July 16th 1900

~July 16th 1900. Camp Br. Weather pleasant but warm and sultry*. Bade the Elders goodbye and started for Bro. Aliskers. Crossed the Guyan toll river in a boat, also took a bath in the river,arriving at Bro. Aliskers about one o clock. They got us some dinner stayed there all night. Was troubled with bed bugs but finally made out. Mrs. Aliskers would chew and spit tobacco all over the hearth. ~


~ This area of the Ohio River Valley is a humid subtropical climate.
~In January 1913, national news was made when the middle span of a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (C&O) bridge over the Guyandotte River collapsed, and a train locomotive, engineer and bridge workers fell into the river. Engineer Shorty Webber and six bridge workers were killed. (The workers had been performing maintenance on the bridge.) Rescuers saved seven bridge workers from the river.It was not until June 1913 that the C&O company was able to salvage the locomotive from the river.