SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKE.
New York, July 11
Struck by a tidd wave, which it is supposed was produced by a submarine eartbqußk •, the British tramp steamer Sir Biehard Grenville was a’mo3t engulphod on Sunday afternoon 300 miles outside of Sandy Hock, Tho ship reaohed tho upper bay to-day minus the smoke stack, which was washed overboard by tbo enormous wave. Lifeboats were smashed, ventilators are gooe, and the main deck is a compkto wrick. One of tho straoge features cf the wave was that after tha water on tho deck subsided a pit ce of spa l -, supposed to bo tho yardarm cf some wricked vessel, with many pieces of lumber, was found on the main deck of the Grenville. The ODly explanation of this Captain Jodss volunteered to mako was tbat a Bubmariae earthquake released a port of a sunken vesstl Irom tho boffom of tho oceaD. Jcnes rigged a jury funnel of the seantliog and lumber. The improvised funnel was a bcx-l ko affair, 8:t across, rising 10ft above the deck. Sparks and flames f<om the furnaces nearly overpowered the men, and tho bucket brigado bad to bo stationed near tho funnel to prevent the ship catching fire. Tho Granville come from Huelva, in the Mediterranean, and brought 3950 ton 3 of iron pyrites,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1835, 16 August 1906, Page 3
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