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Ship breaking loose destroys railroad bridge. Such scenes were commonthroughout Indiana and Ohio. 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)