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Show a wagon to carry her to the south side via the big State Street bridge. He then led her to dinger's house. After the flood had dried it was possible to walk upon it and go directly into the front door of their rented house, for the several steps that led up to the small front porch had been completely and permanently buried in the dried mud. Of course the lawn had been obliterated too. Rex Seely later owned and lived in the house. A FLOOD OPINION Sylvester (Vetty) Barton, an elderly neighbor of John K's on State Street, told the following story to the Madsens a few years after the flood. Some people thought that the surprize flood had been due to overgrazing in the mountains east of Mt. Pleasant, and Barton wondered about that being so. He said that his father had told him of a friendly Indian in the early years who told him he could not understand why white people decided to live on the banks of the Creek. He said his people couldn't understand it either-- for according to their traditions the site had always been a flood bed. The Indian recounted countless times when "Big clouds emptied hard on the top of the mountain and made the big floods below," To the Indian it seemed a foolish thing to build a town of many houses in the path of the floods. And Barton did not go along with the popular notion that overgrazing in 170 |