Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-21 | Page 3 | Flood Nears City Lowlands Cleared

FLOOD NEARS CITY CITY- LOWLANDS LOWLAN CLEARED OKLAHOMA CITY May 21 P 1 National guard trucks rumbled out of the Oklahoma City lowlands today today today to to- day carrying loads loads' of refugees ces from the path of North Canadian river floodwaters By midmorning the orderly orderly or or- derly rescue of or families was WM well wel under way On th the grassy slopes of a city park high above the possible path of ot the floodwaters expected to strike sometime sometime some some- time this noon afternoon or tonight a tent city was being populated with with the refugees General H. H W. W Butner Bulner Fort Sill commandant supervised the tion at a half hall dozen points up the treacherous quicksand bottomed North Canadian reported the city still stil had about 10 hours in which to pr prepare pro pre pare parc for floodwaters Northeastern Oklahoma streams dreams today today to to- day apparently had reached the crest resulting from the latest rains and had caused no extensive damage The death toll toU from week weekend floods and tornadoes today stood a at 13 in Texas six in Oklahoma and md andone andone one in Kansas