Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-19
LIFTED BY AN ICEBERG.
A Ship Raised Bodily Out of the Water by
 Mountain of Ice.

Ship Raised Bodily Out of the Water by
 Mountain of Ice.
 Strange stories of thrilling encount- CTS with icebergs have been brought back from the Aretics by shippers from time to time, but they must all take back seat now and bow low to Capt. Chester, of the schooner Elwood. The Elwood lately returned from her first halibut fishing cruise in the north ern waters. She left here on January 24, in ballast, but in order to pick up an honest dollar on the voyage, put into Departure bay and took on car go of coal for Juneau, Alaska. After discharging at the latter place, she headed for the Muir glacier, the pur- pose being to load the hold with ice, with which to preserve the fish to be caught later on. The vessel was pass ing through the icy straits and was just off Hoonia, says Capt. Chester, when he espied an immense iceberg about mile away 1t was fully ten times the size of the schooner and ap- peared to have become fast upon reef which was known to exist at that place. The captain considered this a lucky find, for he could now get all the ice he wanted without having to go to the glacier, fully days sailing distant The Elwood was headed for the berg. and when the vessel was within few yards of it the anchor was dropped. The schooner was then permitted to swing around until she came alongside the iceberg, to which she was made fast with lines.
 The tide was at the fuil at the time, and to all appearances the vessel was perfectly safe gang plank was thrown over to ledge in the ice, and the men set to work to break off huge chunks of the berg and hoist them aboard the vessel. All went well un- til along toward evening. About thir ty tons of ice had been deposited in the hold, and Chester encouraged the men to work little faster, as he desired to get the entire load and leave as soon as possible. Meanwhile the tide had been falling, which caused the iceberg to settle heavily upon the reef beneath and then to gradually tip over toward the side opposite the vessel. The gang plank connecting the schooner with the iceberg began to rise in the air and had to be made fast to a ledge nearer the water in order to keep it hori- zontal.
 The iceberg continued to careen, and Capt. Chester began to suspect that all was not going to be well for him. He ordered his men to get aboard, and was about to set sail when, with q grinding roar, the iceberg rolled off the reef and started to revolve Imme- 4a1r ha cfo ard side of the vessel, and beneath it, a jagged spur of ice, which until then had formed the bottom of the iceberg. With a crash the ice struck the keel. The next instant the astonished crew found themselves and their vessel lifted out of the water and resting in a sort of groove or cradle at the south end of the ice mountain. It was a participating predicament, to say the least, and all hands began to pray for their lives.
 The weight of the vessel arrested the revolution of the berg, but did not have the effect of turning it back again tc its original position. The reef pre- vented this.
 Chester ordered his men into the boats, with instructions to get out o1 harms way as fast as they could. Be fore abandoning the vessel the mate cut the lines which held her to the ice. berg. The men then pulled away to a safe distance, and anxiously awaited the fate of the Elwood. The anchor held fast and the schooner, as if real izing it's plight, and desiring to escape tugged at the cham despairingly. The .I 1,- iceberg careened still further, and the Elwood rose still higher into the air Although at first thought this condi tion seemed to render her condition still more desperate, it really proved the schooner's salvation. The ten dency of the iceberg to roll over anc raise the vessel brought such an enorm ous strain to bear upon the anchor chain that something had to give way Something did, and to the joy of the fishermen it was not the anchor or the chain. The iceberg lurehed and the schooner was seen to slide several feet along the erevice it rested in. There was another lurch and another slide Then the vessel reached downward grade, and the next instant shot off the iceberg and into the sea bows on, like rocket She shipped heavy sea, as the result of plunging her nose be. meath the surface, but quickly righted, and, after stumbling over her anchor chain and tugging viciously to get away, settled down to her original state of tranquility, to all appearances unhurt.-San Francisco Chronicle
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