Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-23
In Tale Written in 1892. Pic
lures Collision Between
Steamship and An
Iceberg.
CALLS OCEAN A GRAVE

New York-lntima,e friends in this
c",tnlly of William L. Stead. of l.nmlon.
VIII" persisted ON the Titanic. recalled yes
;cl'lay a STORY which lac himself wrote
in the christmas cNtra issue of the Re
view OF Reviews. London. published in
December. 1882. entitled ''From the old
Worl'. to the New.r Il chapter OF which
lailics in almos, every delail Viii, ,l,
wreck of the Titanic.
Mr.. Stead in this chapter. which is
called "''olncid,nt and ClairNoNaucc." de
s'iibes AN encounter With iceherss III sea.
His characters are a group of Eng
fish tourists on their MAY to the Chicago
WoiId'S l'air. They are crossing IN. At
lanlic on board the Majestic, of the Whitc
star tine. The steamship suddenly comes
upon a great iceberg.
The great English writer. long known
for his ideas on spiritl;llism. c-lairvoyaSlue
and mental ieicpathy. brings all int" play
ia his thrilling story of thu high sea. hui
when he describes the lcebergs. TO. and
conditions of Sky aud sea and on board
The Majestic ii would seem that had he
been able I" send an accouu, of what
took place last Sunday evening il could
not have been more identical.
Jack Compton,. a passenger. haS the
power of autonnali. writing. Compton
receives a tclepalhir message from John
lhoinaS. Il Srotcllnan. who Is an cid
friend. that he CThoniasj has been saved
in the wreck of the Muntros,. which was
in collision with am iceberg. Tho mes
sases continue la come. Meanwhile Mr..
Compton has asked the captain of The
Majestic To stop AZ the iceberg OH arrival.
The old captain SCOTS at the idea. t.ut
then his own vessel comes Within a hairs
breadth of beil. wrecked by AN iceberg.
Tie stops. Compton and 'tac professor
NM ami in 81. A1,... ,n1 A,L-A ,Ail .AAAS.
join Thomas. finding him alimos, dead.
Th"y bring him safely i" the icstic
just as il seemed that steamship would
70 under.
The setting of the story and the de
scrlptionS az the iceberes and the wreck
tally with the tragedy of Sunday night.
The time and place also agree with those
of last Sundays catastrophe. 1t also was
ON Il vessel of The White Star limo. and
The captain had under his care just 1900
souls and Il carg" worth at LEAST S2.uno.O Go.
Perhaps the only difference was that Mr.
Stead's mental ,elepathy mas been re-
placed with wireless tclegrapaN.
"Th"n dense cold fog titled the air.
wrote Mir. Stead. you prratl,od If and
swallowed it. ON deck all was strained
attention Tho captain ON the Driig" kept
constant lookout. Every half minute the
fog whistle doomed its great voice into the
fog. sometimes as from ~ far away dis
tdnc' they heard the boom OF another fog
horn. i;ut ,incs ranld sac nothing. Az Tho
bows the deck lookout pcelcd into impenc.
trabl" mist and the qllarterniaster posted
To the cewar and lowered the tliermom-
eter in = little canvas bag To test the
temperature
Describes An Iceberg.
Thea Mr.. Stead has one of his char
:ictcrs describe one of tnes. tclrols OF
the sea-.
'IccbergS are mountains of ice floating
about i'm the sea" he says. lice. YOU
know. uoes not sink in water. The ice
lrrgs float Just a little above the surface