The Red Cloud chief., 1904-07-08
200 ARE DROWNED
Many Danes and Norwegians
Go Down in the Norge.
SUNK en- THE RocKALL REEF
Sis Life boats Wrecked and Only Two
Get Away from the Vessel with
T~wenty-seven Passengers

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over 700 Danish and Norwegian emf
grants bound for New York are be-
lieved to have been drowned in the
North Atlantic. Out OF nearly 500
souls on board the Danish steamer
Norge which left Copenhagen June %,
only twenty-seven are known to be
alive, and for the rest no hope is held
out.
When last seen. the Norge was sink
ing where she struck on the lslet of
Rockall, whose isolated peak rises
from a deadly Atlantic reef some 200
miles of the west coast Of Scotland.
Early in the morning the Norge,
which was out of her course In heavy
weather, ran onto the Rockall reef,
which in the distance looked like a
ship under full sail. The Norge was
quickly backed of, but the heavy seas
poured in through a rem in her bow.
The emigrants. who were then await
ing breakfast below, ran on deck. The
hatchways we're scarcely built for
these hundreds Of souls, and became
clogged.
The Norge quickly began to do down
by the head. Eight boats were low
cred and into these the women and
children we're hurriedly put. Six Of
these boats smashed against the side
of the Norge and their helpless in
mates we're caught by the heavy a
Two boatloads got safely away from
the side Of the sinking ship, and many
OF the emigrants who were left on
board, selling life belts, threw them
selves into the sea, and we're drowned.
Captain Gundel, so say the survivors,
stood on the bridge until the vessel
could be seen no more. The vessel
foundered suddenly and some six hun
dred terrified people were thrown into
the water or drowned within the sink
ing ship.
Those who could swim tried to reach
the boats, but these were already too
full, and their occupants beat of the
drowning wretches with oars.
The boats kept together for some
hours. Practically all Of their occu-
pants were passengers. and were not
used To handling such craft. The boat
occupied by the survivors landed at
Grimsby was q lifeboat.
One account says that three boats
were successfully launched, the other
two holding about ten persons each.
The lifeboat made faster progress and
fell In with the Saliva. What became
of the other boats is not yet known.
The survivors consists Of twenty
men. n Of them a seaman. six women
and a girl. One Of the survivors said
that when he got on deck the Norge
was half submerged and was rapidly
getting lower in the water.
Half mad with fright. the survivor.
all struggled for places in the boats
They fought their way to the big life
boat, and an officer slowed in the SIX
women and the girl and told the mer
to get In. The oficer then took charge
and got the boat away from the side
Of the Norge. Seeing that the boa
was already overloaded, the officer
with great heroism, jumped into the
water and tried to board another boa
which was not SO full. He failed ant
was drowned.
In the sea by this time was a mass
OF struggling men, women and chill
dren, gasping and choking from tn,
effects of the water. The boat rowe,
clear Of this seething inferno and jus
as she drew away the Norge Wen
down. 3