As the newspapers reported itThe 1926 Central West floods
3 days of original coverage, September 10, 1926 to September 14, 1926, one clipping a day from the papers of 1926. Newest last, the way readers lived it.
ContextStorms of equinoctial fury have swept central Indiana and Illinois for the third time in ten days, before a region from Ohio to Nebraska had recovered from last week's water. Seven are dead, Terre Haute faces its worst conditions since the disaster of 1913, and clearing skies today offer the first hope that the peak has passed.
ContextEquinoctial storms have battered the middle of the country for two weeks, drowning Indiana and Illinois earlier this month; the rains have now moved west. Fourteen inches have fallen on southeastern Kansas, the Cottonwood, Verdigris and Neosho Rivers have swamped a belt some 25 miles wide and 60 miles long, and the Neosho is still rising toward the record mark of the last great flood.
ContextTwo weeks of equinoctial storms have moved west into Kansas, where heavy rain on Sunday turned the Neosho and Verdigris into torrents across a wide belt of farm country. Five are known dead, damage is put above $4,000,000, and Gov. Ben S. Paulen has appealed to the state for aid.
