FISHERFOLK IN PERIL
NEWFOUNDLAND1 COAST
SWEEP OF TIDAL WAVE
(Eeceived 11th February, 11 a.m.)
ST. JOHN'S, 10th.February.
Four hundred and fifty Newfonndlana fisherfolk at Sandy Point were still marooned on Friday as swelling seas, swept away a section of the strip of land connecting their village with the mainland. The greater part of the village is under water, and the villagers spent the night in their attics, where ;they were forced, to seek refuge when the tidal wave crashed through the breakwater on Thursday. The ' swirling 'waters of the Bay of St. George backed up under the force of the gale, .carried the wreckage of a dozen coastal villages and other villages besides Sandy Point.! |_ It is reported that the losses of fishing stores, boats, and gear amount to thousands of dollars. No lives were lost. ■
Fear seized a dozen villages on Friday, however, as the. full moon threatened to bring the highest tide into the bay.
.On Friday night all communications with Sandy Point were cut off, and the place is now an island, following the breaking of the strip connecting it with the mainland. If another higli tide threatens the lives of the villagers, their escape is cut off. . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 11
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