Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-27
ICE IN CONNECTION.
Western Bound Steamships Pass I'm.
moHss Floating B.TBs.
SOMETHING NOT SEEN IN YEARS.
Many vessels Related. - All Rerort
Having Seen an Unusual Num.
bsr NJ Glacial Glauts

Nrw YoRE, March 27.-rhe route
usually taken by tue wes,ern.bound
sttamahips at this season Is literally
blocked with ice and the commanders
%. several vessels, which lcil the other
eide before the borgs began drifting
wn on the Labrador current have
doubtless teen surprised 10 nud them
selves nipptd Ia immense fiolir.
The reports Of three slremshils the
slnfas CITY, the Vouutin aud lhu Gel.
Irrf, all VI which nave just arrived
Hbi show that the procession 0f burFs
tlat nnvigatofs 10 Hugo attitudes may
reasonably expect TO pace, viii
un larger perhaps than has been
aaen iu many yUnrt The Gcllrtt
tu,std nix large bergs on Thursday,
The Kansas CITY was forced 10 bear
away Co ths southwest several milus 90
get out Of the course OF thlliy.iour big
burga which were drifting down into
the track Of passenger steamship. The
General kuOK sailed along iho south
trly edge Of a gfust Ice Hold, ia which
the lookout nu the masthead counted
thirty two glacial g0auiH.
The second officer Of the Nenouui
from ChriIiansaud, saw directly nhuau
thiuB miles away, at Fix O'Clock on
Tuesday morning, n berg about ] 900
foot long and more than 100 fcuthich. A
fierce gale from the wcat had c0mbtd
up tall head seas that made the steam
Rhlp oluer wildly. She wi1 then head.
luW southwest by west, Her C0urfe was
chlngod 20 southwest by uth, she
waved q good deal aud was unable 10
hold hur Uouue, ueinE driven TO the
n0fthwari. Hhu thus passed closer 10
the big berg than Captain Won bgafO.
wits thought was iuiiuiUua. Hutays
that Il WIS Ices than half a mile away
when the ship was nbuam OF H. On tue
night before, the OutliLeu OF n berg
were fsintly seen about mile 70 tHu
north.
ltiHpr5bablo that several vcsacla Of
the bulGlud fleet OF passenger CarfiUFs
aud ifuignton have got int0 trouble
because Of the loo, besides the State
Of Grofgiu,a tramp that % now twenty
three days out from Aberdeen, three
stuamofa, tue Sorrento, the Island anu
the Essen, TINT ought 10 have been here
several days ago. The Sorrento is a
ireighlef u the Wilson line, 10 which
the Apollo, which hiss not been heard
from slnCe rhu sailed hence on Feb.
fuary 2Oth, also belonged. The Slr.
Eanio lsit Antwerp on March I, and b
thus tweuly.thFru days cut. rht
Essen, OF the Hamburg. American line,
with hixty-siX Storage passengers nuu
n cargo u sugar, sailed from Hamburg
on March Z. She usually makes The
voyage Ia about hilcUu days. Tht
Island, OF the Ihiugyaila line, brings
cargo only. She nnd cabin aui steer,
age passengers when she sailed on
January 20 from ChTBtiaushud, having
touched previously ht Copenhagen anu
Btuitin. But she ran Into "a EcTueChiup
norlhwcsttr just after rounding Scot
land from the North sea, aud she wal
compelled 10 pug Into Lomlhsh, Scot
lnnI. Her uecks were swept ift
quunily by heavy seas, which car
Tiud one OF nor tailUts over
board aud Knocked Der snl00t
house into hirdrs. She was no badly
damaged that it took the Clyde chin
wfighA more than n month 10 reuaiI
her.
Her passengers were transferred &
the FupTnessia, aud arrived hero severn
weeks ago. The Island sailed iron
GreUnOck ON March lOth anu 10 there
iofoHeventeen days out A. Grcenec l
h nearer than Christiansnnd hul th,
usual winter voyage Of the bland .
fifteen days, she Is about oight day
behind time.