Show MARINE earthquake cape horn phenomenon kills thousands of big fish A baill sailing rig ship rounding Cape horn was caught in a dead calm something almost unprecedented in that stormy latitude the sky W was is filmed with a light aze and the sea flat and lead colored colo redi about ten on the morning of the second day the ship began to shake violently tho the masts whipped and bent like fisli poles and every everything tying movable above and below came down don do n with a clatter it was like striking a rock only the shock was less pronounced at first but increased in violence during the 30 seconds it lasted the sea heaved in ORY oily swells with a strange hoarse murmur and it continued to be agitated after the tremors ceased half an hour later fish elsh by the tho thousands u began to rise to the surface e until it was covered with them forty seven whales were counted many cowf fully eight feet across sharks without withof t number and seals by tho the hundreds they were evidently stunned with the force of some terrific ili marine arlue upheaval p and when struck with a polo by one af x the sailors showed only 0 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 0 load lead whether they were stunned and on recovering immediately dove beneath the waves in a panic seeking safety in the depths or whether they died tym the shock and instead of floating as dead fish do were drawn under by some submarine marine whirlpool were scientific questions too deep for the skipper but halt half a dozen of the smaller fish hauled aboard by the cook for dinner were quite when examined the calm co continued minued 24 hours longer before the ocean resumed its usual aspect and a wind from the southeast permitted the ship to continue its ta course |