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Show "W-i w ... . CORRESPONDENCE Springdale, August 3, 1896. Fditor Union: DearSir: If I had my-eyesight and health I should like to write you a true statement of the damage done by the flood and also a diagram of my lot and buildings, in connection with the wash that furnished the main current of that fearful flood which occured on the 14th of last month; but I shall have to be content to dictate a few lines that you may look, as it were, through a glass darkly, upon the situation. My residence is on the southeasterly corner of my lot. The upper or north end of the lot being many feet higher than the building, was fenced with heavy rocks, which, when moved mov-ed by the flood must, according to the laws of gravitation, come down upon the buildings, also a wash above the lot pointed directly towards to-wards the buildings only turning enough to leave the buildings within with-in two rods of the bank. In self-acting self-acting on the above mentioned situation situ-ation it almost makes the hair stand on end. I am led to exclaim that the same hand that rolled the waters of the Red Sea up right and left for the children of Israel to cross and then turned them back upon the armies of the Egyptians, and forty years later; stopped the-flow of the river Jordan for the children of Israel Is-rael to pass over and possess the goodly land, was instrumental in turning the most fearful portion the flood contrary to the laws of gravitation, gravi-tation, and took'rock and timbers straight across the wash onto the opposite bank and landed some cf them against the meeting house. There was one large boulder, which, according to the laws of nature, na-ture, would have struck my residence I and demolished it, but it lodged on ' the bank just above the meeting house. While the flood was running run-ning around the house and the huge boulders rumbling down the wash and elsewhere, the house trembled as though by an earthquake, and it even caused one of the inmates of the house to exclaim ''Oh mother! the house is going!" We truly owe the preservation of our lives to the merciful power of our creator. There were five persons per-sons in the house. We are thankful for our Miraculous escape. I remain, very truly yours in the gospel . Samuel K. G iff ord. |