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LINER MEETS A
VIOLENT STORM
* La Provence Tossed About for
Five Hours by Gale on
Atlantic.
NEW YORK, April 19.-From mid-
night Tuesday until 5 o'clock Wednes-
day morning the steamer La Provence,
which arrived in port to-night, passed
through a storm which the officers of
the ship say has rarely been exceeded
in violence on the Atlantic. At dinner
time Tuesday the barometer began to
fall rapidly, and as midnight ap-
proached the ship reached an area
where the air was so heavily charged
with electricity that the compass be-
came worse than useless.
Amerique
Suddenly a terrific storm swept down
on the ship. Great waves broke ove:
the liner's decks, but no rain fell, the
night being perfectly clear. After five
hours the storm abated as suddenly as
it had come. No one was injured, but
the passengers were badly frightened.
Captain Aliax of the liner believes
the strange storm was the result of the
same forces which caused the earth-
quake shocks in Mexico.
