Dramatic Scenes on a Helpless Liner: Hatches to Cook Meals New York, Feb. 10.
The liner President Harding dock-Jed here this afternoon six days late after what the captain described as the worst trip he had made during his 40 years at sea. He said that! from the time he left Cherbourg his ship was battered by a 100 mil hour gale and monstrous waves until rivets were loosened, starting a leak' in the oil tanks, which gradually emptied.
The lights went out and the en-stines died down. All heating was out of commission and still great! seas dashed over the liner's side.
Immigrant passengers were fright-fened and knelt down and prayed.
'AIL available wood including boxes, rates and hatch covers were chopped up and burned to cook meals before the liner was towed into) Halifax.—Reuter.
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