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Ship breaking loose destroys railroad bridge

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Description

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.

Photographer

Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas

Display Date

1913, Late March

Location

Upper Midwest

Collection

Weather Service

Meteorological Monsters

Floods

NOAA Affiliation

NOS

Keywords

Monsters

Floods