OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 178 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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 178 Today's Topics: #1 1913 flood - family unknown [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010930162100.0189d664@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - family unknown Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 pg 96 A druggist of Anderson, Ind., whose family was visiting in Dayton, arrived in a state of collapse. Despairing of traveling by rail, he set out to conquer the flood. Where he could he hired vehicles, but he pursued a straight course, fording or swimming icy waters, plunging through swamps and crawling over broken and dangerous trestles. His feet, knees and hands were swollen when he reached Richmond, Ind. Then he offered $150 and a new set of tires for a machine to take him the forty-three miles to Dayton, but none would take the risk. Later Sharon Jones, who was in charge of forwarding relief at Richmond, bundled him into one of the relief automobiles and he completed the trip. Jones learned his story, but now his name. It is not known whether he found his family. ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_062E_01C152C2.298E28C0 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="1913 flood - scenes from the train.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1913 flood - scenes from the train.eml" X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:21:02 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010930162102.018802fc@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: 1913 flood - scenes from the train Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters" Ed. by Thomas H. Russell; 1913 pg 98 Mrs. C.E. Clifton, president of the Evanston Woman's Club, arrived in Chicago March 26 from Atlantic City. Hers was one of the last trains to make its way through the flooded diestrict. The lives of more than a hundred people were imperiled when it crossed a tottering bridge just out of Lima, Ohio, which twenty minutes later was swept away. The train traversed tracks which were under water most of the time. "Our train was one of the last to come through the flood district," she said. "We arrived in Chicago more than nine hours late. In Lima the water was from four to eight feet deep, each street looking like a mountain torrent. The upper floors of office buildings were crowded with pople who had either deserted their homes or been marooned. In coming from Baltimore we traveled over four different railroads, being switched from one to another as work reached us that washouts had occurred. Sometimes after proceeding several miles froma junction town we were compelled to back up and take another route. The town of Lafayett, Ohio, was completely covered with water and we saw houses that had been torn from their foundations as if made of paper. "Just after we left Lima we crossed a bridge which barely stood above the surface of the water. It swayed dangerously as we crept across it. Twenty minutes later, we heard, it was swept away." -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V01 Issue #178 *******************************************