The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 (Images of America: Ohio)

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Beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, torrential rains around the Midwest dropped a record three months of rainfall in four days. Floodwaters funneled down Ohio’s Miami Valley into the guts of the colourful industrial city of Dayton. Levees burst, houses were swept away, and downtown used to be gutted by fires blazing from broken gas mains. On the end of Easter week, nearly 100 Daytonians had perished, and tens of thousands more were left homeless and destitute―a tragedy that made banner headlines in newspapers nationwide. Out of Dayton’s ashes and mud rose fierce public get to the bottom of never again to suffer such destruction. The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 reproduces some 200 astounding photographs from the collections of the Dayton Metro Library and the Miami Conservancy District and the archives of the National Cash Register Company at Dayton History. They portray the terrifying flood, monumental destruction, heroic rescues, and compassionate leadership that occurred right through the disaster and its immediate aftermath, in addition to the pioneering flood-regulate engineering that has kept Dayton protected ever since.

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