Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — STORM AND TIDAL WAVE. [ARTICLE]

STORM AND TIDAL WAVE.

Immense Loss of Life from Hurricane that Sweeps Caroline Isles. A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W., says a report has reached there that a hurricane and tidal wave swept over the Caroline Islands. Immense damage was done to property and 200 persons are reported killed. The Caroline Islands belong to Germany and consist of about 500 coral islets, in the Pacific ocean, of which Ponape is the seat of government. The population is chiefly of Malay origin, with some Chinese and Japanese. The chief export is copra. Francis Emory Warren, who is to represent Wyoming for the fourth time in the Senate, is a native of New England. He was a private at 17 in the Forty-ninth Massachusetts volunteers. He is one of the most extensive stock raisers in his adopted State.