PORTLAND (AP) – A Lebanon woman Tuesday recalled her husband’s unsuccessful attempt to rescue a 4-year-old New Hampshire girl and her grandmother who were swept into the Little River after they tried to cross a flooded road during the Patriot’s Day storm.

Donna Dube, 50, of Lebanon and her granddaughter, Saphire Perro of Manchester, N.H., had left their vehicle and were crossing to Dube’s house Monday afternoon when the fast-moving water washed them downstream.

“I opened the sliding door and I heard screaming,” Olga Eliason told the Portland Press Herald. As she went down her driveway, her husband George Eliason, 40, pulled up in his truck on the other side of the river.

“He was swimming and yelling at me to turn around and go back, and I felt the current was just taking me right down,” she said. “I could see that woman’s head and the child.”

Olga Eliason said she retreated and her husband yelled to a friend to call 911.

“George finally got out of the water. He was on like a branch. All I heard the whole time was ‘Hold on! You’re going to make it.’ He lost his voice screaming,” his wife said.

She also could hear Dube.

“She was screaming and then after a while, she wasn’t screaming any more and you couldn’t hear any more.”

Game wardens and a Lebanon rescue worker arrived with a boat and recovered Dube, Saphire and Eliason. Dube and her granddaughter were pronounced dead at Goodall Hospital in Sanford; Eliason was treated for hypothermia and released.