From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters"  Ed. by Thomas H.
Russell; 1913
 Chapter IX
 pg 135-6
 
         A.J. Saettle, owner of the house in which fire started after a gas
explosion, was reported to have been blown into the air and killed
instantly.  Mrs. Shunk, a neighbor, was blown out of her home into the
flood, and, after clinging to a telegraph pole for half an hour, finally
succumbed and was sucked away under the waters, according to a report
received at rescue headquarters.
        The explosion blew a stable filled with hay into the middle of the
flooded street and this carried the flames to the opposite side of the street.
         The next house to burn was Harry Lindsay's, then Mary Creidler's
and then the home of Theodore C. Lindsay.  Houses that had been carried away
from their foundations floated into the flames and soon were a bonfire.  The
flames burned without restraint, because engines could not get near enough
to stop them.