, David M., 255
Green, Thomas E., 75, 206, 264
Greene, Anna, 247
Greene, George, 247
Griffin, Catherine, 199–200
Griffin, James, 199–200
Grimes, Coran, 73
Grimes, W. A., 109
Grimes, William, 324
Gross, John H., 273–275, 277, 283
Grothjan, Mildred, 67, 297
Guy, Viola, 96–97, 107, 163
Guy, William, 96–97, 107, 163
H
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 59–60, 70, 229, 314
Hagerty, Christian Dane, 182–185, 191–192, 198–199, 202–204, 248, 264, 333
Hagner, John, 30–31, 34
Hale, J. C., 270
Hamilton Evening Journal, 113
Hamilton Evening News, 94–95
Hamlet, 32 Hammond, Michael, 27
Hammond, Theresa, 25–27, 29, 223–229, 331–332
Hand, Elizabeth Hensley, 117–118
Hanley, Isabelle, 80
Hanley, Tom, 80
Hardy, Thomas, 32
Harnisch, Adam, 85–86
Harris, Isaac, 43
Harris, Ray B., 218
Harris, Sam, 83–84
Harris, Warren G., 222
Hartford Herald, 147
Hartzell, William, 197–198
Hasket, Harvey, 246
Hawthorne, John, 186
Haynes, George Edmund, 253
Hazlett, Claude, 113
Hazlett, Edward, 113
Hecht, Ben, 94, 157, 179, 182–185, 191–192, 198–199, 202–204, 248, 263–264, 298, 333–334, 339
Henderson, John, 274–275
Henn, Phillip, 63, 72
Hensley, Ord, 10
Herald of Gospel Liberty, 142
Herbert, Arnold, 127–128
Herbig, E. T., 66, 75
Hershberger, Elmer, 246
Hesser, Icea, 160–161, 236–237
Hiatt, Ed, 236
Hicks, Nelson, 336
Higgins, Ella, 8
Higgins, Mabel, 6, 8
Higgins, William, 8
“High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, The,” 141–142
His Girl Friday, 334
Hoch, Dana, 31
Hogan, Harry, 165–166
Hoke, John, 282
Holland, Frank, 294
Holty, Melvin, 247
Hope, Bob, 222
Hostler, Mary, 159–160
Hostler, Ray, 65–66, 171–172
Houck, Harry, 159, 160
Houk, Sara, 331
Howard, Fred, 79
Howard-Smith, Logan, 214–215
Howells, Elwood, 63
Hubbard, C. H., 21, 208
Hubler, Major, 316–317
Huddleston, I. C., 173
Hughes, John, 133
Hunt, E. W., 15
Hunt, Mrs., 163
Huntington Press, 182
Hurd, Carlos F., 194, 272, 297
Hurricane Katrina, 338–340
hurricanes, 5, 338–340
Hynes, Margaret, 11
Hynes, Patrick, 11
Hynes, William, 11
hyperkalemia, 34
I
Ice Cream Trade Journal, 301
Indiana Weekly Messenger, 53
Indianapolis News, 273
Indianapolis Star, 168, 174, 205, 213, 308
Ingelow, Jean, 141–142
J
Jacobs, Opal, 223–226, 228–259, 264
Jacobs, William, 325
Jacoby, F. S., 134–135
James, Ollie, 315
James Thurber: His Life and Times, 241
Jasper, George, 231
Johnstown Flood, xiii, 51–52, 86, 109, 212, 270
Jones, Esther, 112
Jones, Laura, 141
Jones, Samuel, 64, 112
Jones, Sophrona, 64
Jones, Walter D., 83–84, 141–142, 164, 195, 231, 234, 238, 261–262
Journal and Free Press, 127
Journal of the American Medical Association, 216
Journey Through My Years, 306
K
Kahn, Mr., 248
Kearney, James, 125
Kenney, Robert, 255
Kerr, William, 210–211, 274–278, 283–284, 321
Kessler, Glenn Gilbert, 48, 59, 69, 237–238
Keyes, Elizabeth Virginia, 106
Keyes, Harry E., 106
Killworth, F. L., 218
Kilpatrick, Lillie H., 143–145
King, Dorothy, 9
King, J. Oliver, 73
King, Leslie, 9
King, Leslie Lynch, Jr., 9
Kinney, Harrison, 241, 245
Kinsey, Ben W., 215
Kinzer, William, 123
Klingshirn, George, 65–66, 76, 159–160, 171–172, 176
Klingshirn, Theresa, 65–66, 160, 176
Kluth, John, 130–131
Knecht, Clarence, 158–159
Knecht, Jacob, 158–159
Knecht, Wilson, 158–159
Knudsen, Mary, 13
Korengel, Ralph, 37–38
Korn, Jack, 154, 156, 196–197
Kowalcruck, Peter, 211
Kramer, Esther, 224
Kraus, Max J. “Phenomenal,” 215
Kreutzer, John, 69
Krouse, Ethel, 123–124
Kuehner, Gus, 241
L
Landgrave, Phillip, 265
LaPlant, E. W., 332
Lazenby, William R., 58
Leas, Bertrand V., 64–65, 156
Leas, Marie, 64
Leffler, Ralph, 220
Leib, William, 73
Lennox, S. C., 294
Lester, Flossie, 90–91
Lewis, Elizabeth, 243
Library Journal, The, 300
Lies, Eugene T., 21, 98
Life of Theodore Roosevelt, 214
Life on the Mississippi, 51
Lima Times Democrat, 242
Lindersmith, G. W., 246
Lindsey, Harry, 76–77, 89–90, 144–146
Logansport Pharo, 308
Lombard, Carole, 222
Lorenz, Edmund S., 79
Los Angeles Times, 244
Loughborough, Dwight F., 193
Loughman, Harry, 124
Lovatt, Thomas, 160–161
Lovatt, William, 161
Lowrey, Howard, 298
Ludlow, Israel, 49
Luten, Daniel B., 138
Lyles, Joshua, 300
Lynch, Mrs. Lloyd, 296
M
MacArthur, Charles, 333
Mack, Carl, 107
Mack, Catherine, 107
Mack, Louis H., 106–107
Magnificent Ambersons, The, 213
Mahoney, Eddie, 94
Mannen, Alice, 224
Marker, James R., 257
Marquardt, Warren, 154, 156, 196–197
Marsh, Jake, 265
Marshall, Logan, 214–215
Marshall, W. T., 83–84
Martin, Thomas S., 204
Masters, Fred, 162
Masterson, Henry, 228–229
Masterson, Patrick J., 105–106
Matthews, Margaret, 14
May, John E., 237
McBride, Mabel, 9
McCarty, E. C., 313
McClure’s Magazine, 286
McComb, Raymond, 118
McCullough, Clyde, 218
McDonald, George, 169
McDowell, C. C., 84–85, 164
McElroy, Nolan, 212
McGuire, Arthur L., 255
McKeanan, Bill, 241
McKinley, Edward, 295
McKinley, William, 293
McLaughlin, John, 208
McMahon, John, 329
McNally, Frank, 160–161, 236–237
McNeal, Mrs. Charles, 124
McNerny, Delia, 307
McSweeney, Mrs., 163
Meadows, Carrie, 256
Melsching, August F., 236, 248
Melting Pot, The, 254
Menjou, Adolphe, 333
Mercer, Stella, 295
Meyer, C. R., 82–83
Meyer, Mellie, 144, 147–148, 190
Meyer, Ralph, 144, 147–149
Meyer, William, 190
Miami Conservancy District, 330–331, 335, 337–338
Miami Valley and the 1913 Flood, 55
Miatt, Ned, 248
Michaels, Henry, 259
Middletown Daily Times Press, 319
Middletown Journal, 124
Middletown Signal, 124
Miller, D. E., 154–155
Miller, Edward, 38
Miller, Harold, 152
Miller, J., 248
Miller, Jack, 236
Miller, John I., 257
Minnelli, Liza, 222
Minnelli, Vincente, 222
Mississippi Flood of 1913, xi
Moore, E. G., 224–226
Moore, Fred, 275, 277–278, 283
Moorehead, John H., 21
Morgan, Arthur E., x, 54–56, 58, 88, 326–333, 335, 337–338
Morgan, Ernest, Jr., 327
Morgan, Urania, 327
Morris, Charles, 212
Morris, Ed, 240–241
Morris, J. W., 212
Morris, Jack, 70
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 213
Mueller, Eugene, 116
Mungovan, J. Frank, 266
Municipal Journal and Engineer, 56
Murray, Edward, 69–70
Murray, Mary, 69–70
Myers, Elva, 25, 28, 30–31
N
New Castle News, 51
New York Times, xi, 27, 91, 267
Newark Advocate, 213, 217
Nicholson, Harry, 133
Nicholson, Mrs., 133
Nieman, Albert, 248
North, Dr., 125
Nothing Sacred, 333
Nowlin, Julia, 51
O
O’Brien, Pat, 333
O’Connor, Lawrence, 11, 16
O’Connor, William, 11, 16
Ofazio, Joseph, 308
Ohio State Journal, 243
Oilar, William L., 127–128
Olms
tead, Mrs., 162–163
Ooly, Howard, 196
Ormiston, Mr., 224–226
Osman, O. H., 218
Our National Calamity—By Flood, Fire and Tornado, 214
Outlook, The, 317
Overmeyer, Ida, 27, 45, 223–224, 226, 259, 331
P
Palmer, Charles, 44
Palmer, Walter S., 26, 267, 293–294
Parade Magazine, 293
Parsons, Jennie, 285–286
Paterson, William, 143
Patterson, Frederick, 121, 234, 248–249, 329
Patterson, John H., 40–45, 74, 87–88, 119–121, 170, 234, 269, 271–272, 301–302, 322, 325, 328–330, 332–333
Patterson, Robert, 74–75
Pearson, Allen, 8
Peglar, Arthur J., 193
Penfield, Mr., 227
Penfield, Mrs., 227
Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh: A History of the Flood of March 1913, 30
Pennywitt, Sam, 324
Peters, August, 307
Peters, Bessie, 221–222
Peters, Fred, 221–222
Peters, Fred, Jr., 221
Peters, Jane Alice, 221–222
Peters, Stuart, 221
Pfadt, Josephine, 314
Phillips, Edward, 272, 301–302
Phillips, Robert W., 222
Pickwick Papers, The, 32
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 171
Plain Dealer, 337
Plessy v. Ferguson, 253
Poe, Edgar Allan, 32
polluted water, 55–58, 76
Popular Mechanics, 78, 332
Porter, Eugene, 119
Porter, Thomas Reynolds, 4–9, 13–16, 24
Portsmouth Times, 276
Potter, Charles, 307
Prewdley, Mrs., 133
Prewdley, William, 133
Progressive Principles, 317
Pullman, George, 42–43
Purviance, Frank, 111
R
Railway Surgical Journal, The, 215
Ralston, Samuel M., 204, 273
Ramseyer, Christian, 121–122
Ramseyer, Roy, 121–122
Ramseyer, Walter, 121–122
Ranker, Regina, 65–66
Rathkey, Frank, 15
Rathkey, James, 15
Rathkey, Mary, 15
Rea, W. D., 216
receding waters, 281–287, 299, 308–309
Red Cross, 21–22, 62, 98–99, 102, 204, 207–208, 214, 236, 263, 281, 285, 303, 315, 322
Rees, Gene, 269
Reeve, Dr., 226
Reeve, Mrs., 227
Remus, George, 41
Repass, John R., 173
Reynolds, Charles, 228–229
Rheim, Daniel, 299
Rhoades, Burtan, 228
Rhodes, Mr., 109
Rhoner, Abe, 274–275
Riley, Elbert, 155
Rire, Father, 249
Ritty, James S., 42
Ritty, John, 42
river pollution, 55–58, 76
Robinson, James, 308
Rogers, Andy, 222
Rogers, Roy, 222
Roller, George, 135
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 335, 340
Roosevelt, Theodore, 317–318, 340
Rosier, Earl, 306
Ross, William J., 175
Rothenberger, David, 28
Rothenberger, Roscoe, 25, 28, 31–34, 320
Rothenberger, Roy, 25, 28, 31–34, 320
Roy Rogers: A Biography, Radio History, Television Career Chronicle, 222
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