The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-25

have been foreshadowed in a story \ by Chief Mate Garnett in the first May number of the fortnightly Popular
 Magazine. The story is called 'The White Ghost of Disaster" Here is Gar nett's description of how the giant liner Admiral ran into the berg:
 There was puff of colder air than us- ual. chill as of death itself came float ing over the silent ocean. A man on look out stood staring straight into the mist ahead, andthe n sang out: Something right ahead, sir he yelled in voice that carried like roar of a gun.
 Brownson seized the lever shutting the compartments. swung it. damned 1t hard over, and screamed:
 Stop her-stop her-hard over your wheel-hard over----"
 His voice ended in vibrating screech that sounded wild, weird, uncanny in that awful silence.
 And then came the impact.
 With a grinding. smashing roar as of thousands of tons coming together, the huge liner plunged headlong into the ice berg that rose grim and silent right ahead, towering over her in spite of her great height. The shock was terrific, and tho grinding, laundering crash of falling tons of ice, coupled with the rending of steel plates and solid blanks, made chaos of all sound.
 The Admiral bit in, dug, plowed kept on going, going, and the whole forward part of her almost disappeared in the tax, x.f f,,r flakes slammed and slid down her decks,
 burying her to the fore hatch in the smother. A thousand tons more crashed, slid and plunged down the slopes of the icy mountain and hurled themselves into the sea with giant slashes, sending tor rents of water as high as the bridge rail. The men who had been forward were swept away by the avalanche. Many
 were never seen again. And then, with
 reversed engines. she finally came to a dead stop, with her bows damned 100 feet deep in the ice wall of the berg. After that it was panic. All discipline seemed to end in the shock and struggle.
 Brownson, the commander, tied down
 the siren cord, and the roar shook the at-
 mosphere. The tremendous tones rose above the din of screaming men and CUTS | ing seamen; and then the master called down to the heart of the ship. the engine room.
 'Is she going?" he asked. Water coming in like through tun- nel,' came the response. "Nearly up to | the grates now---''
 | That was all The man left the tube to
 rush on deck. and the captain knew the
 forward bullkheads had gone; had either l jammed or burst under that terrific im- pact. The ship was going down. | The crew, on the whole behaved well.
 officers and men tried to keep some sort
 of discipline. Finally six boats went down alongside into the sea, and were promptly
 swarmed by the crowds above, who either
 slid down the falls or jumped overheard
 and climbed in from the sides. The sea
 was as still as a lake; only the slight
 swell heaved it. Great fields of floating particles of ice from the berg foated about, and those who had gotten wet shivered with the cold.
 The Admiral, running at 9 knots an hour, had struck straight into the wall of all iceberg that reached as far as the | eye could see III tlle HdIt. It tOWeTeQ il least 300 fet in the air, showing that it's depth was colossal, probably at least 1 half mile. It was a giant ice noun
 tain that had broken adrift from it's north- ern home, and, drifting southward, had
 survived the heat of summer and the
 breaking of the sea upon its base. | Brownson stood calmly watching the press gain and lose places m the boats.
 Two boats actually overloaded rolled over
 under the immense load of human freight
 The others did not stop to pick them up. They had enough to do to save them
 selves. The ship wds sinking That was
 certain. She must have struck so hard
 that even the midship bulkheads gave
 way or were so twisted out of place that
 the doors failed. The chief engineer came
 below him and glanced up.
 As he did so, tremendous. roaring blast | of steam blew the superstructure upward. I The boilers had gone.
 The decks grew more and more steep.
 The liner was settling by the head and to the starboard. She was even now twist ing rolling over: and the motion brought down thousands of blocks of ice iron. tne berg. The engines had ster 'eng since She still held her head fzllsei sn fcs
 wall. but it would give hei s4 6pS