TIDAL WAVE HAVOC
NEWFOUNDLAND COAST
FISHING VILLAGE SWEPT
INHABITANTS SUFFER
United Tress Association—By Electric Tclecraph—Copyright. (Received 10th February, 1 p.m.) ST. JOHN, 9 th February. About four and fifty fisherfolk on the Sandy Point Peninsula, Newfoundland, took refuge in the attics and on the roofs of their cottages on Thursday as a tidal wav flooded their village. Some fled along the narrow sis-mile strip of sand to the mainland, reporting that the water had caused heavy damage to their homes.
The wave was swept in frbm the Bay of St. George on the western coast of Newfoundland by a terrific southwest gale, crushing'the one breakwater that protected Sandy Point. A number of cattle were drowned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 7
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115TIDAL WAVE HAVOC Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 7
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