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Show STEAMER HAS I HARDSJUGGLE II Crashes Head-on Into Giant Iceberg Terrific Impact M Crumples Prow Like Tin. NO WIRELESS ABOARD I Heavy Storm Sweeps Sea JS Ship Arrives in Port in Sinking Condition. t H St Johns, Nov. 4. The Furness H line freighter, Manchester Commence I dragged her way into the harbor here I I today, her bow a mass of crumpled I wreckage and her pumps working H madly to defeat the flood of water jf I which poured In through the shatter- H ed hull- i ids Bieamer, vrnicn carries no ,t-r wlreletss apparatus, crashed head-on H Into a giant Iceberg at 4 o'clock Sun- I day morning while about 100 miles PJ- east of Belle Isle. J The night was dark and the berg loomed out of the blackness so quickly quick-ly that there was no time to change the course of the steamer which drove at full speed into it. The I force of the Impact was terrific- The I steel prow of the liner waa crum- I pled like a piece of tin fl CaptaLn Couch hastily headed his I jH ship for St. Johns. He succeeded In H notifying his agents at Montreal by " means of flag signals. t The sea was swept by a heavy -jH storm and the steamer had a hard I struggle making port. The ship jj reached here In a sinking condition. 1 The Manchester Commerce carries I a crew of forty officers and men, 1 |