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ENCOUNTERED A FIELD OF ICE
The Evening Independent, March 24, 1894, Saturday

"Bremerhaven" Injured While Threading Her Way Throngh the Pack.

The Dutch steamship "Bremerhaven", which yesterday arrived in port, became involved in that immense Ice Field which is now a menace to transatlantic voyagers. The vessel had several of her bow plates stove in and started leaks through which 100 tons of water reached her hold within twenty-four hours.
After passing Quarantine, the vessel was anchored off Bedlow's Island. Capt. Butz came ashore and made his re-port to the agents. When seen in their office yesterday, he said that one blade of the ship's propeller had been lost while riding out a gale that had been encoutered on March 10.
"We saw the flrst ice," he said, "on March 17, about 7 A. M. That was In latitude 46 degrees 40 minutes, longitude 47 degrees 30 minutes. The ice was in small pieces.  At 8 A.M. we saw a berg which was about 800 feet long and 200 feet high. At 10 A.M. the weather became foggy, and shortly afterward snow began to fall. We had much difficulty in picking our way between the pieces of Ice. I saw that they were dangerous, and did not want to hit them too hard. They were from five to thirty feet thick and capable of doing damage to a vessel. On some of the pieces of ice I saw stones and soil. These evidently had been there since the ice broke away from some big glacier up in Greenland.
"At noon the weather cleared up, and all about us we saw ice, nothing but ice. It was so closely jammed I could see no channel by which to get out. I decided to force my way through the weakest part of the ice. This appeared to be in a southwesterly direction. All that afternoon we worked our way through the ice, and at 5 P.M. reached clear water. Before gettlnp out of the pack, we passed a berg 1,000 feet long and 200 feet high."