Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-25


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ABOUT two years ago there lived in
Sacramento, Cal, 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 can
Ger, for the relief of which all known
remedies had failed, her case apparently
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 apparentrelief afforded
them, they were advised to go abroad for
treatment. 1T was therefore agreed upon
that the father and three eldest daughters
should remain in California, the four
little ones to be sent to niece, named
Margaret Stuart, residing in Black Hawk,
Col, while Mrs. Fyler and her youngest
ting at least relief for their bodily all
ments.
Shortly after their departure. Mr..
Fyler and daughters returned from Cali
fornia to Colorado, locating in Black
Hawk.
After an absence of about year and a
half Mr.. Fyler received letter from his
wife stating that it was her intention to
leave Europe for home on certain date
and requesting that the family meet them
at New York. For this purpose father and
daughters left Black Hawk for that city,
where they waited and watched for the
return of the sufferers. Not knowing the
name of the vessel in which they had
sailed, and the probable date of their arri-
val having passed, their anxiety gave place
to serious apprehensions 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 in
quiries seemed only to envelop the affair
in greater mystery.
Receiving no further communication
from his wife, Mr.. Fyler and daughters
went to New Jersey to visit some ac-
Quaintances, in the meantime having eX-
erted every possible means that would
be likely to result in the discovery of the
whereabouts of mother and daughter.
The convalescents sailed from Europe
about the appointed time, in the sailing
vessel Mary Ann, and when four days
out the vessel encountered a severe
few passengers who escaped a watery
grave were Mrs. Fyler and daughter,
who were picked up by an English
steamer bound for New York, at which
place they arrived a little over four days
ago.
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 una
vailing, 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
affliction.
In New York without friends, the
great city seemed to them wilderness,
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 clew to the whereabouts of hus-
band and father.
When the train bearing them west
ward reached New Brunswick, n. j., the
daughter picked up a newspaper which
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busted herself in looking it over. The
paper might be said to have been her
death warrant. In it she read the an
nouncement of the death by drowning of
her father and three sisters, while sail
ing off the coast of New Jersey. She
communicated the sad intelligence to her
distracted mother, and then sank back in
her seat, and without uttering another
word she died of heart disease. So sud
denly and unexpectedly did this afflict-
ing dispensation visit her as to cause a
shock to her nervous system from which
she found relief only in death.