Show HARBOR HARBOR DRAINED BY TIDAL WAVE VAVE I Fishermen Race Tumbling Tumbling I ling Ice Blocks Boats I Wrecked SOUTHWEST HARBOR Maine MalOt Jan By O-By 0 By The Associated Two Press Two fishermen n won a 0 footrace against Ice cakes that rashed to the bottom holtom of the har- har harbor har harbor bor bar today when a a tidal wave crashed 50 or more fishing craft cr against the shore No 0 o one on W was l In- In Injured In Injured lured In the most mo mos t lary phenomenon ever seen In this to- to lo locality The men Chester Sawyer and Forrest Albee were In their dory anchored ft a short distance oft off Parkers Parker's wharf They had the experience ne of seeing the tho ater sucked Bucked from beneath their the raft craft as the harbor slowly wa w va emptied after a deep rumbling sound that caused many inhabitant Inhabitants tant tants to fear an earthquake As A Athe the keel of their boat touched the tho bottom they leaped out and ran to shore dodging the Ice cakes that had tumbled down from the up- up upper up upper per parts of the harbor THREE BIG DIG WAVES WA A few seconds after the harbor had been emptied the first of o three tidal waves came sweeping against the shore Many boats were thrown up on the flats and wreck wreck- wrecked wrecked ed Cd completely while those which rode rode out the first waves at an- an anchor anchor an anchor chor were caught In whirlpools whirlpool and badly damaged The bottom tas as exposed at points where a few seconds before It had been from fron eight elgh t to 10 feet deep Id ICI ICU D DAM CAMBRIDGE Macs au Jan 9 9 By The Associated A Press Press A so- so called so-called called tidal wave at Southwest harbor Maine was entirely local hi 11 character and may have have- been caused by the breaking of a 0 dam of at Ice at the thc mouth of the harbor Professor or Kirtley F Mather dean of the observatory at Harvard uni university said today Professor Mather said the uni university seismograph showed po jo roc roc- rec record ord ti of any earth disturbance lie believed It possible that the out out- outgoing outgoing out outgoing going tide had carried enough Ic Ico with It to form a dam at ot t the te e head of the ragged Inlet which form I Ithe the har harbor or and that the Incoming tide ha had t broken this dam causing the sudden Inrush of at water RECALL OTHERS I SA SAN FRANCISCO Jan 9 By ti-By ByThe The A Associated The Press Press The ocean phenomenon witnessed today at Bernard Maine Is apparently a duplicate of the series of ot tidal waves following a subsidence of the ocean which witch swept the beaches of the Hawaiian Islands lalands In February 1923 Two persons were killed a child chUd swept from a sam earn sampan sam sampan pan Into harbor and a Jap- Jap Japanese Japanese Jap Japanese anese fisherman was decapitated hen when caught aught between his bobbing boat as It wap wal was tossed loused against a 1 trestle of Hilo lIlIo river pam Damage age wu was d at I |