Northwest History. Alaska. Floods & Flood Control.
Yukon Floods Maroon Alaskans In Cemetery. Yukon Floods Maroon Alaskans in Cemetery Fairbanks, Alaska, May 30 (IP).— Residents of Mulato, on the isolated lower Yukon River, pitched tents in a graveyard today and waited anxiously for a drop of flood waters, which stood 5 to 10 feet deep in the streets...
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1937
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| Online Access: | http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91530 |
| Summary: | Yukon Floods Maroon Alaskans In Cemetery. Yukon Floods Maroon Alaskans in Cemetery Fairbanks, Alaska, May 30 (IP).— Residents of Mulato, on the isolated lower Yukon River, pitched tents in a graveyard today and waited anxiously for a drop of flood waters, which stood 5 to 10 feet deep in the streets. Mulato citizens, including children at a small native mission school, fled to the hills when the Yukon went out of its banks last week and spread over lowlands. |
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