Fierce Storm In North
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Pacific
IN early January, a storm, which lasted for 48 hours, battered the Hawaiian Islands and caused damage to pro erty which is estimated at millions of dollars.
Waves reached a height of 40 feet, flooding a hospital on Hilo Island and necessitating the transfer of 200 tuber culosis patients to the naval and air station hospital. A lighthouse on Hilo Island was washed away.
On Gaui Island, waves wrecked 1,100 feet of breakwater.
Palmyra Island. 1,100 miles south of Hawaii, was threatened by heavy seas, and the inhabitants took refuge on the only elevation on the island which is six feel above sea level. They sent out a SOS for help, but the seas later re ceded.
The W. R. Carpenter ship “Rabaul” which was on its way to Vancouver was caught in the bad weather in the North Pacific about the same time and received a severe buffeting.