Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-05-30 | Page 22 | 1200 Lives Lost in Tidal Wave

1200 LIVES LAVES LOST LOSTIN SN IN N TiDAL WAVE VI A VE Cyclone Cy c 1 o 0 n 11 e Strikes River in Burma Cattle Destroyed LONDON May 29 Dy 29 By The Tho Associated Press Twelve Press Twelve hun hun- hundred hundred dred persons have been killed by bya bya a 0 cyclone and tidal wave In Burma Burma says a 11 dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Ran TIan- nan goon goon Burma The cyclone struck last Wednesday Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday evening about o'clock o'clock-A o'clock A huge tidal huge tidal wave ascended the 1 river flooding the country and sweeping away villages to beyond 60 50 miles In- In Inland inland In Inland land The cyclone swept the COLt coast doing much damage An All Antho the tho cattle In the devastated de area arca were killed I The death roll the dispatch adds Is us IS yet Incomplete Nearly I nil all the wires are down do and there thero is b great delay In communication The relief relict sent Into th the stricken Inadequate district up to the present time Is I