SEISMIC WAVE.
IMMENSE CUNABD LINER BADLY ::;•:,.; BUFFETED.,/, HUGE WEIGHT OP, WATER SHIPPED.: By Telegraph-Press Assodation-Oopyr'iKht.. '.'..'.'"/.;;., London, January 17. '. ./The great ; Canard /liner. . Lusitania, 31,550 tons gross, had/a. thrilling experience in;mid-Atlantic.:. .-.,. . . : ~ .//■ -. Tho: steamer, which .is. 251 yards' (over.: one-seventh of a-mile)-long,''was buffeted, by a/huge seismip wave. Two' thousand, tons.of water, was.shipped., -.'•■ '/' -'' ... Tho-wheelroora . and' - qharthdnse'- were damaged,- and the '.■ (lifeboats'.-: were ; dislodged.',-,' .;";•■'■ ;/ .'/;/ ; '/ /';'.'/ "- • '. [In .October, ,1903, a somewhat similar; experience: bofcl the Cnnard 'Company's l liner -Etruria, /which was 'struck- by a heavy sea; one passenger was killed. - Two years ..later, in October;. 1905, the'same' steamer Campania was struck by a sea,, while ..'the decks'were crowded. Five .passengers were washed overboard and' drowned; while many others were seriously injured; several having arms / arid - legs broken.],■.-.-'■. ■■■'■■: .-.,. •-.■:,-"
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 719, 19 January 1910, Page 7
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122SEISMIC WAVE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 719, 19 January 1910, Page 7
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