The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-23


knudsOn, her commander, reported the
tail end of his shaft broken, and he wished
me to take the passengers to New York.
Owing to the state Of the weather, and be-
cause of the fact that | was not prepared to
accommodate such a number of people, /
declined to accede to his request. but offered
instead to tow his vessel TO the nearest
port This offer Captain Knudsen accepted.
The vessel proceeded slowly, heading
northwest for ST. Johns, n F.. which was
Considered the best port to make under the
circumstances.
THE WIND BLEW
with tremendous force all night. This
made progress most difficult. April &, at
$50 am finding we could make no head
way in a westerly direction and seeing ice
TO the windward. l decided to abandon any
nope of reaching St. Johns. and determined
to.Jake for the Azores islands. / signalled
~ determination TO the captain of the
Danmark and he agreed that this was the
best course to pursue. At am. the Dan
mark signalled: we are leaking consider
ably; there is now three feet of water in
the aft hold and gaining rapidly, l asked
what TO do, and the signal came to keep on
towing. Two hours later the DanmarA
again signalled US:
THE DANMARR Is SINKING.
We must abandon the ship. VIII you take
the passengers Without amoment's hest
tatiOn 1 signalled back: Yes. ! will take
the passengers ON board and do the best
can. l then cut the tow line. and we
dropped down to the Danmark. Chief Off
Ger Glen, Of that vessel, came on board the
Missouri and informed me Of the condition
Of his ship. He said that Captain RnudsOn
had decided that it was for the best inter
ests of those on the ship, and it would be
better to abandon her and get all the people
on board the Missouri while there was
plenty Of time.
~. "A heavy swell was running during all of
Ills terrible day, making the work of re
moving the people from the sinking ship
one of great difficulty, and it was only by
the hardest work we were able to avoid an
accident both to the people and boats. The
women and children were removed first.
and after them the male passengers and
crew. At . pm. we finished the work of
Transferring the passengers, having con
sG32ed nearly five hours, and getting every
body, with the exception of the officers,
safely on the Missouri without a single
accident of any kind. An hour later, the
barometer began falling and l sent word to
Captain KnudsOn and the officers
TO LEAVE THE SHIP
and come aboard the Missouri, and after
getting some provisions from the Dan
ldIh, NlACu llciAl LlOsf SGLLltu NtLf DGICCDIl-
bly, in the water. That vessel finally set
tied, Captain KnudsOn being the last to
leave the ship.
II found we had, in addition to our crew
of fOrty-five men and four passengers, 669
o. BIN and steerage passengers and sixty
Rine Of the officers Of the crew of the Ill
fated steamer.
OUR LAST VIEW OF TIE DANMARK
showed the vessel to be rapidly going
down, her stern being almost even with the
sea and the water breaking over her. We
threw overheard most of our cargo on deck,
consisting principally of bales of rags, in
order to make room for the accommoda-
ton of the large additions to our
passenger list On looking over our pro-
visions we found the number of mouths to
be fed and that we only had enough food on
board to last three days, and decided to
make all possible haste to reach the port of
st. Michaels, which was 720 miles away
son April 7, at !. 20 m. about ten hours
after the transfer was made, Mrs. Linney,
aged is years, Danish woman who was
on her way to America to meet her husband,
gave birth to girl in my cabin. The little
stranger was christened Atlantic Missouri.
THE child was born during bowling storm
witch rocked the vessel and caused b sea
to break over US.
''We had started for St Michanls with
al Ou DOdAu dL y Il, IL. VI lie Obu Inc
weather was very threatening at Une time.
THE WIND INCREAsED IN VIOLENCE
as the night wore on. Everything possible
was done to make the passengers comfort
able. Awnings and sails were brought out
and used as a partial protection to the
panic stricken immigrants. The gale kept
l5Nreasing in fury and there was tremen-
dCDSs sea rui ming which was continually
breaking over the vessel, and tIken alto
gether things looked dubious.
SIT must be remembered we were very
short of provisions, and this storm at the
very outset of our journey towards St
Aichaels made US fearful Of reaching that
port in safety. BY daylight of April 8,
however, the gale materially decreased, and
we were able to make fair progress, and on
April 10 we arrived at ST. Michaels. April
II we landed $40 of the passengers and crew
of the Danmark, including Captain Knud
son, at ST. Michaels On the same day we
sailed from st. Michaels with 800 people
from the Danmark, including eight of the
crew of that vessel. We had fine weather
all the way to Philadelphia, and a remark
ablxS small amount of sickness on board,
cas1eSiering the crowded condition of our
h6sts.D