The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-05

ly months of the year the Savoie met
an enormous foe of Boston. The
Kaiser Wilhelm had a narrow escape
from contact with a berg. Fearing
lest some ship would meet disaster
from the unusual prevalence OF these
floating terrors. all the big New York
liners altered their routes TO parallels
sixty miles further south.
The pervious year the barkentine
Nelly left St John for Brazil with a
cargo OF dry cod. and four hours af-
terward. in dense fog, struck berg
and foundered, the captain and five
men perishing with her. A week later
the schooner Bertha was caught by a
foe between two headlands, whence
there was no escape, and. being forced
shorewaTd, was ground to pieces by
the resistless. pressure. Not soul es-
capped. The Endymion was crushed
on the Grand Banks in March, 1900.
when eight out of thirteen men per-
ished, and the others were at death S
door when rescued from the pan,
or fiat area of ice, on which they had
taken refuge. The snowbird foun-
dered off Cape Race in 1898 by huge
berg capsizing and causing a wave
which overwhelmed her. Only one
man out of seven escaped to tell the
tale.
These are, however, only the domes-
tic tragedies which are discussed at
the firesides of the isand-fisherfolk,
for in New foundland hardly family
can be found but mOurns the loss of
some member by this ever present ice
peril. Many of the mysteries of the
North Atlantic are due to these causes
the loss of the White Star liner Ma
! ronic in 1892 the State liner Nebras
I ka in 1898 and the Allan liner Huro-
MAN in 1901, all of which vanished in
the month of February without leav-
ing single trace by which their fate
might be made known. Many tramp
steamers before and since, have un-
doubtedly met the same end-a con-
clusion warranted by the tales OF
/ those fortunate enough to escape with
crumpled bows or Jagged sides,V
The shipping annals contain long
| lists of liners sent toetheir doom by
these grim sea castles. The steamer
Canadian struck one in Belle Isle
Strait in July, 1881, and .foundereG
speedily, carrying down thirty-fivt
human beings with her The Vicks,
burg hurled herself against one of
Cape Race in August, 1875, and forty.
seven souls persisted. The Warrior
| tore out her bottom against a pan
| on the Grand Banks in 1898, and TWEEN
ty-nine persons We're sacrificed. The
Gufon liner Arizona hit one in the
same region the next year, but her
superior construction saved her from
the doom of the others. She remained
afioat, put into St. Johns and was re-
paired. But in 1881 the North Star
was victim. She was bound to Mon
treal and crashed into a glistening
barrier in Cabot Strait. She had two
hundred and eighty immigrants
| aboard, and sixty-seven found their
last home in the ocean depths, The
Midway was equally unfortunate IN
1887. She, too, was bound to Mon
treaI and had large complement OF
steerage passengers, when she impaled
herself on a serrated low lying mass,
which tore. her bottom out. In the
rush and confusion incident to getting
away the boats twenty-nine lives were
lost.
The Sheerness was crossing the
Brand Banks in 1891 when she struck
a berg a CHANGING blow, which stove in
her side from deck to waterline, maxi
ing a hole thirty feet wide. Fearing
she would founder, five men lowered a
boat and jumped into 1t. The boat
was upset and they were drowned,
while the rest of the crew, sticking to
their posts, worked her safety into st.
Johns. Here she was repaired and
made the voyage successfully to New
York, her destination. The Elbrug
was bound to Philadelphia when, in
1897, she ran into ice which, by a
change of wind, soon enmeshed her.
The breeze increased to gale, and
the enormous pans" We're flung
against her sides with the force of
battering rams. She was in water
ballast, and gradually pumped this
out lifting her fractured plates above
the danger point. They had been at
tackled by the foes along the water
line. She was fortunate enough to
make port at st. Johns. The steamer
Castlegate, bound for New Yorw, was
enveloped by a foe in March. 1898, and
so badly crushed that all efforts to
keep her ,af1oat were futile, and the
crew made their way on to a pan.
with boats, tents, provisions and kits,
awaiting the subsistence of the gale.
At this juncture the sealing steamer
Diana, then On her annual sealing
cruise, came and transferred the crew
to her friendly deck.
A month later the French ship Vail
ant, with seventy-two French fisher
men from St. Malo for St. Pierre to
| engage in TRAVELLING on the Grand
Banks, pumped against berg south
| of Cape Race at midnight, and went
to pieces like d house of cards, sink
ing almost before those below decks
could reach her upper deck. Only two
boats, containing twelve persons es.