River, comes the report of a ferry boat which capsized due to the tremendous current of the river there. The ferry, according to the report, was being held by a rope stretched from bank to bank. After about thirty people had got on the ferry, Including a bride in her bride's chair, the boat started across. The unusual strain on the rope broke it, and tha ferry suddenly capsized, throwing all hands into the turbulent waters. The one who brought this report, said that the bride and about twenty others were drowned.
Another report has it that a mother nding that she no longer had any hope of saving herself and her infant son from the floods, took her savings, $500, and placed her son th the money, into a tub, and pushed it on the waters, with the hope that some one would rescue him and would use the money to rear him, 'This reminds us of the thoughful love of little Helen Priscilla Stam' mother as she pinned the $10 note the babe's cuddlebunny, with a prayer and the hope that some one would use it to save her little one's life, "And so It was. In this case, however, there is quite another story that fs told. The tub, child and money fell into the hands of one of Salan's own, according to the report, who took the tub and the money,
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