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Man walking along telephone cables after escaping from house which was washedaway

Description

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.

Photographer

Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas

Display Date

1913, Late March

Location

Upper Midwest

Category

Weather Service
Meteorological Monsters
Floods

NOAA Affiliation

NOS

Keywords

Monsters
Floods