One of the Victims of the Great Trinity Flood: The T & P Railroad Trestle — 1908
by Paula Bosse
“T. P. Trestle Before Break, Dallas, Tex.” (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Above and below, photos of the Texas & Pacific railroad trestle spanning the Trinity River, destroyed during the great flood of May, 1908. Five people died in the flooding — in which the Trinity crested at an incredible 52.6 feet — and damage to property was unbelievable. The railroad trestle was just one of numerous victims of the worst flood Dallas has ever known.
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Photo from the article “After the Deluge: The Impact of the Trinity River Flood of 1908” by Jackie McElhaney (Legacies, Fall, 1999), which you can read here.
Postcard from Flickr, here.
The May 25, 1908 Trinity River flood on Wikipedia, here.
Click pictures for larger images.
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
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