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Show 2000 words Audience: Intended for adult readers of publications such as American History Illustrated or American Heritage. THE HEPPNER DISASTER (Ed. Note: On June 14, 1903 prosperous, beautiful Heppner, Oregon, nestled peacefully in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, was destroyed in one hour by a cloudburst. Seventy-six years later, whenever gullies around Heppner suddenly fill with water after rainstorms, conversation again turns to "the great flood." What follows is the story of the worst flash flood accounts.) i disaster in American history. It is based primarily on eyewitness Without a second's warning, a leaping, foaming wall of water, 40 feet in height, struck Heppner at about 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon sweeping everything before it and leaving only death and destruction in its wake. Nothing in the history of the Western country can compare with the awful disaster, and it can only be realized 2 by eye witness. In two sentences this stirring newspaper account captured the incredible suddenness of the flash flood which destroyed eastern Oregon's |
