The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-28
GLACIAL GIANTS
CREATE DISMAY.
NUMEROUS VESSELS NIPPED Il
THE ICE FIELDS.
Route of Western-Bound Ships Lit
orally Blocked with Ice Bergs-
Thirty-Four of the Monsters
Sighted in n Day-Many Vessels
BeIated, and Some Perhaps De-
stFOyed.

New York, March 27.-The route
usually taken by the western-bound
steamships at this season is literally
blocked 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 them
selves nipped in immense fields.
The reports of three steamships, the
Kansas City, the Venetia and the Gel
lert, all of which have just arrived,
show that the procession of bergs
that naviga tors in high ATTITUDES may
reasonably expect to pass, will be
larger perhaps than has been seen in
many years.
The Gelle4t passed six large bergs on
Thursday.
The Kansas City was forced to bear
away to the southwest several miles to
get out of the course of thirty-four big
bergs which were drifting down into
the track of passenger steamships. The
General Knox sailed along the south
erIy edge of great ice field, in which
the lookout on the masthead counted
thirty-two glacial giants.
from Christiansand, saw directly ahead
three miles away, at six o'clock on
Tuesday morning, berg about 1000
feet long and more than 100 feet high.
A fierce gale from the west had combed
up tall head seas that made the steam
! ship steer wildly. She was then head
ing southwest by west. Her course was
| changed to southwest by south. She
| waved a good deal and was unable to
,oIJ H. hi, [l,.;xr - +Ioo
| 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 mile away
| when the ship was abeam of it, On
the night before, the outlines of a berg
were family seen about a mile to the
north.
! It is probable that several vessels OF
| the belated fleet of passenger carriers
and freighters have got into trouble
| because of the ice, besides the State
! of Georgia, a tramp that is now
{ twenty-three days out from Aberdeen
| three steamers, the Sorrento, the Island
and the Essen, that ought to have been
here several days ago.
! The Sorrento is a freighter of the
! Wilson line, to which the Apollo, which
| has not beer heard from since She
| sailed hence on February 20, also be
!
! March 4, and is thus twenty-three days
| out The Essen, of the Hamburg
! American line. with sixty-six steeragt
passengers and a cargo of sugar, sailed
from Hamburg on March T. She
usually makes the voyage in abou
| fifteen days
The Island, of the Thingvalla line
brings cargo only, She had cabin ant
steerage passengers when she sailed or
January 20 from Christiansand, having
touched previously at Copenhagen ant
Stettin But she ran into searching
northwestern just after rounding Scot
land from the North sea, and she wa!
compelled to put into Lemlash, Scot
land. Her decks were swept FIRE
quentIy by heavy seas, which carried
one of her sailors overheard anC
knocked her saloon house into flinders
She was so badly damaged that it tool
the Clyde shipwrights more than {
month to repair her.
Her passengers were transferred t.
the Fuernessia, and arrived here sew
eral weeks. ago. The Island sailed from
Greenock Sn March 10 and is therefor
| seventeen days out.
AS Greenock is nearer than. Christian
sand and the usual winter voyage o
the Island is fifteen days, she is abou
eight days behind time.