St. Paul daily globe., 1889-04-13
No Traces of the Boats, Rats,
Wreekage or People in
the Vicinity.
Her Passenger List About 700
and Her Crew Forty in
Number.
Terrible Anxiety as to Their
Fate--What the Agents
Have to Say.

Liverpool reports at Queenstown that
on April i'll latitude DC north, Iongi.
tude 81 west, she passed the
Danish steamer Danmark, from
Christiania. Copenhagen, etc., for
New York. The Danmark had
been abandoned by her crew.
Her stern was level with the sea and
her bow stood high out of the water.
She was apparently sinking. The Dan
marx was a vessel of 1880 tons, and be-
commanded by Capt. Knudson. The
Danmark was formerly the Belgian
steamer Jan Breydel. She was a bark
rlgged vessel and was $40 feet long, fortv
| feet In breadth and &c feet deep. She
was built at Newcastle, England, in
1880: Funeh, Edge & Co., the New
York agents of the company. say that
| they place no reliance in the dispatch,
but have cabled to agents in London
| ana Copenhagen for further informa-
ton. The ThingyaIla liue is prob
| ably the largest carrying immigrantline
that plies between this port and Europe.
Ihe Danmark had on board when she
| left Christiana for New York on the
I goth of March $50 passengers. pre-
/ sumably all immigrants. Including the
vessels captain. r. NJ. Knudsen. the
/ crew numbered forty men. The office
of the agents of the steamer Funch,
Edge d Co., No. 27 William street, has
| been
| THR0NGED WITH PEOPLE
all the morning anXiouSly inouirIng for
| later news of the vessel. MIR. Edye, of
the firm, does not credit the report. He
has eabled his London agents and
sought by wire for further particulars
from the Copenhagen branch of the
firm. The news spread rapidly down
town. and among the first callers at
the office of Funch. Edge & Co. was
MOTIFS StoVer, a young farmer from
somewhere i'll Massachusetts, who ar
| rived last night to await the arrival of
the steamer, upon which his brother and
sweetheart, Marie Muller, bad taken
passage. His grief was uncontrollaDle,
when Mr.. Eyde said no contra
dietory dispatch had been received at
noon. The Danmark was formerly the
freight steamer Jan Rydel, of the
White Cross line. Last fall Messrs.
Funch, Edge Il Co.. who are also the
agents Of the latter line, had the vessel
put III condition for passenger traffic,
rechristened her Danmark and trans.
ferred her to the ThingvalIa fleet. This
was the vessels first trip from the
other side under her new -colors.
Ihe reported disaster recalls the coll
lision of the steamship Thingvalla, Of
the same line, last summer, ,tby which
many lives were lost. The New York
agent of the ThingvaIla line saws to.
night: LAS some of the comments on
the reported loss of the Danish steamer
Danmark express the apprehension
that this disaster may have been accom-.
panied pane by heavy loss of life, we beg
leave to state, for the benefit of all per-
sons who have friends Oh board the ill
fated boat,
OUR BELIEF TO TIE CONTRARY.
'.When sighted by the City of Chester
on Monday last, in latitude 1876 north,
longitude g. 16 west, the decks aft and
the sails were in pieces, but the vessel
was floating, and, although the report
ed steamer expressed the belief that
she would shortly founder, this did not
occur during all the time that elapsed
from the hour she was first sighted
until lost sight of. The Danmark was
floating directly in the track of the
TRANSATLANTIC steamers, and we be-
lleye. beyond peradventure, that the
passengers and crew we're taken off
some time, possibly as far back as a
couple of days, before the City
of Chester sighted the wreck, since the
Danmark, having left ChriStiana and
on the Goth of March, should under ordi-
Slderably beyond the position found in.
Ii the wrecked passengers and crew
had not been picked up, they would
naturally, even if embarked in boats and
on RATS, have remained in the neigh
borhood of the wreck. the presence Of
Which would be much more likely to
attract the passing steamers than small
boats or RATS would. The CITY of
Chester evidently did not find the
G nal-n fI,D
as might be attributable to smashed or
otherwise incapacitated boats, whilst
the steamer bore no sign whatever of
human life. We confidently believe,
therefore, that, with the posi-
BILE exception of single casualties, such
as may occur during the transfer of
so many people from one vessel to an
other, the passengers and crew of the
Danmark are safe, and will ere long be
heard of as on board one of the trans
Atlantic steamers"
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
of the sighting of the abandoned steam
ship Danmark by the Inman liner City
OF Chester have been slowly arriving
since noon. The Danmark was rapidly
sinking when the Chester saw her. The
Chester sighted her from distance, and
had been struck by the apparent absence
OF any life on board. She had drawn near
and investigated, and afterward made
sure that no one was on board the
and about for several hours. The
stern of the Danmark was on a level
with the sea. Her bow was far out of
the water in the air. There were
no visible signs of a collision.
No Wreckage was floating about.
The boats were all gone from
their dayits and nothing indicating
haste and panic were noticeable. After
laying to near the wreck for some time,
the City OF Chester proceeded. No LIST
OF the passengers on board the ill-fotr-
uned steamship is to be had in this
city. Several people have called at ihe
offices of the agents, asking for in
formation of friends supposed to be on
the Danmark, but all refused to give
their names. Funch, Edye q Co. ex-
pect a passenger list by the Nord-
deutcher Lloyd steamship Aller, due at
this port tomorrow. The Elder arrived
this morning and reached her
dock after 1 o'clock this afternoon.
The Elder did not see any sign
of the Danmark and her officers were
greatly surprised when told the partie-
ulars. No answers to the cables sent
by Messrs. Funch, Eyde & Co. to Lon
don and Copenhagen had been received
at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The
excitement is still very intense.
and the agents are losing hope.
The steamship Iceland, of the Thing
valla line, which left Copenhagen fonr
days later than the Danmark, and is
due here tonight. will probably bring
some intelligence of the disaster.
THE ALLER MAY BRING NEWS.
New YORK, April 13-1 a. Insight.
ed: Steamer Aller from Bremen, by
which vessel it is hoped there may be