QUAKE RESULTS
TIDAL WAVE FOLLOWS
AIANY PERSONS DROWNED
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ]
(Received this day at 10 a.m.)
ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland) -Nov. 21. Twenty-seven- were drowned on tlie south cciast of Newfoundland when a fifteen foot tidal wave swept up from the earthquake on Alonday. A wireless report reaching the Justice Department to-day from the stepiner Part-in- said nine, mostly women and children, were lost when everything along Burin waterfront, including sixteen buildings, ' verq swept away. Four bodies wen: recovered ' mid eighteen were drowned
at Lord’s Cove and. Lamantin in the Burin district. - The steamer Daisy is giving assistance: to the '.stricken communities. All communications except radio are cut off from the south coast.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1929, Page 6
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115QUAKE RESULTS Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1929, Page 6
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