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Show ATLANTIC SQUADRON IN TERRIBLE STORM BOSTON. Mass.. Sept. 30 Wireless dispatches dis-patches received today from the Vtlnntli" squadron anchored at the licnd of Cape Cod buy off the 13arnstnnlo shore, show that two lives were lost, two vessels damaged dam-aged and thr entire fleet was given a severe se-vere shaking up In the storm which raged yesterday In lh hay. The fleet w.ip anchored off a lee shore and only tho strength of their ground tnckle Enved some of tlie warships from being thrown on the bench. Tjletit. John M. Pnr.se, of the battleship Illinois, wns thrown against a hatch and so badly Injured Internally that he died today. On board the Minnesota, a seaman, namo not known, was washed overboard and drowned Th" refrigerator phlp Glacier dragged her 'anchor-nnd collided with the cruiser l)c-R Moines, necessitating sending both vessels to the Charleston navy yard for repairs. For more than 20 hours, the great ships were tumbled about In the big seas which surged Into the bay. Nearly every vessel had some of her crew bruised by being hurled about the big ships. In the collision with the Glacier, the IDe3 MoIikih had her stem badly damuged and was raited along her starboard side, losing two davits nnd the boats on them. |