The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
DESCRIBES HORROR
OF THE FLOOD
PLYMOUTH GIRL HAS TER
RIBLE EXPERIENCES IN
MISSOURI OVERFLOW.
People Were Forced to Live in Sec.
ond Story Houses Without Food
or Water.


and Mrs. Ziba Truck, who reside
1-2 miles south of this city, writes
very interesting letter describing
her experiences in the recent Mis-
souri, food. Miss Truck has been
teaching school in Earlville, H., and
had gene ito Patronsburg, Missouri
-1 a visit. when the small town was
visited by tjhe food When the water
lad reached height OF 1s feet In the
main streets, the people were even
forced from the second stories OF
houses Wherein they had taken shell
.er, until there were over three nun
I.ed living in mill The young lady
is niece of Mrs Clarence Slayter
q: this city. The letter to this paper
* iIows:
Fattonsburg Mo, Sunday July IL.
Editor Plymouth Tribune,
Plymouth, Ind.
Suppose You have heard about the
terrible foods we are having, and the
.iardJliips experienced by the Strck-
en peopie, and | can say that | am
list thankful to be alive for no words
can tell what we have been through.
Last Tuesday about ten o'clock al
.ncst without a moments warming
lie waters came pouring into the
.own and in fifteen minutes it would
swim a horse any place in the main
street, and in half am hour it was ten
'tet deep, and by Wednesday after
r.oon 1T was fifteen feet in front OF
Uncle John Gunthet's house 1t is a
ISo story house, there are only i
lew in this town, and tthere were
seven families in the four rooms oi
Uncle Johns upstairs We were uG
.ere for twentyfour honnS withor
| itod or water. We got few thing:
| upstairs but the people in the one
story houses lost everything they
had
| On Wedne sday afternoon the wat
er was still rising four cnches Al
hour. The people from the small ons
| s:ory houses were crowded IN the
mill, school house and halls up town
We were in hopes we could stay
6ere al the house, but Uncle Johr
was afraid it would reach the sec one
SONY and so he haiied boat thai
passed and they took us to the mill
did NOT want to go TO the mill fol
! knew how it would be, but they
d:dnit ask me If wanted to go, bu
fjust put me iii the boat. There wer,
500 people i.i the mill We stayeC
there two days and two nights witt
very little to eat and only littlt
water TO drink, what VIE had the,
brought from other towns, part wa,
by rail, then by boat We had breat
AID fat pork and that is what we art
sill eating, and glad to get it.
There were many narrow escapes
hut only one life lost, a man wa
crowned in Main Street. They go
r.m some way and shut him in :
house 10 keep him from floating
away When they went to get hin
rext day ne was floating in the waite
With some dishes | saw them tax,
aim out olf the house
One oi the lumber yards caugh
fire from the time, the drift foatet
to dwelling and set it on fire. Tn,
secple were upstairs, they either hat
20 burn or drown, SO THEY put AIN olt
couch out at the window upstdedowi
ard floated to a tree, and stayed II
the tree all night. In the morning
their hands were SO cold and cranlp
ed that they had 10 pry them loos,
from the tree.
Not far from here we could hear /;
woman cnying and screaming al
night; theirs was only a one story
house, and the currents were sc
strong there, they could not ge
them in the boats. so they stood or
their tables in the water TO theil
necks, ali night They brought them
to the mill the next day and the ole