[PRCo] Re: 1936___Flood

[Edward H. Lybarger]

There will be a 2-part piece on the flood in upcoming issues of Trolley
Fare.  Bernie Orient located a copy of the company magazine and copied it; I
supplied some pictures from my own files.  I've already copy edited the
current issue, and it should be arriving in members' mailboxes shortly.  Or
has it arrived already?  I just file 'em when they arrive, since I've
already read them in the copy editing process.

Ed

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Holland
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:54 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] 1936___Flood


Good Morning!


	Quoting from Lorant's book on pg.354:

	"""On St.Patrick's day in 1936 Pgh. suffered one
of its most devastating floods.    On Monday, March 16,
the waters rose to 21.7-feet; two days later they
had risen to 46-feet.......       there was a fear of
epidemic and of looting.     The Downtown section
was placed under martial law."""

	Is It Recorded as to how much was under water?

	How far out Penn  --  to Butler?     This would
also include Liberty.

	Parts of Grant at least.

	What about North Side?

	West End would  *seem*  relatively immune except
for RR along river.

	McKeesport?




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Jim

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