Ship breaking loose destroys railroad bridge. Such scenes were common throughout Indiana and Ohio. As seen in: "Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, and Tornado" by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher. These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S. record for the 20th Century.

Image ID: wea00758, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
Location: Upper Midwest
Photo Date: 1913, Late March
Photographer: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS


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