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John died about the last day of June, 1817, aged 54 years. Doctor and Jack, having finished their murderous design, fled before they could be apprehended, and lay six weeks in the woods back of Canisteo. I however, would not accept their wampum, but returned it with a request, that, rather than have them killed, they would run away and keep out of danger.
The Canisteo Valley for a distance of forty miles was under water, and the situation was appalling. Roads were washed out, bridges gone and much property destroyed. The fire in every furnace in the flood district was out, and suffering was acute. The lake region in the central western part of the state suffered heavily from floods.
The washing out of bridges and the flooding of roads practically cut the villages off from the outside world. One thousand persons were driven from their homes at Olean by the high waters of the Canisteo and Hornell. John Cook was drowned while attempting to rescue others. Four oil tanks were floating about the city of Olean, and the coating of oil on the water made the danger from fire serious.
The water was from three to ten feet deep. Following thirty hours of continued rain, Hornell, a small city in Steuben County, suffered the worst flood in its history. It swept down the Canisteo Valley, completely inundating the greater portion of the city of Hornell and half a dozen villages within a radius of ten miles. A thousand homes were flooded.
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