Railroad bridge leading to Carnegie Steel plant at Youngstown, Ohio

Railroad bridge leading to Carnegie Steel plant at Youngstown, Ohio. Ordinarily this bridge was far enough above water to allow passage of large steamers. 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: Ohio, Youngstown
Photo Date: 1913, Late March