Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-09-29 | Page 3 | Extensive Tidal Wave Sweeps Mexican Town.

EXTENSIVE TIDAL V WAVE A VE SWEEPS MEXICAN TOWN OWN r Ton Fifty Blocks Lifted Like Cockle CockleShells CockleShells CockleShells Shells by Heavy Sea MEXICO CITY Sept 29 23 Later Latr reports reports re re- re- re ports from Salina Cruz Pacific terminus of the Tehuantepec railroad rc regarding the earthquakes Tuesday confirm first reports There were seventy shocks that afternoon and In the meantime a furious gale sale and storm stoma sprang up At 10 o'clock at night the storm had increased to a severity never experienced experienced exper exper- within the memory of or the oldest inhabitants Inh A huge hUJe tidal wave lea leaped perl forward from the sea ea lifting thirty and fifty ton blocks block like cockle shells and sweeping the Litan crane over into the tea pea a. a The wave Invaded part of the town fown destroying some of Its houses and It Is thou thought ht that damage must also alfo have been done been done clone to the completed completer portion of the port works work The loss will be half a million dollars