Philip+Schwarting

Added September 24, 2015

Philip Schwarting: I was at band concert Dakota Days. German band playing. Told to leave. Got over 28th Street bridge to Baken Park. Heard that dam had broken. I was student at Central High School. I heard them say "We need boats at Baken Park," then "What do we do with all these people at Baken Park? The morgue is full." "Tie them down, we'll get them in morning."

My mother worked with Red Cross at the old site, now the Dahl Fine Arts Center, Quincy and 7th, old city auditorium. I helped temp. housing through Emmanuel Episcopal Church.

I worked with neighborhood Youth Corps for 2-3 hours cleaning out flood houses.

I remember Meade St. flood 1-2 weeks later.

Lost 1 dog in flood.