Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — What a “Tidal Wave” Is. [ARTICLE]

What a “Tidal Wave” Is.

New York Tribune. The report tat the Normannia was struck by a‘tidal wave” which swept her decksrevives the question whether there i such a thing as a tidal wave. I oce asked the cap tain of an Atlanic liner. “Oh, yes,” he answered, “w keep a tidal wave for the passengrs and the newspapers. If you tint to know what it reall> is I will til you. It is when a powerful ships driven through a head sea at suo speed that before she can clear hefelf of one big wave she is info a seciid. The second anJ first together ae too much for the ship, and she krries away a deck house, or a bride, or a boat or two. That is a tidal ave.”