The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-22
Half of the Danmark's
Passengers Landed at
Philadelphia by the
Missouri.
STORY OF THE DISASTER.
A Time of Awful Anxiety Before
Rescue Came--The Shaft Broke
and a Steam Pipe Burst.
[Bu Gable to the United Press.l


LONDON, April %, 1889. 9.-First Officer
Raben of the Danmark. reports that dur
ing the severe storm, April A, the Danmark
broke her shaft near the aft end of Sec
tion.
s The Jagged end tore hole In the bottom.
At this moment an engine pipe
burst, killing Engineer Kaas Immediately
and loosening the iron plates at the side
of the vessel, causing another leak. The
machinery was completely disabled.
At the time of the disaster the Dan
mark was 800 miles from the Newfound-
land banks Fortunately the after COM
partment of the vessel was closed and
kept the water back.
All the rest of the day the sea was
eagerly scanned for assistance, but not a
vessel was sighted. On the 5th the
glad hail was heard from
the tops that a sail was
were hoisted, and the steamer, which
proved to be the Missouri, from London
for Philadelphia bore down on the Dam
mark.
Captain Hudson signalled the Missouri
and asked that his passengers be taken
aboard, intending to attempt to proceed
under sail, but the Missouri signalled
back that it would be impossible to
take so many on the Missouri, but
offered to give the Danmark a tow, This
offer was accepted, and after much diff
Guilty line was taken from the disabled
steamer to the Missouri, and the heaviest
chain cable was brought into use.
The Missouri is slow vessel and was
heavily laden and progress was very slow.
As soon as the course was changed from
before the wind the Danmark began to
strain and the water forced it's way in
much faster than the pumps could free
the vessel.
less. So much water was in the hold that
she lost her buoyancy, and every time she
went down in the trough of the sea her
passengers Thought 1t would be her last
plunge The Missouri was stopped and
Captain Knudsen went aboard.
After short conference, Captain
Morell of the Missouri, agreed to jettison
a portion of his cargo and thus allow
room between decks for the 721 souls on
board the Danmark.
The work of jettisoning the cargo and
transferring the passengers began stimuli
taneously, and before night all on the
Danmark were on board the Missouri.
The passengers were each allowed to
take reasonable kit of clothing and per-
sonal effects, but it was necessarily
limited and many lose heavily
The Missouri was then headed for the
Azores where 800 passengers were landed.
Rescued Passengers Landed.
PHILADELPHIA, April %, 1ss9.-The
steamer Missouri, with $40 of the Dan
marks passengers on board, sailed
from the Delaware BreakWater at half
past seven o'clock this morning and
arrived here at about half-past two this
afternoon. The firm of Peter Wright
& Son, to whom the Missouri is CON
signed, is making every arrangement
to receive and provide for the
Danmark's passengers, and will
forward them to New York. AS soon as
it is obtainable, list of those arriving on
the Missouri will be sent to the office in
New York of the Thingvalia company.
Receiving the Immigrants.
The passenger agents of the
Thingvalla line left New York
for Philadelphia this morning to
attend to the wants of the Dan
marks passengers. Most of the vessels
immigrants, the agents said today, were
bound for Western States and would
be shipped direct from Philadelphia as
soon as the Missouri arrived, if they de-
sired to go forward at once.
Those of the passengers who had friends
or relatives in New York and
who had intended remaining there, would
be supplied with tickets on the
Pennsylvania Railroad tonight, and
will probably reach the city be-
fore midnight. Everything for the
comfort and convenience of the ship
wrecked people, the agent said, would be
supplied by the Thingvalla lines repre-
sentatives now in Philadelphia,