Inland Empire Railroad Bridge, 1910
This file appears in: 1910: The Palouse River Floods Colfax
The wooden and steel interurban bridge was completely devastated by the flood waters and debris. As you can see, it appeared as a twisted heap afterwards.
Image courtesy of Whitman County Rural Heritage.
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/whitman/id/1155/rec/2
This file appears in: 1910: The Palouse River Floods Colfax
1910: The Palouse River Floods Colfax
"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…