Perry, Oklahoma Flood
April
20, 1912
An Oklahoma Flood.
PERRY, Ok., May 22 -- Heavy rains caused the creek running through
Perry to overflow its banks at 3 o'clock this morning. Several small
houses were washed away before the occupants could escape. One woman, name
unknown, is reported drowned. Several women and children were rescued from
trees and house tops.
G. M. Cooper, a hotel proprietor, at the
risk of his life, swam to a tree and rescued two women and a baby.
George Ney, a cook, rescued the wife
of a hotel proprietor from a house in mid-stream.
The water ran into stores, damaging stocks.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 22 May 1902
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