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RESCUED IN MID.OCEAN.
The Sinking Danmark's Passen-
gers Saved by the Missouri.
Picked Up at Sea and Taken to
the Azores.

The 672 people who sailed from Copenhagen
on the Inflated Danmark March 26, and who
were feared to be lost, are all safe. The glad
tidings were flashed across the Atlantic cable
to Funch, Edyc & Co., the New York agents
of the Thingvalla Line. The cablegram they
received read as follows:
Message received from Lisbon: Passengers
and crew oil saved. Brought to the Azores
forty passengers follow Missouri to Philadel-
phia. Remainder still at the Azores
This message came from Lisbon, Portugal,
via Copenhagen, the information having
been brought there from the little steamer
which plies between that port and Fayal, in
the Azore Islands.
The Danmark, when she left Copenhagen
on March 26, had 62S passengers on board
and fifty-four officers and crew. The first
news of the disaster was when the City of
Chester, which arrived at Queenstown
early in April, reported having passed
the Danmark. on April s in lati-
tude 4s north, longitude 81 west, in a water
logged condition, and without soul Oh
board. All the boats were gone
and q chain dangled from the bow.
It was thought at first that some steamer
had endeavored to tow her. and, finding
that the Danmark was soon to sink, had
taken her passengers and crew on board and
abandoned her; but as day after day went
by, and arriving steamers brought no news
Of the missing people, the belief became gem
eral that all had been lost after taking to tlx
boats.
A cablegram from Lisbon, Portugal, giva
the following particulars: Officer Lahan and
forty-two of the crew of the steamer Dan
mark are coming here from the
Azores The Danmark broke her
shaft on April 4, when 500 miles
of Newfoundland. Immediately otter the
accident Engineer Knss was found dead in
the engine room, evidently struck by a wheel
that had been freed by the breakage Of the
shaft.
The officers acted coolly, and the crew be-
haved well. The vessel, powerless drifted in
the trough of the sea, and q leak astern made
things look serious.
Distress signals were raised, and tile day
after the accident the steamer Missouri came
up with her officers volunteering to do all in
their power toward relief. She made room
for twenty cabin passengers, and fastening
hawsers, began towing the disabled steamer.
After the first days towing, the Danmarls
began settling noticeably. The second day
it grew worse, and she dragged heavily.
In the interim the TOO steerage passengers
were growing restive and hard to control,
and the officers inaugurated military disci-
pline. the crew obeying admirably, greatly
assisting in preserving order in the steerage.
At the end Of the third day after the acci-
dent the officers Of the Danmark saw that the
water was continually gaining on the pumps,
and the after portion of the vessel became
untenable
The Missouri had no more room for passen-
gers, but by moving her cargo managed to
make room.
The situation on the Danmark grew des-
perate Oh the third day and the passengers
were transferred, the boats of both vessels
being used for the purpose, those Of the DAN
mark being afterward abandoned.
When the officers Of the Danmark left her
deck her bow was clear Of the water and her
stern almost submerged.
The Missouri sailed from London March
% for Philadelphia, but with the emergency
Of her burdensome complement of passen-
gers, headed for the Azores as the nearest
point She arrived there safely and left 800
passengers, together with the officers and
crew.
The first officers Immediately started back
to Copenhagen. The Missouri continued her
voyage to Philadelphia with $40 of the DAN
marks passengers aboard, which port she
reached without incident
The Azore Islands ore about 700 miles west
of the coast of Portugal. The spot where the
waterlogged Danmark was sighted by the
City of Chester was about 325 miles north
west Of Fayal, almost in mid-ocean. The
Danmark was in the trough Of the sea, and
had apparently been abandoned some time.