Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-03-11 | Page 2 | Many Lives Lost in a Tidal Wave

I X MANY lANY LIVES LOSTIN LOST i IN A TIDAL WAVE i Meagre Reports of a Disaster i a e A Along ong I If t the e c Coast s of Mexico exico Brought B o K r. r fW feby by a. a Mall Steamer J rL r SAN l. i f c P C Man Mail col company's st steamer mer i Y C or t. t from Central America Americ an and Mex Mex- f I iJ caW an brings a few details of a are are- re- re i il fel between La Libertad and a at A. A r t J thirty miles north of or io I a moments moment's warning a terrific 1 tidal wave wave burst over all that leng length o 0 of I i coast the Newport sailed for v f San Francisco Francisc it was said oJe that lifty t f three e bodies h had been n recovered and I buri burled df No Nd possible estimate of or the full l loss of F life could be made i The wave e went t entirely l over the bar- bar that had been built along the coast i swept the he towns of La Libertad and Aoa Aoa- carrying away the e wa fresl-wa water freshwater tel T i pumps pumps' S' S bf bt the latter tra place lac There seems to have been not the 0 jV slightest warning of the disaster sald said the officers of or the th Newport The Tho The only only I thing that will account for It issom ter- ter if iri iril l volcanic eruption far out at sea jn jI The wave rolled In like a mountain and andt t IT f there was not a break to it until r 11 Ing the ne be beach eh when it swept t over the c. c T i ii embankments covering them to n a height LL o of four fOUl or live feet foet cion nl i ip p lii Ing the Iho whole coast and almost wiping r out al alt the small ui 4 4 x- x J ec j t tad and d Acajutla 1 I When we left the work of or rescuing the remains had only just begun while 1 nothing at all had been done in the way F 1 1 of repairing the damage damar except replacing the water fresh plant