Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — RAN INTO AN ICEBERG. [ARTICLE]

RAN INTO AN ICEBERG.

The Steamship Hibernian Has a Start6rj ling Adventure. Ph)iad#lpbia i ,,.(Pa*). telegram: The Allan* stepjper,.Hibernian arrived here yesterday fjoni jpiasgow after a trip of ten days, during which she had a narrow escape frbm feeing dashed to pieces on the side* oDw* Inf go iceberg. The vessel ran- into a fog and the speed was 'reduced to five knots an hour, Bsut fpr this the vessel would surely have .been lost. The berg was sighted just before 8 o’clock in the evening,' and at a distance of about fifty yards. The engines were reversed, and the mail at the wheel had succeeded in slightly changing the course of tho vessel so that the berg was struck at a stand. Tho iron plates grated along the side of the huge pile, and the vessel careened until her sails touched the water. There was groat excitement among tho fifty passengers on board. One passenger, a woman, was thrown from a bunk and slightly injured. The berg appeared to be about fifty feet above water, and was very long. After the collision the Hibernian remained hove to till tho next day, all the while being enveloped in a thick fog. During this time the passengers suffered intensely from cold. They paid many visits to the engine room, which was the only warm place on tho ship.