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Brushett, William on the 'Keith V. Collin'
1935
Halifax, Canada

Credits:
Picture courtesy of Barry Hollett

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Pearl's father, William Brushett, was a crewmember on the "Keith V. Colin"

"My Dad wasn't home a the time. He was down in the woods, in the bay they called it, cutting wood for hte winter. And he said if he had been home we would probably been all drowned cause he would have opened the back door and then the water would have rushed in of course and swept us out through, apparently. ah, he didn't hear anything abou it until three days later. He didn't know if we were dead or alive until he got back to Burin....He was a fisherman, so he fished all summer and in the fall they went to the woods to get wood for the winter or the next year. That's where he was when it happened. He hadn't heard anything about it until he got home. I think it was three days before they had heard and he didn't know if we were alive or if we were all gone."

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Brushett House towed to Ship Cove by the Customs Cutter 'S.S. Daisy'
November, 1929
Burin Looking East

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Centre is the Brushett house moored in Ship Cove

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Hollett took us up to their house. The next wave came in and took the house out through the gut. The lamp was still burning in the kitchen when the old "Daisy" towed it in the next day. It was moored off in Ship Cove for I don't know how long but a while. Our old cat was still in the house but when my uncle went up to the house after it was moored in Ship Cove, the cat jumped out over his head and ran out, swam to shore. So nobody knows what happened to the cat.

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Hatfield, Pearl (Brushett)
24 November 2005
Burin Museum

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For the longest time I used to have nightmares...that the water would be... I'd be running and the water would be right at my heels. I'd keep running until I woke up.

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Brushett, William and Carrie
1930
Kelly's Cove

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William and Carrie Brushett, Kelly's Cove
"After the Tidal Wave, Mom always had a noise in her head that she said sounded like the waves roaring. I guess probably she was in shock but was never treated for it."

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Mrs. Lottie Matthews (Brushett) resides in Grand Bank, Newfoundland.

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Lottie (Brushett) Matthews
24 November 2005
Grand Bank, Newfoundland, Canada

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An interview with Lottie Matthews:

"I remember the tremor...everything going, dishes rattling. During supper we talked about what had happened and everything looked calm. Suddenly Mom looked out the window and there was water up to the window. Fred (brother) thought it was raining because of all the noise. Mom wanted to wake Pearl and Lilly (she was in bed with an ear ache). I remember Mom had a lamp and that the house was tilted. Mom took the three of us upstairs and we were scared. I can still see Mom with her finger in the Adlandin Lamp. Mom got the five of us and we went back downstairs."

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Kelly's Cove and Bartlett's Island
1920
Kelly's Cove, Dominion of Newfoundland

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"Suddenly we felt the house moving and we ended up on Bartlett's Island. The five of us were screaming because it was so dark and we were afraid. It seemed that we were there for awhile. Then on the third wave it took us back to Kelly's Cove. Then Mom broke the window and we could hear Uncle Ben outside. As we were going out through the window I could see my new coat on the chair in the parlor, but I didn't pick it up. Mom had cut her wrist and I had cut my arm when I tried to get out the window. I still have glass in my arm today. When we jumped out of the window I remember that the water was over my ankles and I was cold because we were in our night dresses. Uncle Ben and Aund Beatie took us to higher ground and we could hear the water rushing."

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Kelly's Cove after the Tidal Wave
1929
Kelly's Cove, Dominion of Newfoundland