Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-13
HORRIBLE If TRUE.
REPORTED ABANDONMENT AT SEA or
TIE STEAMER DENMARK.
six Hundred and Fifty Passengers Were
on Board When She Left Port
for New York

(By Anglo-American cable 10 the Dispat;h.l
QUEENSTOWN, April I3.-The InmsH Line
steamer City Of Chester, from New York
| April I'd for Liverpool. arrived here to-day.
She reports that on April Sth In latitude 40
north. longitude 81 west, she passed the
Danish steamer Denmark, from Christisnia,
Copenhagen. for New York. The Denmark
had been abandoned By her crew. Her
stern was level with the sea and her bow
| stood high out Of the water. sac was az
parently sinking. The Denmark was wee
| sci OF 2, 260 tons and belonged TO Thingva-
! lin. She was commanded by Captain knud-
| sen.
The Denmark was formerly the Belgisn
steamer Jan Breydel. She was ! bsrk-rigged
vessel aud was $40 feet long, 40 feet In
breadth, ADD 2G feet deep. She was built At
New Castle, England, in 1880.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
New YoRK, April 12-The following dis
patch from London was received at the
| Maritime Exchange this morning: The
steamer Denmark, from Christania, was seen
April sth abandoned in midocesn. The
Denmark belongs to the Thingyslia Line Of
steamers plyipg between this part and
Copenhagen. The Denmark was formerly
| the Jan BrcYdel. OF White Cross Line. She is
said 10 have had $50 passengers on board,
mostly Scsndinsvians. The agents OF the
company here saw that they place no reliance
in the dispatch, but have cabled the agents
in London and Copenhagen for further in
| formation.
The greatest excitement prevails in ship
ping circles over the loss OF the Denmark.
| The Thingynlia Line is probably the largest
| carrying Immigrant line that plies between
Il fbfa ri nd Lnrora Tho nonnnrE had nm
board when she left Christlins for New
York on March 2Gth CSC passengers, pre-
sumably all immigrants. Including Captain
| X. II. kuudsen the crew numbered forty
men. The Office OF the agents OF the stelmer,
| Funch, EdYe q Co.. No. 21 south William
street, has been thronged with people all the
morning anXiOlisly inquiring for later news
| OF the vessel. Nr. Edye, OF the firm, does
| not credit the report. He has cabled
his Lsndon 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 Morris
StOyer, young farmer from somewhere in
| Massachusetts, who got here last night TO
await the arrival Of the steamer. upon which
his brother and sweetheart. Marie Muller,
| had tsken passage. His grief was
| u0cOnLoliaDle WOeu MI. iSuye SUI
that no contradictory dispatch had
been received at noon. The Denmark
was formerly freight steamer OF the White
Cross Line. Last fail Messrs. Funch, Edge
{, Co., who are also sgent, OF toe latter line,
had the vessel put ia condition for passenger
traffic. rcchristened her Denmark, and
transferred her 10 the Thingyalla fleet. This
was the vessels fiTst trip from the other side
under her new coIors. She was Dullt m 1850
by Z. Mitchell & Co., at New Castle, Eng,
and was rated 100 Al-highest class. she
was Of IRON, brigantiue-rigged. and bad
three decks and nine wRier-tight bulkhcads.
Her carrying capacity was 400 tons on q
| 2.5S7-tOn register. Her measurements were
$40 feet long, 10 feet beam, and 20 feet
depth OF hold. Her engines were 400-horse
power. The reported disaster yiyidly re
calls tie collision OK the steamship Thiugva-
la Of the same line, last summer, by winch
many lives were lost.
The agents OF the steamer Denmark, re-
ported abandoned at sea, in lengthy letter
sent the New York manager Of the As
sociaied Press last night assert their be
lief that the passengers and crew are safe
| and Will soon be heard from.