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Show SCORPION SWARM FROM THE HOLD OF A STEAMER Queer, Terrifying Cargo Comes to Philadelphia From Haiti by the Camperdown. PHILADELPHIA, March 18.-Hundreds of scorpions and lizards of the most strange appearance and varied colors swarmed over the sides of the British steamship Camperdown, at Chester, and created a panic among the 'longshoremen and citizens residing near the Sharpless Dyewood Extract company's wharf. When the 'longshoremen saw the reptiles rep-tiles scrambling out of the vessel some of them became panic-stricken and ran up the wharf shouting that the ship had glla monsters and Mexican devils on board. William E. Grandfleld of 308 Walnut street, a ship broker, to whom the vessel was consigned, was called up on the tele phone and notified that the vessel was'in-fested was'in-fested with - reptiles. He proceeded to Chester at once and when he reached there found a host of dead scorpions and lizards on the wharf. Among the lizards was one that was green and blue, with a head like a bullfrog bull-frog and backbone like a saw. Others almost equally hideous were also In the mound of the dead. Captain S.cott of the Camperdown said that the number of scorpions was far greater than he had ever seen before, and that they were unusually large. The ship had a cargo of logwood from Port de Palx and Cape Haytlen. The scorpions hide in the holes with which the wood Is honeycombed and breed there. |