Northwest History. Alaska. Floods & Flood Control.
Flood Recedes At Fairbanks As Ice "Holds": Residents Return To Homes; Schools Reopen; Railroad Service Resumed To South. FLOOD RECEDES AT FAIRBANKS AS ICE 'HOLDS' Residents Return to Homes; Schools Reopen; Railroad Service Resumed to South FAIRBANKS. Alaska, May 18.— (AP) — Ice f...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/91517 2023-05-15T16:20:26+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Floods & Flood Control. Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1937-05-18 Flood Recedes At Fairbanks As Ice "Holds": Residents Return To Homes; Schools Reopen; Railroad Service Resumed To South. 1937-05-18 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91517 English eng nwh-sh-10-1-52 nwh-sh-10-1-53 (duplicate) http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91517 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History. Alaska. Box 10 flood Fairbanks Railroad service Alaska Yukon's tributaries Nenana Fort Yukon refugees Alaska railroad Kuskokwin River Black Rapids Glacier Big Delta Rive Col. H. E. Revell Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1937 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:40Z Flood Recedes At Fairbanks As Ice "Holds": Residents Return To Homes; Schools Reopen; Railroad Service Resumed To South. FLOOD RECEDES AT FAIRBANKS AS ICE 'HOLDS' Residents Return to Homes; Schools Reopen; Railroad Service Resumed to South FAIRBANKS. Alaska, May 18.— (AP) — Ice fields still "held" on some of the Yukon's tributaries today permitting flood waters to recede along its course and residents of flood-stricken Fairbanks to return to their homes. However, waters still flowed through Nenana, fifty miles southwest of here, and Fort Yukon, a trading post 150 miles to the northwest. Schools closed here by high Water, during which school buildings here were used by refugees, reopened today with a full attendance. TRAINS RESUME Railroad service was resumed along the Alaska railroad to the With the warmer weather, however, the ice went out at 12:51 p.m. yesterday at McGrath, head of navigation on the Kuskokwin River. To the south of here, Black Rapids Glacier, which has been moving forward intermittently during the winter, continued its advance and raised fears it might dam the Big Delta River. Col. H. E. Revell, proprietor of a roadhouse, and his family would be compelled to flee in that event, abandoning their quarters. Text glacier Alaska Yukon Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Delta River ENVELOPE(-103.371,-103.371,78.769,78.769) Fairbanks McGrath ENVELOPE(65.468,65.468,-70.877,-70.877) Pacific Yukon |
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Flood Recedes At Fairbanks As Ice "Holds": Residents Return To Homes; Schools Reopen; Railroad Service Resumed To South. FLOOD RECEDES AT FAIRBANKS AS ICE 'HOLDS' Residents Return to Homes; Schools Reopen; Railroad Service Resumed to South FAIRBANKS. Alaska, May 18.— (AP) — Ice fields still "held" on some of the Yukon's tributaries today permitting flood waters to recede along its course and residents of flood-stricken Fairbanks to return to their homes. However, waters still flowed through Nenana, fifty miles southwest of here, and Fort Yukon, a trading post 150 miles to the northwest. Schools closed here by high Water, during which school buildings here were used by refugees, reopened today with a full attendance. TRAINS RESUME Railroad service was resumed along the Alaska railroad to the With the warmer weather, however, the ice went out at 12:51 p.m. yesterday at McGrath, head of navigation on the Kuskokwin River. To the south of here, Black Rapids Glacier, which has been moving forward intermittently during the winter, continued its advance and raised fears it might dam the Big Delta River. Col. H. E. Revell, proprietor of a roadhouse, and his family would be compelled to flee in that event, abandoning their quarters. |
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