From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters"  Ed. by Thomas H.
Russell; 1913
Chapter IX
pg 147-8

        With the rapid subsiding of the flood waters and dissipating of
panic among refugees at Dayton, thrilling adventures continued coming to
light.  Among the most interesting of these were the experiences of the
family of Charles M. Adams in Riverdale.  When the flood first rushed
through that section of the city Mr. Adams got his wife and 10-month-old
twin girls into a skiff and took them to the home of a friend in Warder street.
        An hour later it was again necessary to move and the family was
taken by rescuers out of a second-story window.  The canoe in which they
were being transported was dashed against a telegraph pole by the terrific
curent and capsized.  Adams swam bravely in the icy water for a few minutes
when he was picked up by some men in a flat boat.
        Just before he was rescued he saw his wife sink for the third time.
The baby girls were floating down the street.  Then he collapsed.  Three
hours later he regained consciousness to find himself in an attic and beside
him on the floor lay his wife, whom he believed to have been drowned.  A few
minutes later a man crawled into the attic window from the floating roof of
a barn, bringing with him the twins.  They had caught in the branches of a
tree and were picked off unhurt by the man, who was riding to safety on the
roof.  Mrs. Adams was rescued by a high school boy on a hastily improvised
raft.  The lad was a member of the Riverdale troop of the boy scouts and had
been trained how to administer first aid to the drowning.