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DALLAS FLOOD (MURPHY)
PEOPLE STANDING ON A BANK AT WATER'S EDGE
Police and firemen also urged other occupants of
lowland areas in Dallas to get out while thegettin's good.
half a mile south: of Tracy's
courts at Stuart Simpson road firemen embark
to pick up marooned residents of that area.
WOMEN WALK TO BOA!
It's too deep for wading....boat or helicopter is
the only means out. Altogether about 100 familieE
had to be taken out of this area of Dallas....TWO WOMEN GET OUT
OF BOAT
The shore is crowded with displaced horesteaders
who wonder just how high the water's going to go.FIREMEN EMPTIES
BOOT
boots aren't much help in water this deep....
TWO WOMEN SMILE
.....'ome of the rescued are stillable to smile
and take tneir misfortune philospp ically....
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Dallas flood (Murphy)], script, April 26, 1957; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc790064/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.