item: #1 of 16 id: 19878 author: Leighton, Marshall Ora title: The Passaic Flood of 1903 date: None words: 20418 flesch: 72 summary: | Duration of | flood at | Dundee dam. A description of the descent of flood waters from the highland tributaries into the Central Basin has been given in Water-Supply Paper No. 88. keywords: a. m.; area; basin; capacity; dam; drainage; feet; flood; flow; m. |; miles; p. m.; passaic; pls; pompton; reservoir; river; storage; water; | | cache: 19878.txt plain text: 19878.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 20455 author: Marshall, Logan title: The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado date: None words: 71896 flesch: 71 summary: The breaking of the Tarleton reservoir, which supplies the drinking water, left the city without water and added great danger of typhoid in the use of flood water. At midnight residents of Dayton watching the course of the flames from across the wide stretch of flood waters believed the fire got its new start in the afternoon in the store of the Patterson Tool and Supply Company, on Third Street, just east of Jefferson, whence it ate its way west, apparently aided by escaping gas and exploding chemicals in two wholesale drug establishments. keywords: boats; bodies; bridge; buildings; business; chapter; children; cincinnati; city; city water; columbus; company; conditions; damage; days; dayton; dead; death; district; east; feet; fire; flood; flood district; flood water; flooded; governor; great; homes; houses; hundreds; life; loss; man; march; men; miles; national; new; night; north; ohio; ohio river; omaha; patterson; people; persons; places; property; railroad; refugees; relief; rescue; river; section; service; situation; south; state; storm; street; suffering; supplies; telephone; thousands; time; tornado; town; tuesday; valley; water; water river; way; west; women; work cache: 20455.txt plain text: 20455.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 21074 author: Leslie, Lawrence J. title: Afloat on the Flood date: None words: 43416 flesch: 79 summary: Once more Max talked it all over with them. And seeing Max close Shack even ventured to speak decently to him, something he would never have dreamed of doing had the conditions been other than they were. keywords: bandy; bessie; boat; boys; bridge; camp; carson; chums; coming; flood; girls; good; hand; house; know; legs; look; max; right; river; roof; shack; shore; steve; things; time; toby; water; way cache: 21074.txt plain text: 21074.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 21697 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood date: None words: 72520 flesch: 81 summary: The handsome youth at once stepped forward, and old Mr Ravenshaw watched him with an approving smile as he took aim. Don't look so crestfallen, man, said old Mr Ravenshaw heartily, as he shook hands; it's nobler work to teach the young idea how to shoot than to be able to hit a bull's-eye. keywords: angus; bear; boy; buffalo; camp; canoe; cora; course; creek; day; elsie; eyes; face; father; fire; flood; good; gun; half; hand; having; heart; house; hut; ian; indian; knoll; lambert; left; liz; look; macdonald; man; mind; miss; moment; night; peegwish; petawanaquat; poor; ravenshaw; red; river; rollin; round; time; tony; victor; water; way; winklemann cache: 21697.txt plain text: 21697.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 23292 author: Bassett, Sara Ware title: Ted and the Telephone date: None words: 50109 flesch: 84 summary: It was said at the factories that the reason the Fernalds went to New York and Florida and California was because of Mr. Laurie; that was the reason, too, why so many celebrated doctors kept coming to Pine Lea, and why both Mr. Fernald and Mr. Clarence were often so sharp and unreasonable. In fact, almost everything the Fernalds did or did not do, said or did not say, could be traced back to Mr. Laurie. keywords: bell; boy; clarence; course; day; falls; father; fernald; going; good; hazen; lad; laurie; lea; little; man; men; mills; money; new; night; pine; place; river; room; shack; ted; telephone; thing; thought; time; turner; want; water; watson; way; wharton; work cache: 23292.txt plain text: 23292.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 26627 author: Holmes, F. M. (Frederic Morell) title: The Island House: A Tale for the Young Folks date: None words: 14214 flesch: 93 summary: When they reached the two clumsy crafts Alfy had left in the morning he found them quite high and dry. Won't Master Alfy be pleased with the woodbine! keywords: alfy; boat; boy; flood; house; mansy; rope; time; tub; water; window cache: 26627.txt plain text: 26627.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 27669 author: Walker, James Herbert title: The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin date: None words: 121197 flesch: 80 summary: It did not occur to any one until lately to get any nurses from other places to take care of the patients, and even now most of the nurses are Johnstown people who have lost relatives and have their own cares. Johnstown people surviving the destruction appear to bewail the death of the Fisher family. keywords: afternoon; bodies; body; bridge; bris; buildings; cambria; children; city; company; conemaugh; dam; day; dead; death; disaster; family; feet; fire; flood; force; fork; general; half; home; hour; house; hundreds; illustration; iron; johnstown; left; life; like; lives; loss; lost; man; mass; men; miles; morning; mother; new; night; number; o'clock; past; pennsylvania; people; pittsburgh; place; point; railroad; relief; river; roof; ruins; saw; south; standing; station; stone; story; stream; street; time; train; valley; water; way; wife; women; work; wreck; years; young cache: 27669.txt plain text: 27669.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 31889 author: Wiltz, Louis Alfred title: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874: Its Extent, Duration, and Effects date: None words: 3023 flesch: 60 summary: Nothing but large increase of resources for relief can prevent the horrors of famine and great loss of life. The demand for relief will continue great and urgent for many weeks. keywords: barrels; flood; miles; mississippi; people; relief; river cache: 31889.txt plain text: 31889.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 34304 author: None title: The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror date: None words: 96316 flesch: 77 summary: Bell, Henry. Bankers, Mrs. Charles. Beach, Miss Nina of Victoria. Boedenker, H., father, brother and sister-in-law. Barnard, Mrs. Becker, John, wife and daughters, Mae and Vida. Brown, Winnie M. Bellew, Mr. and Mrs. J., and daughter. Levy, W. T. Lewis, Mrs. J., and six children. keywords: bay; bodies; bridge; building; business; chapter; charles; chicago; children; city; coast; colored; country; dam; daughter; day; days; dead; death; debris; disaster; family; feet; flood; following; galveston; galveston storm; general; george; gulf; half; home; house; houston; hundreds; hurricane; illustration; island; john; johnstown; left; life; little; lives; loss; man; mary; men; miles; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; number; people; persons; place; point; property; relief; roof; saw; sea; september; situation; south; states; storm; streets; sunday; texas; texas city; thousands; time; town; train; united; water; way; wife; william; wind; women; work; world; years cache: 34304.txt plain text: 34304.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 36179 author: Stratemeyer, Edward title: The Rover Boys on a Tour; or, Last Days at Brill College date: None words: 69240 flesch: 90 summary: As soon as we get back home you are going to be Mrs. Sam Rover, so you might as well get used to such things first as last. It had been decided almost at the last minute that instead of covering left field Sam should cover third base. keywords: away; boys; brill; brother; chester; crowden; dick; dollars; fellow; fogg; girl; good; grace; hope; horse; left; little; man; minnie; money; new; place; right; road; rover; sam; sam rover; sanderson; songbird; spud; time; tom; waltham; way cache: 36179.txt plain text: 36179.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 41271 author: Johnson, Willis Fletcher title: History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. date: None words: 93214 flesch: 78 summary: In the gap above Johnstown water has picked up a four-track railroad covered with trains, freight, and passengers, and with machine shops, a round-house, and other heavy buildings with heavy contents, and it has torn the track to pieces, twisted, turned, and crossed it as fire never could. We would then have a total of flood water of three hundred and ninety million cubic feet. keywords: bank; bodies; bridge; building; business; cambria; car; cars; chapter; children; city; clothing; co.; company; conemaugh; creek; dam; day; dead; death; disaster; end; family; feet; flood; force; fork; friday; general; great; half; hours; house; iron; johnstown; june; lake; left; life; lives; lost; man; mass; men; miles; minutes; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; new; night; number; o'clock; pennsylvania; people; persons; philadelphia; place; railroad; relief; river; roof; ruins; saw; south; state; story; stream; street; sufferers; time; track; train; valley; water; way; wife; women; work; years; young cache: 41271.txt plain text: 41271.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 45667 author: Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917 title: The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna; or, The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood date: None words: 65815 flesch: 81 summary: Give Giraffe a push, Allan, will you, and roll Bumpus over a few times till he says he's awake; that's the regular program with him, you know. Good boy, Smithy, keep a-going! cried Davy, greatly excited. keywords: allan; big; boat; boys; bumpus; camp; chance; course; davy; end; face; fact; fellow; fire; george; giraffe; good; hands; hen; hope; island; leader; let; look; man; patrol; place; rest; right; river; run; scouts; smithy; sort; step; thad; thing; thought; time; tramp; want; water; way cache: 45667.txt plain text: 45667.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 46011 author: Appleton, Victor title: The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood; Or, Perilous Days on the Mississippi date: None words: 45463 flesch: 91 summary: CHAPTER II STIRRING NEWS Joe could hear his chum Blake murmuring such things as: Yes, I'm listening! yelled Blake, as he put aside his camera, for the reel of film had run out, and he did not want to stop to thread in more. keywords: blake; boat; boys; charlie; films; flood; friends; good; guess; house; island; joe; little; look; manager; motor; new; picture; piper; raft; right; ringold; river; time; train; water; way; work cache: 46011.txt plain text: 46011.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 54121 author: Sykes, D. F. E. title: Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood date: None words: 87468 flesch: 85 summary: And is that all you have to tell me, Mr. Tom Tinker? No, Dorothy, I have another secret to tell you. If you mean Mr. Tom Pinder, of Co-op Mill, Hinchliff Mill, I think I may go so far as to say I do. keywords: abaat; aleck; aye; ben; betty; black; business; chapel; child; come; course; day; days; door; dorothy; eyes; face; father; folk; garside; gate; god; good; hand; hannah; head; heart; holmfirth; home; house; jabez; jack; jones; lad; law; left; life; like; little; look; lucy; man; master; men; mill; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; nehemiah; night; nooan; pinder; poor; redfearn; room; schofield; set; sunday; sykes; talk; think; thought; time; tinker; tom; tom o; tom pinder; uncle; valley; village; want; water; way; weel; wer; wilberlee; wimpenny; woman; word; work; yo'r; young cache: 54121.txt plain text: 54121.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 57319 author: Crowninshield, Schuyler, Mrs. title: San Isidro date: None words: 68116 flesch: 93 summary: Does the lad want me over there--the Señor Silencio? I have heard nothing from him, Señor Don Beltran. yes, Señor Don Beltran! keywords: adan; agueda; ana; andres; aneta; beltran; casa; child; come; cousin; day; don; don beltran; don gil; door; escobeda; eyes; face; felisa; gil; girl; good; gremo; hand; head; house; light; little; man; moment; mother; noé; place; raquel; room; round; señor; señor don; señorita; silencio; thought; time; uncle; veranda; voice; way; words cache: 57319.txt plain text: 57319.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 60761 author: Reynolds, Mack title: The Good Seed date: None words: 4738 flesch: 93 summary: Raising his head a little and looking around him, Calvin could see the water, risen high around them, so that waves were splashing on all sides, less than the length of his own body away. Actually it had come down just short of the island and floated quickly off, what was left of it, while Calvin was thrashing for the island with that inept stroke of his. keywords: calvin; island; plant; water; wind cache: 60761.txt plain text: 60761.txt