A Vessel Struck by a Tidal Wave.
o (Per Press Association.) Melbourne November 0. The details of the loss of four men from the steamer Woolloomooloo on her last Homeward run shows that the fatality was caused by a tidal wave, which struck the vessel in a smooth sea two days after passing the meridian of Cape Leu win. Five passengers and the seamen were on deck, when suddenly a wave fully 50ft high arose and made for the vessel with the velocity of a projrc tile. It struck her with a report liho a discharge of artillery. The vessel heeled over 33 degree". Three seamen aod oue passenger (the latter named Clark) were washed away. Tbo remain ing pa»s«n«ers on deck, overwhelmed by tho wator were soveroly injured, but remained on the vessel's deck-
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Feilding Star, 10 November 1897, Page 2
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