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locomusic01
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One other quick thing on New Richmond. One of the places where the most fatalities occurred was a hardware store built of double stone walls, each of which were 9" thick. Part of the store collapsed into the basement and crushed people sheltering there, but many of the stones were either thrown wildly across the downtown area (at least one person was killed after being struck and all but decapitated) or carried away into the countryside. You can never know for sure what to believe, but it was reported that a "widely scattered trail" of stones stretched for miles to the northeast.