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DIED IN EFFORTS TO SAVE OTHERS. 387
pushed off, and at last succeeded in crawling into the window
after him. He is going to send for the dog, and declares that
never while he is living will it want for a rug to sleep on and a
bone to eat.
A. C. Fonda, chief clerk in the Santa Fe general freight
office, at Galveston, had a fearful experience during the storm.
He said that on Saturday afternoon, when it became apparent
that the flood was going to be very high, that he went down to
his home to remove the furniture from the lower floors to the
upper, never dreaming that the effects of the storm would be
more than a flooding of the first floors of residences. His family
being away in California, fortunately for them, he worked alone
and had about removed everything when the water got so high
that he could not escape from the house.
FLOATED IN A TANK.
He had noted a large zinc-lined wooden tank on the uppei
floor, used for holding water, and which he thought might be
used for.a boat, when suddenly the crash came and he knew no
more for possibly an hour. He recovered consciousness to find
himself floating in the tank on the surging waters, bruised, bleeding
and almost drowned. He managed to escape to higher
ground in a short while and crawled into a deserted house, where
he spent a night of horror, suffering from his illjuries and
momentarily expecting death. As soon as daylight came he
sought surgical assistance, and then saw the awful results of the
hurricanes work. Mr. Fonda is bruised all over, and has a deep
wound on the back of his head, but no bones were broken and he
is able to be at work.
E. F. Adams, chief clerk in the Santa Fe passenger department,
at Galveston, is also a flood sufferer, but happily his
family are in St. Louis at present, and his residence, being at
Alvin, only suffered slight damage. He said that he and fiftytwo
others occupied the Santa Fe general offices on the night of
the storm, andsin his opinion, very few of them, if any, realized
the awfulness of the disaster until next day, as the sheet-iron
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