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Great Flood of 1993, St. Joseph News-Press, August 21, 1993Entry/Object ID
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Great Flood of 1993, St. Joseph News-Press, August 21, 1993
News Photo: Floodwaters engulfed St. Joseph's waterworks plant on the Missouri River. This July 28 aerial was taken after the plant was shut down.
News Photo: Dennis Dodson rescued lambs from his flooded farm. More than 600 sheep and goats were carried to safety in pontoon boats on July 17.
News Photo: A muddy carpet covered Elwood Kan. July 25 after a break in the levee along the Missouri River. The evacuated community of 1,275 was inundated by up to 9 feet of water.
News Photo: Waist-high in water, a salvage party floated a punt to the Boathouse Restaurant in St. Joseph to save valuable seafood on July14.
News Photo: Burrell Bomar, 87, lifted a limb out of the foot-deep water that covered his yard near Bigelow on Monday.
News Photo: Ken King talked with his wife Tuesday over his portable phone. They were working out the details of finding a trailer to evacuate their summer cottage at Big Lake
News Photo: this aerial view of Big Lake State Park was taken looking to the south. It showed how the water had spread into the cabins around the lake.
News Photo Randy Booth left and Ralph Salmon carried Addy Graham from the flat-bottom boat that carried her out of the flooded town. Left: the water in downtown Pattonsburg was more than four feet deep in some places.
News Photo: John Butler and Charles Pulsifer were among the eight inmates who filled sandbags in Craiag, MO.
News Photo: One Pattonsburg homeowner put large possessions on his roof.
News Photo: Terry Brown and Chip Davis, right owner of the Boathouse Restaurant, waded through a mile and a half of water to get to the restaurant to salvage hundreds of dollars of seafood in the coolers.
News Photo: A Rising Missouri River trapped a pen full of pigs near the levee at Lake Contrary.
News Photo: Gov. Mel Carnahan toured the flooded Northwest Missouri area by helicopter.
News Photo: about 450 head of Australian cashmere goats are stranded at Big Lake
News Photo: Cierra Richey and Gail Kincaid sorted clothes Friday at Red Cross
News Photo: Australian cashmere coats were loaded onto a pontoon Saturday for the ride across Big Lake.
News Photo: Dennis Dodson carried two of the 600 animals rescued from his Holt County farm Saturday.
News Photo: Just minutes after these volunteers were photographed Friday, Fairfax's sandbag levee broke
News Photo: Stella Heckman, 90 huddled in a Department of Conservation boat Friday morning as Tony Flora helped her leave Rosendale--again
News Photo: Residents of the Waterworks Road area retreated from the rising Missouri River with their belongings. St. Joseph light and Power Co. employees tried to free a truck after being stuck in a submerged ditch while shutting off electricity.
News Photo: Chris Haer and Morgan Jenkins move furniture from the basement of Emmeett and Twyla Heers' farm.
News Photo: More the 50 volunteers in Elwood spent Tuesday filling thousands of sand bags as river levels inched toward a near-record 27.42 feet crest.Lexicon
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