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The Sea Reminds Man of His Limits

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 15, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 3.

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The Sea Reminds Man of His Limits

The Eastern papers tell us of a huge wave fifty feet high, that the big Cunard liner Umbria encountered December 27. The storm raged all day: "A fifty-foot wave broke high over the main bridge, and dashed the watchers from their refuge, one of the men, Thomas Laurie, being swept off the bridge to the deck, fifteen feet below. When the flood receded from the decks, Laurie was found unconscious under the rail on the port side. Several bones were broken, and his body was a mass of bruises. It was estimated that there were over a thousand tons of water in the great wave." The Daily News of London remarks that these fearful storms continually remind man that he is not lord of creation.