The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-28
wASNIPPEDIN THEICEPACE,
TIE STATE or GEORGIA GERS Nv
WITH FISH Nv HER FOREPE1E.

Stove Hsie Feet ~ = N Hsr stArbo...
Bow, nnd Hsd e Let Go -nd DrIr Win
the Herss vSheu the Foe Wrapped Hsr 4,
It was ice and lots OF IL. that impeded IN.
progress Of the freight steamship State ~
Georgia from Aberdeen to this port. She cot
in yesterday morninR with her forepeak fool.
ed TO the water line and hole 81 fe.,
long and 4 feet high in her starboatd
bow. She took q high northerly cour..
where her skipper might reasonably er.
poet TO find Arctic conditions. and. on
March 49, east Of the banks OF Newfoundland
| she struck into pack Ice that forced her IA
slow down to quarter speed. She tried to push
her way through. but the further she steamed
| the thicker the Ice seemed to get. and she wal,
| at length compelled to steer to the east ward
Then they discovered that abe was leaking
forward and detected the injury to her bow.
Her progress was in1nitesimal. and when
| thick fog came on Capt. Laurie decided %
stop her and let her drift. as he feared she
might crash into an iceberg.
Ats A. M. the next day, while the ship WAS
going ahead, the skipper saw through the
mist what appeared to be dense fog bank IN
the stsrboard bow. lie kept on hi.
course until he noticed that the fox
bank had assumed a greenish hue. Then
he knew that he was within hale
ing distance OF q gigantic berg. and
apparition By less than a ships length. Tue
intense coldness Of the air convinced the skip.
per that be was In the neighborhood Of a fleet
At I NJ The ice and The we're SCUM SO thiSs
that the ships engines were stopped again
pumps connected with the fors Sp had been
sounded. aud It was found that the thrush Of
chain locker. had been closed. and The l.skSs:
:hp S %ss GSs s f1: as and e e.. ca @.
penter were lowered over the starboard bow
on staging and made an inspection OF the
They decided that there was danger OF tho
oup I'd eIt e5 Ing BY the stesdJ pEesSnte Of
mat" made %sf. Of two I'm bsrs nine feet long
srsa with esHSm. 10 the sGs dale each f end
chain and hawser on the lower edge OF the
ships bow ssd made fast on deck on the port t
side. The chain and hawser on the upper
oyer the breach caused By the To-. The lengths
ns.s q on as Ps ~ s IN:
sling; A smaller patch was put over q hole in
II n. and the Yoe having lifted I and rsvesled
lighter Ice to the southeast. the ship was
She passed a dozen or more oergs with fan
solid chunks oil green Ice that projected twenty
dangerous than beras Five hours after her
w wounds 80 had been dressed the bandaxes
erly galas. The skipper and HIS engl-
peer and carpenter examined the col;
BY chain piled In the chain locker. and dc.
cided that IL was not necessary to bandage
the ships nose again. They were somewhat
fearful when the seas were high and they
looked over the bow and saw. as tho ship
rose on . tall wave. the gaping wound that
more plates might be ripped on Whenever
the ship rose on wave she spilled q cataract
from the gap.
The skipper contradicted q report thai a
porpoiss had jumped into the hole. He said,
however. that there was a small fish there vet
and that he proposed to secure 1t for a mo
m ento whom the ship was put In dry dock.
The Essen OF the Ham burg American line
and the Sorrento OF the Wilson line. both prob
ably belated because Of the ice blockade had
not been reported at midnight last night. Tho
Island OF the Thingvalla line got In.
The Island reports no trouble with the Ice
but was boarded by heavy seas. which dam
aged her deck houses and swept man over
board.