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

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The volume is titled The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado. The front matter lists 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 text names John A. Bell, a telephone operator driven to the roof of a building, who cut in on one of the wires for two days and nights in the driving rain.

The text describes what was seen in Dayton: block after block in both the residential and business sections of the city, where street lines virtually were eliminated by upheaved and overturned houses. The text calls the storm that swept over Louisville, Kentucky, in the evening of March 27, 1890, one of the most destructive storms of recent years, killing 113 persons, injuring 200, and destroying property to the amount of $2,500,000.