翻刻
見れは右六人之内四人は女弐人は男也
此者共に承り候得は前橋之上拾里程先キ
うば村と申所之者又壱人は白井町名主
何某か妻之由申聞候に付先々承記相送り
遣申候由同日夜子ノ刻頃凡廿間余も有之候
鮫之如く成ルもの利根川に通り候其音す
さましき事何にたとへ候様も無之候同夜
五ッ時頃又々右同様之物川上より 響（オト）【ルビ朱書】強ク
何れ来り水底にしづみ申候
一 同十日朝より前橋伊勢崎之者水ふせきに罷出
候者凡弐百人計壱人も帰り不申候由今以
昼夜共川筋え罷出候処水中に煙立大石
は火之如くに相成燃申候時々響甚敷石砂
燃上り候節は江戸にて火事之如くに相見え
申候依之昼夜共に寝臥候事難相成致
難儀候
一 伊勢崎之辺降候砂計り立候処六尺四方に壱
斗余も有之候尤かる石の如くすみ
現代語訳
見てみると、その六人のうち四人は女性、二人は男性でありました。この者たちに話を聞いてみますと、前橋の上流十里ほど先の「うば村」と申す所の者、また一人は白井町の名主某の妻であるとのことで、それぞれ（身元を）確認した上で記録し、送り届けるよう手配いたしました。同日の夜、子の刻（午前零時）頃、凡そ二十間余りもある鮫のようなものが利根川を通っていき、その音の凄まじいことといったら、何にたとえようもございませんでした。同夜五つ時頃、またもや右と同様のものが川上より響（音）強く流れてきて、いずれも水底に沈んでいきました。
一、同十日の朝より、前橋・伊勢崎の者が水防のために出動した者がおよそ二百人ほどおりましたが、一人も帰ってきた者がないとのことです。今もなお昼夜ともに川筋へ出向いておりますところ、水中に煙が立ち、大石は火のようになって燃えており、時々響きが甚だしく、石や砂が燃え上がる折には、江戸で火事が起きているかのように見えます。これにより昼夜ともに寝臥すことが難しく、難儀いたしております。
一、伊勢崎の辺りに降った砂だけを集めてみますと、六尺四方に一斗余りもございました。なお、軽石のように（見えますが）炭のような（黒い）
英語訳
Upon examination, of these six people, four were women and two were men. Upon questioning them, we learned that some were from a place called Uba-mura, approximately ten ri upstream from Maebashi, and one was said to be the wife of the headman (nanushi) of Shirai-machi. Having confirmed their identities, we arranged to have records made and to have them sent home to their respective places. That same night, around the Hour of the Rat (midnight), something resembling a shark, measuring approximately twenty ken (roughly 36 meters) in length, passed through the Tone River — the sound it made was so terrifying that there are no words to describe it. Again, around the fifth hour (approximately 8 PM) of that same night, a similar object came with a powerful roar from upstream and eventually sank to the bottom of the river.
Item: From the morning of the 10th, approximately two hundred people from Maebashi and Isesaki set out for flood-control work, but not a single one of them has returned. Even now, people continue to go out to the riverside both day and night, where smoke rises from within the water, great boulders glow and burn like fire, and at times the rumbling is tremendous — when the rocks and sand blaze up, it appears as though a great fire is burning in Edo. Because of this, it has become impossible to sleep or rest at any hour, causing us great hardship.
Item: When we collected only the ash that had fallen in the vicinity of Isesaki, there was more than one tō (approximately 18 liters) within a six-shaku square (approximately 1.8 meters square). Furthermore, it resembles pumice stone but is charcoal-black in color...