From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters"  Ed. by Thomas H.
Russell; 1913
Chapter IX
pg 134-5

        A woman with three children, marooned in the upper floor of her home
on the edge of the business district, called to the oarsmen:
        "Oh, I know you can't take me off," she cried, "but please take this
loaf of bread and jug of molasses to Sarah Pruyn down the street; I know
she's starving."
        Twice the boatmen attempted to take the food, but waves that eddied
about the submerged house hurled them back.