The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-06-12
CRUSHED IN THE ICE,
Thrilling Experience on Board a
Sealing Vessel.
HOW TroHIP WENT DOWN.
Smashed Ia Ardships and Powerlces
TO Escape. She Wa. Swallowed In the
Icy Oeep-The Wild Rush Of tho
Crew to Escape on tho Floe.

to Escape, She Was Swallowed In the
Icy Deep-The Wild Rush Of tho
| Crew to Escape on tho Floe.
! Constant peril menaces the hardy
! rrews that fearlessly sail into the Icy
! uorthcr seas aud risk their lives In
| the dangerous work Of hunting the
| seal. In Harper's Magazine George
! Harding, the author, writes dramatic
| ally Of the sinking Of The ship on
which he sailed with the Newfound-
laud sealing feet. His experience was
uniquely periIous The ship was
crushed Ike an egg In the lee.
"On the bridge were the captain md
watch nXiously awaiting the chance
to head the ship out Of the moving
Ice into the stationary pack OF which
ihc big sheet was part The bowline
las on the bnrricade ready for hcay-
Ing when the crew should DO ordered
on the foe 10 haul the ships head
around Aloft the spyman searched
the gloom FOR signs Of hull In the
confused and tremendous waste.
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In h,a ninth Above the hoilInr of
ouostiong ord ehouts ,hot no man
couIH understand como tho ynice Of
,he el,lpn.r. no know tho sttuo,jon nc
no other man
"'Nten.' hc shouted the shin II go,
Pack your clotbes-sayc tho rruhr
"Tbcn II was confusion everywhere
The crow pourca mn tho hotchyoy
hauling clothes hoycs and hays. crowd.
Ing over tho side collldIu- I'm mIdolr
"a thcv hoIf tun,,led and hoIr slid
down Inc ropcs. tbcn back for food
Iahorlously tho heavy nork borrcl,
worc houlr1 bv hnnd from the oftrr
hold whore mon hrovclv toilrd ON.
,r4 fourn, their vov nloft whore tho
sails wore slowed rho canvas cut
looao herlyjnp out I'm the fore. or rho
pnlc wos dropncd ia tbc deck punts
wera Skinned from tho dovIta Some
hitting the leo with 81 crash werr
stnwed I'm Throuphou, n all rho con.
tain shouted.
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mon from the lower hold They re-.
treated "a tho deck Then thc inflow
lcy,I with the ocean ceased The ire
fnr tho tIp,n hold IN, shin in fts GRIN
second hy SECOND roascd bringing no
charrn In Tint hrIsf ,ntervnl e,ch
man spla,nIy tbourht 70 .ave tho
thIp, no mos, desired wild r,sh
wac ,nalo ~ vheclhouse 70 cobIn IN
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