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Deluge at Shawneetown claim list and relief efforts
Cypress Junction reports 12 bodies recovered by 10 a.m. with many missing and feared dead after the levee breach. Rescue crews face hostility from residents as cold, hunger, and dispersal hinder relief. John Reinholdt family among the known dead. Sheriff Galloway mourns lost kin. relief trains, boats, and a wagon train mobilize to move supplies four miles to Shawneetown amid rising water and a widening levee gap.
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Cypress Junction
Shawneetowwn
Shawneetown
Reinholdt
Lucy
Crevasee
Noah Welsh
Mr. Welsh
Lanks
Henry Sanks
Sanka
Sheriff Galloway
C . Galloway
Dora
Mary
Trenay
Washington C. Callicott
Washington
Hally
C. R. Galloway
Dora Galloway
Mary Galloway
Charles Clayton
Mary McAllister
Alien McAllister
Mary Eastwood
Robert Spradley
Florence Evans
Henry King