From: The Breckenridge (Kentucky) News 
Wednesday, April 8, 1907

HAD TO MOVE OUT
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Family Of Forrest Gilliland Had
Harrowing Experience With
The High Waters

   Surrounded by waters from the Ohio, and the head of the household sick in bed with typhoid fever, was the perilous position in which the family of Forrest Gilliland was found on last Saturday morning about 2 o’clock.
   A telephone message to Dr. F. L. Lightfoot during the progress of the storm Saturday night informed him of the imminent danger the family was in and summoning to his assistance Messrs. H. L. Stader, J. Byrne Severs and Lawrence Murray, a rescue party was formed and in a skiff made for the house.
   Besides Mr. Gilliland, who is confined to his bed from illness, his wife, two children, his mother-in-law and brother-in-law were in his house and all were taken to places of safety.
   The waters had surrounded the house and the family was living upstairs. The strong current had washed the porch and steps away and undermined the foundation of the structure. The high wind added to [the] squally situation and when the rescuers reached the building it was swaying to and fro, apparently ready at any moment to be carried away by the swift waters.

-- Contributed and transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2009.