Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-06-14

Mamma, you always told mo that tho Lord
would care for me; VIII He look aftcrmo nowr
] saw him drift away with his loving face
turned toward me- and with u prayer on my
lips for his doivcrnnce he passed from sight
forever Tho next moment the roof crashed
in and hoated outside TO be rescued fifteen
hours later from the root OF house In Kern.
willie. II l could only find one of my darlings
could bow to the will of God. But they arc all
gone"
Near the center of the city wero three
persons pulling apart the debris as best
they could They were an elderly woman
young woman, quite pretty, and little
girl, all dressed in mourning. A reporter
stopped TO watch them for n moment
when suddenly the little girl cried: 30,
mamma, here's something" Both women
hurried over rs the child held up
n watcr-stainod photograph album.
'Ies, that's ours" cried the younger
of the women It's she fcverishly
seized it and began to turn the dirty and
water-swollen leaves All three sat down
on an uprooted t:co near by, and they
gardless of the crowd that gathered.
The younger one turned to tho first
picture IN tho album and carefully
wiped the dirt away with her handkor-
chief. She looked at it long and earnestly
while the other two looked over her shoul-
der. ~ thought we had lost it. she said,
as the tears tricklcd down her face.
In the gray dusk of that fatal Friday
evening n crowd of people stood upon the
bridge at Bolivar trying to rescue the un-
fortunates MS they were carried down by
the flood. Ropes were dangling from the
bridge for those in the water to grasp, One
poor woman's plight was even so piteous
that even strong men wept She YVES sit
LII. ,I,.t, fn1 ,.tln ~
timber that was bearing her down
stream rapidly On each side of her
lay little child. They were still and
made no outcry rs the woman clasped
them close. AS the craft neared the bridge
the spectators saw that the children were
dead They had been drowned. The rope
was thrown to the rigid woman, but she
would pay no attention to it. Grab the
ropem hundred voices shouted The
unfortunate creature looked Mt the two
children and tried to rouse them,
but they had dropped into an eternal
slumber Grab the rope!" the crowd
again yelled eXcitedly, for the wreckage
with it's dead and living freight was very
nearly under the bridge. The woman
needed not the advice or the voices She
looked indifferently at the strained eyes of
the men above, and as she passed under the
insane, crazed by grief.
A man, woman and child were seen float
ing down on n lot of drift The mass of
debris commenced to part, and by desper-
ate effort the husband succeeded in getting
his wife and little one on u floating tree.
Just then the tree washed under n bridge
and n rope was thrown out 1t fell over the
mans shoulders He saw at a glance that
he could not save his dear ones, so he threw
the means of safety to one side and grasped
closer in his arms those who were with him.
moment later and the tree struck n float
ing house. 1t turned over, and in moment
all were swept to their fate.
Watchers in a railway signal tower near
Sang Hollow tell many piteous tales of what
they saw. Men and women in dozens, in
pairs and singly, children, boys big and lit
tie, and wee babies passed there in among
the awful confusion of water-drowning
gasping, struggling and fighting desperate
ly for life. Two men on a tiny raft shot