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Show TRYING EXPERIENCE. How Tidal Wave in South Sjas Served Albert Bunker anJ Others. I All Houses Washed Away, and a. Number Drowned Several Hours In Palm Trees. Popotto, Tahiti, March 20, 1900. Somo ono has said "Timo nnd tido wait for no man." I know this to bo especially truo In tbo aaso of the tido na ttio son hns been playing somo strango freaks of lato In this part of tbo world. Gonorai uows mny havo reached you of tho recent greut storm in tho Socioty Islands, but 1 wish to glvo n littlo personal oxporionco for our peoplo. Eider O. A. Broworton Jr. nt Elbn, Idaho aud I hnvo uoon laboring for nearly a year poBt in tho Tuamotuam j group of coral islands whoro pn Fob- I ruary the 8th vot thi-yeay i groat pyolontf 8tn!cynVARrl3ill lslnud - TJflife?lylliflKr-- "J rmjK. whloh caused jo'so'oJj2Jf rapidly. Tho wind miff waves wvro from tho north and lator northwesterly; tho sea was terrible, surpassing all former rooords. T Hlmrt our storv runs thus: On Weduesdny tho 7th of Fob-ruury, Fob-ruury, wo lnnded nt Fnlto in a rhlng sea and henvy rain. That night tho wind and tido increased until by 12 m. noxt day nearly ovory houso In tho vlllago was tvaslwd uwuy. It waa at 12 noon on Thursday tho 8th, when tho framo building in whloh wo two elders wero stnyiug wns Wont off its fouudutlou, uud with us in Iti wns hurlod ngrtlust coconnut trees wbnrii it lodued for tho timo bolng. About thnt timo wo provided ourselves our-selves with pieces of qunrter inoh fish J cord nud deoidod it was timo to lenvo', tbo wrook, eo wo joined tho rest ofi; tho pooplo nt a houso ou thu lagoon j ' or insldo of tho island, as far away ' as wo could get from tho broaking surf. Thoro wo waited for two hours. Wo numbored nbout fifty people, Including lour whlto mon fFutber Paul, a Catholic priest, Mr . Shnoht, , a trador and wo two oldors. ) Those two houis wero onos of uuxlous waiting. wait-ing. Evoy series of wnvoa grow bighor nud floroor. Tho torrlUlo wind caught tho foaming salt spray and drovo It with lightning llko rnpldlty nenrlv bl'ludiug us. Tho wnvoa 30 or -10 foot high rolled in on tho island in' rapid succession where they thund-orod thund-orod and spent tholr fury. Twenty foot higher thau tho rest of tbo brenk-ore brenk-ore tho fonmlug spray npponrod na n donso fog. Tho govornmont houso, a largo stono struoturo, was rushed nnd carried away us chaff boforo n galo. Finally about 2 p. m. airextrn largo Borios of waves oarriod nwny tho Inst house nud ovor forty pooplo, nil tho goods, trunks, food, nnd' uprooted troea. Thoso woro swopt into tho lagoon, whloh booumo a lltoral soothing sooth-ing moss of angry water, ilonting treos, houses, boats, hogs, dogi, ohlokous, trunkp, boxeo and amongst thoso tho pooplo. Only olovon of ub romnluod up ooooanut troea, whoro wo lashod outsolve8 with our ropo, whloh "life cord" Elder Broworton uud I rotniu to this dny. Thoro wo oluug until about 5 p. ffi. whon tbo son nud wind had calmed, i FathorjPaul, a t Cfttholio jiprloat, aged nnd flosby, a 8m all buby and nn old woman woro drowned nt tho timo H the pooplo woro washed away and ll boforo this a man and his grandchild f ' bad beou killed by a falling house. H In tho moautime tho pooplo Bwnm ) H or floated ou trees or boxa or wrookage i tbo best thoy could. Ono man, how- H ovor, whou ho was wns bod nway, .H swnm bnok to tbo only romnlulug y,H bout ou whioh ho stayed until about i H 3 p. m., whon nil but ono of tho ftl unahor ropos had beon brokon. Il Entering tho cabin ho broko opon n H trunk, scourod a razor with whioh H ! ho out tho mast ropes whon tbo mast fl soon snnppod off, then turning to ub - H in tho'tioes, bo BWung his hat and 1 shouted nu ad iou, "Ia or'jbVn outou, la or im"'to.M Thou Vo out tho H i'1T?j.(':nnohor 'rono nd ptnrted H i"7f,ftiO wind. Tho rnOdbr had been B aud guided tho boat in a igzag coursojWnr s H 13 mllos aoross tho lagoon, during H whioh timo bo pioked up 35 pooplo H who woro.saved by running tho boat H up ou a Blind-bar. That evening wo H cloven oamo down out of tho trees, H snug n Roug nud thankod our Father H that wo had boon saved nnd nskod -H ulso that our friends who hud boon ,H wnshod nwny bo saved. That night wo H had no sloop, ljut" lay oxpootuntly M listening to th- roaring sen and B Bhlverlng In our wot clothing. Ah M tho .night woro on wo obsorvod a total M eolipso of tho moou and wondorod If M this hod brought "ou tho torrlblo' 'r tempest. H Noxt morning wo looked ovor tho fH rormor oity slto, but not nnothew ,-H living thing oxistod, uolthor waa thoro H food. Forawook wollyoou oooodnuta1 H nnd flab. Most of us had aomo littlo M covering of clothing on our bodies. M Tho pooplo who woro carried nshoro H oh tho opposito side of the lagoon H stayed thoro among the ooooanut M patches whoro a fow truuks had M lodged on tho roof. Hearing of tho ,. ,. .jjH ootid Itlon, Eldor Broworton niul I M went on foot ovor tho rough nnd "' M jaggod coral rooka to whoro tho people- M woro living. Thoro wo found 'my , 1 companion's trunk and a small box' ;H of books, -lu very bud coudltlon Jof' v ,-H 'course. x H My own trunk had floated ashoro j t H lidless and ompty. Aftor dark that jK H ovoulng, In a row boat wo returned W J M to tho olty alto whom wo landed about olovon o'clock. In tho morning early , H wo 1 if tod auohor and loft in n cutter J t M for Fakurava from whioh plooo wo j M returned to Pnpooto, landing here on ' H Fobrunry tbo 27th. (i H Many strnngo things hnpponpd. H Hero is ono: Among, tho number iH who wero wnshod Into tho lagoon wns Iml nn old blind woman. Tbo bont did ral not pick hor up so sho swam all day H nnd night nnd ornwlod ashoro noxt ' ' dny ou tho "hot rooks uud snnd," S which glvotj us a clue to tho timo sh'o H romnluod In thp water. For throo V jffl days sho lived ou ooooanuta which 1 jfH sho fouud by feoling nround ou tho WM beach whoro thoy had boon wnsllocl 1 ashoro. Sho was found by tho pooplo 4 jH Who wero looking for tho ,doad. H , .. fc -..v 7- p (Continued on ftth page) f M TRYING EXPERIENCES (Continued from first page.) Boing blind sho know no direction but simply drifted with tho tide. As was oxpootod tho oyolouo is tho grcatost nvor known hero, reaching over 1000 miles in length and hun-diods hun-diods In width. Probably 30 islands woro swept by tho storm, somo oloan, somo not so badly. Tbo towns aro wined off tho laud. About 180 pooplo aro known to huvo boon lost, flG on tho coral island of An an boing tho most nt any ono placo. Ono British ship of 2000 tons, on its way from Chilo to Australia, wont ashoro on n coral roof nud 10- sailors woro killed ; 1G woro savod. Tho Taltuiau, a 50 tou schoouor, was brokou up 10 milos out to sen. Two of tho Bailors on n piooo of tho deck floated G days without food and wator, and onmo nshoro nlivo. Thoy triod ' to got tho captain, -Georgo Doxtor, to join thorn, but ho would' not; ho kopt his placo on tho bottom of tho up-turned old wreck and-1 vhs' seen no moro. Auothor sobdbuor'wn's run nshoro nud all tho croW saved. Two othor ships duo hor& "wtioks ugd bavo nover boon board of, bo tho i)6b' plo fool that thoy We' lost; - ' ' Tho natives will ;iidti snffor so-muoh so-muoh as -ono "might' think,' . l)Ocaut tills Ib n warm ' blihiiito .nnd thd 8en is'full of fish.'- 'They Swill suifdr most! fdf wntor as tho'-'lluld l8'v thoroighly soakod with salt Wator nnd will uotne fresh again until nftor GHvoral mouths of h da vy mi n a'. u - " "' ' ' ''' Tho oldot's uud blstors'uru'nll bore; osoopt twoi1 uhd workingiiH Our Wow piission homo,'" and ' church. Tho' dVolliiig' hoUH'o itf" boing' 'puintod. Wheil'coiniiloied bbth.illboittcrcUit to' US'."' ' '' ''" 'l '' i ,1 'I'H ' I thiulyoll'foV'Bo'ndhrgithoilAdvo' pate. ",lMs,"Ilvo,,honio'"iiiiVor; ilnd ile'tferv'eH to livel'1" l uoii'iiin I ALBERT BUNKER, JfiUi. P'npoe'to', Tatplt'i,'-'Society Islnuds. r 'iUmi.4 mIiI. - . Talk nbout Hicks and his weather H eyol Didn't this paper two wepks H ago prodiot dlsturhnnoo in tho matii- H mouinl atmosphoro. of Codar, and H didn't it como last weok In tho form H of ono wedding, ono reooptioii, and H ono shower of linen nud ohiuu? No,, H Bro. Iliolcs, wo'ro ono ahead of you, H and you'd boitor puck up your' boro-- H saopo and hio baok to tho tall timborM fljH whoro you'll bo up ngaiust nothing moro dlfilcult or intoroBtiug than,, tho iH date of tho nxot snowstorm. 11, ,,fHj |