7. - Western suburbs looking north [after the the tornado, Canton]
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Resumo
View looking over scene of devastation. Letterpress continues: 'Picture to yourself a busy hive of myriads of human beings herded together in closely-packed dwellings, bartering, bickering and blustering and going through the daily routine oof everyday life, in Canton, and a canal crowded with boats so that it is almost impassable, - with scarcely a moment's warning, with no open fields within miles of them, and densely-built streets not more than 10 feet wide with hustling jostling crowds in them, and then imagine the whole scene reduced to a heap of ruins by one fell blow, and you have the reality of what occured on the scene depicted above. Numberless marvelous escapes were doubtless made, but if hundreds managed to escape, thousand must have perished. The canal was filled with debris and the boats swamped, their inmates being crushed to death or drowned, and the whole waterway was filled up as though it had never existed.'. Photographer: Unknown.
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