Excerpt from Horrors of the Modern Deluge: Descriptive and Illustrated Review of the Great Floods of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
The history of the world records but one Deluge.
The history of the world, as it advances, will record that, in the time between January 21 st and April 1st, 1882, an unconquerable deluge swept over the Western Continent, along the line of the Mississippi River, carrying famine, destruction and death throughout a country over 75,000 square miles in extent.
It will record the fact, that in a night the rushing waters deluged and drowned hundreds of helpless whites and negroes, who inhabited the low level of the Mississippi bottom lands.
It will record the fact, that nearly all animal life throughout a country 800 miles in length, with an average width of 35 miles, was swept from existence.
It will record the fact, that the houseless, naked tenants of those miserable apologies for homes, being driven from the floor to the roofs of their shanties, and from that last refuge to limbs of trees and floating driftwood, were passed by crowded steamers, unable to succor or relieve, and left to rot, in death, beneath the rays of a semi-tropic sun.
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