FIRST TIDAL WAVE STRIKES MAINE FISHING VILLAGE, NO CASUALTIES REPORTED
Southwest Harbor, Maine (JFK+50) On January 10, 1926, The Sunday Star reports that the first recorded tidal wave hit "the little village of Bernard*" yesterday about noon sucking the harbor dry and hurling fifty fishing boats onto shore.
Miraculously, no one was injured although two men "in a dory" had a narrow escape from falling cakes of ice.
Eyewitness William Kelley said...
"in less than ten minutes the whole harbor was filled to near high water mark."
The tidal wave, "unexplained in its origin," lasted only fifteen minutes.
JFK+50 NOTE
According to the National Ocean Service, a tidal wave is a shallow, water wave caused by gravitational interaction between the Sun, Moon & Earth.
*Bernard is a small fishing village in Tremont, Maine & is located on Mount Desert Island. It is a 3 hour drive from Portland & just southwest of Bar Harbor.
SOURCES
"Tidal Wave Sucks Harbor Dry, Hurls 50 Boats On Maine Shore," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., January 10, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"What Is a Tidal Wave?." National Ocean Service, www.oceanservice.noaa.gov/
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