PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS 
Formation of Sandusky Bay and Cedar Point 
E. L. MOSELEY 
NORTHEAST GALES. 
No wonder people talk about the weather! What else 
affects the fortunes of men so much? The night of June 28th, 
1902, having decided to take an early train for Pittsburg and so 
not sleeping as well as usual, I listened to the rain beating against 
my east windows. Walking with rubber boots to the depot I 
found gutters overflowing, all the ditches between Sandusky and 
Cleveland carrying torrents of muddy water, and creeks swollen 
to the size of small rivers wearing on the load of sediment toward 
the bay and lake. 
Others too had reason to remember that northeast storm. 
The water in the bay rose higher than for fifteen years before. 
Along the southwestern shore several acres of land were washed 
away. In Sandusky thousands of feet of lumber were washed 
off the docks. No boat ventured out of the bay. 
In the lake the steamer Dunbar foundered southeast of 
Middle Island. . Of the ten on board five took to the life raft and 
five to a yawl boat. The boat capsized and two of its occupants 
drowned. ‘‘The others, Captain Little, his wife, and daughter 
supported by life-preservers drifted about for several hours until 
they were borne to the vicinity of Kelley’s Island,” where they 
were rescued by the heroic efforts of Fred Dishinger, Sr., Fred 
Dishinger, Jr., and James Hamilton. The next morning a 
corpse was found on the beach less than two miles west of Huron 
and a little farther west on Cedar Point close to Rye Beach two 
more with a life raft bearing the word “‘ Dunbar.’”’ On one was a 
watch still running and keeping nearly correct Eastern time! 
On the east point of South Bass Island the waves piled up 
the gravel into a ridge which remains to this day. Along the 
east side of the Marblehead Sand Spit at the entrance to San- 
dusky Bay is a ridge supporting a growth of young willows and 
cottonwoods. It was probably formed at the same time. 
“Not only is it true that the work accomplished in a few 
days during the height of the chief flood of the year is greater 
than all that is accomplished during the remainder of the year, 
but it may even be true that the effect of the maximum flood of 
