■ 127 H8 V85 opy 1 yivid Panorama of the Flood TWENTY-FIVE CENTS FOREWORD ni 7 N MARCH 24 the press despatches told of widespread disaster wrought in the central west of the United States by tornado and flood. Omaha was stricken and several other western cities suffered severely by raging visitations of the elements. March 25 the telegraph wires were busy recording the havoc in Indiana and Ohio by an avalanche of water that was sweeping eastward. Cities were wrested from their solid foundations and hundreds of lives were sacrificed in the terrible wreck. The sympathetic response of the people of the east had hardly touched into activity their generosity when the inundation of the Mohawk and Hudson river valleys began. March 26 the tributaries of the Hudson river were roaring torrents and the great arm of the ocean began to reach over the land ominously. Homes were invaded and carried away ; hotels and stores were, in some instances, demolished and sent on their long journey to the sea; impounded logs and lumber in the north woods country were wrenched from their con- trolling barriers and passed out on the crest of the swift tide ; bridges collapsed like paper struc- tures; fires started in many sections; railroads suspended their schedules and abandoned their tracks to the inexorable force of the rising water ; electric light, telegraph and telephone plants and the water supplies of many cities gave out, and dire distress threatened the inhabitants. The flood had broken all records and the public mind was frightened with the possibilities of its damag- ing effects. . Friday, March 28 the water reached its highest mark, twenty-two feet and four inches above normal, which exceeded the fiighest previous record in 1857. The loss in the Capital District approximated $6,000,000 and the physical distress to the people in many quarters was serious. The moving incidents of the great inundation were tif)tz\t\\y photographed for this panorama and tell the story better than words and statistics. ^g ^ ,^ "'}u / 4 |B ^1 Albjiny — Looicing South on Quay Street from State Street — Water Covering D. & H. Tracks Albany Steamboat Square — View from Madison Avenue Albany — Looking North from Railroad Bridge — D. & H. Tracks Submerged f Albany— Looking East from Pruyn Street Toward Rensselaer — Upper End of Steamboat Sqt The Albany Yachl Club from Railroad Bridge 1 Second Avenue — Rensselaer New York Central Tracks — Lower Rensselaer Foot of Twenty-third Street, Watervliet — House in Distance on Left is Ferry Boat Dock Green Island — Looking North on George Street at Clinton Street Fire and Flood in Green Island Green Island Bridge from Troy — Water One Foot from Bridge Center Island Between Troy and Green Island River Street Looking North from Bridge Avenue — Troy View from Troy Office Knickerbocker Press, 10 A. M. Troy — Federal Street Looking Toward River Street $20,000 Max Grimm Fire at River and Congress Streets — Troy Troy — Looking North on River Street from Manufacturers National Bank Franklin Square, Troy, Looking South Troy — Looking Dowr Third Street from Ferry Street Troy Collar Shops — Twenty-five Feet Under Water : 1- 1 . , i^nmm[ii^^ ^^E- Blfci^w^ fi^^^ ii^^^^^^^l View from Spring Street Bridge, Cohoes,' N. Y., Looking South Mohawk River Overflowing the Dyke Between Mohawk Pines and Cohoes H^^^^^y^^f^ ^ ^ l^B M'H^H H^ I^HBK^ T^ Hi^i' ^MJallH^^B I^BI H H J ^P^Ir JM Lower Washington Avenue — Schenectady South Centre Street — Schenectady Amsterdam — Lookmg Up Chuctanunda Creek Amsterdam — Looking Down Chuctanunda Creek Showing Houses Submerged on " The Island " — Fort Edward Village Fort Edward Log Jam at Railroad Bridge — Cars Loaded with Coal Hold Bridge Down Bridge Across Hudson at Fort Edward Suspension Bridge, Glens Falls, Just Before it Was Swept Away Suspension Bridge at Glens Falls Washed Away APR 16 1913 How the Pulmotor Was Used to Revive Victim of Drowning COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY J. B. LYON COMPANY LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 014 114 392 n