From "Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters"  Ed. by Thomas H.
Russell; 1913
Chapter IX
pg 133-4

Norma [Thuma] reached safety with Ralph Myers, his wife and their little
baby.  Myers had climbed the pole first.  He let down a rope to his wife,
who tied to it a meal sack which contained their baby, three months old.
Myers pulled the rope with its precious burden up and then let it down again
to aid his wife to ascend.  With the meal sack over his shoulder and his
wife behind him, Myers, holding onto two thin wires, walked across the cable
a full block before he reached safety.