From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters"  Ed. by Thomas H.
Russell; 1913
Chapter IX
pg 150

        John Stone, 78 Victor street, was one of the large number of
volunteer life savers in Riverdale.  He rescued a woman from the
second-story of a house in Linwood street who insisted in bringing with her
a snow shovel.  Clutching the shovel to her breast, she sat in the stern
sheets of Stone's boat, alternately singing a hymn and laughting
hysterically.  In attempting to round a street corner where a torrent poured
in from a cross street, the boat struck an electric light pole and Stone
lost the paddle with which he was propelling his craft.
        "God told me!" shouted the woman, a Mrs. Clemens.  "He told me.
Now use the shovel."
        Stone managed to paddle his boat with the shovel to a place of safety.