New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-13
WRECKED IN MTD-OCEAN.
THE STEAMER DANMARK LOST.
SEEN BY THE CITY OF CHESTER FLoATNG
AS A DERELICT.


THE PATH OF TRANsAT.
LANTIo STEAMERS,
ABOUT 600 MILES
OFF THE COAST
OF IRELAND.
Intense excitement was created in shipping
| circles yesterday by the receipt Of a dispatch
announcing That the steamer Danmark, of the
| Thingvalla line, had been passed in mid-ocean
In wrecked condition, with no sign of life
| board. The first information of the disaster was
so indefinite, however, as to give rise to tho
hope that 10 was false. Unfortunately however,
the investigations which were instituted at once
BY the agents of the line, Messrs Funch, Edge
& Co., No. 27 South-W William-st, only served to
confirm the sad tidings. The dispatch sent from
London read:
City of Chester, Queenstown, reports passed derect
steamer Danmark Monday. Decks att aud sails, In
piocos Cream funnel, black top broad white band In
CENTRE with black Latitude 40 degrees Oo minutes
north, Longitude 81 degrees 10 minutes west
Further particulars had not been received at
late hour last night, leaving the fate OF the
passengers and crew who had abandoned the
stricken vessel as well the Of her present
condition entirely in doubt
The Danmark was formerly the Jan Breydel OF
the White Gross Line, and ran between this port
and Antwerp for several years. She was water
ballast vessel, built at Newcastle, England, In
1890 but was overhauled and repaired last year,
and prepared to carry stserage passengers. Her
name was then changed to the Danmark. sne
was an ircn vessel with six water-tight buikheads,
was $40 feet in length, with forty feet beam,
twenty-six feet depth Of hold and 3,4l4 tons uS-
| placement She was barkentne-rlgged
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN PERIL.
When the Danmark sailed from Suinemunde, on
March o, she was in command OF Captain =. b.
| Kundsen. with Herr Rand as first
oNlcer She left Christiansand her last port,
| on March 26 and had no accident occurred should
have arrived here on Tuesday or Wednesday. She
carried 90 the time fifty Hrst-class passengers and
| 600 sceerage passengers, which with the crew
made total Of over 700 persons who may have
perishpd. When sighted by the City of Chester
| the Dapmark was in the track Of the transat-
lantie steamers and about 600 miles of the Irish
coast There is, therefore, possibility that the
| Aller. OF the North German Lloyd, which follows
| the same course, may have rescued the people
| aboard the disabled vessel This possibility nils
the breasts of interested persons with hope The
ljfeboats had all been removed from the davis oil
the Danmark, fact which, added 10
tho knowledge that the steamer when
last seen was still ahoat indicated that there
had been no haste in leaving her, and that time
had been given the passengers and crew TO get
| of in the boats.
The officers of the steamship Elder, CT the North
.xleFman Lloyd, which arrived here yesterday
had seen nothing Of the Denmark, although the
Elder passed over the same course which the
City Of Chester followed 1t would seem, there
foro, that the accident Of whatever nature u
waA, occurred after April 6, the date on which
the Elder was in that neighborhood.
A srATEMENT BY THE VESSELS AGENTS.
The agents Of the Thingvnlla Line sent the
following statement 70 the Associated Press:
As some OF tho comments the reported loss OF tho
Danish steamer express the apprehension that this
disaster may have accompanied by heavy loss OF life,
We beg for The benefit OF all persons who
have friends board the Inflated boat our belief TO The
contrary When sighted by City Chester on hooday
last In latitude IS degrees IS minutes north. Longitude S7
degrees 10 minutes west tho decks aft and tho sas weFe
pieces but tho weasel heating and although the
reporting expressed the belief that she would
shortly founder this did noe occur during AL the Tine lha
from the hour sighted until lost sight
Of The floating directly in the track Of tho
tranSa steamers and believe beyond DeadVentue
that passengers and crew we're Lken OIL some tine
possibly far back couple OF days before the CITY OF
Chester sighted wreck since the Danmark, having left
tho Reh Of March should under ordinary
Circumstances have advanced considerably beyond the po
found In II tho wrecked passengers aud crew had
not picked up they would naturally oven II en-
barked In boats and on raf hayo remained In ths neigh
borhood wreck presence Of which would be much
likely attract the passing steamers shan small boats
raftS would The Cry Of Chester evidently did not hnd
slightest wrecksge tho vessel SUCH as might DO
attributable 10 otherwise inca pactated boats
bore sign whatever Of human life We
conndenHy bcieve therefore, that with the possible eN
eepon Of single casualties such as may occur during tho
OF many people nom ona vessel 10 another the
passengers and crew Of safe and will
long be heard board Of Of tho TRANSATLANTIC
steamers
ANXIOUS INQUIRIES AT THE CoMPANY's OFFICE
At the passenger Office, No. IA State-st, about
twenty-five people called during the day. John
Rath, who was in charge, wns able TO reassure
them in some degree. The reason why so few
called on him he explained by saying that the
relatives and friends Of most OF the passengers
were farmers in the West and that few of those
who lived near by were readers or papers printed
in the English language
Morris Slower, farmer from Massachusetts,,
called at Castle Garden, and said he
was looking for a nephew and his sweet,
heart, both Of whom he expected
to arrive on tho unlucly steamer 1t was with
much difficulty that he could be persuaded that
the worst had not yet befaIen them. 1t is prob
able that the number of inquiries at the companys
offices will be much larger to-day.
TALK WITH MIR. EYE
II. w. o. Edge, when seen by reporter, felt
that there was good ground for the belief that the
passengers and crew were saved, He said:
should not be surprised If the passengers and crew
were brought in by the Aller or some Of the other
steamships which are due tomorrow. The Dan
mark was we'll supplied with life boats, RATS, and
lifc-saving appliances, and was right in the path
way of ocean travel at the time the accident % oc-
Cured think it probable that she reached the
point where she was sighted two or three days
before April 8. That would be about $500 miles
from Christiansand by way Of the Shetland
Islands She was an easy-going sailer, and steamed
about $50 miles day. Tho suggestion that she
NAV have been overhauled by the Island, which
left Christiansaud four days later, am not IN
clined to regard with much favor. L think IL
more likely that the Danmark was overhauled by
some of the other steamers, and fancy that the
accident took place only two three days before
tha Chester sighted her.