Show TREED BY A cloudburst six men have narrow escape while attending a picnic oxford pa caught a cloud burst up the stream which welled swelled s the water of the octoraro Octo creek inter raging torrent six men were cut oft land and forced to climb trees which tor hours were repeatedly struck by wreckage of barns ings and bridges and it was all they could do to hang fast S during the entire time who had been with them at a stood on the shore not 50 yards away but could do nothing to help them as tho boats had been carried away and no raft could live in the seething waters one of the marooned men was sam uel W allson 75 years old who 1 almost exhausted from the trying or aleal when the stream finally receded and they were rescued several times but tor his sor harry W on who had climbed up the tree with him he bould have fallen and been drowned |