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Vermont River Disaster

 

(VERMONT). ELDRIDGE, LEMUEL B. The Torrent; or an Account of a Deluge Occasioned by an Unparalleled Rise of the New-Haven River, in which Nineteen Persons Were Swept Away, Five of Whom Only Escaped, July 26, 1830. Middlebury, [Vt.]: Printed at the Office of the Free Press, by Edward D. Barber, 1831. 1st ed. 16mo. 61 pp. Modern cloth. $325.00

 

B & B 6943 (one of four copies). The author was one of those trying to assist his neighbors during the disaster; he was injured and his son swept away. His account is so detailed as to include the day on which each body was found and how far below the villages of Lincoln and Bristol.