The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
~ AYTON.-Equine pets in Dayton
- ings in flood adventures.
Pete, a brick colored horse, owned by
Eben G. Snyder, was swimming bravely
when he came to a second story porch
opening off a second floor, on which were
a number of refugees. The latter. affect
ed by the fight for self preservation,
made by the animal, grabbed him by the
halter and assisted him to founder on to
the porch. Here he remained. pet with
his rescuers, until the house caught fire.
BY this time the water had subsided
considerably, and the human occupants
fled, leaving Pete to perish. as there was
no way of rescuing him.
Yesterday Snyder, who supposed that
his steed had drowned in his stable, was
standing with the crowd on Third street.
when he observed stray horse doc 5ing
amid the motley array of automobiles
wagons, push carts and wheelbarrows,
In which refugees and supplies were be-
ing handled, and, evading every effort to
capture him.
II believe that's Pete" he said, and
shouted Pete! Peter
Pete" recognized the voice, trotted
over to his master and in very human
fashion hung his head over Synder's
shoulder, whinnying his relief and de-
light.
rf1 for
the flood on top of a broad brick wall.
Presently a bundle of hay came floating
with the current and became wedged
against the grating.
The horse strained his neck for 1t, top
pied over and went down with the
stream He snatched at the food as he
went past it, but missed.
Another horse was deposited tightly be-
tween two lines of freight cars in the
union dpot yards. There he remained,
unable to move, but fed and watered by
sympathetic yard man. who let hay
and water down to him by rope.
In these yards also a horse and an elk
head foated to common end and were
caught in such fashion that from the
front the horse seemed to be an animal of
two heads. This was one of many freak
sights photographed.
Still another equine which escaped the
flood may find greater difficulty in escap-
ing from his refuge.
This animal having entered a building
on Main street, half a square from the
Phillips hotel. to escape the onrushing
waters, never halted till he reached the
third floor. There he was found today
when the water had subsidized. and there
he remained, as no one cared to take the
risk of trying to drive him down tho i'm
paired stairs. Furthermore. Dayton had
ether and more pressing duties.
Two blooded horses were deliberately
granted asylum in the Fourth National
bank building. and their owner brought
feed to them by boat.
The city is full of such stories and such
sights, but great trucks rumbling through
the streets with the carcasses of horses
yesterday and today indicate how many
perished.
The flooded district was practically de-
nuded of its equine population. Their
boGies lie at the roadsides and protrude
from heaps of wreckage everywhere
OF the thousands of remarkable escapes
the experience of Miss Elsie Letser a
stenographer, who was marooned on an
overturned moving van in Edgemont, a
suburb of Dayton, is considered one of
the oldest. With several men Miss Les
ter was imprisoned on the top of a passing
van which she mounted when the food
came Tuesday morning. Eventually the
van was overturned and the party were
thrown into the icy waters. The horses
which had been hauling the van broke
loose and separated, swimming for their
lives. One of them passed close to the
woman. who Erasped 9 dangling strap