Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-23
STEAD HAD DESCRIBED HIS
OWN FATE IN A STORY

MI tic rest Is below. These iceltrgS are
born IN Greenland. The snow falls on the
highland. ami AZ il does not melt and ever
NOR" and more SNOW fails. the great mass
presses the lowest snow downward and
eyer downward to the sea. Thus glaciers
are formed. slowly moving SOLID rivers OF
frozen and Solidificd SNOW. When the ella
'irf pushes lis way into the sea. its end
breaks off. tu,nhles over into the water
with Il noise like thunder and becomes
am iceberg The glaciers are constantly
making icehcrgs. The iccbergs 0ritt slow
~ away into the sea. Sometimes They get
caught 10y fros, and are wintcrhound.
When summer comes they drift Oft again
ii'" IN" current which carries them south
wai"- \ whole archipcloea of icehergs
VIII sometimes sail southwaae right across
the ocean route to America.
"a - the greatest danger ia the Nuy-
i-e. for the icebcrgs bring fogs with
'''cia. and the foes hide the icehcrgs ui-
'il Tue steamer is close upon them.
lmtSfac a country as biz as Ireland
without lighthouses. fog horns or any 9TH
81 b"ar"nS. suddenly lowed across the
PAIN "I IN" steamer and then enN.lupt-i in
a dense irost-fog. and then you can inn
'sino What the danger is"
Tells of the Collision.
clark what MIS- that"r Mr.. Stead has
u N"Naser ask here And his description
al What took llscc goes "n:
There MAS u sound ms IL The steamer
Mere "h:'shihs through ice ANA the screws
were NhnrniiiS AWAY amid the ice blocks.
the passengers felt their WAY cautiously
Ia the deck. II was wet and vlammv and
bitterly cold. Every halt minute The fog
Whistle blew. Tie crashing OF the TOW
J ice against the sides OF the Shin and The.
rlampins of The ice under the screws mad.
IL uaifir''t t" speak :" as 10 be heard.
Then there came a crN. .lceLcrys on
the atarboard,'
The engine. bell rang. The engines
slowed down in their sntcd. the steamer
steered Il triiie more to the southwark.
lal' sun kept pounding her way onward
IN" captain could only see eiostly shad-
ows looming datkly 10 the nortawartl.
Tile pointed to IA grea, fiotilla of Ice
peisH. Behind the steamer the fog was
as thick as u blanket. On the north
stretched the dazzling array of icchergs.
ever shifting and moving. Now and
again a great berg would capsize with II
reNrrbclan: roar. The captain wa. coWel.
There Was something uncanny and awe
some .ti,out the incident. He had seen
.,eberss before. but he had seldom had
Sucn good luck as to pass clear ny the
southern edge of a flow and then have,
n clear Sky.
''Thc Majestic Vas NOW once again .lriy-
ing ahead al fun speed. All the passen-
gers wer" on deck eNring the novel and
majestic speciarlc.'
Later. IN tclline of the rescue OF the
c,stawaA in the lircboat. Mr.. Stead
writes:
'l'tlS"r and dcnser grew the fog. hut
they could sec the Majestic right before
them. .Niul IN another moment they we're
alongside. Just as they reached The ship
they heard Il long loir like the revcrbcra-
iion or part of artillery. And then tho
water ll,:tNed violently and dashed the
frboat heavily against the sio, OF the
Majestic. There was II momen, of apotl-
i@ilg suspense. No one knew whether tho
displacement III the iceberg might moi lead
To a sudden upbeaNal of the iceberg ,in-
der the keel OF the Majestic. Then il,t.
boats crew were brought sa fcly to deck"
SlflhinS sentences here and there from
Other writings of Mr.. Stead are also re-
called u, which il might seem tina lie had
some pi"inonltiOn of his own fate. iISpe-
r.IllA L. TINS so OF Il comparison in his
book. 'tlow Know the Dead ReluIn.''
which has 4 paragraph beginning. ..Tet us
consider the atlantic ocean as the grave"
Iheil u. "ltlnoi compares one shore with
earth ana the other with the Eternal
shore.