The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-06-04

their feet; one second more, he says
would have swamped them.
Three men-J. n. Stephenson and two
new hands whose names are not Known
fearing the boarding house in which they
were with number Of others would give
way, despite the entreaties OF their assO-
ciates, left it and climbed an apple tree
near by. The latter fell under them and
they were drowned, while those at the
boarding. house remained unframed. One
man ventured upon the roof of the board
fng-hOuse, and, though it crumbled under
him, he chung to it and saved his life.
John Atkins, foreman of the weaving
room, died in saving the lives of his wife
and two children.
A COW floated down from williamsburg
to Florence, and escaped with only .
broken horn.
A sad and affecting case was that of
three French children, none of them over
nine years old, who sat among the living
and dead in MIR. Warmers house at Leeds,
and told questioners that they had lost
three sisters, brother and their mother,
but their father was safe and attending to
some of the dead people. But many who
listened to them knew that the father, as
well as the brother and sisters, was among
the dead, yet none had the heart to break
the terrible news to the children.
One lucky little boy got safe ride
down the stream in small house. The
dwelling was picked up by the food
somewhere between Leeds anu Florence,
and went over the dam right side up, lard
ing some distance below on the flats.
There somebody spied this novel convey.
ance, and took the boy out, safe aud
sound.
One of the saddest casualties among the
lower classes was that of Mr.. Edward
Mocker, an aged Irishman living near
the bridge at Haydenville. He was stand
ing in front of his house when he discov-
cred the water approaching, and in trying
to enter ana save his wife and q helpless
boy he was overpowered by the flood and
drowned. Mrs. Mocker grasped the youth
in her arms and struggled for dry land,
but was twice knocked down and badly
wounded by floating rubbish, but al
though badly wounded she chung to her
invalid boy, and stood waist deep in the
water for an hour until the flood subsidized.
Men then came to her rescue, moving her
to comfortable quarters, but in moving the
boy he was by some means dropped in the
road, and this, with the exposure and
shock, it was thought, would shortly cause
his death. The boy fell on the ice last win
ter, spraining his ankle, and being unable
to move his legs we're frozen before being
discovered, and he has been a helpless in.
valid ever since. The mothers lament,
Saturday night, when applying at the
town hall for bed-clothing, was most
piteous. After describing her husband's
vain attempt to reach her, she returned
to her sick boy. "Oh!" cried she, that
1 should live to see this night! An the
boy cried to me, Sure you won't leave me,
mother, to be carried in the food an l
rushed and snatched him out of bed, and
got out between the houses, and. as God
hears me, I couldn't get farther, an I
stood there, an the boy in my arms, an
the water going over me. And l was
knocked from here wild a timber that hit
me on my leg and again in the breast, but
I'm alive and saved the boy, but he'll
die the mornin', an the mans gone. Ed
wards gone. Oh, but for the rainy morn
ing, he'd been here at work and saved.
Oh, my darling, my darling, God help
us!"