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

OTHEB INCIDENTS.
Among the many thrilling incidents
given in the newspaper accounts Of this
fearful occasion are the following:
All along the course of the food there
were narrow escapes and thrilling Incl
dents. Mr.. H. 81. Tilton, of Williams
burg, was carrying his aged mother, Wild
ow Sarah II. Snow, to place of safety,
when the uurelenting waters seized them
she was carried away, while he grasped
tree, about fifteen feet high, standing on
bank, and was saved, though the waters
reached and swayed him. Messrs. Han
mum and Rhodes, living in the same
house, got across the streets into another
dwelling, the lower story Of which was
flooded, but some apple trees broke the
force of the wave and the house stood.
Jeremiah Ward thought to save his sis.
ter.in-law, Mrs: Knight and died with
her. A daughter of Spencer Bartlett
but the incoming waters tossed them
away, and she was compelled to remain
in the house, and so escaped.
Two large boilers were in use at Hay
den 4 Ceres brass mandatory, one of
them carrying seventy pounds Of steam
on the morning Of the flood, while the
other was cold. The heated boiler ex.
ploded with q terrific report, while the
other was carried over 600 feet and landed
in the yard in front of Joel Hayden's res
idence.
One of the saddest cases connected
with the disaster was the death of Mrs.
Jane Cogan, of Leeds, and her two
daughters, Grace and Carrie. Grace
Cogan was q pupil in the Wes,field
Normal School, while her sister Annie
was q teacher in school at West Farms.
They arrived at home Friday night in
tending to spend Sunday, and the wave
came without warning as the three were
seated at the breakfast table. The only
surviving member of the family is an
absent daughter.
It was remarkable freak of the flood
that Ross store at Leeds went scot.free,
while the railroad track for several rods,
on higher land, and within few steps of
the store, was badly torn up. The ex-
PLANTATION of it probably is that the wave,
coming very suddenly, had just time to
break over the bank and tear up the rails,
when the dam across the river gave way.
relieving the flood before it could fall
upon the store with sufficient force to do
any damage.
A young French child was found safe
asleep In bed in . wrecked house, in at
tempting to escape from which the re-
mainder of the family perished.
Miss Carrie B0nney and Mrs. Sarah J.
Ryan and child, who were among those
swept away and lost, had ample time to
save themselves, but were completely
stupeied with terror, and, with fixed
stare, stood motionless.
Mr.. Raymond, employed in Mr.. James
mill, saw his house sail BY, and, Of
course, expected that his family were
with II, but they, not . second too soon,
hearing the roar of the impending food,
had escaped to knoll some four rods in
the rear Of their home
Mr.. 8. Gage, the head machinist at
James mill, interestingly tells his ex.
periences. He was in the basement of
the mill when the cry came, Run for
your lives; the reservoir has broker
Then some twenty. i've Of the operatives
passed over the bridge to the hill, about
eight rods distant, only just quick enough,
Tor the structure crumbled samost under