New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-27
PRRILS FROM ICEBERGS'
TIE Direst That Beset North At
Icntic T0ydgerS.


,.u-,. Nov q CspeciaT).-on Nov 'saI,sr
.nt-rlv before midnight, the spie'u,1 IA mas
.tea-shlp Portia. with ere" o. ~. northeast
..,v.-s struck an obstruction on believed to
- s.,,S7srd which is now oeHe' -
- =. - Golden mass OF finty arcu0 ~. ,i,p
- - mart Of her bottom ahu - =, 5rv6ock
-, >, c. Johns where she VIII &c nile the
ro- month or more efecuHe ,d.+o,ed TO cause
-. ,-ss.nr from her mishap va 'l
To-, - 1f,e appalling in its I'-ae 1,, haunt
loS7 "a -. imagine that icebergs are o'''1 -,
Moh' peot-o , -sterways in the spring ana ~
is 'He 1865 tbs fact IS that they are - Est
-. s--e-v rrouth OF the year o'9 = .a+.qorv
..,,-r ~ iceberg accidents N 'le l4,o liner
sts'ti-is 5vantlre occurred 10 the 0uion -
ol IN ,-o,,er,hsr q 1879. or the 0rshu Dam
= 80 ,o-r She was bound from New"
T1.-,ooI With FIVE hundred SOUS on 'oa'1 -
= b,sck fog at midnight hurled heFseH 4eA-i'9
= o--,o,,s crystal rampant. shsttering nor stem
an 80 re n her fore compartment biz
- - admit a streetcar. Fortunately '4e
t,,T-besd. helH and sire succeeded IN making ne'
into this port two hundred miles distant aI'eE
,o-+v.e,eht hours q keenest anxiety 10 81 Oh
board. . 80
,-.vr ~ the North German Lloyd steamer Han
rover. from Bremen to Baltimore. sighted efeat
mountain Of ice OF the Newfoundland BANKS o"
which they could six polar bears raIlloilhs
about from pinnacle 20 pinnacle as surely pflsoneo
rHe~A nd
rs-s drowning as = trs ship had witnessed fAeir
erz Tbsv had vovaged on the floating home rom
within the Arctic Circle -nayhap. living on seas
,,--f he mass broke away from the foe or which
i formed part and began its own si"less voyage 10
terminate by melting IL the Gulf stream
Icehergs are part Of the mighty Greenland
glaciers and are broken from these as they enter
rba sea duirg the b-ief summer season IN the polar
rl,-r. The south moving Labrador current grips
them s.a sweeps them down past Bafhn's Bay and
Davis Strait TO rhe wide Atlantic wastes Iloes ana
,t-5z swing them 70 and FRO .ey ground on the
shal!ows and the fishing banks OF Hudson's Strait
and Labrador are sentinelled with them the whole
wear long sever-eighths % their bulk IS below
water and as the sea corTodes this portion while
The sun 1avS the upper part the centre Of gravity
changes rhe berg upsets. perhaps breaks into sew
eral pieces ana then begins & new stage OF the
marine Journey Hence II Is that At every season
q the wear these white wanderers menace the
sailor aaoa, OF the western ocean, sending many
stout skin the bottom sometimes without leav-
ing SOU 70 tel the tale The iceberg IS the dtrest
a al tte rertls that besej the North Atlantic voy
sger Because il gives no warning Of its approach,
Sog usually sh-oJds i. and al other times as in the
Port case il lies 50 low in the water that Il is
-ot seer. and TIE impact is the first knowledge Of
is existence that the crew passengers have. In
September. 1901, the steamer Marengo struck such
E berg OF the Grand Banks, and tore out her fore
foot. having 20 put into 81 Johns and dock for re
psi7s
Il was in October. 1g75 that The steamer vicks-
burg. Of the Dominion Line came IN collision with
AZ enormous berg OF Cape Race. sustaining in
-gr.es 50 severe Jast her bukhesds were shattered
and she filed ard sank Immediately. carrying down
foTty-seye- persons with her In June, 1881. the
Allan liner Canadian hit z glistening islet II
Belle Isle Strait. and net q Ike fate. thirty-fve
souls pe-ishing with her out Of "a she had or
board. n spite Of most strenuous efforts 10 &c
clear Of the doomed craft before she foundered Il
n ar luky pail q fog on the Grand Banks by ram
ming another steely mass. which showed white and
nenacag only minute before she struck IT, and
the same year the Ontario lost eighteen under like
distressing circumstances. In 1856 eight men were
sacrificed n the sinking Of the steamer Princess by
striking berg near 81. Pierre, and II 1921 the brig
6Howbrd upset b. berg in St Marys Bay
twenty-one persens finding their graves in the w
turned hull
DREADFUL TOLL TO ICE KING
Within the last decade as many more ships have
paid dreadful toll 70 the ice king though the big
Atlantic liners have purchased comparative I'm
rnunity from this form Of disaster by altering
heir course Two hundred miles further south fol
The express purpose Of escaping this hazard. Only
three years ago The knight Bachelor Crumpled W
her stem against floating mass of ice and hac
she rot been going dead slow would probably have
sunk with all board In April 1900 the Hatasl
vas treated IL the same fashion. and IN August o.
The same year the Furlor had q remarkable ex
perierce After striking a berg and having ,
wooden bow put in her at ST Johns she went te
sea again. and hit another ice mass which ripped
o. part II her bottom, and she sank like q stone
carrying eight men down with her On November
% 1879 the ship Fe-ndaIe left St Johns for Glib
rsItar. fish laden. and the next day fourteen sur
vtvors ou- % crew Of thirty-one were "a * there
again The vessel had pumped against frownin,
height OF Zee only fifty miles on the harbOr anc
through her bow such torrent rushed as to carr,
hl~
watch below could reach the decks and before ,
second boat could be cut loose and got over tn,
side
TIE most grewsome tragedy due 10 iceberg
vas that q the French fishing brig Bailant. boun
from St Nalo, France, 10 ST Pierre. Miqueon, earl
IN Nav, 1887. with seventy-four persons aboard
20 engage IN trawing the Grand Banks SOM
hours before dawn the fral wooden craft Ia,
collision with a mountain OF ice her hull wa
opened like sieve, and before the trigh1ene,
wretches SIZE carried could collect their wits 81
was sinking under their feet. Twelve got ava
n TWO boats. but II would have been better ha
they also persisted with her. Without oars. sail
OF rUddeI, food, water clothes. they drifte
around The ocean for days Several died. and III
survivors resorted 20 the dread expedlent Of can
ni5aAsr the last. But the spring frosts scare
their arms and feet and OF the five who wer
ultimately picked up two died before reachin
lano and the others had 70 have their hands an
feet amDutated at St Pierre.
II 80 somewhat similar experience befeu II
Newfoundland fishing vessel Zebra. on the Bank
"--ch lmpaled herself on the snowy spur o. q low
E.|s ice rsft' causing her 10 sink like pIumne
~ Iei twenty-five men seventeen were engufe
VIA me vessel. but the other i've flung q boa
oFefooaEo and themselves into II and with only or
's' Aha second improvlsed from a thwa1
rowed ere hundred and fifty niles 70 land IN thr.
days touching neither food nor water during tha
period ~
"nen the present Prince Of Wales, then Duke {
cornwall and York, LETT ST Johns on October 2
= I" cross 10 Portsmouth in the ophir. CON
pleting his tour o. the vor,d +-ro ST. -