Dead Horses in American History (IX)

Aftermath of the Rochester, Minnesota tornado, August 21, 1883. There’s a whole page at the NOAA site of photos documenting the aftermath of this F5 tornado.

Also, this series has become so popular that people are now helping me with it. Friends of the blog Jacob Remes and Jonathan Dresner created this graph of the use of “beating a dead horse” versus “flogging a dead horse” in the English language. I presume the predominance of “flogging” is a British thing.