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Those of the Orizaba Badly Frightened at the Strange Light. New Yorks, Feb. 10.—The captain of the steamship Orizaba, which has arrived here from Havana, says that on the night of Jan. 24 the atmosphere was free from clouds or guist, and the moon shone briliantly on the ocean. But as the night advanced prismatic colors began to form around the moon, and in a short time arranged them selves in waving circles that dimmed the stars. The colors played around these circles in constantly changing hues and scintillated like the rays of the aurora borealis. The phenomenon was visible for several hours, and the steamer’s crew and passengers re mained on deck and watched it as long as it lawked. Some of the steamer’s crew were frightened by the strange freak of the heavens and feared all sorts of dire dis aster. They were in some measure veri fied, as the Orizaba ran into a pilot boat on her way up harbor and cut the boat nearly in two. What the Orizaba’s people saw was a moonbow, sin. .o the rattbows during the summer five i: thos. Lb was due.0 Wia-badlinops his conuwigns and happens only on rare ocea-sions, ceues, be
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Olean Democrat
Olean, New York, US
Fri, Feb 10, 1893
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