Gus Maiser — miraculous flood rescue in Silver City

A few days before August 1888, a little son of Doroteo Madrid lingered too long on the breakwater near the foot of Main street and was surrounded by water ^[2][1]. Maiser waded out to help and was swept over the dam into the dashing stream below ^[2][1]. A good swimmer, he struggled, sank twice, was whirled between the piers of the old bridge, and was carried to the bank near the railroad bridge ^[2][1]. There, Tomas Medina, a muscular employee of the Enterprise office, seized him, and with Dick Allen lifted him senseless from the water ^[2][1]. The crowd never expected to see Maiser alive again, as he was beaten against rocks and buried by pools, carried over 100 yards in a narrow channel ^[2][1]. Medina, standing at Centennial corner when Maiser went over, ran 200 yards to the bridge in time to save him ^[2][1]. Slough soon pronounced the injuries not fatal ^[2][1].