Arkansas Hits A Berg.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 23, 1913:
Encounters Sea of Ice in North Atlantic and Loses Propeller Blade.
    BOSTON, Feb. 22.— The freight steamer Arkansas, which arrived here to-day from Copenhagen, brought the first report this year of an encounter with icebergs in the North Atlantic, in which she lost a propeller blade.
    The Arkansas sighted a berg 30 feet long and 100 feet high on Feb. 17. A short time later she ran into a field of broken ice, which she was four hours in getting clear of. Most of the ice was in latitude 46.11 north, longitude 47.30 west.
    The steamer was a month overdue, the result, Capt. Penderson said, of a succession of westerly gales.