TREMENDOUS WAVES
LINER'S PERILOUS PASSAGE
NUMEROUS CASUALTIES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. JOHN (New Brunswick), January 28. It was learned on the arrival here today of the liner Duchess of York that three mountainous tidal waves, believed to bo the result of a submarine earthquake in mid-Atlantic, descended successively on the vessel last Tuesday, smashing gear and injuring twenty-five of tho crew and three passengers. The tidal waves followed a hurricane, during which the passengers were ordered to remain in the staterooms. Towering waves descended over the bridge and buffeted the vessel like a straw. While treating a seaman with a broken rib Surgeon Morton received a fractured arm. Another seaman is believed to have fractured his skull. The others who were injured were treated by the surgeon, despite his own injury..
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Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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131TREMENDOUS WAVES Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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