Mill River Flood: 7:30 am
Later, it was known: Lewis Bodman probably knew, that they all knew the leaks in the dam, grew, but too few of those in power cared to invest enough to stop the disaster until that fateful day in May 1874 when panic flew, but never fast enough to outrun water and wave barreling through
Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/407b6288771447afb2961988ef321fd4