MAMMOUTH WAVE CRASHES OVER LINER

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 19, 17 January 1929, Page 5

MAMMOUTH WAVE CRASHES OVER LINER

COOK J=LUNC AGAINST WAUL AND KILLED. 1 SEVERAL HAVE NARROW ESCAPES. ——— * TONS OF WATER POUR INTO SHIP'S DEPTHS CREW'S QUARTERS AND STEERAGE SLOODEB, j^ JNINE MEN SWIM THROUGH D00R ; : (Received 9.1") a.m.) ' NEW YORKj, January 16. The liner Majestic, which doeki ed flitcen hours late, reported! ; that a inammioth wave crashed S evctr her yesterday and Idlled the I cook, Leonard Eiorni, when the; I water slamined the r Way door and hurled him against si wall breaking his neck. I Nine other members of the crew and' four .first-class passengers narrowly escaped, drowning. Tons of water poured into the depths of the ship, flooding part of the crew's quarter. Sl ' and the steerage , to. the ceiling. Nine men only saved themselves Dy,,swimming through a doorway down a companionway up to the deck through a smashed hatch. The Water crushed a companionway wall, gapping four passengers behind the wreckage. They were unhurt hut were imprisoned until the crew chopped away the wall. The wave crashed a heavy steel hatchway like mat- ( chw'fliod.—Australian Press Assn,