THE DISAPPEARING ISLAND OF CHARLES LEAMING TUTT

Recently in this blog I told the story of Mrs. Charles Leaming Tutt and her stay at the Hotel Del Coronado in 1909:

https://undereverytombstone.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-week-at-hotel-del-coronado-in-1909.html

When I was researching her story I came across a strange statement in the Los Angeles Times obituary for Charles L. Tutt from their edition of January 22, 1909 (see highlighted area):

Several readers questioned the story of Tutt's "disappearing island."  Well, it turns out that the island not only disappeared as a result of the San Francisco Earthquake, it reappeared as well.

Evanston historian (and reader of my blog) Mike Kelly sent me the following link that tells the whole story:

http://cascadianalert.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-story-from-early-1900s.html 

It comes from a blog called "Cascadian Alert."  Like Mike, I was originally skeptical when I read the LA Times story, but Mike, being the outstanding researcher that he is, decided to dig a little deeper to see if he could find out anything further about Tutt's disappearing island.  

Then Mike was able to find yet another article about Tutt's mysterious island:

https://books.google.com/books?id=CJlEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA553&lpg=PA553&dq=%22Charles+L.+Tutt%22+island+earthquake+1906&source=bl&ots=8h-wbX1Crr&sig=ACfU3U2rvrHnAVphGQ0Ao1M0YkOb6Lmt-w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI0c-uxa3iAhUCGKwKHQnGDdEQ6AEwA3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Charles%20L.%20Tutt%22%20island%20earthquake%201906&f=false

Truth really is stranger than Fiction.

Thanks again to Mike who led us to (as Paul Harvey would say) "the rest of the story."