Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - June 11, 1972, Winona, Minnesota Winona Sunday News TAll of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA 55987 SUNDAY JUNE 1972 Thirty Copy death toll still rising REMAINS OF HOUSES are piled up at a bridge over Rapid Creek west Rapid City S D Rescuer surveys area where earlier elderly couple were removed from he rubble pile and hospitalized Rescue operations from the flood continued Saturday and the death toll mounted by the minute AP By TERRY WOSTER RAPID COY AP The death toll climbed to 105 with wore than 500 persons re- ported missing Saturday after a night of rains ing fires and explosions hit Rapid City and surrounding areas Rapid City police said the death count was expected to go much higher They reported bodies were found in trees in cars and along edges of ches as water subsided Ninety-nine of the deaths curred in Rapid City six were in the little village of Keystone southwest of Rapid City and near Mount Rushmore National Memorial The two in this city of as well as facilities at nearby Ellsworth Air Force base were jammed with the in- jured Gov Richard Kneip who drove lo Rapid City afler his plane was grounded en route to tho area asked President on to declare the western South Dakota area a disaster area Raging waters swept cars down streels of Rapid Cily while homes and mobile homes were scattered and splintered in flood areas Bridges were washed away and many roads closed Authorities feared for dreds of campers in the Black Hills area a popular summer resort area They said it might Rapid a world ripped apart ba weeks before all the bodies were recovered The downpour also inundated the town of 45 miles northwest of Rapid City The County sheriff's office reported six inches of rain and several unconfirmed deaths Keystone a small town west of Rapid City near the Mount Rushmore also was reported ily damaged by the rains Six of the victims were from Keystone said Rapid City's mayor Communications with he small were severed Hundreds were left stranded and homeless by the floods President Nixon declares Rapid City disaster WASHINGTON AP President Nixon declared region of Sou Hi a disaster area Saturday making emergency federal aid available lor the recovery effort Nixon while the ex- tent of Uic damage was still unknown Hundreds of homes were destroyed and scores of people killed In lie floods and attendant and explosions early Saturday EDITOR'S Wire Editor Jerry Mashek of the Rapid City Journal was ering reports of high water and flooding Me Friday night in the Rapid City urea when he was caught in the middle of the diaster that the western South resort orea This is his report By JERRY MASHEK Rapid City Journal Wire Editor RAPID CITY The horror of the flood that had torn life out of the Black Hills didn't really strike me until dawn Saturday It started about 8 p.m Friday with a call from Journal photographer Don He had heard re- of high water along Rimrock Highway in the area west of Rapid City It started as sort of a lark I knew it was raining hard but no one had pre- pared us for the wild night and morning ahead There didn't seem to be any real danger The water from Rapid Creek was running across the road in some places on the way up but our two pickups made it through in good shape But it was starting to look more As we headed toward sega the rain really hit We pulled onto fhe shoulder and watched in amazement as a small stream spilling from the hillside turned into a four-foot wide torrent We turned back at this point but were halted along with a number of other vehicles by a three-foot wall of water spilling across the highway We were stuck but it seemed the water would Gun battles rage in North Ireland BELFAST AP Gun London is so intent on ties erupted in Belfast and hundreds Friday night and of militant tants across Northern Ireland erected barricades around their enclaves to protest British peace wooing the Catholic minority away from the Irish Republican Army that it is neglecting the fight against the guerrillas Guerrillas killed a girl in Belfast raising the death toll to six in 36 hours the British said The army claimed guerrillas wounded five other civilians in Belfast while troops hit four gunmen in Belfast and derry In almost three years of violence in Northern land 363 persons have died The increased violence has William Whitelaw Britain's minister for Northern Ireland was jeered jostled and spat at by a crowd of 200 Protestants when he visited Lurgan on day As soldiers hustled him into a Jeep the crowd screamed out out and we want to know where our security is Protesting London's low-key approach to the guerrilla war in Belfast sealed off 70 streets with barricades of automobiles trucks and buses heightened Protestant charges ablaze ib Several barriers were set subside in a couple of hours Then we heard that at least one bridge was out and it would be days be- fore traffic was moving normally again We ed to walk back to town shooting pictures on the way Normally clear and placid Rapid Creek 40 feet to our right sounded like a freight train passing in the night It must have been 150 feet wide in some places We could hear people trapped in houses on the other side of the creek ing plaintively rather than desperately for help It was pitch black rain was falling in sheets and all we could do was listen to the pleas How many people were swept to their deaths in that area alone I'll never know About dawn we decided we'd hike toward Rapid City about three miles east The carnage was able as we picked our way a major Black Hills highway Gigantic blocks of and concrete as large as walls of a house were strewn across the roadbed Boulders lay hazard and bridge tures were ripped and gling The smell of a world ripped apart hung in the air It was like nothing I've ever smelled before and hope to God I never do again Mud was everywhere Once beautiful homes had been obliterated Articles from a shattered world lay scattered everywhere Here a shoe there a table lop beside us a crushed toy As we slogged along down the highway we came to the Cleghorn Springs fish hatchery on the outskirts of the city The rearing ponds were underwater the offices were smashed and we could see where the creek had come out of its banks by what we estimat- ed was around 400 feet there was ing Here and little knots of people stared ly at their homes or where their homes had been Rapid City tor Owen Emmet gave us a short lift to where his home had been It was still there but it was smashed and mangled His wife dered aloud whether their dog was all right Several survivors were perched on roofs and the only sounds were the soft squish of tires on mud the occasional bark of a dog and a faint meaningless greeting of Near once beautiful yon Lake Park fhe ing smell of propane gas escaping from ruptured tanks was almost over- powering Canyon Lake was gone Rapid Creek rushed through a sea of mud automobiles and furnishings It looked as though some insane giant had taken the palm of his hand and slapped it into the emptying it The dam at the lower end of the lake had literally been ripped from its stone anchors The park was like a de- solate moonscape Giant trees were uprooted nic tables playground equipment and the articles of everyday life choked the land The beautifully cured grass had huge gouges torn torn it A body lay in a den jumble of wreckage We hurried past And the horror of life torn apart was t h e only thing on my mind A usually kind God and his nature gone wild had torn life out of Rapid City and the Black Hills I didn't want to see any more I wanted to go home and hold my wife and kids and have them tell me I'd wake up in a minute I didn't wake up and I still don't want to see any more hey were being housed In schools churches and privati lomes The six to 10 inches of rain reported in the area landslides which downed powe lines and ruptured gas mains set off ires many of which burnet most of the morn ing Mayor Donald Barnelt o Rapid City ordered police to ar rest sightseers Saturday How PROTESTANT CHECKOUT A car is halted and checked at one of the barricades set up Saturday by men in paramilitary uni- forms around the Protestant strongholds ia the Northern Irish capital city Five people have died in less than 24 hours following ings and bombings AP by cable from Belfast CARS TRAILERS SCRAMBLED The Rapid Creek flood washed hundreds of cars and mobile homes to strange places Other homes were also swept away some ended up in the middle of the city golf course and other homes were simply missing AP Bomb Warplanes pound North By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON AP American ever he said martial law had not been declared ID the city Immediate estimates de- traction were not available ut officials said it would run nto the millions of dollars Chester B director f the Small Business ration said Saturday he hopes o aid for disaster area within 48 hours Rains had subsided by ay although fog was reported n tho area of the disaster Dayton Canady South kota's slate historian said the loods will bo one of the worst natural disasters in South history He said 112 died n a blizzard that struck the in 1888 Various organizations setting up emergency shelter and aid Some of the homeless were taken to Ellsworth Air Force base near Rapid City Jerry Mashck wire editor of he Rapid City Journal who through damaged area termed the scene We could hear people trapped on houses calling rather lhan ately for Mashek said Commercial radio stations in Rapid City area went off air at 2 Saturday when power failed Four hours later Civil Defense band began carrying emergency Some South Dakota Army national guardsmen in camp in the area were used for rescue and relief ations A missing persons reau was established Harold Wiggins a Rapid City Journal reporter lived in a basement apartment 20 feet from flooded Rapid Creek He said he walked from his ment to a nearby bridge I was standing in the middle of the road when a four-foot bank of wafer came down the Higgins said The wall of water extended for 50 yards on each side of the creek levee Riding the large wave like a surfboard was a blue house trailer On the Television Opinion page Daily record Words and Music 3b Whimsey Books Dear Abby Front Enforcing the law The recent drug raids conducted in have brought the Minnesota Bureau of inal Apprehension BCA to the attention area residents But the narcotics division is only one of the services the organization pro vides state law enforcement agencies stories page It's dairy month warplanes streaked nearly 300 hour battle the Saigon sumption of the bombing April mand three said It reported that 6 Thirty-seven U.S jets also South Vietnamese have been downed over the mites along North Vietnam's diers were killed and 23 North coastline attacking fuel depots wounded j North Vietnam claimed that coal storage areas bridges and jn a delayed report the another jet was shot down four major cities of Haiphong i Command disclosed the loss of day northeast of Hanoi but the Thanh Hoa Vinh and Dong Hoi the U.S Command announced Saturday The Command said an Air Force phantom jet 30 Command declined miles northwest of Hanoi i ing strikes Wednesday The two Air crewmen are missing raising Force Navy and Marine j lo 37 the number of American al carried out i airmen reported lost over more than 300 strikes from the North Vietnam since the re- demilitarized zone northward to Haiphong on Friday American today rocked Dong Hoi with a shower of bombs aimed at supply depots on two sides of the city Other struck North troop positions and staging areas only 23 and 27 miles northwest of the South Vietnamese The raids were the closest to Saigon since the 1968 Tet offensive On the far northern front be- low the DMZ strikes killed 68 North Vietnamese troops on the southern flanks of Hue about eight miles from the city and South Vietnamese ground troops killed 32 more in a Travel learning Travel says the cynic is educational For instance it teaches you to appreciate your home Nowadays a bulging wallet doesn't ways mean the owner is wealthy H may just mean he has a lot of credit cards Most of us spend a time going to bed when we're not sleepy and getting up when we are A character boasts that he knows his capacity for Trouble is I ways get drunk before I reach it Pentagon sources in ton said Friday the United States has raised to nearly 200 the number of committed to the Vietnam war This sents more than half the entire combat assigned force of 390 Two Americans were killed and three wounded in other scattered actions the Com- mand said A patrol clash 27 miles cast of Saigon cost the lives of two GIs from the 3rd Brigade 1st Air Division only ground combat troops left in all of southern South nam A third American was wounded Two U.S personnel were wounded in an rocket attack on the big Da Nang air base It marked the second night in a row that Da Nang has been shelled June is Dairy Month and many residents of the Winona area are celebrating by entering recipes in the annual contests story f pictures plus some dairy recipes for you try page Ib within Beneath the surface of a pond or marsh is all i world few people take time to But it offers a first-hand look at the actuals happenings that have made the word gy so popular Various forms of life the surface are fascinating story and tures page lOb A house An open house is being held this afternoon all a new house on Birch Boulevard j by the carpentry class at the Winona t Institute The house i be sold at public auction Saturday and pictures page lib School days recalled About 350 persons who attended classes all the former District 41 schoolhouse at Minn renewed acquaintances and about the good old days during a at the school which was founded more I 70 years ago story and pictures I 12b j Ready to occupy The ninth modular home is being by Continental Homes 1111 E since the concept was developed last ber Plans are now being made to introduce ai wide range of variations of the original modell and pictures page 16b ritual Actor Robert Redford lets FAMILY readers in on the secret of how he became a fondue fiend Redford acquired his tastel for fondue while he was filming Racer in Switzerland and he finds it just asi appetizing in his home in Utah his wife Lola is making her Swiss fondue sauterne Redford creates his
