THE HALIFAX DISASTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1917, Page 5

THE HALIFAX DISASTER.

♦ —. TIDAL WAVE 25 FEET HIGE CAUSES HAVOC AND LOSS OF LIFI Australian-N.Z. Cable Association, 'Ottawa, Dee. 11. JNinc fillips arc wrecked or »grofund u tho result of the tidal wlvo at Hallfft* caused by the Mont/Blanc explosion. A wall of water 25 feet high swept thf waterfront. Sixty.five stevedore* engaged at Furness, Withy and Company'* wharf were drowned. A tug was lifted on top of a pier, the crew escaping uninjured. A worker engaged on another pier felt I the pier and shed tremble and slipped under a wooden beam. When the Wave engulfed the pier he clung to -the beam •lmtil he was rescued. Six men who had been working alongside him were killed A hundred and eighty-eight men work, ing in the dry dock were caught in the vswirl of water, which fell over the dock fides, arid all were drowned. 1 FURTHER DETAILS. . ' i ' Ottawa, Dec. 1!. . Telegrams from -Halifax report that a shell frbm the Mont Blanc fell in front of a house • occupied by Captain Kendall, ex-commander of the ill-f»t«d Empress of Ireland, burying H*elf in the ground without exploding. Captain Kendall escaped with a few cuts from broken glass. . • ' '■ Thirteen men in the rigging of \war•hips were blown into the wator and drowned. A soldier working amongst the ruins found his #wn baby alive and later discovered his wife and five other children dead. ' . _ A steamer entering the harbour' dlnr» ing the tidal ware rammed another tind then ran ashore.