PERILIOUS EXPERIENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1823, 1 August 1906, Page 2

PERILIOUS EXPERIENCE.

STRUCK BY TIDAL WAVE.

(Ber s.s. Sierra at Auckland.)

„ San Francisco, July 12. otruek by a tidal wave which, it is supposed, was produced by a submarine earthquake, the British steamer Sir Richaid Grenville was almost engulfed on Sunday afternoon, 800 miles outside Sandy Hook. The ship reached the Upper Bay to-day. minus her smoke stack, which was 'wished overboard by an enormous wave. The lifeboats were smashed, the ventilators are gone, and the main deck is acomplete wreck.

One of the strange features of the wave "as that after the water on deck subsided a piece of a spar, supposed to be the yard' arm of some wrecked vessel, with many pieces of lumber, was found on the main deck of tlie Grenville. The only explanation of this Captain Jones volunteered to make was that a submarine earthquake ieleased part of a sunken vessel from tho bottom of the ocean. : Captain Jones rigged a jure funnel of scantling and lumber. Tho 'improvised

mmol was a box-like affair, eight feet across, rising 10 feet above the deck. - sparks and dames from the furnace nearly ; overpowered the men. and a bucket brigade had to be stationed near tho funnel, to prevent the ship catching tire. The Grenville came frotu UueihC in the Me ' iterraueau, and brought oPJ tons of iron Pyrites.