Car in Standing Water
Collection: Max Moxley Photographs
Title
Car in Standing Water
Subject
Flood of 1929-- Sterling, Kansas
History-- Sterling, Kansas
Description
Old Bulletin files show that water hit on Thursday, July 11, at about 3 p.m. and peaked at 2 a.m. on Friday. By Saturday evening it was gone. Broadway was flooded from Methodist Church to the Santa Fe tracks. In no way connected with the river, the inundation was the result of an 11-inch rain in the Bushton area, at the head of Cow Creek. Water overflowed from the creek into the Santa Fe slough, coursed through the Center and Valley Townships and entered Sterling at the northwest corner. Hardest hit were residences on the west side of town. At the Fisher Greenhouse on West Jefferson, the water stood 40 inches deep. Downtown, where the water stood five inches above the floor of business houses, most stores were saved by sandbagging.
Written by Max Moxley in his column "Images of the Past" for the "Sterling Bulletin"
Source
Sterling Free Public Library, Sterling, Kansas
Publisher
Sterling Free Public Library, Sterling, Kansas
Date
July 1929
Contributor
Max Moxley
Rights
Reproduced with permission from the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Photographs
Identifier
mm_flood009.jpg
mm_flood009b.jpg
Coverage
Item is believed to be in the public domain.
Citation
“Car in Standing Water,” Sterling Digital Collections, accessed May 20, 2024, https://sterling.digitalsckls.info/item/95.
Title
Car in Standing Water
Subject
Flood of 1929-- Sterling, Kansas
History-- Sterling, Kansas
Description
Old Bulletin files show that water hit on Thursday, July 11, at about 3 p.m. and peaked at 2 a.m. on Friday. By Saturday evening it was gone. Broadway was flooded from Methodist Church to the Santa Fe tracks. In no way connected with the river, the inundation was the result of an 11-inch rain in the Bushton area, at the head of Cow Creek. Water overflowed from the creek into the Santa Fe slough, coursed through the Center and Valley Townships and entered Sterling at the northwest corner. Hardest hit were residences on the west side of town. At the Fisher Greenhouse on West Jefferson, the water stood 40 inches deep. Downtown, where the water stood five inches above the floor of business houses, most stores were saved by sandbagging.
Written by Max Moxley in his column "Images of the Past" for the "Sterling Bulletin"
Source
Sterling Free Public Library, Sterling, Kansas
Publisher
Sterling Free Public Library, Sterling, Kansas
Date
July 1929
Contributor
Max Moxley
Rights
Reproduced with permission from the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Photographs
Identifier
mm_flood009.jpg
mm_flood009b.jpg
Coverage
Item is believed to be in the public domain.