Flood of 1898.

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03fc8c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11"><B>   </B><A HREF="id213.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baseball Team"><B><IMG SRC="0420b120.png" border=0 width="11" height="18" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>     </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="18"><B>  </B><A HREF="id211.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ottawa History In Postcards"><B><IMG SRC="04312120.png" border=0 width="18" height="18" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="77" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 30 WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="30" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>As you know the ole river has been flooding for a long time. This photograph is from Morgan William's pre-1900 stereoview and photograph collection of Ottawa. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>See other photo's of</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Forest Park"><B>Forest Park</B></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=94 BGCOLOR="#FF3300" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0403c5e1dvmwlb.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Ottawa High School Class of '57</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ottawa High School Class of 57"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <B>Flood of 1898.</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id213.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baseball Team">Baseball Team</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id207.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ottawa Transfer Storage ">Ottawa Transfer Storage </A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id215.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ottawa Condensing ">Ottawa Condensing </A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id222.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rohrbaugh Theater">Rohrbaugh Theater</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id223.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="West Begins in Kansas">West Begins in Kansas</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id224.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Santa Fe Depot">Santa Fe Depot</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id225.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Santa Fe Railway">Santa Fe Railway</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id226.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Princeton Santa Fe Depot">Princeton Santa Fe Depot</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id253.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fishing In Ottawa">Fishing In Ottawa</A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=386 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Flood of 1898.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <A NAME="flood_of_1898"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><I><B>Ottawa Kansas Flood of 1898</B></I></div> <div> Forest Park, May 16, 1898</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7bb586c0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="364" ALT="Ottawa Kansas Flood 1898" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="602" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div>   <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>From Photographic Postcard in private collection of Morgan Williams             </B></I></FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 98 WIDTH="596"><div> This is a photograph of a flood in Ottawa taken on May 16, 1898 in Forest Park.  There used to be many large meetings at the park and there were some very large outstanding buildings in the park that the floods and time destroyed over the years.  </div> <bR> <div> This photograph is by another outstanding Ottawa photographer by the name of H. B. Paramore.  He describes himself on the back of the mounting as, "<I>The Kodak Fiend</I>”.   </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <I><B>                              </B></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>   .</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Back of Postcard</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="7bc586d0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="365" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="602" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 13 ><NOBR><div> <I><B>From Photographic Postcard in private collection of Morgan Williams      </B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                                     </B></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>   .</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id211.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ottawa History In Postcards"><I><B>Return</B></I></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>