Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — The Flood at New Salisbury, Ohio. [ARTICLE]

The Flood at New Salisbury, Ohio.

New Salisbury, (X, Sept. 10. i Thinking perhaps some of the readers of The Democrat would like to hear from us, will write a few lines for publication. We are always glad to get the paper to hear from home folks, and if if anyone wants to send a friend a* present, I don’t know of anything they could send that would be more appreciated than their county pape-, and we thank Mrs. Joe Yeoman and her daughter, Mattie, for sending us The Democrat. v We are well, but I want to tell you that the experience I had in the flood of September 2, at about 1 1 o’clock that night, was something* not very enjoyable. A neighbor awakened me and told me if I had i anything that would get wet I had! better get It up, as there was water, two feet deep in their house and that high water was coming. J Immediately went down stairs and began raising things Off the floor but before I could finish the water' was about two feet deep. Had it not been for the ten flats that were just l in the rear of the house everyone says that every bouse, in the row would have gone. The bouses had brick foundations of about tihree feet, so you see the water was about five feet deep. Everything was swept along, lumber, hogs, horses, and cat-* tie. George was about fifty miles away at work, but I didn’t have 1 time to become frightened until I; went back up stairs. Mr. Clark’s aunt is staying with me, but she is: seventy-five years old and of course' could do nothing, but she was com--1 any ior me. * .1 I hope never again to be in a 1 flood. We did not get any mail for! five days, and lots of families are left destitute. The storm being at night made it seem so much worse than it would had it been in daylight so we could have seen. One never knows what they have to go through with until they go through a flood. MRS. DORA CLARK.