William A. Casley, 39, superintendent, helped to save Alvin L. Downard, 35, merchant, and others from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. Casley and a companion, in an 18-foot skiff, contended with the 9-m.p.h. current of the floodwaters of the Hocking River, avoided numerous trees and crossed an elevated street where the water was rushing like over a dam, and rescued the people from houses that had been carried from their foundations and had lodged among trees 900 feet from dry land. 3743-274
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