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Among the earliest floods on
record
was the
"Whiskey Run Flood of 1874. Several
people were drowned
& bridges were washed out.
. . . . . . Another severe flood occurred
in August 1888.
Hundreds of
families were forced to flee from their
homes. . . . . . . The Carnegie Item reported the streets
were like rivers
during the April 20, 1901 flood. . . . . . .
On September
2, 1912, one of the worst floods in history
took sixteen lives.
. . . . . . The next major flood to wreak
havoc in the Chartiers Valley occurred
on June 17, 1920. Carnegie
& McKees Rocks suffered greatly.
. . . . . . The Saint Patrick's Day
Flood of
1936 put Arch
Street under water & thousands of dollars
worth of
merchandise was lost. . . . . . . One
of the few winter floods
on December 30,
1942 left many
homes in Carnegie without heat.
. . . . . . The Flood of
1943 had
rushing water ripping bricks from
the streets in Carnegie. . . . . . . On March 6,
1945 many residents
of Arch, Third and Jane
Streets in Carnegie were
rescued from their homes by
rowboats.
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Pictures & info courtesy of the Carnegie Historical
Society
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