Rain and Floods Batter Area

The Weather THE ANN ARBOR NEWS Final Edition Ann Arbor, Michigan, Wednesday, June 26, 1968 * * * ^ ^F2'ptay'^i^tbl^aess^pbeiments Ten cents A copy Hundred And Thirty-Fourth Year, No. 153 Rain And Floods Batter Area Dams, Tracks Wash Out By William B. Treml , and the churning, angry floodlHogback and Geddes Rds. aftcrlto area crops. Layher said there (News Police neportcn | waters pounded and roared three 11,400 feet of tracks collapsed, already is heavy water damage Ann Artior and Washtenawlf off the highway, ^nto thp. Huron River along withjand soil erosion in Lodi and Scio County, battered and soaked byj six-foot earthen section " ' • ' ^"''t °f Dixboro Rd. Townships. |gg strugglin" h»f'- tn nnrmalcy to- \ morning but thp main „„ ^^d ^ust north of the; we get a few days'of hot sun the Hi;n holders,^ > swelling the i; .;; but the backed-up riverj The River Raisin at Milan was aline police and volunteer^ the embankments south of-bridge on Wabash St. might be . . men feared the night-long 'the dam and along a site where | endangered. The basement of day deluge. The University; n y have • ••n located. ! wn'er'e1 the^olice Department i^ Meteorology ^ Laboratory re-,m edth<- :e waters slashed a gaping | housed was reported flooded at 1 Floods Kill Two Youths 'lie city's water treat-through Dixboro R . By daw ?est edge of, (More local flood Stories I train traffic was ha ted. id pictures On Page 25) I The force of the water was so;
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William B. Treml
Weather
University Meteorology Laboratory
Penn-Central Railroad Co.
June 1968 Flood
Floods
Environment
Board of Public Works
Bell Telephone
Ann Arbor Police Department
Ann Arbor Fire Department
American Red Cross
Has Photo
Old News
Ann Arbor News
Randy Williams
J. K. Grandy
Guy C. Larcom Jr.
Douglas J. Harvey
Arthur L. Stauch
Plymouth Rd
Loch Alpine dam
Huron River Dr
Dixboro Rd
Brookside Apartments
1513 Jones Dr