The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-13
The News in New York.

New YORK, April 1.-THE news OF the
abandonment in mid-ocean Of the steamer
Danmar1 was received here by cable to
the maritime exchange. She is said to have
had $50 passengers on board, mostly Scan
GFSavians.
Wrench, Edge & Company, agents o. the
company here, say they place no reliance
on the dispatch, but have cabled Ineli
agents in London and Copenhagen 1Ol
further information.
THE GREATEST EXCITEMENT PREVAILS
in shipping circles over the loss of the Dan
mark The Thingvalla line is probably the
largest carrying immigrant line that pines
between this point and Europe. The Dan
mark had on board when she left Christian,
sand for New York on the 26tn OF March
go passengers, presumably all immigrants
Including the vessels captain, Il. NJ. hund
sen, the crew numbered forty men.
The office of the agents Of the steamer
French, Edge & Co., No. y South William
street, has been tnrOnged with people al
morning, anXiously inquiring for news OF
the vessel. Edge, OF the firm, does not ere
dit the report. He has cabled ms London
agents and sought by wire for further par.
ticulars from the Copenhagen branch OF the
firms The news spread rapidly down town
and among the first callers at the office was
Morris Slower, young farmer from some
where in Massachusetts, who got here last
night to await the arrival Of the steamer on
which his brother and
SWEETHEART HAD TAKEN PASSAGE.
His grief was uncomfortable when Edge
said that no contradictory dispatch had
been received at noon.
The Danmark was was formerly the
freight steamer Jan Breydel, of the White
Cross line. Last fall Frenck, Edge q Co,
who are also the agents for the latter line,
had the vessel put in condition for passenger
traffic and re-christened her Danmark and
transferred her to the Thingvalla fleet.
This was the vessels first trip from the
other side under her new cOlOrS.
The agent of the Thingvalla line, this al
ternoon, said 1--WE have a cablegram to the
effect that the Denmark left ChristianSand
March 26 on her first voyage under her new
Hag and name. She had been completely
foverhauled, and it was thought by all that
she was the best Of our fleet. There were
on board of her at the time of her departure
at least 10 people. and of these $50 were
passengers. To manage and loUk after the
comfort of this large number there must
have been at least sixty in the crew, and
pfobably the number may have reached 100
or perhaps 125. There are, therefore, to be
accounted for the lives Of 40 to 715 people.
THE DANMARK WAS COMMANDED
by Captain Kundsen, an old seaman well
known for his courage and presence of
mind. He is not the man to abandon ship
TO the mercieS of the waves when there is
one chance in thousand of getting her into
port She may have been disabled, but we
are very nearly certain she has not been
abandoned. Even if the Danmark had been
abandoned, she had sufficient means to &C
commodate all the passengers on board
even if not all the crew. There was a
,,f1f hon
great passenger list and several new life
RATS of the latest pattern and improve
ments which could have accommodated the
crew and officers and some of the pas
seugers if there was not enough room in
the life boots for them"
Further particulars of the sighting of the
Danmark by the City of Chester have been
slowly arriving since noon. The Danmark
was rapidly sinking when the City of
Chester saw her. The City of Chester
sighted her from distance and was struck
by the apparent absence of any life on
board She drew near, investigated, made
sure there was no one on board, and lay to
for several hours. The stern of the Dan
mark was on a level with the sea; the bow
was far out of the water in the air There
were no visible signs of a collision; no
wreckage; the boats were all gone from the
davits and nothing indicating haste and
panic was noticeable.
aF7renck, Edge & Company expect the pas
iger list by the steamship Allen, due to-
morrow The Elder, which arrived this
morning and reached the dock this after
noon, did not see anything of the Den
mark.
No answers to the cables sent by Messrs.
Frenck, Edge & Company have been re
ceived up to O'Clock this afternoon The
excitement is very intense, and the agents
are losing hope The steamship Iceland, of
the Thingvalla line, which left Copenhagen
three days after the Danmark, is due to
night, and will probably bring some intel
Hgence of the disaster.