September 10, 1899 Gulf of Alaska Tsunami - Yakutat Narrative

Passage from Lander (1996):

"Tarr and Martin (1912, p. 70) carry an account by a Mrs. Early in their discussion of the September 4 event. It probably describes the effects of the September 11 event:

Then we had no earthquake before the following Sunday at 8 or 9 A.M., which lasted for about three minutes and was more severe and stronger than the earthquake we had the previous Sunday. Then again in the afternoon at about 3 or 4 o'clock we had a still stronger earthquake than the first or second; the water in the bay began to run out towards the ocean heavily and went far below any low-water mark that I have ever seen, but after a short while returned in a strong current and made a big swell on the beach, and the houses in the Indian village came pretty close to being washed away as the water washed all around them."

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