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Show Saved l.y an IIio. The Atlantic Transport Company's steamer Montana, whiki crossing the Atlantic from Swansea to Philadelphia recently, was saved from shipwreck by an echo. In a dense fog the usual signals sig-nals were being blown to warn approaching ap-proaching vessels, when the captain distinctly heard an echo in the distance. This could rise from but. two sources a cliff or an iceberg and he knew there were no cliffs within a hundred miles. Therefore it must be an iceberg, and the helm was put down to clear this "Teat danger. In a few minutes the ship skimmed the edge of a great floating float-ing island of ice, and the captain iu-wardlyMessed iu-wardlyMessed the echo. |