Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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Description: | Flooded Park Street viaduct, with a railroad train on tracks above the viaduct. There is a car in the water under the viaduct, and a man is standing on the... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Kickapoo & Northern Railway locomotive and cars seen here after being derailed due to flooding on the Kickapoo River. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Four men inspecting the washout of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie tracks caused by a flood at Medina Junction. The view is looking west from th... |
Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the bleacher exploded as the nigh... |
Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Men and women are standing near the damaged railroad tracks. Sixteen men were killed by t... |
Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble... |
Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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Description: | The remains of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arlington in Columbia Cou... |
Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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Description: | The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling... |
Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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Description: | Men working on relief tractors on a flatbed railroad car for delivery to "tri-state tornado" victims. |
Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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Description: | Men load relief tractors onto an International Harvester sales and service truck for delivery to victims of the "tri-state tornado." They appear to be movi... |
Date: | 06 1899 |
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Description: | Elevated view of New Richmond after the tornado hit on June 12, 1899. Many people are gathered around the railroad tracks and a few others are seen among t... |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | Elevated view toward the horizon over a bridge on a river of the widespread destruction left in the wake of a tornado. Destroyed houses litter the scene an... |
Date: | 07 12 1917 |
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Description: | Crowd at a train station in Vyatka, Russia. Smoke in the background is coming from a burning railway ice-house. |
Date: | 03 09 1911 |
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Description: | Man standing in front of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad boxcar sitting on railroad tracks. The sides of the car are splintered, destroyed by an explos... |
Date: | 08 06 1935 |
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Description: | Caption at bottom reads: "Destruction of H&N.E. RY Yards." Women in white dresses walk among the puddles along the flood-damaged tracks and trains of the H... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Aftermath of a flood. Debris of railroad ties, tracks, and cars are scattered beneath a bridge. |
Date: | |
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Description: | View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black... |
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