BUFFETED LIKE A STRAW
TIDAL WAVES STRIKE LINER INJURIES TO 28 PERSONS BRAVE ACTION OF SURGEON DUTY DESPITE BROKEN ARM By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received 7.50 p.m. St. John (New Brunswick), Jan. 28. It was learned on the arrival at St, John to-day of the liner Duchess of York that three mountainous tidal waves, believed to be the result of a submarine earthquake in mid-Atlantic, descended successively on the vessel last Tuesday, smashing gear and injuring 25 of the crew and three passengers. The tidal waves followed a hurricane, during which the passengers were ordered to remain in the State rooms. Towering waves descended over the bridge and buffeted the vessel like a straw. While treating a seaman who had a rib broken the ship’s surgeon, Dr. Morton, received a fractured arm. Another seaman is believed to have fractured his skull. The remaining injured persons were treated by the surgeon despite his own injury.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1934, Page 7
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