Walter Gerth

January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy

Heritage Center2020-12-28T20:55:25-08:00January 14th, 2017|Categories: Community Memories, History Tidbits, People, Uncategorized|Tags: 1920s, 1942, 1943, Archie A. Cook, Archie Cook, bands, Belle Passi cemetery, cables, Capital Journal, Carmelita Grooms, Charles C. Hansen, chief highway engineer, circuit, David Eyre, debris, dynamite, Edgewater St., Edwin Cook, engineers, Eva Jean Green, flood of 1890, Flooding, Governor Charles A. Sprague, Helen Frentz, Highway 22, Jack, Jack Bell and His Melody Pirates, Jimmy, Joseph G. Mauer, Joseph J. Lambrecht, Kansas, La Center, Laura Wilt, life-belts, Marion-Polk county bridge, Mary Kammer, Mellow Moon, Mellow Moon Dance Hall, Mellow Moon Pavilion, Mellow Moon Skating Rink, Michael Mauer, Mills and Albright, moonshine, New Year's Eve, ODOT, orchestra, Oregon, Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon Pulp & Paper, Oregon Statesman, R.H. Baldock, river gauge, river level, Russian, Salem Electric, section foreman helper, Shaw, St. Mary Catholic cemetery, state highway crew, Stayton, Topeka, truck driver, Walter Gerth, Washington, West Salem, Westside Station Restaurant and Nightclub, Willamette River, Woodburn|