Lawrenceburg Indiana 2

OHIO  RIVER

   The first row shows the three states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana from Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The 2nd row of cards is of the Wharf Landing, and the "Motor (Launch) Fleet."

                                                       
Lawrenceburg Levee                                            Peoples Coal Co.                                                    Coal Elevator     

               
Lawrenceburg Ind. Ferry          The Ferry Carolyn        Primative (sic) Ferry Boat                               Scene on Ohio River                           

1907  LAWRENCEBURG  FLOOD

                                   
                                                   Train Wreck                                          Protecting the Levee              Cottages destroyed

1913  LAWRENCEBURG  FLOOD

Spot where levee broke

   By January 15, the great flood of 1913 had reached 62' at Lawrenceburg, Indiana but the people of that city, remembering the flood of 1907 when the water had reached 66' and the levee held, did not even bother to move their belongings to a higher elevation.
   On the 14th a slide occurred between the main flood gate and the Lawrenceburg gas plant. Two watchmen were assigned to keep an eye on it during the night. Around midnight on the 16th the ground gave way a short distance from where watchman Henry Schinaman was sitting. Immediately a chasm opened below him and water began rushing thru. Henry ran to the Newtown engine house and rang the bell, alerting the residence of the flood. 
   It was later determined that the 60' wide by 80' long and 20' deep opening was made by water seeping through the levee which softened the soil at the base, plus the incessant rain, caused the earth to slide out due to its own weight.

                               
Walnut Street                              Children in the wreckage                             Regan Hotel    
Lawrenceburg, Indiana

                               
  Break in Big Four Levee                  Break in Ohio River Levee                    High St. Looking West    

1937  LAWRENCEBURG  FLOOD

   Most of Lawrenceburg is shown under water in this aerial photograph. Lawrenceburg is in the center with Indiana on the left, Ohio in the upper middle and Kentucky on the right. The Ohio River is winding up and to the right and the Great Miami is shown winding around the spit of land in the center.

                   
                    Seagram's Bottling Plant                                                             Lawrenceburg Overhead                          

                   
Walnut St. During Flood                   After Flood                         60 Days After Flood

               
Break in the Levee                     Main St. Near 3rd.                   Zion Baptist Church
                                                                                                        Walnut Street

               
Lawrenceburg Fair Grounds.

                       
         Public Library                        Big Four R. R. Depot                     Roller (flour) Mills

               
3rd Street, Looking East            Red Cross's Tent City                    Court House           

GREETINGS