Extensive Damage

ID: 491 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: 1936 Flood
Extensive Damage

Elm Street often incurred a large amount of damage in Waco’s frequent floods. East Waco residents described seeing the water on Elm Street nearly submerging street lights and reaching the second stories of houses. 

This file appears in: 1936 Flood

By Amanda Sawyer
Prior to local and federal efforts in the mid-twentieth century to control rivers through the construction of dams, the Brazos River routinely overflowed its banks. In 1913, the most violent flood to date overwhelmed East Waco, taking two lives and…