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Show HEPPNER DISASTER SOURCES 1. Interview with Earl Gilliam, November 26, 1971. Gilliam was a survivor of the flood. 2. Interview with Mrs. Frank Parker, November 27, 1971. Mrs. Parker was deputy postmaster in Heppner in 1903. 3. Interview with Rachel Harnett, Morrow County historian, November 27, 4. Murphy, E. C , Destructive Floods i_n the United_ _StatP^ jn_ jonv for the Department of the Interior, U.S. Government Printinq Office, 1904. y 5. Summaries of Climatological Data By Sections, Vol. I, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Washington D.C., 1926. 6. French, Giles, Homesteads and Heritages, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1971. 7. Hoyt, William G. and Langbein, Walter B., Floods, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1955. I also relied on eyewitness accounts of the flood by the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Spencer Akers 0. A. Devin N. T. Hooker Sadie Sigsbee David McAtee Leslie Matlock 7. J. Orve Rasmus 8. Bert Mason 9. N. A. Leach 10. Mrs. Belle LeFort 11. Mike Galloway FOOTNOTES 1. In terms of lives lost. No other flash flood in U.S. history has taken more than 200 lives. 2. Heppner Gazette, June 18, 1903. 3. Hoyt, William G., Floods, see "Sources." 4. Summaries of Climatological Data By Sections, see "Sources." 5. From interview with Mrs. Frank Parker. 6. Destructive Floods in the United States in 1903, see "Sources." 7. Heppner Gazette, June 18, 1903. 8. New York Times, June 16, 1903. |
