Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies
Jun. 15, 1953 - Floods in Lower Bavaria, - Greding afflicted by storms and cloud-bursts. - Fifty families lost home and property. During the weekend, the village of Greding, near Nuremberg Southern Germany, was afflicted by heavy storms and cloud-bursts. the Muehl-rill, in summer usually a dead watercourse, all over a sudden turned to a 200 meters wide raging river and carried away stables, sheds, household-furniture ad thousands of hundred-weights of grain. Many acres of corn-land were devastated and fifty families - mostly war-veterans, poor refugees and others, escaped luckily their downed houses. Keystone Photo shows:- The victims of the Greding-floods seen trying to save the rest of their destroyed property
Picture No
13165430
Media ID
46158048
Size
4960px x 3740px
(1.4MB)
Credit
(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Editorial Use Only - No Property or Model Releases. For any non-editorial use, please contact Mary Evans direct
Source
Keystone
