The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-08-31

On Msy 20, In let % deg Do min.'
lol,g. 40 deg. 2 min. the Russian bark
Condor. Capt. A. r. Nyberg. bound
from Eastwood. England, for New
York with coal ballast. Came INTO col
lision With 90 iceberg and bad 40 ea-
irsordinsry narrow escape from gong
To the bottom. Capt Nybssg sAyE
4 had seen icebergs two dsys before.
ono II them fully 100 feet high. and
fesring.to coSs In contact With them.
hal instructed my looknuts. Of whom !
kept two on watch. fore and an. to
keep sharp eye out for those danger
Gus ueighbors. In the forenoon of she
10Th il Was clssr. and not "a iceberg
was 10 sight. About noon fog b-gsn
ID gather, ths air turned cold. aud the
tsmpsrstars OF ths wstsr yes down to
81 deg. Rssmur. The fog became 30
heavy that ws could not scs fifty
Yards from this deck. and sboat thres
o'clock it, density suddenly increased
20 that r.ngs Of vision was diminished.
Our topssils aud topgsllsnt sails were
set, foressil and msinssil were reefed.
tho fore royal was clewed up. and
sailor named Hsrigo Vas making the
main royal fast. when suddenly there
came . cry from the lookout Id the
oow-s sailor named Lindcross to
keep her az Ny nephew. w NObere,
IL mate. and was at the wheel at the
moment. lie instHutly obeyed the
warning, which was answered by the
after watch. Strandbefg.
AT that moment came ont Of my
cabin by the after companion way. apd.
~ IL seemed to mo. IN that exact seosnd
Of time the crash came The bark was
moving 1t ths rate Of abou, four knots
and fortunately obsyed her helm readi-
II, else we would have struck the berg
squarsIy. and beyond question woald
have gone 70 the bottom. Az u Va.
che shsersd Of 20 that she struck 6rst
With her port cathead. breaking the
chain aud whirling tbs anchor up on
deck. At the same time her msintop-
sail yssdarm smashed into ths berg.
- did the foretopgAllant mast and the
misssa topmast. The great pressure
against hsr yards caused the masts to
bend and the vessel 10 heel over on her
eide partially. and as she did 50 the
main chain plates On the port side
struck the berg with terrific force.
parting her lanyards and allowing the
nainmass 10 70 b shs board. L came
down with al the top hamper over her
side. and the mixsen tepmsst and the
fore tepQllaut wset along.
~ al seemed - Be over u two o.
three ssconds. before We could do any
thirg. even 10 shelter ourselves from
the falling nass or utter . CRY of warn.
ing. The harh relied IN her aide On .
big wave. with the weight Of the mast
sud ell that oluns to Il dragging her
ovsr, and Il looked - IL We vers going
10 capaiss, but happily she rightsd. = xss
were qsickly brought. and the wreck
wss cut away and We were saved.
Uadsr the lumber u the falling rig
aing. closa By The starbo&ri rail amid-
ships. ~ fosnd Harieo--ths mao who
had bssa on ths main roy~l--lying
ssussiesa Nea. him was On lriah boy
named Tom Rafferty,. one Of tho crew,
with . broken leg. Nobody slss IVES
hart,
10 addition 10 the injury to her rig
aiux, the vessel suffered severely.
Thirty fest q The pcst rail-. stanchiona
end wuter cay were carried Cd. snd the
injury where shs struck 6rst vas very
serious. stu. ws patched things up q
veil - ~ could. and managed 10 ges
into port oil right.
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