Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood by Pete Bill & Arnold L. Sweet

Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood by Pete Bill & Arnold L. Sweet

Author:Pete Bill & Arnold L. Sweet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2021-04-14T16:00:00+00:00


At the peak of the flood, the Wabash River was even with the underside of the Big Four Railroad Bridge spans. The fully loaded coal cars had been moved onto the bridge to exert downward pressure to keep the floodwater from sweeping the spans off of their stone bridge piers. From the postcard collection of Arnold L. Sweet.

The Main Street Bridge on Thursday, March 27, 1913, at the height of the 1913 flood. The sag of the bridge over the sinking pier illustrates why many predicted that the Main Street Bridge, like the Brown Street Bridge, would fail “imminently.” From the postcard collection of Arnold L. Sweet.



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