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USA: 'Awful Calamity - Gulf Tidal Wave, September 8th, 1900'. Kurz & Allinson, Chicago, 1900

USA: 'Awful Calamity - Gulf Tidal Wave, September 8th, 1900'. Kurz & Allinson, Chicago, 1900

Inserts surrounding main engraving, top to bottom, left to right:

'Drays employed carrying the bodies to barges for burial in the Gulf'; '2650 dead bodies buried in the Gulf'; 'Loss of Life about 7000 - Property Loss about 20,000,000 dollars'; 'Shooting ghouls found despoiling the dead'; 'Ruins of Sacred Heart Church'; 'First Baptist Church Ruins'; 'Bodies incinerated in lieu of burial'.

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