Close Call--Providence firemen rescue one of three men who were marooned under the market square bridge today when their skiff overturned after getting stuck beneath the bridge, where they were making an inspection. by Associated Press

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Pittsfield, Ohio – Weather, Not War – This scene of ruin with an American flag flying might resemble a battlefield, but it was a tornado which flattened the community of Pittsfield, leaving upright only a Civil War monument (to left in photo). Children hoisted the flag near the monument.

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Close Call--Providence firemen rescue one of three men who were marooned under the market square bridge today when their skiff overturned after getting stuck beneath the bridge, where they were making an inspection.

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