Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-10-07

ere babe ir i'i i,',a ssssa Nns-- H-e.sr~s.,, -,
ev e. "er ~, arms and all called ion.d s,d
Ie. nc aoI neIp. The men brought fbe 49,
a. 1 80 0at as possible to them ami ,,,'
II isea to send them heIp at ',uu o,,ol prom ON
x ener ooat was full. The women besaaII DuI
= l'eously' They had all got together
8 "a one mouse, they said, and when that
= was gong had climbed into this traa
: suu 1ed Deen there all night and were
: so cold. Colomb knew their bnsbards
were with with Peter after wood. bnt
sue asked where Mrs Oleson's other
IHiiu1c' were, and the poor woman |
Droke out sobbing and said they were
IA the river. Sarah had clipped down
"lto tne water when they tried 10 pot
up IN the tree, and Hans had dron,S, =
on IN the night when she Lad fallen
asleep just minute.
Farther on Charlie pointed ont a
house standing on higher land than ia
others, where he told Incv far,;I1, |
were upstairs, waiting to be taken Off {
;. peeu oe' Dut allowing others in more
ua1ger TO go frat, and near by man t
ii'u lam IN another house with both G
hands and feet frozen so badly the doc.
tors were COINS to amputate them. At
iase they reached their destination. the 4
great elevator where the owner. who s
mad been rich the day before but was s.
now poor man, was doing all he could
10 make the people comfortable. Tbov N
We're soon among the other sufferers. II
some worse off than themselves. and Il
the men who had brought them oni1, A
waited to take Ia little food. then gtorted
AZ All egaln with others. Day after Do,
49,, |eek after week. the food CO., "
,1. ,lngeu. cKlu5 and yawls were hastily $
ri
con !Inuall y. One day they brouebt il, y
family who had lived days on raw =,
chickens, the fowls having been driven ~
to the house by fright and another day I,
it was two old ladies who had lived ~
more than week in their barn. Little =
only half f-dressed and conse. :.
luently hAlf-frozen, were brought from -
Ill sorts of strange perchcs and their n,
'escucrs had many narrow escape -
while trying to save them. Huge barri- "
'ades oil ice, sometimes thirty feet high o"
must be crossed, and again swift, open
currents and sometimes thin ice, on
which planks We're laid to make it moro lay
secure or the boats were dragged across pr
TO reach another open place. Day after ari
lay they brought them in, taking sixty
persons from the roof of one large we
louse and picking up others here and ii
here, all half-frozen and half-starved pa
lnd wholly destitute. The owner of tn
lhe elevator drew up by means of pull WI
.eys few cattle that had been saved, co
slaughtering thom ON one Of the upper WI
floors and feeding the people. They pc
had no lights, for the kerosene and even ca
the candles had given out everywhere &C
the boats could reach, but they bore u
that quite patiently as long as they had !
some sort of food. 2
Peter returned with his neighbors, !
toEss came in boat AID tl,eir wood !
went on down the river Neither he
nor Colomb said word more against
Charles love making, though they saw
it was progressing in the intervals he
had from his work in the boats, and
even old Gautiere could not forget that
Charlie saved his life, and if he mutter- {
ed it was only to praise him. t
And Lucy and Charlie think tho flood |
was not altogether without its advan- $
tages. -SprinQfeld Republican. t