Show TERRIBLE T MARINE earthquake cape horn phenomenon kills thou sands of big fish A alila cape horn was caught in a almost unprecedented in that stormy latitude the sky as filmed with a light inze and the sea flit and lead colored about ton 0 clock on the morning or the second day the ship began to shake violently the masta whipped and bent like and movable above and below came down with a clatter it was like striking a rock only the shock was less pronounced at first but jn creased in violence during the 30 seconds it lasted the sea heaved in oily swells with a strange hoarse murmur and it continued to be aal bated after the tremors ceaud half an hour later fish by the thou sands began to rise to the surface un til it was covered with ahem forty seven whales were counted many codfish fully eight feet across sharks without number and seals by the hun deeds they were evidently stunned uh the force of some terrific marine upheaval and when struck with u by one of the sailors showed only faint signs of life in 20 minutes after the first fish arose to the surface they began to drop out of sight like pieces of lead whether they were stunned and on recovering am dove beneath the waves in a panic seeking safety in the depths or whether they died from the shock and instead of floating as dead fish do drawn under by some submarine whirlpool were scientific ques alons too deep for the skipper but half a dozen of the smaller fish hauled s board by the ook for dinner were aulle dead when examined the calm continued 24 hours longer before the ocean resumed its usual aspect and a wind from the southeast permitted the ehrp to cont luu Us course |