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 bearing 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 



