Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-13
MYSTERY OF THE SEA.
THB ABANDONED STEAMER DANNARE is
SIGHTED IN MID-0CBAN.
She Had More Than Seven Hundred Souls Aboard,
Including Her Orsw-They Left the Sinking
Vessel in Liieboab and Many Of
Them May Be Saved.

% MC1tf cAlo pao'OA tA4o DaAAoA otcHlAp'
Danmark, from Christiansand, Copen-
hagen, etc, for New York The Dan
mark bad been abandoned by the crew
Her stern was level with the sea, aud her
bow stood high out of the water. She WAS
apparently sinking.
The Danmark was vessel Of ., 200 tons
burden and belonged TO the Thiugvalla
Line. She was commanded by Captain
Hudson. The Danmark was formerly the
Belgian steamer Jane Breydel. she was a
bsrk-Iigged vessel, and was $40 feet long
40 feet ia breadth and 26 feet deep. She
was built in New Castle, England, in 1880
NEW YORK, April 12.-Tbs greatest ex-
citement prevails in shipping circles over
the loss OF the Danmsrk. The ThiUgvslls
Line Is probably the largest carrying immi-
grant line that plies between this port aud
Europe. The Danmsrk had on board when
she left ChristiaDsand for New York, on
the 26th of March, $50 passengers, pre-
sumably all immigrants. Including the
vessels captain, r. 81. Kunsden, the crew
numbered 40 men.
The office of the agents of the steamer,
Funch, Eiye q Co, No q South William
street, has been thronged with people all
the morning auxiously enquiring for later
news Of the vessel Ng Eye Of the firm,
did not credit the report. He cabled his
London agents aud sought by wire for fur
ther particulars from the Copenhagen
branch of the firm.
The news spread rapidly down town and
among the first callers at the Office Of
Funch, Eve & Co was Morris S.over, a
Young farmer from somewhere IN Mass9-
Chusatt7, who got here last night to wait
the arrival of the steamer, upon which his
brother and sweetheart, Marie Mueller,
had taken passage His grief WAS uDcon-
trollable when Mr. Eye said that no con-
Trajectory dispatch had been received al
noon.
The Danmark Was formerly the fright
steamer Jan Rydel, Of the White Cross
Line. Last fall, Messrs. French, Edge x
Co, who are also the SCENTS of the latter
line had ths vessel put in condition for
passenger traffic, rechristeued her Dan
mark and transferred her 10 the Thing
valla fleet. This was the vessels first trip
from the other side under her new colOrs.
The reported disaster wildly recalls the
collision Of the steamship Thingvalla Of
the some line, last summer, by which
many lives we're lost.
The New York agent OF the Thingvall a
line this afternoon ga,d:
1--WE have here a cable diepsich 70 the
effect that the Danmark left Christiansand
on March 26th, on her first voyage, under
her new flag and name. Sne nad been
completely oyerhauled and 10 was thought
by an that she was the hest OF our fleet.
There were on board Of her al the time OF
her departure at least TO people OF
these $50 Were passengers. To manage
and 10 look after the comfort Of this large
number Of passengers, there must have
been al least sixty in the crew, and probA-
blv the number may have reached 100 or
perhaps 125. There are, therefore, to he
accounted for the lives OF from 40 to 10
people.
The Danmark is commanded by Capt.
Knudssn. an old seaman, we'll known Tor
his courage and presence Of mind, aud he
il not the man TO abandon q ship TO the
mercies of the waves when there is one
chsnce IN even q thousand OF getting her
into port; and We do not believe that he
has abandoned her. Sne may have been
disabled, but We are very nearly certain
that she has not been abandoned.
eve have taken steps to discover IT
there IS truth IL the story. At lO:3U
o'clock this morning we sent off two cables.
One was to the Lloyds IN London, asking
for further particulars Of the abandon
ment. If such were 70 be bad, aud also for
the name or the ship that says she sighted
the Danmark in such a condition. Ine
second OF the two cables was ia the Home
Office in Copenhagen, also asking for par
ticulsrs and for advice, aud for the names
f of tbos3 600 people who sailed on the Dan
mark.
sTbe position in which the Danmark IS
said to have bean sighted abandoned, If
one in which she might very easily have
been ct the time, April 8 She had at that
time been out from Christiansand thirteen
days. I do not think it az all improbable
/ that some fearful calamity might have be-
fel her, but please allow rs to state to the
numbers OF friends Of the Danmark's pas
sepqers that we dOnot believe che has been
abandoned.
No incoming steamship to this port re
por;s any ifeboats or RATS that might
have belonged to thl DAumark. Even II
the Dsnmsrk had been abandoned. sue
had Sufficient means To accommodate all
the passengers on board If not all the crew
"There were q gtest number OF liit
boats-enOugh for the great passenger hsl
and several new life rats OF the latest
pstiern and improvements which could
nave accommodated the crew and officer;
and some Of the passengers II there was nol
rooni enough IN the life boots Tor them;
Further particulars Of the sighting OF the
abandoned steamship Danmark by th'
Tnmap Line Ciiy Of Chester, have beer
slowly arriving si.ce noon. The Danmars
wss rapidly sinking when the Chester sS"
The Chester bad sighted her f,Om dis
4s1ca and had heeu struck BY the sppar
ant absence of any life on board. she haC
49,, near and Investigated and a!terwsrd
,,,o5s sDre that no one wss on beoard o.
tbs abandoned wreck. The Chester lay to
and about for seversl hours. Inc
tern of the Dacmark was on
Level with the sea. her DOW
,Sss far ont Of the water in the ar. IheI'
'.as ro visible signs of collision. No
,.-sctsoe was floating about The boats
- All zone from their dsyits snd nothing
;.Sicstinc haste and panic were notice
~ Alter laying to nesr the wreck iJl
80 little time, the City OF Chester pro
ceeded. - hoard tbe
IN f,rtpned steamship Is 10 be had IN this
. civ Several people have called AZ tn'
oflicss Of the agents askirg for Information
NJ friends supposed to be on TIE DanmsrKr
Sr, All refused 10 give their pames
Tnncb Eiygs * CO. expect passenger
- bv the Nord Deutscher Lloyd Steam
- .i's 1Iler due at this port TO morrow.
nj NJ Fider arrived this morning snC
- bsr dock after l O'Clock this after
- Tbs Elder did not see anything
HStb. Danmark. and her officers wer'
u -. III s,rnriaed when told the partlcu
e@' No answers to the cables sent hl
Messrs. French, Edge x 20 10 L'ntOs AZ
{ and Copenhagen had oeeh 'e0ei''i 90
p o'clock this afternoon. ,.-.1..,., -
The agents of the steamship ilue LA
s,e5 = followipg to the pubic;
A. so,na Of the comments on tue rePoI'e
of The Danish steamer llAnmarK eA
-, ,bs annrehension that the dlSas'e
~ ~ been accompanied by heavy los
ut;;s. IA ne beg leave to state, for the oeneu
" i..S III ,,orsons who have friends on poai'
u ~ tstsd heat. cur belief TO the contrary
Ine @ ia 49, .:nlts5 by the City Of Chester ol
, Ss,. ues iost IN lat. 45 55 north, Ion. o. J!
. Mun0ef 20 "a or1 the sails were II