ICEBERG MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 5

ICEBERG MYSTERY.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF A SHIP. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. New York, May 31. The Bliip. Queen Victoria (1G25 tons gross), bound from Tocopilln, Chili, to the United Kingdom, is supposed to have foundered through striking an iceberg. She was seen north-west. of Cape Horn. The crow numbered 24. Beale, tho mate, and Talbert, a member of the crew, were Australians.

The actual figures of shipwrecks due to icebergs can never be known. How great the danger is a hundred narratives of catastrophe .show. A list such as this, which refers only to the North Atlantic, is not without significance—iand the figures have been selected at naphazard out of many.—

1890. Spring—Four steamers vanished

utterly. ... 1899. Spring—Ten steamers vanished

utterly. 1907. July—German liner Kronpnnz Wilhelm had her bows battered in

by collision with an iceberg. 1908.—Allan liner Mongolian imprisoned for two days in the ice. 1909. May—Canadian Pacific liner Lake Champlain, with nearly 1000 people on board, battered by ice off Cape Race. July.—Steamship Regnlus put into St. John's, Newfoundland, with bows battered in. , Liner Bonavista put into St. Johns, Newfoundland, with bows battered in. Canadian Pacific liner Montrose layoff Cape Race for four days repairing damage done by ice. Tho record of catastrophe might be indefinitely continued. t-'""''"■' ' " ' '