Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — WHALE IMPALED BY STEAMER [ARTICLE]

WHALE IMPALED BY STEAMER

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Runs Bow Into Sleeping Leviathan. Plymouth, Aug. 31. —The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived here from New York. While off the banks of New Foundland she struck a seventy-foot whale that evidently was asleep on the surface of the water. The whale became impaled on the liner’s bows, and all Its efforts to free itself were futile. Finally the steamer had to go full Bpeed astern In order to get clear of the dying leviathan.