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Looking north on Alder (now Kamiaken)

Street from about Paradise during the 1910 flood. Old City

Hall is just left of center with the

Pullman State Bank to its right. Then the band stand was

located at the corner of …

On Paradise St., looking north, with the southwest end of

Campus Hill beyond.

A group waits atop L. H. Waller's

carriage for transportation across the flooded street.

Waller was an early Transfer Agent or

Drayman.

Looking north up State Street from the Palouse River bridge.

Looking south east up the Palouse River, with Pioneer Hill to


the right.

Looking south on south Grand Street. The Palouse Country

Improvement Company was at present day 225

South Grand between LaPlantes and My Office.

Looking south on Grand St. from Main Street with the


Flatiron Building to the far left and the Artesian


Hotel on the right.

Looking south from the intersection of

Main Street and Grand Avenue during the flood. On the far

left is the Flatiron building; to the far

right: The Artesian Hotel.

Looking west across Grand Avenue as

flood waters recede. West Main Street is on the far left

with Kimball's Furniture and Undertaking

the structure slightly off-center. The gothic -style

structure upon Sunnyside Hill is …

Looking east on Main St. from near Paradise Street.

This Jewelry Store was located on the north side of Main

St., just a couple shops east of Alder (now Kamiaken).

Damages to the Star Bottling Works

(left) and a furniture warehouse (right) around 470 East

Main Street. (Present location of the

Laurel Tree Flower Shop). Caskets from the furniture

warehouse went floating down …

Looking west on Main Street, from between Pine and Alder

(now Kamiaken) Streets. Taken at about 320 East Main.

Looking west on Main Street from the corner of Alder (now Kamiaken) and Main with the Burgan Emerson Mercantile on the right.

Looking east on Main St. from near High St.

Looking east on Main St. from near High St.

Looking west up Main St. from somewhere between Pine and

Spring Streets.

Looking south east on Main St. Debris left by the flood in


front of the Pullman Implement Company store. The Pullman


Implement Company was located on Main St. between Pine and


Paradise.

Looking east up the Palouse towards the Alder (Kamiaken) St.

bridge.

The day after the March 1st flood, with waters beginning to


recede. Looking west down the Palouse River towards old


City Hall (left) and the Alton Hotel (right).

Burgan Emerson store at left, City Hall in center. This picture looks south on Alder (now Kamiaken). At the far right is the location where The Palm Cafe stood before being carried downstream by the flood-waters.

Looking west from upstream across the Palouse River at the


Alder (Kamiaken) St. Bridge, which has been pushed


downstream and south. Old City Hall is on the left with the


Palm Cafe (also swept away in the flood) in the center.

Date taken from postcard. Looking west-northwest from

Pioneer Hill just north of Spring Street. The spired

building on the hill in the distance dead center is the high

school (now Gladish Community Center).

Located on the south side of Main St., between Pine and

Paradise Streets.

The largest flag in the world, carried in an Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition parade in Seattle, accompanied by 350 cadets. The flag flew that summer at the exposition atop a flagpole that was 182 feet in length- 170 feet above the ground and 12 feet…