New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-04
SEVEN HUNDRED LOST AT SEA.
STEAMER LADEN NTH EMIGR1NTS FROM DEN
MARK FOUNDERS OFF THE HEBRIDES
THE Danish Vessel Norge Strikes Rock and SinksOy Teny
Escape-Boats Smashed IN Heary Seas


away from the side Of the Norge. seeia-- -
the beat was already cverladen. the oaicer. with
great heroism, jumped into the water and tried
to board another bcat, which rot SO fun
He failed and was drowned
The sea by this time mass of struggling
men. women and children gaspins and chokins
The boat rowed clear Of this seething inferno.
and just as she drew away the Norge went
down.
Peter Nelson. of the survivors, described
young American. said;
For some hours we rOwed in company with the
ether boats. but the strong tide drifted up away
from the others, and nothing has been seen Of
them since The Saliva picked US up and we
OF us lost our entire belongings. We had no
time in that fierce fight for life to think % any,
thing but the getting of seats in the boat
The only hope is that some few of the snni-
grants may have been washed Up on the barren
rock Their chance OF being rescued even then
is practically none for vessels sailing ths North
Atlantic give Rockal as wide a berth as pos
sibIe
Only one Of those rescued could speak English.
He saidf
We left Copenhagen on June y. There wers
seven hundred OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. swedes
Danes and Finns-on board. The crew nu-t
All went we'll until June % I lay IN m
bunk waiting for breakfast. We heard a INT
bump. then another bump and then rushed o.
deck / at once that something serfous
had happened. and I made a dash below To
gather up my few belongings.
Scores were rushing on deck. ana Ine na'en-
way was crowded with erntgrants- Thsy were
launching boats and rushing into them. eu
there was no panic.
Four or five were IN the boat into which !.
got and we cleared the ship. Luckily Cor us
10 our party was the only seaman from ths
Norge who escaped, and he was abls to navigate
We saw two other boats capsizs owing 20 tho
heavy weather, and because no one could navt
We made straight away, and when we last
saw the Norge large number of enlisyants
were on the deck Captain Gundel stood on the
Dozens Of passengers had Jumped fnto the
sea- They wore life belts. but were drowned
After twenty-four hours the Saliva Dor. down
and picked us up.
About seven hundred must have been drowned
The Norge was last sighted OF Butt of Lewis.
the northernmost point Of the Hebrides Islands.
on June %. RockaII Is dangerous reef with
a rock about seventy-fve feet above WAGER.
The Norge which had been in the Copeuhager-
New York service of the Scandinav ian American;
Line for a number of years was an iron vessel
of 331S tons gross and 2.121 tons net. Her
principal dimensions were; Length, $40 feet:
breadth Ar feet and depth 81 feet The Norge
was built at Glasgow by ~ stephen & Sons ~
1SS1 when she was named PETER de Corinct.
When she was bought by the United Steamship
Company Of Copenhagen, she was renamed ths
Norge. The vessel was equipped with six water
tight bulkheads.
None of the officers of the line could be found
in town last night.
OF marine disasters in recent years. excluding
the Slocum fire. the one approaching nearest the
wreck Of the Norge in the number Of lives lost
was the sinking of the excursion steamer Prin-
cess Alice on September 3. 1898. when about six
hundred persons perished She was run down
off Barking by the Bywell Castle while on the
way from Gravesend 20 London.
Another great casualty was the sinking or the
Atlantic of the White Star Line, near Halifax.
on April l. 1873 when $50 were drowned. Three
hundred and thirty were lost with the Elbe. on
January 30 1895; 5I1 on La Bourgogne, on July
. 1S9S; 313 with the Vile de Havre. on Sovenl-
Der 80 1878; 175 with the burning Seawanhaka.
on June 2S. 1850; more than one hundred in the
burning Saale, Bremen and Main, Of the North
German Lloyd on June so. 1900. and so in the
explosion OF the staten Island ferryboat West
field, on July so. ISL