Last week, I dipped into The Oregonian/OregonLive’s formidable archives to refresh my knowledge of the deadliest natural disaster in recorded Oregon history: the Heppner flood of 1903.
The devastating flash floods in the Texas Hill Country seem to have many parallels to the disaster that befell the parched Oregon town early last century.
The Oregonian’s archives are available online through a partnership with NewsBank at oregonlive.com/oregonianarchives. Browsing is free but there is a nominal fee for downloading articles. Holders of a Multnomah County Library card can access and download The Oregonian and The Oregon Journal archives for free at multcolib.org…