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Show CROWDED LINER RAMS ICEBERG ST. JOHNS, N. F., July 11. Two men woio killed nnd two injured when the '-Allan llnor Grampian, Montreal, for Liverpool, collided with nn Icobcrg off Capo Race Wednesday Wed-nesday night. The steamship with 750 passengers passeng-ers and a crow of 350 arrived horo jostorday morning for repairs. Tho killed and Injured woro stow-aids stow-aids who wero asleep In tho bow of tho ship when sho Htruck. Virtually all tho pasongcrs woro awako but nt-' though thoro woro moro than 500 women and children aboard there was no panic. That 1I10 Grampian did not suffer tho fato of tho Titanic with a considerable con-siderable loss of llfo Is believed to havo been duo to tho decision of tho t captain to strlko tho Iceberg bow on ' Instead of taking a glancing blow on tho side Tho berg which was very largo, was oncountored In tho fog forty-five miles off Capo Raco In tho oarly morning. Tho entire forepart of tho ship was smashed In above tho wator lino, tho atom being driven back nearly forty feet, but sho was undamaged below tho water lino. |