The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-16
Four Day Rain Sends Rivers And Streams Out Of Banks, Wrecking Homes, Bridges And Much Other Property
MAD RIVERS SWEEP AWAY GIANT RAILROAD BRIDGES
Oklahoma City For First Time In History Feels Concern
 For Security Of Business Area-RaiIroad Demoraiized
BULLETIN

OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 16 (Tues day)-Fed by the on-rushing and rapidly increasing waters the flood hurtling over the torn embankment at midnight was nine feet high and rising every hour. This put the river up to the unprecedented mark of 25 feet and as the wall of water surged closer to the city, dwellers in the riv- CT bottoms snatched what few be- longtngs they could and were con veyed in ambulances and all types of vehicles 10 temporary shelter of- fered by municipal authorities.
 The water from the dam will reach here about a. m. Widest excite ment prevails throughout the city, residents in all sections aroused from their slumbers by the frenzied peals of an emergency siren hurried to the center of town.
 OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Oct. 15.- (By Associated Press ,)-Western central and southern Oklahoma to- night were in the grip of the most disastrous flood ever recorded in the state. Rivers and streams, swollen by rains that have fallen virtually without intermisston since Friday morning, were sweeping southeast ward, carrying on their foaming crests bridges, houses and other property that had been caught in the unprecedented sweep of their mudy current.
 The North and South Canadian rivers, the Cimaron, the Washita, the North Fork of the Red river-all are spreading destruction that is es- mated already in the millions of dollars
 No authentic reports of loss of life had been received here tonight. Scores of families, however have been forced to flee, leaving their household goods behind them, and at Canton, on the North Canadian, three men were rescued today from tree tops in the midst of a swirling sea that stretched nearly mile on either side of their refuge.
 Farm Lands Inundated.
 Reports from Canton indicated that the river, burdened with it's huge volume of water, had strengthened it's course, sweeping through farm lands heretofore considered immune from flood damage and destroying many farmhouses and outbuildings.
 Oklahoma City tonight awaited
 
 slaught of d wall of water in the North Canadian which, according to an official warning of J. r. Slaughter, chief of the local United States weather bureau, will be between four and six feet higher than any that ever before beat at the city's waterworks or swirled through the lowlands that skirt the industrial district.
 For the first time in the history of the city more than casual concern was felt for the safety of the busi ness area.
 Crews of workmen for the last AS hours have been strengthening the 50-foot high dam and bypass at the city reservoir, 10 miles west of here on the North Canadian. and heighten- ing a protecting embankment at Alteration plant on the edge of the city.
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 No Fear For Dam.
 A statement issued late today by Warren F. Moore, city commissioner of public safety declared that there was no danger of the dam going out Railroads through the flooded area are in a demoralized condition, with
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