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Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever

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by Geoff Williams

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
r />   Hodges, Fletcher, 202–203

  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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