Eye witness report:
...The Swansons and the Uhlrichs in Lituya Bay rose in alarm to gaze in unbelieving wonder and terror. Swanson and his wife later insisted that the terminal ice mass of Lituya Glacier rose into view from behind a headland up the bay, with great masses falling from its face, and then fell majestically into the water, creating a wave that went over the whole headland. It then caromed down the bay, scouring the shores of their trees, obliterating the mountaineer's campsite, overrunning Cenotaph Island and its lone cabin, and killing the Wagners and all but killing the Swansons in a surfboard kind of plunge of their two boats across 40-foot high LaChausee Spit to destruction in the sea outside - a wave of such improbability as to strain the credulity of later investigators, and to remain a scientific puzzle...
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/web_tsus/19580710/narrative1.htm
Sounds like a wild ride.