From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters"  Ed. by Thomas H.
Russell; 1913
Chapter IX
pg 138-9

        Of the thousands of remarkable escapes the experience of Miss
Flossie Lester, a stenographer, who was marooned on an overtuned moving van
in Edgemont, a suburb of Dayton, was considered on the the oddest.  With
several men, Miss Lester mounted on a passing van when the flood came.  The
van was soon overturned and the party thrown into the icy water.
        The horses that had been hauling the van broke loose and separated,
swimming for their lives.  One of them passed close to Miss Lester, who
grasped a dangling strap and succeeded in climbing astride the animal's back.
        For more than a mile and a half Miss Lester clung with her arms
about the horse's nexk until it reached a high approach of the levee near a
farmhouse.  Here Miss Lester fell unconscious to the ground.  She was taken
in by the farmer's family.  The horse was taken to the barn.
        Miss Lester told rrescuers that she would buy the horse if its owner
could be found.