The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-04-04
STRANGE STORIES or FLOOD.
One Woman Escapes! by Climbing ON
Horse.-Grape FIlIt Saved
Family.

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dayton, Ohio. March 29-Of the
thousands of remarkable escapes the
experience of Miss Flossie Lester, a
stenographer, who was marooned on
an overturned moving van in Edge
mont, a suburb of Dayton, is con-
| sidered as one of the oldest With
several men Miss Lester was impris-
oned on the top Of passing van
which she mounted when the flood
came Tuesday morning. Eventually
the van was overturned and the party
was thrown into the icy waters. The
horses which had been hauling the
van broke loose and separated, swim
ming for their lives. One of them
passed close to the woman who grasp
ed dangling strap and succeeded in
climbing astride the animals back.
For more than a mile and a half
Miss Lester clung with her arms about
the horses neck until, at last, he
reached a high approach OF the levee
! near a farm house Hrefe Miss Les
ter dropped to the ground unconscious
and was taken in by the farmers FAM
i ily.l The horse0was taken to the barn.
Miss Lester told rescuers that she
will buy the horse if its owner can
be found.
Mrs. Clinton Wallace and her three
children had an experience OF an
other kind. They were marooned
without food when the flood came
Tuesday and were rescued last night.
All that time they subsisted on grape
fruit, a box of which they secured as
it floated up to window.
C. H. Pfeffer, treasurer, and c. P.
Cutlip. a division superintendent OF
one of the big Deroit (Mich0 auto
mobile companies, who hurried as
best they could through the flooded
districts from the Michigan metropolis
to DAYTON to rescue Pfeffer's sister.
found her this afternoon. She and
another woman, both with their babies
in their arms, were discovered on the
roof of the formers home in River
dale, their feet resting in tne caves
trough.
There was seven feet of water in
Riverdale, Pfeffer said, and three or
four hundred persons marooned in
second stories. He offered to take
boatload from one house but as
there was not room for everybody
none of them would leave.
While Daytonians have had adven-
lures enough to last them the re-
mainder of their lives, frantic fathers
and husbands, wives and mothers, out
of town when news of the flood reach
ed them, had troubles Of their own in
attempting to return.
With railroads out of commission IN
the Omaha tornado districts and
foods rampant from Western Penn
sylvania to the Mississippi, they found
it difficult to return.
w. r. Sullivan, prominent Day
ton business man, on his way to Dem
YER heard of the flood at Grand Is
land, Neb. He returned to Lincoln,
Neb., where the difficulties of travel
began. He darted to Kansas City,
where delay confronted him; then
back to st. Joseph, Mo. But here, too'
no railroad would promise to deliver
him at Dayton. Finally he went to
St. Louis, caught train to Guthrie,
Ky., worked back through Louisville
to Cincinnati, and from the latter city
came here in an automobile.
He found that the relief committee
had commandeered his own motor car
and that his wife had given away most
Of her linen, bedding. clothing ana
food-a very. ordinary proceeding
but that she and the children were
safe. Perfectly satisfied, Sullivan Of
fered his services to the city. His
story is offered as fair sample OF
hundreds of others.
A druggist at Anderson, Ind, whose
family were visiting here, arrived in
a State of collapse. Despairing OF
travelling by rail, he set out to con-
ouer the food. Where he could he
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