Miami Daily News, reported the following heart rending story, which no doubt was typical of many others:
H. H. Howell, city marshal of Moore Haven, sat on a lounge in the Nan-Ces-O-Wee Hotel here (Sebring) and told me how his wife, with four children tied to her, all of them supported by inflated inner tubes, had floated for seven hours and how she had fought through, with rare presence of mind, to save two of the children.
"I was at work on the levee when it crumbled that morning at 9 o'clock," Howell related. "A six-foot wall of water came over and I tried to reach my little home not far from the edge of the levee. My wife had prepared for just such an emergency. She had tied an inflated inner tube about each of our four children and two about herself. Using a pair of silk stockings, she bound them all to her. When the wave came they floated out the front door.
"For an hour and a half they drifted west before the wind. Then the wind and current changed and they were carried down the bank of the canal. They floated another hour and then were swept through and over a barbed wire fence. The tube that supported my six-year-old boy, George, was punctured and he drowned, but my wife would not then cut him loose. After another hour the baby, little three-year-old Eleanor, died of strangulation. My wife couldn't keep the waves out of her face. And still they floated on. For two hours more my wife swam with the four children, two of them dead. Realizing that her strength was almost gone, she finally freed the two drowned children
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WHY RAIL COMMUNICATION TO MOORE HAVEN WAS IMPOSSIBLE.
