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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 176 Today's Topics: #1 1913 flood - Pruyn [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152516.00690090@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - Pruyn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 134-5 A woman with three children, marooned in the upper floor of her home on the edge of the business district, called to the oarsmen: "Oh, I know you can't take me off," she cried, "but please take this loaf of bread and jug of molasses to Sarah Pruyn down the street; I know she's starving." Twice the boatmen attempted to take the food, but waves that eddied about the submerged house hurled them back. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 flood - Lindsay, Saettle, shunk, Creidler.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 flood - Lindsay, Saettle, shunk, Creidler.eml" X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:17 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152517.00693230@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - Lindsay, Saettle, shunk, Creidler Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 135-6 A.J. Saettle, owner of the house in which fire started after a gas explosion, was reported to have been blown into the air and killed instantly. Mrs. Shunk, a neighbor, was blown out of her home into the flood, and, after clinging to a telegraph pole for half an hour, finally succumbed and was sucked away under the waters, according to a report received at rescue headquarters. The explosion blew a stable filled with hay into the middle of the flooded street and this carried the flames to the opposite side of the street. The next house to burn was Harry Lindsay's, then Mary Creidler's and then the home of Theodore C. Lindsay. Houses that had been carried away from their foundations floated into the flames and soon were a bonfire. The flames burned without restraint, because engines could not get near enough to stop them. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 flood - Miss Flossie Lester.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 flood - Miss Flossie Lester.eml" X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:18 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152518.00695c34@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - Miss Flossie Lester Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 138-9 Of the thousands of remarkable escapes the experience of Miss Flossie Lester, a stenographer, who was marooned on an overtuned moving van in Edgemont, a suburb of Dayton, was considered on the the oddest. With several men, Miss Lester mounted on a passing van when the flood came. The van was soon overturned and the party thrown into the icy water. The horses that had been hauling the van broke loose and separated, swimming for their lives. One of them passed close to Miss Lester, who grasped a dangling strap and secceeded in climbing astride the animal's back. For more than a mile and a half Miss Lester clung with her arms about the horse's nexk until it reached a high approach of the levee near a farmhouse. Here Miss Lester fell unconscious to the ground. She was taken in by the farmer's family. The horse was taken to the barn. Miss Lester told rrescuers that she would by the horse it its owner could be found. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 flood - Wallace.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 flood - Wallace.eml" X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:19 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152519.006976b8@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - Wallace Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 139 Mrs. Clinton Wallace and her three children, at 3 Zinck avenue, Dayton, had an experience of another kind. They were marooned without food until rescued Friday night. They subsisted on grapefruit, a box of which they caught as it floated up to the window. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 Flood - Gutlip, Pfeffer.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 Flood - Gutlip, Pfeffer.eml" X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:20 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152520.00699e50@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 Flood - Gutlip, Pfeffer Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 139-40 C.H. Pfeffer, treasurer, and C.D. Gutlip, division superintendent of a Detroit automobile company, who hurried as best they could through the flooded districts from the Michigan metropolis to Dayton to rescue Pfeffer's sister, found her Friday. She and another woman, both with babies in arms, were discovered on the roof of the former's home in riverdale, their feet resting on the eaves-trough. There was seven feet of water in Riverdale, Mr. Pfeffer said, and 300 or 400 persons were marooned in second stories. He offered to take a boat load from one house, but as as there was not room for every one none would leave their perches. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 flood - Roller.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 flood - Roller.eml" X-Message: #6 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:21 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152521.0069bf20@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - Roller Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 142-3 Here's the prize story of how one family prepared against starvation when the flood came up. It comes from the home of George Roller, 79 Dakota Avenue, in the heart of the flooded West Side at Columbus. When they saw the flood coming they persuaded the family cow to enter the kitchn and ushered her upstairs, where they gave her a private room. They also laid in a supply of corn and hay. Result: Plenty of fresh mild and some to spare to the neighbors. Another family took their chickens into the house and not only saved the chickens but had plenty of fresh eggs. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 Food - Turney.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 Food - Turney.eml" X-Message: #7 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:23 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152523.0069da7c@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 Food - Turney Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 143 Taken from a tree and supposed to be dead, C.A. Turney of 355 Glenwood avenue, Columbus, was removed to the temporary morgue at Greenlawn cemetery, to await identification. A small boy standing by thought he detected a slight motion in Turney's body and called the doctor's attention to it. Restoratives were quickly applied and after heroic work, Turney was returned to consciousness and taken to the home of friends. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 flood - Adams.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 flood - Adams.eml" X-Message: #8 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:24 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152524.00690028@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - Adams Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 147-8 With the rapid subsiding of the flood waters and dissipating of panic among refugees at Dayton, thrilling adventures continued coming to light. Among the most interesting of these were the experiences of the family of Charles M. Adams in Riverdale. When the flood first rushed through that section of the city Mr. Adams got his wife and 10-month-old twin girls into a skiff and took them to the home of a friend in Warder street. An hour later it was again necessary to move and the family was taken by rescuers out of a second-story window. The canoe in whhich they were being transported was dashed against a telegraph pole by the terrific curent and capsized. Adams swam bravely in the icy water for a few minutes when he was picked up by some men in a flat boat. Just before he was rescued he saw his wife sink for the third time. The baby girls were floating down the street. Then he collapsed. Three hours later he regained consciousness to find himself in an attic and beside him on the floor lay his wife, whom he believed to have been drowned. A few minutes later a man crawled into the attic window from the floating roof of a barn, bringing with him the twins. They had caught in the branches of a tree and were picked off unhurt by the man, who was riding to safety on the roof. MRs. Adams was rescued by a high school boy on a hastily improvised raft. The lad was a member of the Riverdale troop of the boy scouts and had been trained how to administer first aid to the drowning. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_060D_01C152C2.1574E540 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 flood - stone & clemens.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 flood - stone & clemens.eml" X-Message: #9 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:25:25 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010928152525.00692488@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - stone & clemens Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 Chapter IX pg 150 John Stone, 78 Victor street, was one of the large number of volunteer life savers in Riverdale. He rescued a woman from the second-story of a house in Linwood street who insisted in bringing with her a snow shovel. Clutching the shovel to her breast, she sat in the stern sheets of Stone's boat, alternately singing a hymn and laughting hysterically. In attempting to round a street corner where a torrent poured in from a cross street, the boat struck an electrick light pole and Stone lost the paddle with which he was propelling his craft. "God told me!" shouted the woman, a Mrs. Clemens. "He told me. Now use the shovel." Stone managed to paddle his boat with the shovel to a place of safety. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V01 Issue #176 *******************************************