Today is the anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938 which wreaked havoc throughout the state leaving 125 dead and millions of dollars in damage. The Providence Journal

Downtown Providence is engulfed by flood waters during the Hurricane of 1938, which hit on Sept. 21 of that year. The area pictured is now Kennedy Plaza, with the old Union Station at right. Journal Files

People stand amid wreckage near Easton's Beach in Newport after the Hurricane of 1938. The surge from that storm reached 11.6 feet above mean sea level in Newport, destroying much of the southern embankment of Easton's pond. [NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY] Journal Files

The grim search for bodies goes on throughout the section of Westerly that bore the full brunt of the Hurricane of 1938. [Providence Journal files] 938 J

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