Of course we all ran out in the yard to see what was going on. The sea was just like a mountain coming, but slowly. That's what it seemed like to me. Right straight. There were three waves.

My little brother and sister were in the doorway. I ran and got him and ran behind the house and jumped the fence. I really don't know how high. When I got over the fence the water was coming underneath it.

I don't know how I did it. Because Elroy was biggish. He didn't remember anything though, he never did. He was only three and a half.

When I got over the fence I looked back and the house was just going with the light in the window

Mom came out in the yard. I don't know if she went back in the house or not, I never knew. Mother and my little sister didn't make it. They never did find my mother Frances, or my sister Dorothy.

It took everything when it came.

Later, the schooner Daisy was in here at the government wharf. The Daisy went out looking. She towed in a house, but it was not ours.

In Kelly's Cove three or four houses washed out. Mrs. Carrie Brushett and her five children were in one. The first wave came and took the house and took it out to sea and they were all in it. The second wave came and brought it back and put it on the beach. Then they all got out before the third wave came and took the house right out to sea. That's the house the Daisy towed in.

My other brother Curt was at my aunt's house at the time. I raised them up, the two boys, Elroy and Curt.

Father was down in the woods. We had a big schooner, and he was down getting wood for the winter. He didn't know a thing about it until he got home, a week later.