The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-18
OFFICER TELLS Of
ICE FLOE BATTLE
Never Had Seen Such Danger
Gus Bergs as He Encountered
on Last Trip.

New York. April I'll have @ever
seen such dangerous ice foes ana so
many threatening bergs as We on
conntered on our trip across" said
Chief onicer J. Z. TAYLOR, of the Brit
ash steamship Lord Cromer, now at the
Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company's
yards. foot OF F'ifty-sixth street.
brooklyn, undergoing repairs OF the
damage done during her maiden trim
by bergs and field ice.
The Lord Cromer is brand-new
boat Of $500 tons. built al Stockton,
en-Tees England. She started from
stockton Ma.!cA ~ on her first sea trip
10 Louisears'. Cape" Breton, and should
nave arrived there in nine days, but
atte- most fearful voyage of nine
teen days we had to put into Halifax
for repairs. Not being able to obtain
Ihen. we came here, arriving Satur-
day
Tho ship started in ballast. intend
aAg 70 load II LouIsburs. We had 4
most tempestuous passage from III /.
minute we left the English Channel.
We encountered nail storms every
twenty minutes for days We left the
Lizard IN heavy weather with a sou tn
yes; gale and the barometer lower
than any of the officers had ever seen
& IN these seas
The night OF the twelfth day we
encountered Ice foes In the midst OF
dense pal! Of fog. !; was heavy pacl,
Ice charged with tremendous bcrgs,
and there were only occasional chan
it!s q open water through IT. Tha,
night We we're frequently directly be-
Side immense bcrA- tina; lowered above
our f&nnels. FINALLY we had 10 stop
the ship, and WREN morning dawncd
hnd The Fog lifted mouentarily, w.
were !n the n,iis, OF 3 ijaid Of IL.
stretching as far as the cyc could
reseh dotted hers ana there with huEe
hargs that coca onally turned oySr
we found the only way TO Got
through Was rs sleamtne dead SION
70 eastward Tho -roauius an,
crlnching OF ice was the mos, mourn.
III sounc lhat : have ever heard. an,
the most terrifying. The Jog soon shu,
down again ana wc heard tDrplehou
Inc day tine footing OF t0g horns from
other ships paekcd iu th4 les ana n-ln
less For three days sld I, half Dan
tain James l.. ParAe. never ieit IL,
deck Gay o: night, ana Tor four dayf
had my saElVols DID, rom rriuat
H!sht to IHesdas we we~ Hgnthg ouI
way continually taToEEh .6, t&pcetips
down.
When tic fog li:,ca pe LIAM beru.
that had most uHuHlM 4sp,s som.
Were Ike cathedral sp!ft. Grts IA.
covered VIVA seals atb yae sktlat6n4 d
seals that had beci klii.d ny bunIsr,
Another borg was 4aau-a i.ko III.
mendous market phsk,t u!tli eia,
arch for the handle mi. ga WA rnir
u smooth, else we nae not seen H.r
10 teil me story III pisces th% fla
Ice was piled sheet upon sHrgt m,
plates. One could hayc got oul an,
walked for miles. ~ Sigh, tEr en-,
OF the moonlight upoi the 10 ~
rose and fell ia the Ions sweu- wa
magical some OF the bergs wes, (
tremendous Trey seemed to be a.0lqi
Ell 10 the bottom ia 80 feet OF uttr
when the ship WAS finally IS
tricatcd from her serious position y
headed for Halifax @ith three Chico
Eor the CAPTAIN. She lad hccn FdaY
nGed s>mr $4,000 worth. we re
from Halifax tn our crippled conditic
te New York in fort: eight hours"