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The view of flooding looking north on Main Street from the intersection with Route 13 in Shawneetown shows a person in a boat in the middle of the flooded street.

The view of flood damage looking west from the Ohio levee on Route 13 in Shawneetown shows flood waters and lumber filling the street.

A landscape view shows flooding on Route 13 looking west near Harrisburg. Peabody Mine Number 43 can be seen in the distance.

A landscape view shows flooding looking north from North Main Street on Route 142.

A street view shows flooding on Route 37 on the outskirts of Mound City.

A street view shows flooding on Route 37 looking north in Mound City.

A group of men survey the flooding on Route 51, 3 miles north of Cairo, looking south.

A street view shows flooding looking north on Route 51 from the outskirts of Mounds.

The view of flooding on Route 51, 1/2 mile south of Mounds shows submerged buildings.

Floodwaters engulf Roy's Super Service on Route 51 in Mounds.

Two men stand among the flooding on U. S. Highway 51, 3 and 1/2 miles north of Cairo, looking east. The Cache River bridge can be seen in the background.

Men navigate a flooded town by boat.

An overhead view shows the sand boil at 23rd Street and Poplar Street in Cairo.

A close up view shows the interior of the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

Several men stand next to a pile of sand bags at the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

Several men stand at one of Cairo's major sand boils at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue.

A man works at the sand boil at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue in Cairo.

A view of the beginning of three sand boils at Future City, 1 mile north of Cairo. On verso: "Not large enough to work."

Works Progress Administration men remove sandbags from McKinley Street in front of Everybody's Drug Store in Harrisburg.

Floodwaters reach the bottom of a school zone sign looking north on Route 51 from the north section of Mounds.

A street view shows flooding on Second Street in Mounds looking south.

Works Progress Administration men repair the sewer on 27th Street and Commercial Street where one of major sand boils wrecked the Cairo Ice and Coal Company Plant. The view is looking north in Cairo.

One of the many houses submerged in floodwaters in the west suburbs of Shawneetown along Route 13. On verso: "Dead hog lodged in tree."

The view of flooding looking southwest from Main Street shows the general condition of Shawneetown buildings.

The view of flooding looking north shows the Shawneetown Public School Building surrounded by water.