[PRCo] Re: 1936___Flood

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings
 The newspapers showed a wooden trolley bridge near Hornes.

Harold Geissenheimer

Jim Holland wrote:

>Good Morning!
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>	Quoting from Lorant's book on pg.354:
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>	"""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."""
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>	Is It Recorded as to how much was under water?
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>	How far out Penn  --  to Butler?     This would
>also include Liberty.
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>	Parts of Grant at least.
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>	What about North Side?
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>	West End would  *seem*  relatively immune except
>for RR along river.
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>	McKeesport?
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>Jim
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