The evening world., 1889-04-22
NEAR AT HAND.
Many Of the Danmark's Rescued
Passengers on the Missouri.
They Were Taken to the Azores, as
1.-THE Evening World" Predicted.
TIE Captain of the Inflated Vessel on
His Way to London.

The passengers and crew of the Thingvalla
line steamship Danmark are saved.
THE EVENING WORLD has been insisting all
along from the first that they were all right, and
now it feels q little like calling attention to tina
fact.
While other newspapers here contained daily
sensational stories of the undoubted drowning
of the reg people on the Inflated ship, The
EVENING WORLD has been industrious i'll ~refuting
them.
On the 18th TIE EVENING WORLD, having
carefully studied the chart and considered the
situation, said:
There was a chain cable over the bow of the DAnmArk
when, sighted by the City Of Chester. She had been
When seen she had drifted or been t9wed 800 miles
line towards the Azores Islands. '" =" u w
The water filling into the PHn%.rk had probably
and then pnsssnET T ana crew were rsinSyed and The
Tor the IeseuinR steamer TO make ali possibIe spesd TO
the nearest port. which was FHyall on one Of the Azores
No sailing weasel g, could aid Or would 1n have Stt9mpteS to
days. The next mail steamer to Lisbon wouid, sail April
10 and nd IT, i is 2 Ave ,S dSys ,.t trip N TO t XopS i., msnGs; no
day or sunday. April 90 or 81.
That is Just what did happen.
The Missouri. from London and bound for
Philadelphia, found the Danmark with a
broken shaft on April 3, lowed her for
more than twenty-four hours, and then. as she
htcIlleu uDOub u bInh, tuItN OuJ HGT OWL cargo
of freight and took on board the passengers and
'' TEe q Da sn9 %GR% %Ss s sob miles from Newfound-
the Missouri, and the latter turned her prov
toward the islands, the wind being exactly ia
vorable to that course, as The EVENING WORLD
Forty-two sailors and ago passengers were
landed at Fayal, and yesterday they arrived at
Lisbon on the mail steamer Acor;
A Easter, noon came Thu, cablegram to Paul
Gottheil. Of the firm Of Funch. Edge 4 Co.,
from Copenhagen:
saved Brought 70 The Azores BY tame, Missouri,
" ThiseSALLA.
water at i o'clock this morning, and. was ex-
poctcd at the dock of the. American Transport
line, philadelphia; late this afternoon with $40
Of the Shlpwrecked Swedes. Danes and Norwe-
The Missouri left London on March % with .
$,fureI and size, is = new ship: Peter wTis;Iit
services SirStc at the heidi disposal oIl' Of the latter tteriil in caring ring
for the passengers of the Danmark.
General Passenger Agent John Rath, Of the
went to Philadelphia to-day; and the Danmark's
their several destinations from that city.
Although tthh the Danmark' a $sSo' 900 ship, and
Thinsysils line snd Tunsh, ,Edyye 4 GO; To-day
over tile news OF the Sa1Gty OF the people on
board of the Inflated steamer.
Only one life is lost on the Danmark. When,
on April 4, IT was discovered that the shaft of
the Danmark's engine was broken. Engineer
Kaas was found dead in the engine-room.
A Lisbon despatch says that Engineer Kaas
was. instantly killed by the explosion Of an
engine eng ~ pipe; In eo M fqTa NEE Of III this s. accident lent
which was blowing at the time.
Capt. Knudson and three engineers left the
Azores on April IL, for London, direct.
The crowd of forty or fifty waiting friends Of
Che passengers on the Danmark, who had gath
cred here from all over the Union, and have
weeks at the office, Of the Thingvalla line has
dwindled away till there were remaining to-day
only two or three. The others had returned to
Among those. who remained to-day, none was
more joyful than honest, broad faced Morris
Slower; The sturdy farmer boy was running
He. fairly Rugged himself, and tears filled his
big blue eyes, and, trickled down his brown
cheeks as he kissed the photograph of Marie
She is all right, now, he said triumphantly
proudly at the picture Of the bax;o m lass as whose
fuptedb the disabling Of the DanmsTk;
She will soon be here and we shall be mar
RED right away, " cried Morris, DO you think
phia to meet her. I've got money enough" he
The reporter explained to the joyful lover that
Ceiyed here tonight, and that he had better
The other passengers of the Danmark, who
still at the Azores. Where they are in charge Of
the first and second officers OF the wrecked ship.
The Thingvalla line will send a steamer after
s o from Copenhagen md Nad they Will pc taken
soon as possible.