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Show I STEAMER MAURITANIA PLACED AT MERCY OF WIND AND WAVE NEW YOftK, Sept. 19. For more I than half an hour last Wednesday tho great turbine steamer Maurctania, with all her cabins filled with frightened passengers, pas-sengers, rolled and pitched helplessly in mid-ocean, with waves constantly breaking break-ing over her decks. She had run into the storm hours before, but had been kept under steady headway until ono oi' her propeller blades flew off with a crash that alarmed nearly every one on board. So tremendous was tho force of the blow which the loosened propeller dealt the ship that the whole middle section socmed to rise, tho flooring "buckled until tho tacks from tho car- pets were hurled against tho ceilings and passengers were thrown about tho cabins. The engines were stopped at once, and tho big ship, losing her way. began to wallow in a trough of the "seas, while the passengers besieged tho captain, imploring im-ploring him to tell them the nature of tho accidont. Every effort was made to quiet the frightened ones, but the intense in-tense excitement did not subsido until the steamer started on her way once more. The compartment adjoining the propeller pro-peller joints filled with water. It is believed be-lieved that the detached propeller drove a hole in the steamer's bottom. The severe weather continued throughout tho voyage, and yesterday when Sandy Hook, at the gateway of New York "harbor, was reached, tho steamer ran into a fog bank, which compelled, com-pelled, her to lio .at anchor for more than uiueteon hours. She come today into the harbor and to her dock. |