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Improvised row boats built by National Cash Register Company were of great valuein rescuing marooned residents of Dayton

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Improvised row boats built by National Cash Register Company were of great valuein rescuing marooned residents of Dayton. 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

Ohio, Dayton

Category

Weather Service
Meteorological Monsters
Floods

NOAA Affiliation

NOS

Keywords

Monsters
Floods