The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-04
e0N BELIEVED LOOl y
GALVESTON FLOOD
COON BE REUNITED WITH
uurr TN ALBANY AFTER
FOURTEEN YEARS.
M TRACE OF THE MOTHER

No Word Heard by Fathsr SINCE the
Mother and Son Left for Texas City
p,ior to Flood. Young Bush Now
corporal in U. S. Army.
ALBANY, Ga.-Given up as lost
an his mother in the Galveston
aood nearly fifteen years ago, the lit
40 fve-year-old son of Officer H. E.
pnsb of the Albany police force, has
boen found in the person of Corporal
Bush, United States army, located at
Fort Dale, Ala.
Never a story in fiction had more
tragic human interest. Officer Bush,
j .bon a trusted and faithful member
& NJ the Columbus police force, put his
young wife and little boy on the
4 troin one day, more than fourteen
& voors ago. for a visit to relatives in
! The distant Texas city. Not thought
If the awful catastrophe came into
tbe fathers mind or heart.
But when Geographic instruments
q all over the land clicked out the news
of the terrible hurricane and flood
that all but destroyed the city where
d his dear ones were visiting his heart
eeemed almost to stand still in terror
a and suspense.
We're they safe? Had they escap-
cd the death-dealing tidal wave that
had carried so many hundreds to sud
"a den death?
No News Is Heard.
For days the distracted father
sought news, and hearing none, eth
or from his wife or the relatives
whom she was visiting, he boarded
train and fastened to the stricken
& city. With the aid of a Pinkerton
detective the distracted father follow
Il ed every line of search that presented
itself or that his anxious mind and
d heart could suggest. The home in
u which they had been visiting was in
the very heart of the stricken sec
& ton, and no trace of any of its Occu-
q pants could be found. The relatives
Il of Mrs Bush were strangers in that
II city, having only recently moved
Il there from Columbus, and no one
could be found that could give the
q father any news of them whatever.
That they had been buried with the
many unknown dead was the inevi-
q table conclusion at which the father
n finally arrived, and he returned to his
n home in Columbus with gray hairs
& mixed among the black on his sOr-
Il TOw-bowed head.
n Years passed and no word was ev-
3 er heard from beyond that mystic
81 STROUD that enyelOped his wife and
child. In Albany another happy home
was made, with a second wife and a
81 bright, pretty little girl to bring sun
shlne and happiness back into his
81 neart. In that home a large crayon
portrait of the lost baby boy hangs
IN a prominent place on the living
Ri room wall.
Father Located in Albany.
Then one day-just few days ago
IN lact-out of the oblivion of the
s past came a flash of remembrance of
'nat awful time when the father gave
up nope of ever seeing his little boy
again. MemOry'S sensitive tendrils
were stirred by the receipt of a let
ler from Corporal Bush, who had met
man who had known the Bush fam
II II! IN Columbus, and who had told
1in OF the father who had put his
TIie and baby boy on the train for
GdI'eSton few days before the flood.
hetIerS to Columbus were written,
and at last, by this means, the faith
0I was located in Albany.
~, n
,ueutlty having been established be-
ionu doubt-the young man says
~ can remember little of the awful
inCluents Of the flood, or how he was
ne was turned over to the Catholic
4iSteFS and brought up in an institu-
T WI Ior orphans in New Orleans.
mneH only l6 he had enlisted in the
my and all through his three-year
n o,H OF service he saved his pay to
~ III search for his father, a faint
r ray sure memory of whom he had
ro oiip,tued ever since the parting at the
b"'5"dy station in Columbus. But he
Sn su IHolnlng tangible to work on and
s spemt all his money in the vain
"''H Then he re-enlisted.
End of Life Search.
NH telling his story to everyone with
tb loIn ne became acquainted at last
an 10Y met the man who put him
tbo Tue right track, and then came
sss 500 Happy elimination of his life's
viii Snl C Bush is in correspondence
eFo n congressman Frank Park in an
ARM ARM 10 secure the release from the
tho OF his boy, and so appealing is
tbo SIory of fate and mystery that
pro,a ,olg-nearted congressman has
fam gb,,llSed to send the boy home to his
daTD0 I within the next ten or fifteen
tho ie5Darations are being made for
yonrI homecoming of the athletic
s6 Srng man-for such his photos
fab MIN to be-and a reunion of
snoat and son, different in some re-
Dr oGts from that of the father and
mnc lss al son, but in some respects
can M so llke it, will occur. For the boy
80 9dy to the little sister:
mor.. Is meet that we should make
er w.. and be glad, for this thy broth