Troy,
NY Storm & Drownings
August 30, 1871
Severe Rain Storm at Troy - Sad Drowning
Accident.
Troy, August 30, 1871.
A severe rain storm has raged here for
the last twenty-fours. The city is flooded
and the river and streams are much swollen.
John Powers,
with John Crowe,
aged seventeen and
Maggie McCarty, aged thirteen, were
in a small boat in Poestenkill Creek, gathering
driftwood, at half-past four o'clock this
afternoon, when they unconsciously drifted into
the strong current.
Crowe exclaimed "We are Lost!" and jumped
overboard. Powers then attempted to throw
the girl ashore and jumped overboard after her.
Crowe and the girl were carried over the dam and
drowned. Powers drifted in an eddy, where
he seized hold of an old engine lying in the
creek, to which he clung until rescued.
The bodies of the drowned have not been
recovered.
New York Herald, New York, NY 31 Aug
1871
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