50'W passed several bergs. John's with bows stove in by ice. She passed about 130m of ice outside and 100m inside of Cape Ray. She saw 2 steamers and 1 ship in the ice to the S of Cape Race. Some of them are in the track of the Atlantic steamers.
Steamers report that the Cape Breton coast is blocked by ice.
The first vessels are arriving from the seal fishery and report having found an interminable stretch of ice about 20 miles broad along the Labrador coast. May 10 Telegrams from St. John's state that there are 45 sailing vessels and 8 steamers caught in the ice in the Gulf of St. 59'N 46 o 55'W passed a quantity of ice. May 18 Reports of scattered ice around St.