Millstone, NJ Ice Floe, Jan 1902   Man, Horse and Wagon Swept
Down Raritan River.  SOMERVILLE, N. J., Jan. 23.---When Tax
Assessor John H. Saums of Hillsborough township, left his home
in Millstone this morning with his bay trotter hitched to a
light road wagon he found the approaches to the big iron bridge
over the Raritan river south of this place under three feet of
water. He urged his horse through and had nearly reached the
bridge when the animal disappeared in a hole that had been
washed out in the roadbed. The horse came to the surface and
swam out into the river, carrying the wagon and Saums with it.
The swift current and floating ice which the heavy rains of last
night had broken up swept the horse and wagon along. They were
struck by the ice and rolled over and over and often disappeared
was witnessed by farmers on an embankment near the river, but
they were unable to go to the rescue through the flooded
lowlands. William Snyder, a farmer who was nearest the river hid
behind his barn to avoid seeing