look farther back
https://www.buffalohistorygazette.net/2010/09/the-lake-erie-seiche-disaster-of-1844.html?m=1
https://www.google.com/amp/s/buffalonews.com/news/local/history/oct-18-1844-great-flood-of-1844-devastates-buffalo/article_73b0e94c-fe27-5e7e-ac12-691a85809139.amp.html
"Purists would call it a seiche, the Great Lakes version of a tidal wave, but for the victims there was little difference," wrote The News' Mike Vogel on Oct. 20, 1988. "A wall of water swept across the harbor and city, drowning 78 people while driving ships ashore and washing away scores of homes and wharves."