Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-01

! The scene from HARRISBURG 10 Lynch
burg is deplorable. The water is up to the
top of the cars on the San Antonio Kali
road track at Harrisburg. AT Morse
worthy's it was up to the front-yard gate
At Massie,s the drift marked the height
of the tide far up the bank at his landing.
| DIR. Massie stated to the passengers on the
| Fowler that the tide=water from the gull
was thirty-four inches above the highest
rain.flood within his knowledge on the
bayou
Between Lynchburg and Morgan's
| Point not house is standing on the i'm
mediate shore of San Jacinto Bay or on
the islands except the warehouse of the
| Ship Channel Company on the point. Of
| the residents Mrs. Pierce and four chill
dren, little Clara Grafton, Mrs. Mckee and
| Mrs. August are known TO have been lost.
| MIR. and Mrs. Alexander and Mr.. Mckee
are said to have been saved by young Mr..
| MiItrun.
| UNHAPPY EXPERIENCE OF TWO FAMILIES.
MIR. and Mrs. West formerly Mrs.
| Grafton) occupied new house at Bay
town Mrs Mckee and little Clara Graf
ton, Mrs. Vests child, were with them.
| When the water rose over Hog Island Mr..
| Mckee, Charles Post, the lightkeeper, and
Mrs. Pierce, with four children, aban-
doned that place and came in skif' to
| Vests, Thursday morning before day.
light During Thursday the water rose
gradually in the house, and by afternoon
reached the ceiling. They hung on by
the windows until about foCr p. m, when,
| finding that the water was gaining, they
got into skiff, with the hope of reaching
the high land. In half an hour the skitf
was swamped, and in getting hold of the
windows again two children were lost,
the oldest and youngest girl. Mr.. West
then made hole in the roof, and all were
got on it. Small hand-holes were made
to cling to. In short time the roof was
swept away from the building, the tide
carrying them up the bay several miles.
They drifted about Thursday night and
Friday at the mercy of the waves, during
which time Mr.. Mckee and Mr.. Post got
in tree, when the norther came out on
Friday and drove them back down the
bay. Of the occupants of the roof none
| remained but Mr.. and Mrs. West, Mrs.
Pierce and one child, and Mr.. Post. The
wind drove them across the bay
| and the current into the mouth of the
canal. Just as the roof entered the canal it
turned over and Mrs Pierce and child
| were lost. Mr. West rose, clinging to
his wife, and seized the roof again, the
current swept the roof over on the east
| side, and when it struck the bank the two
were thrown up on the side of the dump.
| Post was able to reach the bank, West
was senseless, and Mrs. West stunned, but
moaning The tug Coates had been driven
| by the gale on the point, and lay on the
| other side of the dump. Mr.. Nelson, who
had brought her up from Reddish
| through the gale, and Mr.. Rhett, master
mechanic, were on board. Hearing the
means, they went over the dump and car
ried the rescued pair on board the tug.
About seven p. NJ, within half an hour
after Mrs. West was carried on the tug,
: she was taken i'll and gave birth to boy.
| These rugged men, fathers themselves, yet
unused to such ministratiOns, aided by
| Mr.. West, faithfully performed the duties
belonging to gentler hands. The brave
little woman who had undergone all these
perils, seeing mother, child sister and her
four nieces swept away before her eyes,
gave directions which doubtless saved her
| life AMI that of the babe. AS soon as
mother and babe were in condition to be
moved and the gale would permit couch
was made, and the men of the dredging
fleet carried them up to the old Morgan
place, occupied by Mr.. Tom Edwards,
where every possible arrangement was
made for their comfort. Yesterday even
ing, when the Fowler left Morgan's Point,
both were doing well.-HouSt0n I'ele-
graph, Sept. 81.