BATHERS SURPRISED
MOUNTAINOUS WAVES TRAGEDY ON THE REACHES. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 19. A report from Atlantic City (New Jersey) states that one bather is known to have been drowned and two others are missing, while nearly 150 were rescued, when a series of mountainous waves suddenly swept the beaches of that watering place, the most popular in America. The waves, which are believed to have been caused by a storm area, struck the most congested section of the beach, lifting the surprised bathers on the, crests and sweeping them seaward. Thousands of others, ashore, stood by horrified. Life guards, undaunted by the ; mg sea, rowed i o the rqseu.i of the struggling bathers. One boat, loaded with 18 rescued, was capsized by the heavy sea, but the guards succeeded in righting the craft and drawing the bathers aboard again.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11830, 21 August 1931, Page 5
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