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Show FREIGHTER COLLIDES WITH JJNER CREOLE Panic Aboard the Passenger Ship Calmed by Officers; Vessel Returns to Port. By International News Service. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Jan. 27. Following Fol-lowing a collision at sea with a freighter, the passenger liner Creole returned to this port late today with a large hole in her starboard bow. Panic reigned anions: her 137 passengers immediately after the" collision, which occurred oc-curred Saturday e.venlng during a driving snowstorm. No one was reported Injured. In-jured. The Creole sailed Saturday afternoon and poked her nose into a snows t or m as night fell.' Without any warning, her starboard bow was sideswiped by a large freighter, whose lights could not be seen through the blinding snow. The passengers rushed about wildlv, many believing the ship had been attacked at-tacked by a submarine. Hurried search was made for life belts. In the midst of the disorder officers of the ship, at the direction of Captain B. F. .Tacohs. circulated among thp panic-stricken panic-stricken passenger and assured tnem there had been no torpedo attack. After a hasty investigation of tho vosrpI's injuries, in-juries, they calmed the passencer.s' frisht, liy aer-laring there was no dangnr. Captain. Cap-tain. .Ta'-obs decided It would be unsafe to proceed, despite the fact that the hole stove in the ship's bow was above the water line, so she put back into port The freighter, whose Identitv was not disclosed, w.'us heard sending wireless calls for assistance. She was later taJcen in tow. |