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Mark O'English is WSU's University Archivist.

At the moment, I'm going to play with creating content on this page with the idea that it will eventually be moved to a live page.

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Floods of 1948

February 26th, 1948.  Trailer Park across from campus.

In 1947, a trailer camp of over 100 trailers existed down on the banks of Paradise Creek, housing over 300 married students (many World War II veterans), spouses, and children. On January 7th and February 21st that year, the Creek's waters rose up and threatened the camp in successively higher floods, but in each case the trailer camp and its occupants were spared when 500 students and townspeople gathered to build sandbag (actually bags of split peas from the Klemgard Pea Processing Plant) dikes which saved the camp.

On Wednesday February 25th, 1948, the river rose again, and again the students and townspeople met it with sandbags. About 5:00 AM on the morning of the 26th, however, the dikes broke in two places, instantly inundating the camp, and trapping the occupants. According to the Evergreen of the following day, "a human chain was formed across a narrow crossing (waist deep) and the victims passed along and out to safety." Many of the residents were incapable of fighting the current, and had to be carried out on the shoulders of volunteers.

Loyd Bury, owner of the trailer camp area, reflected "it is a miracle no lives were lost. If it had not been that we had a group of war trained veterans, there must surely have been a loss of life."


WSU's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections' digital collections contain many more photographs from the 1948 floods.

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