I. Wood Miller, 34, liveryman, saved John H. Eggen, Jr., 28, painter, from drowning, Taylorsville, Kentucky, February 23, 1909. In darkness, Miller, wearing rubber boots, swam 185 feet in the rushing floodwaters of Brashears Creek to the corner of a picket fence, 11 feet from a lamppost to which Eggen was clinging. Standing on top of the fence, he broke off a section of it and swung it toward Eggen, but the latter missed it. He then tried to extend a plank, but the current whirled it away. Miller then broke off another section of the fence, and as he swung it out, Eggen dropped on his chest on it and he did likewise, keeping his feet on another floating section. They were carried against a tree, and Miller shoved Eggen up on its trunk and then swam 25 feet to a house. He secured a rope, swam back with difficulty to Eggen, and grasped his hand, and the two were pulled to the house. 3494-402
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