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Show TIDAL WAVE DESTRUCTION Salmon Canning Industry in Alaska Is Seriously Affected. SEATTLE. Wash', March 25. Further particulars of the havoc and devastation wrought by the tidal wave which swept over Bristol bay in Octo-ber Octo-ber last and lashed its fury on the ' Nushagak, Kogglunp and Naknek rivers riv-ers salmon canning properties have been received here. The indications are that the damage isundoubtedly much greater than at first reported and will probably have a very serious effect on the prospective pack of Alaska salmon in the above districts for the season of 1903. The advices are to the effect that out of a total of twenty-two . canneries which operated last season on Bristol bay, thirteen have been damaged to such an extent that it will be impossible impossi-ble to make repairs in time to put up more than half the pack at the very utmost, ut-most, and It is further stated that five large and important plants have been literally swept out of existence. |