Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-05
NORGE SANK ON REEF
Danish American Liner Meets
Disaster at Rockall Islet.
DYER 500 FIND DEATH In THE SEA
One Hundred and Twenty-nine Sur
vivors Brought In In PitiabIe Com
dition-Emigrants Rushed For
the Boats and Sank Them.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rushed For
the Boats and Sank Them.
LONDON, Jelly 5.-Over 600 Danish
and Norwegian emigrants bound for
New York are believed to have been
drowned in the north Atlantic. Out Of
765 souls on board the Danish steamer
Norge, which left Copenhagen June %,
only 129 are known to be alive.
The Norge sank suddenly where she
struck on the islet of Rockall, whose
isolated peak raises itself from dead
~ Atlantic reef some 200 miles off the
west coast of Scotland.
The German steamer Energie brought
seventy survivors into Stornaway, and
a little later the British steamer Ger
vona brought in thirty-two more. With
the twenty-seven landed at Grimsby
by the steam trawler Saliva, that
makes 129 out of the 765 aboard the
Norge who have survived the disaster
A fourth boat is said to have got
away from the Norge by the survivors.
Unless it was wrecked or the occupants
are dead there may be another score
Of the rescued.
Those brought in by the Energie and
the Cervona are in the same lamenta-
bic condition that marked those land
ed at Grimsby. They suffered fearful
agony, exposed to heavy weather and
tremendous seas for days in their
open boats and without any food or
water. The Cervona picked up her
thirty-t two Sunday night just west Of
the Butt of Lewis. They were almost
all Naked, and there was one dead
child in the party. The mother was
clasping it to her breast and refused
to commit it to the sea. When it was
taken away from her she almost went
insane.
Many deeds of heroism shine bright
~ through the pail of the catastrophe.
That of Jams Peters Jansen, who has
| relatives in Brooklyn, is told with adj
miration by the survivors. He was one
Of the engineers of the Norge When
the ship struck he learned the extent
of the disaster and went below to
where his relatives were and told them
and those near by to go at once to the
| upper deck. He accompanied them to
the boats and saw them safely on
board. He was urged to join them, but
| said he must return to the engine room
and, shouting a farewell, ran to his
\ post of duty where he died.
Some of the male passengers, with
out thought of self, placed women
and children in the boats, preferring
| to remain behind rather than take adj
vantage of their strength.
Tho Toafo Of 10 Nc1.Oo who Iof% %I,n.
ship in the boat which arrived here,
i seeing that it was overcrowded, leaped
into the water for the purpose of swim
ming to second boat not far away
He had only gone short distance
when, weighted by his clothes, his
strength gave out, and he sank
The crew of the Norge appear to
have behaved well after the first pam
I ic, when, it is said, the officers were
compelled to drive them back from the
boats. But there apparently was no
discipline, the orders which the cap
tain shouted from the bridge being
misinterpreted or unheard. So far as
| the survivors here remember there
was no systematic distribution of the
people to the boats, which were not
adequately manned. No attempt was
/. made by any of the survivors to save
property. There was no time to make
preparations.
Johan Johansen, a gray bearded man
from Tromso, said:
when the ship first bumped most Of
us were below All rushed to the deck.
had my wife and five children with
me. At first none of us was aware of
what had happened, and we kept quiet.
But in minute or two we saw the
ship was sinking, and then there were
shrieks and cries too awful to describe.
we had nearly 200 children aboard,
and they screamed with terror. Their
mothers, too, were frantic, though some
Of them-calmer than the others-be-
gan putting their little ones in the rig
ging and other elevated positions.
$50 far as could see, the officers Of
the ship kept quite calm, but the crowd
was uncomfortable. Men and women
began Jumping into the sea, while 9th
| ers ran up and down trying to snatch
life belts from those who had them.
AS soon as the first boat was got out
there was d mad rush for her, with the
result that she Immediately sank. In
| this way three boats were lost
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