EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.

an' exciting experience.. 7 The Glasgow stealer ..Cadillac (Cap tain T. E. Jl'Kay), whish reached Philadelphia .from Kotterdam on November 1 reported having cxpsrienced. a submarine earthquake ou October. 20. in nridocean. tln . this connection (Says tho "Daily News") it may be uotctl tnat jev.eral reports of earthquake shocks at sea have lately been received. The .German steamer Albingia, for instance, whilst? bound from New York to Kingston, Jamaica, was rocked violently by an'earthquake ;o!f • tho Jamaican coast on October 31.' - . ■ On October 20 the Cadillac twelve knots in good weather not very, far south of the ocean liner track between Now York And.Liverpool. At halfpast five in.the morning, just as day was breaking, the look-out man reported tho approach of a great.wave frQm the southwest, and far away in the direction indicated a huge volnme of water could be made out bearing steadily on towards the vessel. To the eyes of tho. frightened crew it seemed mast-nigh. The Chinese stokers down below left the furnaces, 'anij scrambled up to the docks to await the .crash. At Inst it came. On tho cdptain's orders the Cadillac had be(?n put about so that she met the cataract of water bow on. She. was, lifted high into the air,' with many feet, of her stem clear. Then, as tho wave passed, she slid down into the following trough until were partly submerged. Almost everything movable was washed away, and ; great havoc was wrought. The sea'was soon observed to bo.in a state of. commotion. It appeared literally to boil, and in many places miniature water-spouts..shot intot'l'.o air.- A peculiar roaring could bo plaiulv heard above the general.din. The water'from sonio of the spouts foil upon the Cadillac's deck, and was distinctly warm. Subsequently thousands or dead fish were observed floating on the sur-. faco. ■ ;