Cincinnati Under Water The 1937 Flood by Steven J. Rolfes Index A Armleder, Otto 177 A&P Grocers 125, 134 Armstrong, Leon 48 Abbe Observatory 40, 96, 173 Army Corps of Engineers 37, 59, 223, Abbe, Cleveland 96 225 Addyston 4, 85, 103, 130, 142, 189, 201, Art Deco 34, 58, 101, 102, 138, 212 203 Associated Charities 23, 27, 111 Aequi 135 Associated Press 108 Aeronautical Corporation 95 Atkins, Rev. Henry Pearce 205 Alexander, Edward F. 48, 135 Atlas Rubber Products Co. 87 Allenwood, Pa. 195 Ault Park 138 Alms Hotel 106, 208, 209, 211, 212 Aurora bridge 32 Alms Park 138 automobiles 32, 45, 52, 78, 97, 103, 105, American Airlines 53 129, 142, 168, 185, 186, 188, American Civil War 18, 20, 128, 137 196 American Legion 53, 65, 168, 194, 218, Avondale 28, 197 224 American Products Co. 166 B Ames, John H. 48, 98, 141 B&O Railroad roundhouse 82, 158 Amrein, John 179 Bailey, Miriam 217 Anderson Township 72 Baldwin, Mollie 25 Anderson, Richard Cligh 72 ban on theaters 141 Angel, George 70 Banker, Charley 16 Anna Louise Inn 106 Barenscheer, Leo 157 Anstead, Harry 87 Barlace, William 127 Ante, Louis 199 baseball park 20 Archdiocese of Cincinnati 176 Batavia, Ohio 93 Armleder Building 177 battle of Mons Algidus 135 232 Cincinnati Under Water: The 1937 Flood Bauer, Nicholas 194 Bush, Sheldon 153 Baumberger, George 48 Butler, Smedley 213 Baumer, John 166 Beckman, Clem 83 C Beechmont 95 C&O bridge 202 Bell, Samuel W. 140 C&O Railroad 122, 123, 149 Bellevue, Ky. 99, 117, 152, 187 C&O shuttle 146 Benigni family 91 Cain, C. W. 218 Berasenbruegge, Joseph 124 Cairo, Ill. 3, 60, 61, 138 Berner, William 23, 28 Caldwell, A. B. 168 family of 28 California, Ohio 55, 56, 70, 89, 91, 93, Besse and Borgmann Funeral Home 164 97, 129, 148, 201, 205 Big Miami Conservation Project 218 Camp Seldom Seen 59 Black Sunday 105, 121, 131, 134, 171, Campbell Co., Ky. 67, 122, 149, 199 180, 184, 202, 211, 227 Campbell, T. C. 28 fire 155–172 Carpenter, Lewis 148 water 133–153 Carrollton, Ky. 125, 178 Black, John 206 Carthage Fair 32 Blackwell, H. C. 142 Castelli, Peter 169 Blinn, Eloise 88 Castellini, J. J. 114 Blue Ash Airport Cat Tail Creek 46 Watson Field 71 Catholic Youth Organization 77, 153 Blue Ash, Ohio 71, 197 Catholics 8, 201, 205 Bluefield, W.Va. 50 Central bridge 115 Bockley, Charles 102 Central Disaster Committee 48, 135, 137, Boeh, Valentine 32 144, 175, 197, 215, 224 Boles, Irvin 153 Chandler, “Happy” 122 Bone, Oscar 94 Chase School 147, 199 Bool’s Drug Store 194 Chase, Salmon P. 13 Booth Memorial Hospital Cheviot Fire Department 194 (Covington) 100, 151 Cheviot, Ohio 194 Bottoms 23, 33, 49, 50, 51, 52, 61, 63, 64, Chevrolet Assembly Plant 61 65, 81, 87, 88, 107, 113, 114, Chicago Daily News 77 115, 116, 145, 183, 202, 203, Chicago, Ill. 19, 27, 108, 123, 137, 145, 217, 218, 226 163, 175, 178 Bowen, John 89 Children’s Home 74 Boy Scouts 63, 76, 143, 224, 225 Children’s Hospital 113 Brighton 79, 80, 207 cholera 14 Brighton Corner 67 cholera epidemic 17, 18 Bromley, Ky. 151 Christ Church Cathedral 14 Brooklyn Bridge 19 Christ Hospital 176 Brown, D. S. 191 Cilly, Dr. 28 Brown, Ella Layne 45, 46, 50, 72, 124, Cincinnati Airport 47, 53, 62, 70, 72, 92, 176 95, 96, 148, 205 Brown, Marshall 28 Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Bryan, William Jennings 138 Co. 63 Bulkley, Robert 222 Cincinnati Automobile Club 78, 94 Bunker, Joseph 27 Cincinnati Bell 123 Burdick, W. H. 22 Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 214 Burger Brewing Co. 193 Cincinnati Club 134 Burwinkel, Robert 146 Cincinnati Coffin Co. 116 Busch Sausage Co. 108 Index 233 Cincinnati Fire Department 53, 82, 156, Columbia 11 162, 166, 167 Columbia Broadcasting System 212 Co. 1 27, 64 Columbia school 192 Co. 14 64 Columbus, Ohio 47, 77, 166 Co. 17 168 Committee on Water Flow 223 Co. 2 166 Conelly, Ludwig S. 78, 137 Co. 24 167 Coney Island 34, 55, 56, 57, 58, 96 Co. 27 124 Connell, Mary 208 Co. 29 102, 130 Coolidge, Calvin 137 Co. 6 127 Cooper, Fletcher 32 Co. 9 166 Corryville 46, 195 fireboats 27, 64, 75, 82, 203 Coughlin, Rev. 111 Cincinnati Gas and Electric 51, 61, 83, Coup’s Circus 22 109, 124, 142, 177, 178, 191, Covington Tobacco Warehouse 185 206 Covington, Ky. 4, 21, 29, 51, 67, 73, 98, Cincinnati General Hospital 43, 119, 175, 99, 100, 122, 130, 149, 150, 184, 189, 192, 207 151, 185, 187 Cincinnati Iron Fence Co. 163 Cox, George Barnsdale “Boss” 28, 56, Cincinnati Observatory 96 72, 135, 137 Cincinnati Oil Works 183, 195 Craddock, Jack 205 Cincinnati Police 63, 69, 73 Cricket Club 58 District 5 159, 165 Crosley Field 189 Cincinnati Red Stockings 58 Crosley Radio Corp. 82, 158, 159, 160, Cincinnati Southern Railroad 22 165, 168 Cincinnati Street Railway Co. 53, 217 Refrigerator and Storage Plant 163 Cincinnati Transit Co. 78 Crosley, Lewis M. 168 Cincinnati Water Works 17 Crosley, Powell, Jr. 169 Cincinnati Workhouse 164 “Cross of Gold” speech 138 Cincinnati Zoo 198 Cuba 40 Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg, and Aurora Cumminsville 4, 11, 53, 65, 66, 67, 75, bridge 32 81, 88, 100, 107, 109, 117, 131, Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinetius 135 145, 146, 150, 158, 162, 163, Citadel 176 167, 169, 170, 182, 183, 199, City Hall 50, 51, 73, 121, 123, 131, 140, 202, 211, 212, 215, 220 142, 146, 148, 157, 177, 187, fire map 161 189, 197, 201, 208, 209 Police Station 26 Central Station 63 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) 38, D 84, 107 Dalton Street Post Office 102 Clark, Nellie 25 Daly, John 25 Clark-Butler Shoe Co. 131 Dan Cohen Shoe Co. 204 Cleveland, Ohio 77, 96, 137, 198 Daniel Webster 13 Cleves, Ohio 32, 46, 48, 76, 103, 189, Davey, Martin L. 137 190, 201, 203, 218 Dayton, Ky. 74, 100, 122, 129, 150, 186 Clifton 40, 96, 225 Dayton, Ohio 29, 31, 33, 145, 166, 177, Clifton Hills 224 178 Coddington, Charles 157 Deer Park 153 Cohen, Dan 204 Delhi 93, 178 College Hill 127 Detroit, Mich. 164, 198 school 192 Devereaux, W. C. 29, 40, 41, 44, 47, 49, Collins, Rev. 118 51, 59, 60, 62, 75, 96, 105, 108, Colored Newsboys’ Club 95 234 Cincinnati Under Water: The 1937 Flood 109, 140, 173, 190, 220, 221, Chicago in 1871 145 225 fire of 1910 169 Devore, Frank 69 shoe district fire 171 Dillon, Rev. John 218 Fire Prevention Bureau 51 Dixie Terminal 205 First Baptist Church (Newport) 151 Doereck, Hubert 113 First Regiment Militia 20 Dolle, Martha 102, 103 Flamm, William 97 Dooley, William P. 53, 65 Flasher, Harry T. 47 Drake, Dr. Daniel 14 Fletcher, Mrs. 113 Dunham, Harvey 52 Flood Control Act 223 Dunham, Howard 7, 8 of 1970 226 Dykstra, Clarence Addison 61, 108, 125, flood of 1815 13 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 144, flood of 1832 10, 12, 13, 15, 23, 35 164, 174, 190, 194, 197, 200, flood of 1847 10, 15, 18, 35 201, 204, 206, 207, 214, 220, flood of 1852 35 224, 225 flood of 1883 19, 23, 32, 35, 163 flood of 1884 10, 23, 26, 32, 35, 49, 56, E 75, 108, 109, 119, 174, 216, 228 East End 4, 7, 23, 26, 43, 49, 50, 51, 53, flood of 1897 35 55, 69, 72, 79, 81, 88, 92, 93, flood of 1898 35 94, 95, 100, 120, 121, 127, 147, flood of 1907 29, 30, 31, 35 148, 170, 173, 177, 184, 202, flood of 1913 10, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 205, 217, 220, 221 71, 101, 108, 145, 166, 177 Eden Park 63, 138 first death 32 Eighth Street Viaduct 226 flood of 1918 35 Elbe, Charles 118 flood of 1933 35, 47, 94 Elks 176, 218 flood of 1937 10, 228 Elliott, D. O. 59 after 222, 223 Elmwood 46, 201 Clarence Addison Dykstra 137 77, 96 first death 21 Engle, Peter 195 first local victim 46 English, Lee 124 flood of 1945 228 Erbacher, Al 87 flood of 1959 226 Erlanger, Ky. 149 flood of 1962 228 Ernest, Edward 184 flood of 1964 10, 228 Ethiopia 38 flood of 1997 10, 228 Evanston 179 Flood Relief Committee 45 floods F Kentucky 45 Fabing, Dr. Howard D. 165 Pittsburgh 45 Farrell, Ruth 61 Puerto Rico 45 Fashion Frocks 163 Tennessee 45 Federal Communications Commission Ford Motor Co. 108 (FCC) 178 Fort Thomas, Ky. 46, 199 Feldman Coal Co. 185 Fort Washington 114 Feldmann, Joseph 65 Forty-Eighters 18 Felthaus Grocery 117 Foster, Stephen 114 Fernbank 130 Fourth Street bridge 73 Fernbank Dam 124 Fox Paper Co. 194 Fifty-third Evacuation Hospital Army Franco, Francisco 38 Reserve 44 Frank, Walter 113 fire 22 Frankfort, Ky. 121 Index 235 Fuller, Robert 113 Hartoin, Adam 184 Harvey, Jerome 89 G Haverty 32 Gaiety Night Club 113 Hawkins, Lytle 26 Garrison, Joseph 157 Hays, Joseph 48 Gehrum, Joseph 123 Heine, Barbara 41 General Motors 175 Heine, Frank 41 General Protestant Orphanage 181 Herper, William 124 Genius of Waters 59 Hibbs, Albert S. 51, 109, 175 Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad 61, Hickenlooper, Andrew 26, 39 72 Highland House 19, 20, 24 Germans 18, 38 Hilsinger 167 Germany, Ohio 18 Hirsch, Christian 103 Gibbons, Floyd 212 Hoehler, Fred 144 Gibson, Walter 89 Hoffmann, Dr. Jacob 76, 198 Gilbert, Cass 125 Holton, Eber 92 Gilbert, I. A. 144 Hooven, Ohio 189 Gillett, L.