Halley M. Woods, 38, merchant, saved Nellie B. Dana, 37, and others from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. Using a small boat, Woods rescued the people from houses that were being inundated by the surging floodwaters of the Hocking River. On one trip, he rowed a half-mile to a partly wrecked house standing in the path of a 12-m.p.h. current, got three excitable women aboard, and, skillfully avoiding telephone poles, trees, and floating debris, rowed 1,000 feet across the current to land. 2886-270
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