NE History & Record of Pioneer Days Vol VII, no 2 (part 2) ERECT
MONUMENT TO PIONEERS On May 26, 1885, four families of Bohemian
emigrants traveling in three covered wagons drawn by ox teams,
camped in Richmond canyon about midway between Bartley and
Cambridge at point where the D. L. D. highway now crosses. About
9 o'clock a wall of water came down the canyon and swept the
entire camp away. Of the seventeen members of the party, men,
women and children, three women and six children were drowned.
To commemorate this incident in the early history of Red Willow
county, a monument has been erected close to the place where
these emigrants camped for the night and exercises were held
there yesterday, participated in by fully twnty-five (sic)
hundred persons, who gathered from all parts of southwestern
Nebraska. The exercises consisted of music by the Cambridge band
and addresses by Honorable C. E. Eldred, of McCook, Honorable B.
F. Butler of Ca bridge, Honorable A. M. Keyes, of Holbrook and
others. The ceremony wa