GIGANTIC WAVE
SHIP IN HURRICANE MANY PASSENGERS INJURED NEW YORK, Oct. 22. The President Harding has arrived. . / Seventy-two people were taken to hospital: They were injured when a gigantic wave struck the ship when it was combating a 110-mUeran-hour hurricane ahd ajmost foundered. A steward dragged to safety seven who were swept from the promenade deck and thrown under a lifeboat. Forty were hurt when a mass of water poured into the smoking room. Furniture, lighting fixtures, and passengers were tossed in a heap,. Six of the crew were engulfed in the poop, one being lost overboard.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23947, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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97GIGANTIC WAVE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23947, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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