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Calico quilt owned by John Burns in Minersville. Burns used the quilt as a rope to pull people out of the flood water. |
Child's button-up leather shoe found in the flood debris. |
39-star flag tucked in Stewart Kinkead’s pocket for the duration of the flood. Kinkead nearly drowned when the flood demolished the porch on which he was standing at the Merchant’s Hotel. |
39-star flag that had decorated a Main Street home in honor of Decoration Day, the day before the flood. Trunk owned by Minnie Huston, who died in the flood. The trunk was found in a church downtown, far from the Hulbert House where Minnie Huston had been employed. |
 Undershirt worn by 6-year-old Daisey Heslop during the flood. |
Jacket worn by 9-year-old Bertha Morgan, who escaped death by climbing across debris at the Stone Bridge to the hillside; her parents were killed after helping their children through the roof of their house. |