Postcards of the Tornadoes and Floods of March 1913 - Unknown Views (1)

More postcards from my collection...

Driftwood against Canal Bridge

This unused postcard has no other printed text but does have a hand-written note saying "1913 Flood in Ohio"

Wash [Washington?] Street Bridge 1 hour before it collapsed

This unused postcard has no other printed text. Unfortunately I cannot identify where this photograph was taken but it does show the phenomenon known as backwater. This is where the water upstream of the bridge is higher than the downstream side. This greatly increases scouring of the riverbed on the downstream side of the bridge's piers.

Ohio Indiana Floods
Washing away houses and everything else
Refugees leaving the district carrying the children and their dead

This postcard was taken from an album at some time and the back is no longer readable, but the front has the printed text...

Copyright 1913 by Max Stein, Chicago

Washed-out Rail Tracks

This postcard was taken from an album at some time and the back is no longer readable, but the front has the printed text...

Copyright 1913 by Max Stein, Chicago

Wrecked rail cars

This unused postcard has an AZO stamp box that dates it to between 1904 and 1918. On the back it has the types text...

South Main Line B & O [Baltimore and Ohio] R. R. at Wainwright Branch Switch
Flood, March 26th & 27th, 1913

Unfortunately, I don't know which town this branch switch was in.

Public Road

This unused postcard has just the text "D. Meyers" who presumably was the photographer.

Barnyard

This unused postcard has the printed text...

D. Meyers - who presumably was the photographer
March 23rd, 1913

Unknown Photo - 24th March, 1913

This unused postcard has no printed text, but has an AZO stamp box that dates it from between 1904 and 1913. A hand-written note on the back is interesting...

Thirty Street looking west from New Jersey, later water rose up into the houses.
Flood of March 24th, 1913

Unknown Photo - 1st April 1913

This unused postcard has no other printed text, a hand-written note on the back is interesting...

This gives you a faint idea of the place the water has gone over. The two storey brick building in the rear is the school house. A little to the south of the large tree you can see a corner of the station. The tains stopped running, we had had no mail in or out for over a week. Where the date is on the card is the crossing of two streets. The house above one of the boys heads is the home of mothers' cousin. This picture was made a day or two before it reached the highest water mark. It certainly did come fast, rose as much as five feet in 24 hours. It also fell fast, but people have lots of mud to clean up.

One of the animal victims of the 1913 floods

This unused postcard has no otehr printed text but does have an AZO stamp box that dates it to between 1904 and 1918..

Unknown Photo

This unused postcard has no printed text, but is stamped "Apple Street" on the back. There is no other indication of when or where this photograph was taken.

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