Show Struck a Tidal Wave Pacific mail mai steamer Cina China which has Just arrived from the Orient struck on OD tho the outward trip by a Orent tidal wave was First Firt Officer Smith was on the tho bridge ai at the time I saw an immense wall of water dead ahead ho wal o dea said as It came over us there was an a breaker The steamer overhanging poked Ins her curl crl like nose noso in the tho big bg mountain of water and the theneS next minute everything was 1 floating on deck barely saved myself from being washed overboard The steerage steward stward wh who was forward was caught by the So wave Sd and washed the whole length of the tho ship and was taken out of oZ the steering gear with his leg broken Th The iron door of butcher buther shop shop was torn tr from iu its hin th the it hinges hinge One lifeboat was washed from the te davits davit and another stove In iD it lt is believed lavit the wave was wa caused by the Japanese earth quake quake S j c r i J t |