Mill River Flood: 9:00 am
In New York City, the messaged wire to the owner of the woolen mill from bookkeeper Gaius Wood read like a flash fiction tragedy:
‘it gave way … washed away … half the village … don’t sail …”
And so the telegraph followed the river, sending news of the unimaginable into the world
Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/407b6288771447afb2961988ef321fd4