The sun., 1893-07-26
SHE RAMMED A GIANT BERG.
THE CAsHMERDs BoHsPRrr FORCED
Rack THROUGH TWO HOLDS

| The Towering Mass OF Tee Arehed Over the
Deck - This Happened Far South on
March 4, and the ship Has inst Got rn.
A juggler Of Cashmere. all in white. with a
lizard crawling in his headdress, after twenty
lve years wandering In tropio and Arctic seas.
lies IN many fathoms In the south Atlantic.
| about fve hundred miles northeast OF the
Falkland Islands He was the fiRurehead OF
the British bark Cashmere. one Of the first Of
iron sailing craft.
Tho Immaculate juEgler who vanished un-
der the sea had seen enough to supply him with
yarns that would have made the adventures
OF all other 1Rureheads seem unimpressive in
comparison. Tho story that the flEurehead
cannot tell to its shlpmates was related yester-
day By Capt Thompson, the skipper Of the
bark Cashmere.
| Capt. Thompson 10 q Grizzled Scotchman n
whose face has been burnt to chocolate hue
| BY the fervent suns Of southern latitudes for
the last forty years. He has been twenty tim es
| around the Horn. and he has seen lots Of Ice
| in both the Western and Southern oceans, but
he says he never saw In 80 brief period SO
much ice as he saw after rounding the Horn.
bound from Psagua. Chill. to this port. deep
laden with nitrate OF soda.
1t was not seeing the Ice that bothered him.
| however: It was hitting 1t and being thumped
| that Is why the Cashmerian juggler didn't
como proudly into port under the steel bow
| spirit OF the Cashmere. That is also the reason
| why the steel bowsprit was brought in on the
I bark's deck. The Cashmere warped into Erie
basin last evening. battered and rusty above tho
| water line. with the green slime clinging to
her imm ersed surface as thick as the hair on
a Cashmere goat Her nose was twisted. and
| Jury bowsprit. at an ungraceful tilt supplied
the place Of the heavy steel spar. She had been
more than six months making her way from
The skipper says he remembers the Ant:
ARCTIC ice in the southern Ocean. Just north OF
e mas. 0f ef o ATs' the British BsS N clipper Eagle That
was the greatest year, before this one for Ice
Queen. plying between England and Austria
1854. knocked out her masts. and smashed in
Ts s2 indian 9nsSd Ss s b5n %s ana ana stan
pun ped her out. stopped the leak. rlgged Jury
masts, and took the vessel into Valparaiso.
The skipper and his boats crew were never
ON being reminded that the yarn Of the In
son to ID how he lost his hgurehead. and how
clos close he came to losing the. The CashmoIs S too 90
noticed, on glancing over the starboard quar-
ter, white square in the water.
bsrss % were ere visible on IN any my horizon. The ap-
fred an iron bark owned by the owners OF the
Cashmere. which is supposed to have been
s K ssson Hd sasa w az douS s5S GSy
and Kept Els own eyes peeled for berGs. The
sanr Mind Sns a fsS sn$ the bark sailed ssFenoi7
to tie Xsstwards There ws5s no other GLACIAL
tie Captain feared the approach of night;
witch d9ssH't begin down of the Horn until
It was tho mates watch. and Third Mate
glasses. was was stretched on the the iorecastls head.
>. The Wind had shifted. and the bark was on
the port tack under easy canvas Third Mate
appsssnsy rse sa tie wator ahsad
he ss{s 4 Locked rs II 1t were four tmes as
"A ,elgantlc cornlce, extended several hun:
as 'S ss
vided at the keystone, Pontet didn't wait to
make X q Ps hS r. AFT
6css 6cuse on the Cashmere. he shouted: Ice
'trS The a%sou Wooden jibboom Of the bark speared
the. side Of the berg and broke Of like tooth
pick. Then the steel boWsGTriti; s, thick tpbe M
The mighty tube broke. in two. the upper
half teleseopinG the lower; which was
h ana head sr
Ing, deck .timbers and making itselfFso
fast that it stuck whero the impact with the
Me eS 81 the H bsrf sFens
only slightly checked by the breaking Of the
White iusger was torn OF. He I was held % G aboYe o
the sea By tangle OF steel wire stays and
When, the stem Of the bark hit the berg an
avalanche Of Ice crashed on the forward deck;
The first severa! hundred tons were crushed
lowed. and all the forward deck was. as tho |
skipper said. Q turtle back OF ice, The big |
crystal turtle back into the sea and along the
Just as huge cake tore along the starboard
ASSb ISSbsr ot G S. ssks
cabin al he SS ton the ,faf PHS' He
yelled as he dashed by, the, cabin. 'Oh. mein
Rim AT tsrt Kopi. Every y. other seaman ANY went v
aft n BY. not ice lee
the, berg, sent her into It again. The Captain
Licked up up and nc saw that the stars had been
81 tho wheel to jam it hard down and stick to
i fbis R' was to avod hitting the berg under the
eorpies and bringing Il down on the bark. The
into the wind on the other tack and cleared
trembled, and cried out:
:. That Is going to fall. can't stay here"
h4yy as good q chance as anybody"
When the danger of hitting or being hit by
he berg was over the mon set to work chop
ping away the compact mass Of Toe forward;
had been found free OF water. The forepeak
was hlled, but the collision bulkheads kept tho
Ester 4 frSm .he hold The Ice ard tP Wrs;knGe
Second Mate Hamilton superintendent the
,utting away Of the iugger OF the Cashmere. |
ron was sticking In his back. When the
angled wire supporting him had been cut
lway he turned over and. face upward. fell
nto the SEQ.
SIGNAL CORPS STJLL SIGNALLING.