Logan Republican | 1904-08-17 | Page 6 | An Iceberg 500 Feet High

An Ii-sImte flOO Feet High. There was one cabin passenger aboard the Leyland line steamship Columbian, which arrived yester-'.ay from Liverpool, says the New Yjrk Sun, and he might have seen oft the banks on Tuesday morning, If he had been an early riser, something that very few passengers of any sort gat a glimpse of at soa, a colossal Icoherg, computed by Third Ofli'r Roberts to be 500 feet high. Very few horgs more than half that height have boon seen In tho North Atlantic. The lookout In the crow's nest saw the big berg llrst and signalled by two bells to tho 1 bridge that there was a "ship on the starboard bow." Ho did not find out until later that tho vision was a berg. The Columbian passed eight miles to j tho south of the ice mast, which was shaped like a sugar loaf. The berg ran the temperature of the air d'vn to 48 degrees and that o'. the or down to 45 degrees. The olllcors of tho Columbian think that the ben, was about an eighth of n mllo lonp.