MOUNTAINOUS WAVES
SWEEP BATHING BEACHES HEAVY LOSS OF LITE NABLOWLT AVERTED. t, Vl-i (United Pram Ann.) NEW YORK. August 18. ' An Atlantic City, New Jersey, report states: “One is known to be drowned and two others missing.” Nearly 350 bathers were rescued, when a series of mountainous waves suddenly swept the beaches of that: watering place, the most popular in America. r The wave* are believed to be caused by the storm ores. She struck the most congested section of the beach, lifting surprised bathers on the crest and sweeping them seaward.
Thousand# of others ashore stood by horrified.
Lifeguards, undaunted by the raging sea, rowed to the. rescue of the struggling bathers. One boat, loaded with eighteen of the Tescned, was capsized by the heavy sea.
The guards succeeded in righting tho craft, drawing bathers aboard again.
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Inangahua Times, 21 August 1931, Page 2
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