SOUTHERN PACIFIC ISLANDS VISITED.
TAHITI SUFFERS SEVERELY.
1,000 LIVES LOST.
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SAX FRANCISCO. February 9. News has only just come to hand of a terrible and devastating tidal wave and hurricane that visited the Society Islands as far back as .January 13. i Not much is known as yet, but that the wave swept over the islands in an overwhelming mass of water, against Which human resource was powerless. The natives had no warning of their impending fatp. They had but a few moments to" realise that two overwhelming foes were attacking them at once— the hurricane tearing up trees and native dwellings, and the sea sweeping over the land in a remorseless hungry flood. There was no time for ihose within the reach of the Hood to get to a place of safety, and a thousand natives lie dead on the island, which is a mere chaos of fallen trees ami the debris of human habitation. The news was given to Reuters Agency by the officers of the Mariposa, the steamer regularly trading between San Francisco and Tahiti.
THB PAUMOTOS SWEPT.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 35, 10 February 1903, Page 5
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