Man walking along telephone cables after escaping from house which was washed away

Man walking along telephone cables after escaping from house which was washed away. Houses in the center have been washed from foundations and are floating away. 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.

Photo Category: Monsters - Floods
Photo Location: Upper Midwest
Photo Date: 1913, Late March