THIRTY-FOUR DIE
TIDAL WAVE AFTER QUAKE. DISASTER IN NEWFOUNDLAND. Thirty-four were drowned on the south coast of Newfoundland when a loft tidal wave was swept up by the earthquake last week. A wireless report reaching the Justice Department from the steamer Portia, said that nine persons, mostly women and children, were lost when everything along the Burin waterfront, including 16 buildings, was swept away. Four bodies wore recovered.
Eighteen were drowned' at Lord’s Cove and Lamatine in the Burin district.
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Patea Mail, Volume L, 25 November 1929, Page 4
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80THIRTY-FOUR DIE Patea Mail, Volume L, 25 November 1929, Page 4
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