The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado

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CHAPTER I The Greatest Cataclysm in American History

CHAPTER II The Death-Bearing flood at Dayton

CHAPTER III Dayton's Menace of Fire And Famine

CHAPTER IV Dayton in the Throes of Distress

CHAPTER V The Recuperation of Dayton

CHAPTER VI Dayton: "The City of a Thousand Factories"

CHAPTER VII The Devastation of Columbus

CHAPTER VIII Columbus: the Beautiful Capital of Ohio

CHAPTER IX Cincinnati: A New Center of Peril

CHAPTER X The Flood in Western Ohio

CHAPTER XI The Flood in Northern Ohio

CHAPTER XII The Flood in Eastern Ohio

CHAPTER XIII The Flood in Eastern Indiana

CHAPTER XIV The Desolation of Indianapolis and the Valley of the White River

CHAPTER XV The Roaring Torrent of the Wabash

CHAPTER XVI The Plight of Peru: A Stricken City

CHAPTER XVII The Death-Dealing Tornado at Omaha

CHAPTER XVIII Struggles of Stricken Omaha

CHAPTER XIX Omaha: "The Gate City of the West"

CHAPTER XX Other Damage From the Nebraska Tornado

CHAPTER XXI The Tornado in Iowa and Illinois

CHAPTER XXII The Tornado in Kansas and Arkansas

CHAPTER XXIII The Tornado in Indiana

CHAPTER XXIV The Tornado in Pennsylvania

CHAPTER XXV The Freak Tornado in Alabama

CHAPTER XXVI The Flood in New York

CHAPTER XXVII The Flood in Pennsylvania

CHAPTER XXVIII The Flood in the Ohio Valley

CHAPTER XXIX The Flood in the Mississippi Valley

CHAPTER XXX Damage To Transportation, Mail and Telegraph Facilities

CHAPTER XXXI The Work of Relief

CHAPTER XXXII Previous Great Floods and Tornadoes

CHAPTER XXXIII Lessons of the Cataclysm and Precautionary Measures

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The True Story of

Our National Calamity

Of Flood, Fire and Tornado

"The appalling loss of life, the terrible suffering of the homeless, the struggles for safety, and the noble heroism of those who risked life to save loved ones; the unprecedented loss of property, resulting in the laying waste of flourishing cities and towns

How the Whole Nation Joined

in the Work of Relief

By LOGAN MARSHALL

Author of

"The Sinking of the Titanic," "The Universal

Handbook," "Life of Theodore Roosevelt,"

"The Story of Polar Conquest,"

"Marshall's Handy Manual," Etc.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH

AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPHS


Copyright 1913, by

L. T. MYERS


The material in this work is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States. All persons are warned against making any use of it without permission.


Prayer by Bishop David H. Greer:
O Merciful God and Heavenly Father, who hast taught us in Thy holy word that Thou dost not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men, give ear to the prayers which we humbly offer to Thee in behalf of our brethren who are suffering from the great water floods.
Cause them in their sorrow to experience the comfort of Thy presence, and in their bewilderment the guidance of Thy wisdom. Stir up, we beseech Thee, the wills of Thy people to minister with generous aid to their present needs, and so overrule in Thy providence this great and sore calamity that we may be brought nearer to Thee and be knit more closely one to another in sympathy and love.
All which we humbly ask, through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.



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