A.N. Kinsman saves drowning child - Austin Daily Herald

A.N. Kinsman saves drowning child - Austin Daily Herald

By Tim Ruzek In early summer 1911, four children walked to the Cedar River for an afternoon of fishing at Austin’s Water Street dam. At the time, old Water Street (4th Ave NE) featured a steel trestle bridge that crossed the Cedar River above the dam, which provided water to power Campbell’s Peerless Flour mill on the east riverbank. With part of the dam dry, 12-year-old Katie Richardson and her friends worked their way at about 12:45 p.m. to th…