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The water swept over the valley low lands, before some North side Wheat City dwellers could evacuate their domiciles.  
 
Overnight, numerous home owners found themselves trapped by the floodwater, and awaited rescue by boat. Beyond Eighteenth Street, a lake appeared, and the Snye River Bridge was buttressed against erosion.  
 
During the next twenty-four hours the waters rose more than twelve inches, until they were lapping at the foot of Sixth Street. The floodwater had caused several houses to collapse, and sink from sight.  
 
Many spectators lined the hills to gaze upon the destructive mass littered with floating debris, and view the growing piles of personal effects that had been hastily removed from homes by the citizens who found common shelter in the recently opened Winter Fair Building.  
 
The sullen river was relentless, and continued to rise, at least twenty-seven inches during another fourteen-hour interval. The water finally inundated the Eighteenth Street Grade, and partially covering First Street.  
 
Very soon launches were plying between riverbank shores, conveying North Brandon area farmers with their produce. The Canadian Pacific Railroad offered accommodations to North End inhabitants located at a siding east of the Hospital for Mental Diseases.  
 
Finally, while various “Flats” taxpayers purchased MacDonald Avenue property upon which to rebuild, the six-foot deep waters started to recede. An agonizingly slow ebb handicapped health officials in removing from culverts, and riverbank bushes the trapped remains of flood claimed horses and cattle.  
 
Note about the Snye River:  
http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/snye.htm  
 
Source: Brandon a City by G. F. Barker