Mill River Flood: 8:00 am
Hard to even imagine what Eugene Davis saw as he stood there, watching the storm of flood approaching – it wasn’t water he saw - it was a tornado of brush, trees and trash; of boards, timbers and buttons; but, he said, not water, not yet, anyway, only a deluge of lost things, twenty feet high, and rising
Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts