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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wiscbirddog, post: 3457218, member: 125&quot;]My paternal Great-Grandmother was drowned &amp; washed away during the Cloud Burst in Louisville, NE in September of 1923.&nbsp; Her body was not found.&nbsp; Years later a body was found &amp; it was thought to be her and was buried in a potters field in Louisville.</p><p><br /></p><p>When my Grandmother passed away in 1969, a set of 24 postcards and a hand written letter, written while she waited for the train that day, were found.&nbsp; I read the letter once &amp; viewed the postcards (I was 17 at the time).&nbsp; Then my father sent 2 postcards &amp; the letter to his Aunt and when he asked for them back she said she had thrown them away - Gasp!&nbsp; So I am now missing #3 and #24 of the postcards and the letter is forever lost.&nbsp; I have been looking for the two postcards for many, many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bits &amp; pieces of what I remember from the letter:&nbsp; She had been in Louisville, NE to attend her sister&#039;s funeral and was waiting for the train to arrive, to take her home to IL.&nbsp; She talked about the horrible storm that was raging, how she was looking forward to seeing her family and her dog.&nbsp; Then someone came to the station &amp; announced that the train track was flooded and she ended by saying she was going to walk across the street to post the letter and then head back to the relative&#039;s house to wait out the storm.&nbsp; (after the chaos was over, what remained of the family said she had actually reached the house just before it was washed away.&nbsp; All 12 people in the house were killed - two of them never found.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Postcard #2 is where the house had been.&nbsp; Postcard #4 - looks like they are carrying a wicker casket.</p><p><br /></p><p>Article about the storm:&nbsp; <a href="https://dnr.nebraska.gov/floodplain/news/louisville-remembers-deadly-1923-flood" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://dnr.nebraska.gov/floodplain/news/louisville-remembers-deadly-1923-flood" rel="nofollow">https://dnr.nebraska.gov/floodplain/news/louisville-remembers-deadly-1923-flood</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]303285[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303286[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303287[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303288[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303289[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303290[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303291[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303292[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303293[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303294[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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