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Man walking along telephone cables after escaping from house which was washedaway. Houses in the center have been washed from foundations and are floatingaway. As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S. record for the 20th Century. (Image credit: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas)