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Kelly Steskal and borther Stezie Steskal, of Carter Lake, with Kelly holding rooster. On back of photo: File--Carter Lake
Stezie Steskal
Rooster complaint

Stezie Steskal, Carter Lake, in yard with rooster

All's Quiet And The Levees Hold but the raging Missouri has driven some machinery to high ground. Ralph Den of Bellevue looks over some stranded equipment as he goes by boat to a Northern Natural Gas Company station south of Iowa School for the Deaf.

Last Missouri River Devastation in Southwest Iowa is at Hamburg. Water rushed onto the town from a break in the Plum Creek levee 15 miles to the north. Here residents keep just ahead of the creeping water as they place last-minute bulwarks against…

Building Railroad Roadbed . . . is this train and crew on the Illinois Central track near Pigeon Creek. Ballast is in end car. Center cars in worktrain are just "couplings" to keep heavy locomotive from flood-weakened roadbed.

City officials consulting with Red Cross workers on April 20, 1952

Don Palmquist on the phone discussing sandbagging efforts on April 18, 1952

City officials checking the Missouri River water depth on April 17, 1952

City officials at the Red Cross Communicaitons Center on April 17, 1952

Sand truck convoy on the levee in Council Bluffs, April 14, 1952

Start To Raise Levees . . . on North Eighth street at Big Lake. The large machines must plow through gummy mud to dump their loads. This picture was taken from the bluff east of the levee. In the distance, water is pushing against the level from the…

Only The Top . . . of the entrace to the school gym is visible as the Modale school begins to fill with water.

Some 10,000 Empty Sandbags . . . are stored at city hall. Looking over bags are Patrolman C.J. Turpen and Maurice Katelman. A total of 210,000 bags will be on hand for emergency use.

An overturned truck on the levee is a casualty of the Missouri River flood prevention efforts

City officials discussing flood efforts

The North Levee in Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952

Willard White and Orville Athen begin swabbing out their implement store at Hamburg.

Fill Earth Bags . . . Employees of the City Ice Company fill earth bags on Gibraltar for possible flood protection around the plant at Tenth Avenue and Twelfth Street.

No Visible Support . . . is provided where 10 feet of Illinois Central roadbed is missing beneath this motor car at edge of a tretle near Pigeon Creek. Frank Servia, Omaha, is on trestle.

Girl Scouts doing laundry April 23, 1952
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