Show FOOT HITS TS A BIG LINER 00 IMPACT MAKES THE TREMBLE WITH SCREWS OUT OF WATER DENTS HER STEEL SHIELD ventilator smashed and navigating br dge damaged few pass aers knew of their narrow escape from death at sea new york with the steel shield across the center f the navigating bridge badly stove in the chalfinch half hal inch finch glass in the three ports entirely gone a ventilator on the starboard side smashed and a breakwater on the forward deck broken the provence of the french line arrived ai rived here a few days ago with saloon passengers knowing little more than that the ves eel sel had had a rough voyage there were a few who knew that a 60 foot wave had climbed over the bow of the provence and hurled many tons of water against the forward su per structure of the vessel the provence ran into bad weather from the time she left the other side of the atlantic and it was not until the steamer neared this port that the weather calmed to moderately good condition until thursday the gers enjoyed little time on deck capt poncelet kept the provence going along at a pretty good clip however and was vas only slightly behind her schedule on reaching this port the weather was very bad tuesday the sea was running high and the wind blew a gale there were many times when the steamer shook as the screws left the water capt poncelet three of his officers and a seaman were on the bridge at noon and some of the officers were taking observe eions as the provence dipped into the sea it was at two minutes after 12 0 clock when the off officers leers were figuring out the position of the steamer that the provence dipped into the sea and a huge wave mounted over the star board bow the volume of water raced along breaking the forward breakwater and threw its force against the superstructure As it struck the upper works of the brov ence the ship seemed to stop for a 9 C if 61 A huge wave mounted over the starboard bow moment she shook from the bow to stern and like a spaniel threw the water off and plowed into the sea again all on the bridge were drenched capt poncelet standing on the star board side did not get the full force of the wave but the others standing nearer the port side were wet from head to foot the seaman was standing in the middle of the bridge behind the steel shield and directly behind the middle port hole he ile saw the wave coming and dropped on the bridge the water smashed all the glass in the port holes mr cortland F bishop dent of the aero club who was a pas and who was told about the accident said he believed the seaman would have been killed by the glass had he not fallen to the deck the glass in a port of the officers quarters on the deck below also was broken and a great quantity of water found its way in the steel shield in front of the bridge was dented in ir about six inches and the port light screen was carried away at the time most of the passengers were in the dining saloon all felt the jar but there had been so many ol 01 them that this big one did not create any feeling of awe the bridge dech Is 45 feet from the water I 1 ne the rai railing lingon on top of the bridge deckhouSE deck house was broken and the weather cloth torn so that the water reached reache a lilleh as 60 feet above the water line lin E of the provence |