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"- The following is one of the incidents of the late flood in Minnesota, related by The Winona Republican: "The two sons of George Schmit, living at Burnside, and aged about 15 and 17 years, crossed the railroad bridge, about a mile and a half above New City, about 4 o'clock in Friday afternoon. After a while they started on their return home, and had reached the middle bent of the bridge, when they saw the shore bent ahead of them washed away. Then they turned to run back, but before they could get off the bent the other was also swept down stream, leaving them on the middle bent in the midst of the boiling waters, swaying with the current, and expecting every moment to be washed away. The night came on bitter cold, but they were obliged to remain in their perilous position until 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Both boys froze their feet so badly that it is thought they would have to be amputated below the knees. Mr Schmit was formerly a resident of Winona, and was in the employ of Geo. W. Payne. It is reported that a man named Fay and one or two others were also badly frozen in the same vicinity."[Editor note] Thanks to Janet Carlson who posted this excerpt to the Facebook Group "Vistorian Images" (9 January 2014)