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Show PANIC ON BOARD ATLANTIC STEAMER i 1 j NEW TORK. Dec 12. With her bow stove In, the marine telegraph disabled and forward windlass twisted, the Belgravia of the Hamburg-American line, arrived Sunday from Cuxhaven wtth tales of a six-hours' experience in a hurricane hur-ricane that threw 1200 of her 1870 steerage steer-age passengers into a panic December C The 1200 were Polish and Russian refugees i sent to this country by London societies. According to Captain Magln. on Tuesday Tues-day afternoon the Belgravia ran into a hurricane, the force of -which could not be. measured by the wind registering gauge. Captain Magln estimated that at its height there was a velocity of UO I miles an hour. f A great wave swept over the bow of the vessel at midnight of December 6, tearing out the shield, disabling the marine ma-rine telegraph, tearing away the starboard star-board hawse port forward and smashing the windlass. It was then that the fear below decks, which had been continuous, pi. arose to panic. ' 1 It was necessary to send all officers on v I board below to quiet them and these were compelled to work several hours assuring the frightened persons that there was no danger. As the refugees left the ship today for Ellis Island many of them showed bruises upon the face and heads caused when they were thrown about the ship. ' |