BIG TIDAL WAVE
NEWFOUNDLAND COAST FISHING VILLAGE DAMAGED NEW York. Feb.- a A message from St. Johns, Newfoundland, states that about 450 fisher folk on Sandy Point Peninsula took refuge in the attics and on the roofs of their cottages to-day, when a tidal wave flooded their village. Some of the fugitives fled along the narrow six-mile strip of sand to the mainland, reporting that the water had caused hea.vy damage to their homes. The tidal wave was swept in from the Bay of St. George, on the western coast of Newfoundland, by a terrific southwesterly gale. It crushed one breakwater proteoting Sandy Point. Several cattlo were drowned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 11
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