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Cn ¥ TY YEARS ARGO cod and other fish began to re THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, November 18, 1959 17 THIR turn to the local fishing grounds. : When the disaster became ® known to the outside world relief " ' committees were set up and uge lida ave [meen di the island, the Canadian main- land, Britain, the United States Buried Nfld Coast Fo \ By JAMES H. HUSSEY far out at sea. A kerosene lamp houses and then swimming and HAMPTON Press Correspondent |was still burning in a top-storey|ieaping to safety with women and Thirty years ago loday a tidal|room. Downstairs a mother and|children in their arms, were com- By M. HORN wave, the worst catastrophe ever|her child lay drowned by the/mon sights. HAMPTON---Ethel Gilbert of to strike Newfoundiand's southswirling waters. Next morning relief parties in|Chalk River visited her parents, coast, brought death and de-| Because communications were|4o sett H Mr. and Mrs. G. Gilbert! struction to the fishing setfle-|knocked out between the penin- settlements saw quantities of A Nougtion, ments of the Burin Peninsula, alsula and St. John's, the New- food that had been stored for the Mrs Mig iitjoy visited 75-mile-long boot-shaped promon-|foundland capital, it was three|Winter washed up on the beaches. | Mis Lithe: } H len. Allin tory jutting out 'into the Atlantic.|\days before the first message| Furniture, houses, hay from call. i George or Alt, Re Mr. and Monday, Nov. 18, 1929, was a|about the disaster - reached the|tle barns, boats and fishing equip Mrs, Oliver Hubbard of Osh fine, sunny day and people in the|rest of the island and the out-iment drifted with the tide. to Toronto, Sunday, 'to visit her coves 3d villages were working side word. ¢ by wire]. 18 Some places the tidal wave|sister, Mrs. Gordon Wakely. as. Hsual. he message was sent by wire-iroce 50 to 60 feet. When it re- About 5 p.m. severe earth trem-|less from the Newfoundland Rail-[peded it swept everything before oi. Pedgine, Zowmanyille, ; salary but ors were felt inroughout New-|way's boat "Portia," which was|it At other harbors the water|gyests of Mrs a a pi y stone foundland and the Maritime prov-|on her way up the coast. In those|took a rotary motion, sweeping / " pale inces. These shocks were fol-|days there were few roads and|jarge buildings from one point of Mr. and Mrs. Don White, Oak- lowed at 7:30 by a huge tidal{no direct overland tions|1and to another. ville, spent the weekend with his wave all along the Newfoundland|between the peninsula and St. mother, Mrs. W. White. . south coast. Within two hours de-|John's. Bl hupng iy direct losst neh Mrs. S. Kersey visited her son, struction was general around the|. , popper mir AREA fered for more than a decade be Rev. Ted Kersey, Scarborough, Burin Peninsula. On the western tip of the pen-|cause of the disaster. All marine Tuesday. a 27 LIVES LOST insula the hardest-hit settlement |Erowth was swept clean and it| Mrs. Lorenzo Trull and Mrs. FAT Twenty - seven people, mostly|Was Point au Gaul in the Lama-| Was not until the early 1940s that Harold Salter visted their bro- women and children, were|line area. Near Burin itself it was drowned and battered to death|the little village of Port au Bras. IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT in several settlements. Property|Here six lives were lost. Thomas Carter's Little Liver Pill' axclustve d od £0 $2,000,000, |Fudge, a fisherman, saw his " Laboratory tests have now proved amage amount ,000,000. » y * at liver emulsifies fats... formula of vegetable ingredients age barns, wharves, fishing|10use, With his wife and two 100,000 Canadians actually breaks them down. It is an lieved irregularity gently snd Cnt i daughters imprisoned inside, . : ' tively, At the same time, it fi boats and equipment drifted out|To Te TR Te dations and M may be going blind. im li GE isl |to sea. In some places buildings Lto destruct |were washed far inland and swep! estruction . 2 |smashed to pieces. What had| Through the night men and That's the frightening truth revealed by experts on # |been neat little garden plots and| women performed great deeds of glaucoma -- the insidious destroyer of the optic i [children's playgrounds lay cov-|heroism. In the darkness, people nerve. Read of the war on this cruel disease in ered with wreckage and boul-|climbed floating buildings in this week's Star Weekly, : | ders. search for suvivors. Men, forc- NEW LORD MAYOR in one settlément a house was|ing their way through the doors found in a pond 300 feet from its|and windows of half - submerged Sir Edmund Stockdale, mew | coach as he leaves the Guild- | pageant is sponsored by the |original site. The building was lord mayor of London, waves | hall in London for the annual | National Farmers' Union. smashed and half submerged. On his plumed hat from his gilded | Lord Mayor's = show. The --AP Wirephoto [the lower floor a mother and her " -------- | three children were drowned. Up- LAMA'S BROTHER BUSY |Dalai Lama, called here Friday came here from New York where|stairs a small baby lay in its cot LONDON (Reuters) -- Gyula|at his own request on Foreign he presented the Tibetan case in unharmed. Thondup elder brother of the|Secretary Selwyn Llovd. Thondup|the lobby of the United Nations.! A rescue ship found one house All the hot water you need when you install a modern two-element Sea why 7) electric water heater PHILCO is ! 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