Evening star., 1938-09-22

from the patrol boat Gen. Greene.
They were identified as Machinist F.
T. Lila, Motor Machinist's Mate H. T.
Webster and Radioman J. A. Stead
man.
with Marthas Vineyard. an island off
Cape Codd, revealed that one woman
was killed and several were missing
after a dozen homes on the northerly
side of the island were wrecked.
The keeper at Long Point lighthouse
at Vineyard Haven, principal city on
the island, broke the long post-storm
silence with 4 report to an amateur
radio operator at Provincetown, on
the tip Of the cape.
At Buzzards Bay, the huge tidal
wave washed an entire house into the
swift current of the Cape Cod Canal.
carrying to their death It's still
unidentified occupants, three women,
man and a boy
The six-room house located at the
summer resort section known as Grey
Gables, floated down the canal until
it struck bridge abutment at Bourne,
where it pancaked. crushing the VIC
cut through the roof to reach the
bodies.
A maid and laundress employed
on the summer estate of w. o. Taylor,
publisher of the Boston Globe, drowned
when wall Of water washed up from
the usually tranquil Buttermilk Bay.
They were identified as Rose Collins,
80, and Mrs. John May.
Flee to Barn.
Mr. and Mrs Taylor and two guests,
the Misses Miller and Mckay, escaped
by fleeing to barn on higher ground
as the storm developed. The maids
body was found on the estate and
that of the laundress behind the Buz-
yards Bay Theater.
Three Coast Guardsmen and two
civilians, none of them Immediately
identified, lost their lives at Woods
Hole.
Falmouth police reported five men
and two women as missing ard ex-
pressed fear that some of them had
been carried out to sea in their homes
and drowned. Police officers reported
the tidal wave had caused the, chief
damage. The debris of scores Of
wrecked cottages attested its strength.
The town of Wareham counted at
least four dead. The identity of all re-
mained uncertain as relief workers,
National Guardsmen and residents
pushed the work of restoring the
community. The dead included moth
er and her daughter. whose bodies
were found together, and two men.
At Onset, on the Cape Cod Canal,
which divides the cape from the main
land, 80-year-old A. Everett Bassett
tumbled into a deep pit washed out
beneath a sidewalk by the waves, and
died.
Town Temporary Island.
Rushing up from coves on either
side OF Onset, the waves made
temporary island of the peninsular
town. The community's entire popu-
lation Of approximately 1000 scam
pered for safety on it's lone hill. COW
ering an area Of less than a quarter
mile and with its summit only about
II feet above the high-water level.
They stood atop the low hill massed
together in terror for hours. watching
the waves creep slowly up toward
them, and then recede.
The first meager reports from other
sections of the cape, low, rolling
strip of land on which sand dunes
sometimes stretch unbroken for miles,
showed houses had been washed into
the sea in at least several of the pic
turesque towns.
Small Boats Tossed Up.
Hundreds OF small boats, both fish,
ing and pleasure craft, were tossed
up by the heavy sea and left high and
dry when the waves receded.
Navy Reserves were called into the
tiny town of Buzzards Bay from Chat
ham to aid in the relief work.
National Guardsmen were sent from
Boston to Wareham. In that town
the sea washed through the business
district, entering stores and doing
heavy damage to both buildings and
stock.
At Falmouth, capsized, wave
wrecked automobile was found on the
shore road. Police expressed belief its
missing driver had perished and that
his body had been carried away by
the receding water.