-2:25 P.M.

Wilson heard that a kid named John Baker had just come from the dam and said the water was cutting a notch in the face of the dam. It's too late now even for an "EVACUATE!" message to be sent and received in Johnson but this message that Wilson sent to Pitcairn at 2:25 PM is absurdly "cool" and ambiguous.

                                                                                           SOUTH FORK, MAY 31, 1889

R.P.

OD

THE DAM IS BECOMING DANGEROUS AND MAY POSSIBLY GO.

                                                                                                           J.P. WILSON