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Connecticut Flood Devastates Industrial Corridor Across Cities
In Waterbury and surrounding towns floodwaters smashed Connecticut’s industrial lifeline. Debris filled a railroad bridge as freight cars toppled, multiple homes vanished, and searchers pulled bodies from wreckage. Guards patrolled roped off zones while crews clear rubble and spray with DDT amid dust storms from drying mud.
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Waterbury
Conn
Naugatuck
Connecticut
Torrington
Thomaston
Union City
Seymour
Ansonia
Derby
Brooklyn
George Russell
Health Department
Riverside Street
Civil Defense