The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-28
HUGE ISLANDS or llN' !
Make Navigation in the Allan
tic Very Hazardous


Make Navigation in the Atlan-
tic Very Hazardous.
MANY VESSELS ARE OVERDUE.
The Procession OF Icebergs Being brought
Down by the IaBrador Current Probably
Larger Than Has Been Seem For Many
xsars-seyeral Vessels Hnys Close Calls
in7tle Lee Fields.
NEW YORK March 97.-The route.
usually taken by westbound steamships
: at this season is literally b.ockaded with
ice, and the commanders of several vessels
which left the other side before the bergs
began drifting down on the Labrador
current have doubtless been surprised to
find themselves
Nipped In bnmense Fields.
The reports of tlnres steamships. the
Z Kansas City, the Venetia and The Cell
lert, and the American clipper General.
Knox, all of which have Just arrived
and show that the procession Of berss
that nayigators in high Iaiitufies may.
reasonably expect to pass will be larger.
perhaps than has been seen N many
years. 1r5sf
The Cellert. passed six large bergs ON
Thursday. The Kansas City was forced
to- bear away to the, southFeste several
miles to get out of the, course of three or.
four big icebergs which were drifting
down into the track of passenger stean-
ships.
The General Knox Sailed a the.
southerly edge of u great ice field, IN
which the lookout on the thcad
countsd
TIlirtyzTwo G1hefAl Ginhfs. u
The second officer of the, Nenstia, from
Christiansand, saw directly ahead, three
miles away. at 6ito'cleek on Tuesday
morning, a berg about ], 009 feet long
and more than 100 feet high, A fierce
gale from the west had colnbed up ~
the head seas thai. made the steamship.
southwest by west. Her coafse was
changed to southwest by south. She
'yawled a good deal and was unable to
hold her course, being driven to- the
northward. She thus passed closer to
the big berg than Captain Won Basse
Witt thought was judicious. He says
that it was less than. half "a mile away
when the ship was abeam of it. On the
night before the outlines of bsrg was
family seen about mile to the north.
1t is probable that several vessels of
the belated fleet of passenger carriers
and freighters have got into trouble be-
cause of the ice.
Besides the State of GeorgiagR tramp
that is now % days out fromp Aberdeen,
there are three steamships. the Sorrento,
the Island and the Essen, that 9ugiit to
have been here several days ago. The
Sorrento is a freighter of the Wilson
line, to which the Apollo, which notbeen
heard from since she sailed hence on
Feb. 20, also belonged.
The Sorrento left Antwerp on March
4, and is thus % days out. The Essen
of the Hamburg American line, with 66
steerage passengers and cargo of sugar,
sailed from Hamburg on March z. She
usually makes the voyage in about Is
The Island of the Thingvalia line
brings cargo only. She had cabin and
steerage passengers when she sailed on
Jan. 20 from Christiansand, having
touched previously at Copenhagen and
Stettin. But she ran into sefeeching
Northwestern lust after rounding Scotland
from the North sea, and she was com
PEELED to put in. Her decks were swept
frequently by heavy Seas which carried
one of her sailors overheard and knocked
her sa1oonhouse into finders.
She was SO badly damaged d that,sit
took the Clyde shipwrights more than
month to repair her. Her passengers
were transferred to the eEurnassia and
arrived here several weeks ago. The
Island sailed from Greenock OH March
10, and is, therefore, II days out AS
Greenock is few days nearer than
Christiansand, and the usual winter
voyage of the Island is 10 days, She is
about three days behind time.A o. s,sfi
u, -. Was Caught i'm the Ice.
The British steamer State of Georgia.
which sailed from Glasgow March 4,
only made this port Tuesday, having ex-
perienced heavy gales for the most part
of the passage and being i've days inn
prisoned by pack ice and surrounded by
icebergs. March 10 two of her3bow-
plat g were stove in by ice and the dam
age was repaired with much difficulty.
The ice encountered by the State of
Georgia was very solid and, with the