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A melancholy accident is recorded in the Detroit Gazette,by which whole family per. ished. On the 9th inst. the wind raised the water in the Detroit River foot higher than it has ever been known to rise before, and caused the water to flow back into the streams which discharge themselves into the strait; and into the lake above and below the river Raisin, 50 as tO dc considerable damage to fen ces, &c. The banks of Otter Creek, below the Raisn were Overfowed in the course of the night, and some houses were surrounded with water and floating ice. It was here that the disaster happened.

 A house, in which was mother and five children, with young woman, (the husband was few miles distanO was surrounded by the flood, before the inmates who had retired to bed, were aware of their danger. The noise of the water, and the larring or moving of the house, awakened the mother, who rose

 in state of alarm, and with three of the chil- dren, and the young woman, hastened from the house. and endeavored ta escape through the ice and water. They had not gone far before the mother discovered that two of her children, whom she thought the young wo- man had brought from the house, were left behind ; and her maternal feelings overcoming her fear, she. gave the three children into the care of the young woman, and hastened to the rescue of her little ones that were left be hind: The poor woman, however, could no1 bear up against the cold and the food her strength was exhausted, and she sunk down calling for the young woman to exert herself fer the rescue of the children that were with her. The young woman left the mother and two children to their fate, and succeeded in reaching neighboring house. which was also surrounded with water and forsaken. It ap- pears that she could not get into the house. and endeavOred to save the children by pla- cing them on a ladder : they were SO chilled however, that they could not remain on the ladder, and one of them fell off and was drowned. She then placed the other two in an oven, which was built near the house, upon which she succeeded in climbing. In this situa- ton she remained until morning, having near ly perished with cold and suffering. The children in the oven were too tender to endure the hardships to which they had been expo sed the little sufferers were found dead. The mother and two children that were left behind also perished.