Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — Tidal Wave at Jamaica Bay. [ARTICLE]

Tidal Wave at Jamaica Bay.

New York, Sept. 17.—Hundreds of tons of water, forming a waterspout of tremendous force swept over Jamaica bay last night, wrecking boats in its path and breaking over a Long Island train crossing the trestle between Beach channel and the Raunt. Passengers on the train were terrorstricken as the waterspout struck the cars. Women fainted as the flood poured through the windows and descended on the cars with terrific violence. A tidal wave and sandstorm followed the waterspout, spreading alarm through the summer resorts on Jamaica bay, and at Rockaway beach.