OHIO RIVER
Two cards show the three states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana from Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The 3rd card is of the Wharf Landing, the 4th card says "Motor Fleet."
Lawrenceburg Levee
Peoples Coal Co.
Coal Elevator
Lawrenceburg Ind. Ferry
The Ferry Carolyn
Primative (sic) Ferry Boat
1907 LAWRENCEBURG FLOOD
Printed cards
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
1937 LAWRENCEBURG FLOOD
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
