Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1913-04-05
WOODSTOCK NEWS
From Flooded Dayton
Mrs. M. T. Morrill, Writes OF
Her Experiences in the
Sfrickan Citv

L
M 4. Morrill,. mailed March go, wal
received by her father. George ii
Vaughan, on Thursday morning
April 3. and is an interesting story
OF personal experience in the floodec
city of Dayton, Ohio II was writer
from Crown Point, part of Dayton
untouched by the waters. where Mrs
Morrill, and her children took refuge
suppose you have read of the
days of terror through which we
have been passing / will try tc
+, begin at the beginning. but it won't
he connected story, for the expert
ences OF the week haven't steadied
my nerves any.
1t began to rain Sunday morning
and rained steadily until yesterday
morning, most of the time with
thunder and lightning. The Monday
nights paper didn't prophecy any
danger even for the sections of the
city which are apt to be flooded,
although the river had risen five feet
in three hours that afternoon.
About A o'clock Tuesday morning
men on horseback rode through the
west side northeast of us. screaming
for people to get up, for the levee Of
Wolf creek had broken. They inst
had time to dress and wade out
Some OF them stayed and were taken
out in boats from the second story
windows
BY noon that whole section was
under water to the roofs of the
houses At 80 in the morning !
heard the danger whistle blow and
knew something was the matter.
bout @ 30 / tried to phone. but
couldn't. and the men who had
started for work began to come home
vt 8 O'clock the Powers came they
had been out 10 see the water and il
was then within two squares of Ut.
hut they didn't think there would be
any danger for us save little water
in the cellar. In less than two hours
we we're all carried out of our homes
A few minutes after they left !
went to the grocery, for folks were
beginning to think we wouldn't get
any thing to eat for awhile any way.
fhen they were unloading people
from boats into the schoolhouse, yei
the Conover street folks didn't fear,
for there had never been any water
IN Conover street. But we soon saw
it coming just then two OF our
church men who had left their
homes at 5 O'Clock that morning
came to see if they could help me
We took up the rugs and carried all
The books from the three lower
shelves upstairs. They lifted the
plane mp ON chairs. and by that time
we saw we had got to leave if We
we're going
So we started with nothing bu,
the clothes on our backs We mel
DIR Powers; they had just beer,
taken out in wagon. DIR. Powers
carried me and each OF The other
men one of the. children until we
reached dry ground.
We stayed at Mr.. Hess that nigh
seven families there. The water
rose until A that afternoon. 1t wac
stationary nearly all nigh, but at A
the~next morning the patrol said il
had gone down five inches.
In the afternoon fire broke gu,
about three squares from US, and
such night Itrained in torrents,
and lightened, and the
fires ragged all night. No one laid
.iown but the children, and we
didn't dare undress them.
Wednesday morning Mrs. Har-
trum. one Of our Crown Point people,
,ame in to take usnut here another
Grown Point couple had tried TO find
as, but couldn't So we have been
mere ever since and will probably
stay until Monday
No newspaper account can possi-
r,ly exagRerate the awfnlness OF the
destruction; nothing unless it can
he the San Franchises earthquake has
ever q impaired with it in this coon-
try.
The list of dead is estimated at
I5. 600. We haven't heard anything
about North Dayton. but they are
ALWAYS flooded when The rest OF the