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post-flood cleanup. Like the other department stores once found in Huntington, Bradshaw-
Diehl closed its doors years ago. The Pullman Plaza Hotel now occupies the block where it
once stood. (Courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)
A truck filled with debris from Huntington's big flood cleanup is captured on film at an
unidentified street corner in the city. The 1937 flood saw Huntington suffer five flood-re-
lated deaths and damages estimated at nearly $18 million. Translated into today's dollars,
that would be more than $250 million. At one point, 28,000 of its 75,000 residents were
homeless, many of them in shelters in Charleston.
