Looking west on Main Street after the flood of January 1900 - Kendrick, Idaho : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Looking west on Main Street after the flood of January 1900 - Kendrick, Idaho / Shook Photos
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| 説明 | Production Date: January 12, 1900Source Type: PhotographPrinter, Publisher, Photographer: UnknownPostmark: Not ApplicableCollection: Steven R. ShookRemark: A hotel and the White Star Restaurant are visible along the left side of this photograph. The majority of the structures seen in this photograph were destroyed when a fire swept through the town in 1904. Another fire had destroyed the town in 1892, a year prior to this photograph being taken.The structure visible on the right hand side of the road with the white balcony and posts, just left of center, is the St. Elmo Hotel.The following information concerning this flood is published in A Centennial History of the Kendrick-Juliaetta Area, published by the Kendrick-Juliaetta Centennial Committee in 1990.On December 15, 1899, the railroad also proved to be the source of a double tragedy. A freight train heavily loaded with steel rails for construction of the Lewiston-Stites branch of the Northern Pacific went out of control on the steep grade out of Vollmer (Troy). The train made a six-mile plunge before the cars jumped the curve within the Kendrick city limits and went into the river in a twisted pile-up 100 feet square, killing five members of the crew. Rails were still being dug from the scene of the wreck years later.Then, on January 10, 1900, chinook winds arrived, bringing a quick thaw that caused the Potlatch River to flood. The river channel being partially jammed by debris from the train wreck, pressure was exerted on the railroad bed. The fill suddenly gave way. The water picked up a large pile of cordwood and swept into the streets of Kendrick. Charles Hamley, Kendrick's street commissioner, his wife, and their three young girls were riding in a buggy when the crest of water and forty cords of wood hit them, overturning the rig. Hamley was rescued immediately, but his three daughters were carried away and drowned. Mrs. Hamley saved herself by catching onto a roof, where she remained all night.At least eight miles of railroad track and two bridges were washed out in the flood, and the lower part of Kendrick under water, with water rising eight inches every hour.Various contemporary newspapers also reported that two "Chinamen" drowned in the flood and that more than 30 business structures and homes were dislodged from their foundations and floated down the Potlatch River.Copyright 2014. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-01-03 02:25:17 |
| 撮影者 | Shook Photos , Moscow, Idaho, USA |
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