Lost in the Wilds of Lake Surprise
Amarillo officials and reporters recount a detour across the Texas Panhandle to Liberal that turned into a flooded misadventure. Beeker Creek and Beaver Creek rose, stranding a Rock Island wheat train crew and Amarillo entourage from Guymon to Stratford as rain battered the plains.
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Lake Surprise
North Panhandle Plains
Oklahoma
Charley Lindbergh
A. S. Stinnett
Amarillo
Jesse L. Adams
Rock Island Railroad
Amlo
Panhandle
Coldwater Creek
Globe
Stinnett
Mr. Stinnett
Methuselah
Texhoma
Liberal
Kansas
Rock Island
Byrd
Michigan
Beaver Creek
Guymon
Denver
Stratford
Guyman
Lake Surprise bogs Amarillo entourage in Canada trek
The Amarillo entourage encounters Lake Surprise on the A P highway near Texhoma while Wales and Baldwin tour Canada for the diamond jubilee. A ferry of old cars and newer vehicles get stuck in rain soaked prairie bogs as two hundred cars attempt to pass and a road crew aids recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texhoma
England
Canada
Dominion
Quebec
Prince of Wreles
Perodean
Stanley Baldwin
Wales
United States
Lake Surprise
Amarillo
Texas High
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C. W. Howard
Wales and
Baldwin
Bendent
The
Hub
Hue
Polk Street
O'Coats
Visco
News-Globe
Goodyear
Adkisson & Gunn
Borger
Main St
Tyler
Sixteenth and van Buren Streets