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

clothing. in a temperature al that sea
son Of about zero. Nine of the twelve
persisted before another ship sighted
them. and when she took on board tae
three living but unconscious beings
they held, she found that these had
kept the vital spark alive by resOrting
TO cannibaIism.
The Notre Dame and Burgundia,
TWO large French steamers, recently
were caught among the foes near
Cape Race, in the midst of terrible
storm, and SO badly battered for TWO
days and nights that those on board
feared they would never see land
again 1t was hopeless for the ships
to attempt to force passage through
the ice, and they had TO haul away
south to skirt round, but even in do
ing this the two steamers were in i'm
minent peril. for the gale swept the
ponderOus fragments against the
ships sides, the crash of the splinter
ing pans sounding like fusillades of
artillery. The two finally took shelter
under the ice of two large bergs,
where the fury of the gale was felt
less keenly; otherwise they would
probably have been destroyed utterly.
To insure the proper management of
the vessels the passengers had to be
kept below decks, with the matches
battened down, for the seas which
swept the Burgundia carried off TWEEN
ty-one men. The Notre Dame had
| several injured.
In contest with a monster berg on
the Grand Banks in 1897 the Knight
Bachelor telescoped her bows so badly
that she had to be steamed stern fore
most to port, to relieve the strain on
| her forward hulkhead. The COncOr-
! dia's case was similar. She rammed a
| berg the next season and battered in
| her forepeak while in a log in Belle
Isle Strait, and only fine weather ena'
| bled her to reach St. Johns to recover
| from the effects of the terrible knock
| The Gibraltar shortly after hit anoth-
er berg, a spur of which penetrated
her bulkaead, and she foundered with
| in an hour. The Judicia met like
| fate, in her case carrying seven of her
crew to the bottom with her, The Po-
| lynesia came to St. Johns last April
| with an immense hole in her bow from
| contact with a berg that nearly sent
/ her to the bottom, and the Jebson
| ground her forefoot off through the
same cause, having hard work to get
| to land.
The northern voyagcrs who fire.
gent the Grand Banks route are more
or less familiar with the iceberg mem
ace and Injured to it, but it is the
! greatest dread of the men who navi-
| gate the big ocean liners, for neither
seamanship nor vigilance can ade-
| quately cope with it. The bergs are
| stealthy, silent enemies, who APP
| proach unwarningly and sometimes SO
| low upon the water that the most
| careful lookout cannot detect them in
| time to avert disaster as in the case
of the City of Berlin in 1902 when she
| ran against one level with the sea and
| gored a great cash in her bow. An
| other time the Hibernian struck one
when she had five hundred people
| aboard, and in the mad tumult that
| ensued among the panic-stricken
crowd five were killed. Last spring,
in crossing the Banks. the Parthenon
hit a pan" and a woman dropped
| dead from heart failure at the crash.
The New York liners last spring had
to make temporary deviation from
their usual transatlantic sailing tracks
to others sixty miles further south,
because the former had been invaded
by flotillas of bergs. From present
/ appearances a still more radical alter
alton in the routes will have to be
| made next spring, because the early
| start of fbes and bergs from their
northern Businesses which has been
! observed last winter makes it inevita-
BILE that the ocean highways will be
strewn with these formidable menaces
to shipments safety, and that an ap-
palling list of disasters will have to be
| chronicled unless such a course is
| adopted.
Because of the iceberg peril it Is not
likely that Canadian ports will ever
| take from New York it's title of the
| Chief Gateway of the New World
| New York Tribune