Northwest History. Alaska. Floods & Flood Control.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; flood; Fort Yukon; influenza epidemic; Fairbanks; radio dispatch; News-Miner; Porcupine river; Mrs. Emily Randall; United States marshal; ammunition; food; water; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Randall; Yukon; Porcupine River
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91439

Town In Alaska Swept By Flood: Fort Yukon Also Hit By Influenza Epidemic. TOWN IN ALASKA SWEIWLOOD Fort Yukon Also Hit by Influenza Epidemic FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 12 (AP)—A radio dispatch to the News-Miner said influenza, claiming six lives, ravaged white and native populations at Fort Yukon yesterday, while a flood swept the town, 150 miles northeast of here at the junction of the Yukon and Porcupine rivers. The News-Miner's correspondent at Fort Yukon, Mrs. Emily Randall, wife of a deputy United States marshal, said no one drowned in the flood which spread over the town when ice broke in a slough early this morning. Food, ammunition and household goods were ruined by the water, which was receding tonight, and the condition of influenza patients made more critical, Mrs. Randall said.