A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . jor Fouche andCapt. Stillwell are living away fromhome. Bales of cotton, box cars and hogson rafts are floating about the bale of hay came down one of therivers with a crowing rooster on people are cheerful.—Edward , Saturday, April 3, 1886. A Perilous Trip to Rome.—King-ston Ga., April 2.— (Special.) —Tuesday morning, after all trains hadstopped running on the Rome Rail-road, and the Etowah overflow hadcovered most of i
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . jor Fouche andCapt. Stillwell are living away fromhome. Bales of cotton, box cars and hogson rafts are floating about the bale of hay came down one of therivers with a crowing rooster on people are cheerful.—Edward , Saturday, April 3, 1886. A Perilous Trip to Rome.—King-ston Ga., April 2.— (Special.) —Tuesday morning, after all trains hadstopped running on the Rome Rail-road, and the Etowah overflow hadcovered most of its track, Capt. JohnJ. Seay came up from Atlanta toKingston on the morning passenger,saying he must get to Rome, wherehis family and his property were. Heand John H. Harris started on thisperilous trip in a buggy, while therain came down in blinding drove through water some threeor four feet deep for four what is usually a smallstream, near the Barnsley place, andbeing advised by a farmer that it wasfordable, they drove in. The horse hadgone only a few steps when he be- 320 A History of Rome and Floyd
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