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City leaders shouldering shovels and hoes to help clean up the city. Little mudon the clothes might indicate a posed picture for publicity purposes.As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, and Tornadoby 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)