The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-05-07
LINER IN WITH LEAKS
FROM BLOWS OF ICE

NIAGARA's BOW PLATES DENIED
BY FLoES WHERE THE tt
TANIc WENT DOWN.
NEW YORK, April Histories of
perils encountered in the ice fields in
that part of the Atlantic where the ii
tanic went to the bottom we're told
yesterday when the fog lifted in the
early morning and the fleet of trans
atlantic liners which had been al an
Choir off the Hook came into port Tue
first to enter quarantine was the French
steamship Niagara, from Havre, leak.
ing and with her bow plates dentcd.
Caught in an ice field, she sent out a
wireless call for help. 1t was answered
by the Carmania, inward bound, but
before the other vessel, which was hs.v
ing her own troubles in lodging bergs,
could get her she signaled that she
had made temporary repairs and was
proceeding
Captain Julian said that his position
at the time of the collision was ap.
proximately that of the Titanic at the
time of her disaster. Signs of APP
preaching ice had warned the skipper
to be cautious, and he was running I'M
der reduced speed. This was last Wed.
nesday night, when most of the passen-
gers were at dinner. The grinding of
the ice could be heard by those on
deck, and the Niagara brushed against
several small foes. 1t was time of
tension for all the officers, for bergs of
formidable size doomed up in the gray
ahead and went drifting dangerously
near.
Then the vessel brought up with
crash, and the shock was such that
china and glassware were thrown about
the dining saloon and there was instant
excitement between decks. For time
Captain Julian and his officers had to
give their immediate attention to still
ing the excitement,
Herve Magny, the wireless operator
on the Niagara, said that the shock of
the collision came when he was at his
key He ran on deck, and, looking over
the side. saw the heavy ice close in
The vessel listed with the pressure
against her side, and the grinding of
the ice was ominous.
The captain at once made an inspec-
tiOn of his vessel. He found that some
of her plates had buckled below the
water line and that the vessel was leak
ing. While he ordered the men to start
repairs at once he felt the situation was
so serious that Magny was instructed
to flash out rs. o. S." the interna-
tional signal of distress.
The skipper upon his arrival was in
clined to make light of his encounter
with the ice.
Little Girl a Heroine.
Mrs. Yvonne Kistecky, wife of mil
liner, at 35 Jefferson street. New York,
and her two sons, Albert and Marcel,
four and three years old, was a pas,
senger on the Niagara, returning from
a vacation in France. She said that
the shock was great enough to throw
her to the deck, and that her first
thought was for her children. Gather
ing them both up she ran to the deck,
but was soon convinced that they were
not in danger.
Anna Miller of Newark, n. J., eleven
years of age, became the heroine of
the ship. Having crossed the Atlantic
six times, she is "good sailor" and
was little alarmed when the Niagara
crashed against the ice taking it as
matter of course. She talked with
the more excited women and succeeded
in calming them even before the of.
ficers of the ship had gone among them
with reassuring messages.
The Niagara sighted ice at 10 am,
April TO- and she had to change her
course to get through the closely pack.
ed drift, 1t was foggy all the time and
II was not until late on Thursday that
she cleared the ice and put on speed.
Lapland's Log,
The log hook of the Red Star liner
Lapland, which arrived yesterday from
Antwerp, testliies TO what Capt II. y.
Doxrud, her commander, calls The worst
lee conditions on the North Atlantic
Tint no has ever experienced at this
time Of the year. The Lapland was
seraped several times by passing field
zee and her passengers had many
thrill The combination 0f fog aud ice
worried every one on hoard, The log
shows that on Friday, in longitude 1880
Weat, latitude ~, che vessel ran
through ice large and small, aud thai
FOR several hours navigation WAS very
dlhlenlt because Of tho close packing
Of the lee.
Captain DOsmd, who Is one Of tho
eldest aklppefa IN tho Atlantic service,
slowed down tho liaplapd Until ahe was
barely creeping through the enelfeliug
leo The ohleeIs from lhe bridge, hfly
ieei above the sea- could soc llltie eleaf
nainfi II Hap 2 faasiAnt m0YinR HHa
NJ While, Niih che gradug 0f fhe iea
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