School of Whales Runs a Race in the Ocean with the Liner St. Louis.
New York, July 13.-The story of a midocean race between a school of whales and the steamship St. Louis, of the American line, which lasted for miles and was only ended when a sixty-foot leviathan, the leader of the school, was rammed and killed by the prow of the streamship, is told by the passengers.
The St. Louis was proceeding on her course in a smooth sea last Thurday when the whales appeared in the port bow of the liner. For over half an hour they swam along with the steamer on even terms. The race would probably have gone on until long after nightfall had the leader of the school left his companions and tried to cross the bow of the ship. Then he became a carcass.
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