Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-09-16
A STRANGE STORY.

liam Fy!er's Family, of Black Hawk
Drowned-Mother and Daughter Ship
wrecked-Death by Heart Disease of the
| Young Lady.
| From the Denver Democrat.
For the facts substantially related in
the following article, our reporter is in
debted to conductor Painter, of the
Colorado Central, on whose train the
unfortunate lady and surviving men,
Der OF the family took passage for
Black Hawk, one day last week, and
from whose lips came one of the
strangest and saddest histories it has
ever been the misfortune of our reporter
to hear.
About two years ago there lived in
Sacramento, CAL, a Baptist minister by
the name of Mr.. Fyler, with his wife
and eight children, four Of them being
daughters.
Mrs. Fyler had for several years been
afflicted with an aggravated form of
cancer, for the relief of which all known
remedies had failed, her case apparent
ly defying medical skill. The Youngest
of the four daughters was also a
constant sufferer from heart disease.
and it was for the supposed beneficial
effects of the climate on mother and
daughter that the family located in
California.
There being no apparent relief afford
ed them, they were advised to 60
abroad for treatment. It was, there
fore, agreed upon that the father and
three elder daughters should remain in
California, the four little ones to be
sent to a niece, named Margaret Stuart,
residing in Black Hawk, COL, while
Mrs. Fyler and her youngest daughter
went abroad, in the hope of getting at
least relief for their bodily ailments.
Shortly after their departure, Mr..
Fyley and daughters returned from
California 10 Colorado, locating in
Black Hawk.
After an absence of about year and
half, Mr.. Fyler received letter from
his wife stating that it was her inten-
ton to leave Europe for home on GER
tain date, and requesting that the fami-
ly meet them at New York. For this
purpose, father and daughter left Black
Hawk for that city, where they waited
and watched for the sufferers. Not
knowing the name of the vessel in
which they had sailed. and the proba-
BILE date OF their arrival having passed,
their anxiety gave place to serious ap-
prehensiOns and surmises as to the
probable cause of the delay.
The passenger list of each incoming
steamer was eagerly searched in vain
for the names of their loved ones, and
all inquiries seemed only to envelope
the affair in greater mystery.
Receiving no further communication
from his wife, Mr.. Fyler and daughters
went to New Jersey, to visit some &C
quaintances, in the meantime having
exerted every possible means that
would be likely to result in the dis
covery of the whereabouts of mother
and daughter. The convalescents sail
ed from Europe about the appointed
time, in the sailing vessel Mary Ann,
and when four days out the vessel
encountered severe storm and was
wrecked. Among the few passengers
who escaped watery grave were Mrs
Fyler and her daughter, who were pick
ed up by an English steamer bound
for New York, at which place they
arrived.
Having reason to expect that they
would be met in that city by the re-
mainder of the family, they in turn be-
came anxious as to their whereabouts,
inquiries in every direction proving
unavailing, their information from
Black Hawk being to the effect that
Mr.. Fyler and daughters had left that
place for New York some time previous.
Being in weak bodily condition,
they were lily able to bear up under
this new afliction.
In New York without friends, til e
great city seemed to them awilderness,
and they resolved to come to Black
Hawk, which was to be their future
home, but which now had for them no
interest other than the possibility of
their getting some information that
might give them a clue to the where
abouts of husband and father.
| When the train bearing them west
ward reached New Brunswick. n. j..
the daughter. picked up a newspaper
which had been left in an adjoining
seat, and busted herself in looking it
over. The paper might be said to have
been her death warrant. In it she read
the announcement Of the death by
drowning of her father and three Sis
ters, while sailing off the coast of New
Jersey. She communicated the sad in
telligence to her distracted mother, and
then sank back in her seat, and without
uttering another word, she died of
heart disease so suddenly and unex-
pectedly did this affecting dispensation
visit her, as to cause shock to her
nervous system from which she found
relief only in death.
Mrs. Fyler, an invalid, perhaps child
less, and a widow; with the cold form
Of her long suffering daughter and
companion at her side, that now, for
the first time, attracted the attention
of the passengers, who kindly admin
istered to her in her great bereave-
ment.
After burying her child at New
Brunswick, the almost distracted moth
er continued her journey to Black
Hawk, where she arrived last week.
Here she hoped to find her niece, Mar
garet Stuart, who had her four little
boys, and Immediately upon her arriv