Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Ship Wrecked by an Icoberg. [ARTICLE]

Ship Wrecked by an Icoberg.

All aboard the sealer Iceland narrowly escaped death in a collision with an iceberg, according to the story told by the officers of the Aurora, just in port at St. Johns, N. F. The bows were crushed in, the jibboom, bowsprit and topmasts were carried away, the foredeck torn up, and the forecastle filled with jagged 'beams. All hands were above or many fatalities would have resulted. Twenty-two sustained slight injuries. A panic followed the accident, but the ship remained afloat and the sailors were quiet.