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Show SPANISH LINER WEEK (IVERDHF I Disabled in Gulf Hurricane; Big Ship Mexico Barely Escapes Es-capes Great Waterspout. I NEW YORK ?-pt 18. Th Spanlah I passenper ship Valbaner owned by the i Pinllloa line and now more than a week 1 OYerdue at Ha ana w ith a largo number j of passengers on hoard Is believed to I i have been disabled bj the pulf hurrlcariq I of last week and stranded on some shorn R I or rora! kc.'. aeeordlnp to ("'.ptriin F, T.. B i Sillier, master of the ''A'ard line steam- B ship Mexico which arrived hero today I from Havana. Definite information as to the number B of passengers on thi Valba.nera could B not be obtained Captain Miller said, but B it was placed as high as 1000 The Mexico encountered the northci'v 1 and easterly edge of the hurricane on her way south when off the Florid i coast. Miller said that he was In closo .company Tith the Morgan liner Cre-I Cre-I ole ;md both shipa wren imffeted by I wind; running as high as 50 miles an hour. Officers See Waterspout On September 10 the officers say what th Bald was the largest water spout in ' their experience It sprang up suddenly j and passed tnc ship less than 300 feet f$ j away, moving rapidly with a roar like I that made b a train running at full speed. At the base of the spout a vast upheaal of water was seen and th; Mexico sheared off to avoid being en-! en-! gulfed At Havana the storm, while not strik-I strik-I ing the island directly, did considerable i damuRX. Eleven deaths wero recorded I by the newspapers and the water swept lover the protecting sea wall and did considerable con-siderable damage in parts of the residential residen-tial district I |