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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joe2007, post: 3460111, member: 1262&quot;]Fascinating! Thanks for sharing your story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry that is a really horrible event to even think about let alone know the people who were the victims.</p><p><br /></p><p>Real photo postcards were really popular to document tragedies since radio didn&#039;t become prevalent in households until the later years of the 20&#039;s and of course television wasn&#039;t around yet. Newspapers were the primary means of communications at the time but RPPCs provided more detail for a better understanding of what had happened. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are lots of postcards of floods, tornados, fires, train wrecks, and even mining disasters.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Potters fields are fairly common in almost every major U.S. city of any age. The city where I live has one that is now a forgotten corner of a city park that has been permitted to return to nature and almost all traces of the cemetery are gone. Many of those buried in potters fields were buried in mass graves during pandemics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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