From the Chenango Union of Norwich, NY
Wednesday, July 12, 1871

   An excursion party from Georgetown and Otselic - some five hundred in all - came down the DeRuyter Branch on Thursday, and proceeded to Lyon Brook Bridge, there to pass the day in interviewing that immense structure, and enjoying a picnic. But we learn that they were not so fortunate as the part in the grove, as the storm which threatened here, burst upon the party at the Bridge in all its fury. As the cars which conveyed them to that point had gone on to the switch at the Oxford station, they were met without a chance for shelter; and a friend who happened in that vicinity at the time, informs us that he never saw a heavier fall of rain before, nor a more demoralized assortment of millinery and dress goods.