Mill River Flood (Florence)
Months later, four men – George Cheney Collins Graves Jerome Hillman Myron Day - were honored for bravery, for rushing to warn others and presented gold medallions and yet who knows how many more ran to neighbors, shouted warnings, saved lives, sacrificed themselves: men and women that were not then, nor now, ever remembered
Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts