Original photograph, men carrying the wicker casket containing the recovered body of a victim of a “cloudburst” in Louisville, Nebraska.

On September 27, 1923, rain suddenly began falling in a torrential downpour that lasted almost the entire day long; the result was heavy flooding, twelve deaths, the loss of many personal belongings, and even entire homes.

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