Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1915 — WHEN AN ICEBERG COLLAPSES [ARTICLE]

WHEN AN ICEBERG COLLAPSES

Event Always Source of Great Danger to Craft That May Be In the Immediate Vicinity. One of the main dangers In the proximity of an Iceberg is Its unknown extent beneath the water. It is told that the passengers of a steamboat on the Newfoundland coast successfully Importuned the captain to approach an iceberg for a close Inspection, says a writer In the Wide World. While still apparently sufficiently distant for safety some movement in the water or natural decay acted upon the berg, and it split apart Instantly it began to readjust its balance. The tremendous masses beneath the water steadily rose as the pieces swung over, and one wide oxtending ledge came up beneath the boat “What shall we do now?" Inquired a tourist “Get down on your knees,” was the terse reply of the captain. But the great wave from the tumbling Ice swept down on the boat and washed it to safety. The collapse of an iceberg spreads danger to great distances. It may be too far distant to threaten a craft itself, but the wave it raises will swamp the largest boat in the immediate neighborhood.