Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, Items. On last Saturday we had a heavy rain fall, followed by some snow. Swago creek was higher than it has been for years. Robert Miller, while trying to cross it with a wagon and two horses, was rapidly carried down by the raging flood waters, and lodged against a foot log, to which he clung while he cut his horses loose from the wagon. He went out on the foot log and his horses swam ashore. The wagon was badly wrecked and some flour that was in it washed away.
Notes:
- The article was published in the Pocahontas Times on February 23, 1898.
- The incident took place in Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
- Swago Creek is a tributary of the Greenbrier River.
- Robert Miller was a local farmer.
- The floodwaters were caused by a heavy rain and snowmelt.
- Miller was able to survive the incident, but his wagon and some of his belongings were destroyed.
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