Moving Picture News (1911) . The pictures graphically show the havoc that has beendone and the chaos created by the sweeping of twenty-fivefeet of water over an entire city, washing away, with batter-ing-ram force, blocks of houses, factories and trains of rail-way cars, and burying beneath its current more than onehundred lives. The pictures also show the work of rescue, the clearing ofthe debris, and the state constabulary protecting show the conditions of the streets and houses, and thebereaved people. The heroic work of rescue presents a strik-ing picture of self-sacrifice. L
Moving Picture News (1911) . The pictures graphically show the havoc that has beendone and the chaos created by the sweeping of twenty-fivefeet of water over an entire city, washing away, with batter-ing-ram force, blocks of houses, factories and trains of rail-way cars, and burying beneath its current more than onehundred lives. The pictures also show the work of rescue, the clearing ofthe debris, and the state constabulary protecting show the conditions of the streets and houses, and thebereaved people. The heroic work of rescue presents a strik-ing picture of self-sacrifice. Laborers and townspeople bent on finding the bodies of friends or relatives, move about thedestroyed town with ceaseless and indefatigable energy. Many charitable folks have come to the rescue and theirwork in alleviating the suffering is a striking example ofAmercan generosity.
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