Night of Flood Terror In Rapid City Hills
Rapid City reporter describes the sudden flash flood in the Black Hills that swept Rimrock Highway and Rapid Creek, destroying Canyon Lake and the surrounding area. He recalls car convoys halted by rising water, bridges out, homes obliterated, and a landscape turned to wreckage as dawn reveals the devastation.
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Rapid City
S.D
Black Hills
Journal
Don Polovich
Rimrock Highway
Hisega
Rapid Creek
Cleghorn Springs
Owen Emmet
Flood Stricken Area Declared Disaster by Nixon
President Nixon declared South Dakota a disaster area after floods and fires devastated Rapid City region. Emergency federal aid will aid recovery as 105 known dead and more than 500 missing are reported, with Gov Kniep and Sen McGovern urging swift action.
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Washington
Nixon
South Dakota
White Houses
Ronald L. Ziegler
Rapid City
Ziegler
South
Richard F. Kniep
White House
John D. Ehrlichman
George McGovern
Office
Emey
Guardsmen among missing in Rapid City flood losses
In Rapid City South Dakota more than 600 people were reported missing or dead after a flood. Two National Guardsmen and three Rapid City firemen were among the missing. Names were not released. One guardsman died while attempting to rescue a girl. The others were part of a rescue effort from a tree when the flood swept them away. About 1 800 guardsmen had been mobilized for search and rescue. Firemen disappeared while battling a house fire caused by a gas line rupture.
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Rapid City
S.D
South Dakota National Guardsmen
Black ‘Hills
Duane L. Corning
State Adjutant General
Freak rainfall blamed on rare weather event in Rapid City
The Associated Press reports that Rapid City South Dakota endured torrential rain causing floods and fires. National Weather Service experts note the event is exceptionally uncommon, possibly once in a century, with rainfall totals varying from 2.34 inches at the airport to seven inches near Nemo.
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Rapid City
S.D
National Weather Service
Elroy Balke
Weather Services
Kansas City
Balke
Pactola Dam
City
Nemo
Bulke
Black Hills
Cramer
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Rapid City Journal
Canyon Lake Park
Canyon Lake
Ation
OEP
Denver
KODAK
Norent
THE
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Calhoun Drug Store
Monthieu Ave
Sears
Isave
Sears and
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Sears, Roebuck and CO
S. Wrenn St
High Point, N.C
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