Colfax, March 1, 1910

ID: 3483
This file appears in: 1910: The Palouse River Floods Colfax

A look at downtown Colfax inundated by the Palouse River. The river normally ran right along the left hand side of the courthouse (which is on the right hand side of the photo). This picture was taken as the waters were still rising.

Image courtesy of Whitman County rural Heritage.
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/whitman/id/1446/rec/20

This file appears in: 1910: The Palouse River Floods Colfax

By Robert M. Lambeth
"Hundreds Homeless at Colfax - Driven to the Hillsides by Raging Floods - Houses Swept Away by the Rushing Waters" The front-page headline of the March 3, 1910 edition of the Spokane Daily Chronicle described nearly 500 residents of…