August 17, 1934
THE PORTSMOUTH TIMES, CONTRIBUTED BY A. P. HAIGHT The cloudburst of
Friday Aug, 10, which hit a portion of eastern Kentucky and seemed to
center about Olive Hill, Carter City, touching Lewis, Carter, Rowan and
part of Elliot counties, when viewed after the water has gone seems to have
been one of worst calamities to have befallen that part of the country
within the memory of it's oldest citizens. In fact, no one seems to recall
such a time at yet, it is rather unusual, that so far as can be learned
only two lives were lost. Two small children, living in a cottage
between
Grayson and Carter City, about three miles west of Grayson, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Damron, were drowned. They awakened about five a.m. and
Mr. Damron went out to release some hogs from their pen so they might
escape the water.
When he returned to the house he aroused the wife and before they could get
the two children awake and escape, the house left its foundation and
carried the family down stream. Nearly a quarter of a mile away the parents
escaped, but the two children were lost. One of the bodies was found soon
but the other has not been located
THE PORTSMOUTH TIMES, CONTRIBUTED BY A. P. HAIGHT The cloudburst of
Friday Aug, 10, which hit a portion of eastern Kentucky and seemed to
center about Olive Hill, Carter City, touching Lewis, Carter, Rowan and
part of Elliot counties, when viewed after the water has gone seems to have
been one of worst calamities to have befallen that part of the country
within the memory of it's oldest citizens. In fact, no one seems to recall
such a time at yet, it is rather unusual, that so far as can be learned
only two lives were lost. Two small children, living in a cottage
between
Grayson and Carter City, about three miles west of Grayson, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Damron, were drowned. They awakened about five a.m. and
Mr. Damron went out to release some hogs from their pen so they might
escape the water.
When he returned to the house he aroused the wife and before they could get
the two children awake and escape, the house left its foundation and
carried the family down stream. Nearly a quarter of a mile away the parents
escaped, but the two children were lost. One of the bodies was found soon
but the other has not been located
August 17, 1934
THE PORTSMOUTH TIMES, CONTRIBUTED BY A. P. HAIGHT The cloudburst of
Friday Aug, 10, which hit a portion of eastern Kentucky and seemed to
center about Olive Hill, Carter City, touching Lewis, Carter, Rowan and
part of Elliot counties, when viewed after the water has gone seems to have
been one of worst calamities to have befallen that part of the country
within the memory of it's oldest citizens. In fact, no one seems to recall
such a time at yet, it is rather unusual, that so far as can be learned
only two lives were lost. Two small children, living in a cottage
between
Grayson and Carter City, about three miles west of Grayson, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Damron, were drowned. They awakened about five a.m. and
Mr. Damron went out to release some hogs from their pen so they might
escape the water.
When he returned to the house he aroused the wife and before they could get
the two children awake and escape, the house left its foundation and
carried the family down stream. Nearly a quarter of a mile away the parents
escaped, but the two children were lost. One of the bodies was found soon
but the other has not been located
THE PORTSMOUTH TIMES, CONTRIBUTED BY A. P. HAIGHT The cloudburst of
Friday Aug, 10, which hit a portion of eastern Kentucky and seemed to
center about Olive Hill, Carter City, touching Lewis, Carter, Rowan and
part of Elliot counties, when viewed after the water has gone seems to have
been one of worst calamities to have befallen that part of the country
within the memory of it's oldest citizens. In fact, no one seems to recall
such a time at yet, it is rather unusual, that so far as can be learned
only two lives were lost. Two small children, living in a cottage
between
Grayson and Carter City, about three miles west of Grayson, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Damron, were drowned. They awakened about five a.m. and
Mr. Damron went out to release some hogs from their pen so they might
escape the water.
When he returned to the house he aroused the wife and before they could get
the two children awake and escape, the house left its foundation and
carried the family down stream. Nearly a quarter of a mile away the parents
escaped, but the two children were lost. One of the bodies was found soon
but the other has not been located
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