Highest Water in 42 Years Rip Tracks and Sweep Away Buildings -- The muddy Missouri tour into Bismarck and Mandan this week, tumbling homes and ripping up tracks of the Northern Pacific railroad main-line embankment. Fence-like posts are railroad ties on end.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Highest Water in 42 Years Rip Tracks and Sweep Away Buildings -- The muddy Missouri tour into Bismarck and Mandan this week, tumbling homes and ripping up tracks of the Northern Pacific railroad main-line embankment. Fence-like posts are railroad ties on end.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1952]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Floods: 1952: Wire Photos

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