And Through The Black Night of Terror: The 1913 Flood in the Northern Miami Valley

And Through the Black Night of Terror: The 1913 Flood in the Northern Miami Valley

Written by: Scott D. Trostel
Softbound, 188 Pages

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In this dramatic volume discover the stories of destruction and death across a five-county region during the Great Flood of 1913.  Told are the stories of the rescues, tragic deaths, and the massive destruction across an entire region.  Four men received the Carnegie medal of Heroism as a result of their efforts to aid in the rescue of flood victims, one of those men also having given his life.  Entire families drowned, children were left without parents and parents left without children as the torrents raged throughout the night.

Read about a humanitarian effort to restore some sense of normalcy without government intervention.  Creeks overflowed into rivers and rivers burst through levees, sweeping bridges away like toothpicks, lifting homes off their foundations, smashing them against bridge piers and reigning death to almost everyone caught on the torrents.