Download or read book Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood written by Pete Bill and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heralding the coming spring, the weather forecast promised a warm and sunny Easter in 1913. Little did the citizens of Tippecanoe County realize that a furious deluge would cause the Wabash River to swell to an ungovernable and lethal height. Bridges collapsed, whole buildings came unmoored from their foundations and washed away and heroic rescue attempts saved lives and cost others. Using previously untold stories and images never before seen in print, Pete Bill and Arnold Sweet unfold the human drama of communities suddenly cut off from the rest of the world and facing a natural disaster that gripped twenty states.