The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-05
SEA-SWEPT GRANITE STANDS
A MONUMENT TO HUNDREDS
ABOUT IT ARE
BODIES OF GAG
THE SHIP THAT BORE THEM
LIES A WRECK BENEATH THE
TURBULENT WAVES.


Rushed Upon Its Victims Like n
Horrible Dream in the Night.
Scarce Were They Warned Ere
They Were Swept TO Their Fate.
Further Details of the Loss of the
Emigrant Steamer Norge.
London, July s. 8 AS a. m.-Of the IA
souls on board the Danish steamer
Norge, 12S, including Capt. Cundel, are
known to have been saved up to this
hour. one of the children died in a
lifeboat which brought others to safe
ty. For the missing SAG persons small
hopes are entertained
The enormous death roll which was
feared with the first news of the wreck
has been decreased by 1O2, that num-
ber of survivors, after many privations,
having been landed at Stornoway yes
terday.
The horrors of the wreck itself grow
with each survivors account. Capt
GundeTs statement, which reads like
an effldavit from the dead, for he went
down with his ship, maintains that the
Norge struck on a sunken rock eighteen
miles south of Rockall.
The 102 survivors are spending the
night at Stornoway, many of them in
the hospital.
The majority Of the twenty-six who
were landed at Grimsby have arrived
at Liverpool, from where they will sail
on the Cunard Line steamer Saxonia,
which leaves tomorrow for Boston.
Vessels are searching in the vicinity
of Rockall for any more survivors.
The chief hope lies in Capt. Gunders
statement that seven boat loads got
safely away.
As Monument 1t Stands.
A lone pile of granite rising sheer out
OF the Atlantic, 29O miles from the Scot
tish mainland. is now a monument to
almost seven hundred dead. Bodies
wash against the rocks or lie on the
ocean bed at its base. Near by, COM
pletely hidden in the water. is the
Scandinavian American liner Norge,
which was carrying 500 Danes,
Norwegians, Swedes and Firms
to join relatives or friends in America.
OF these only about 1870 were saved.
No tragedy of the sea has had more
appalling consequences and none has
occurred in so short a time. The
passengers were suddenly aroused
from their sleep terrified by the con-
tact of the bows of the ship with the
solid granite, followed by grinding,
rasping sound. as if the hull was be-
m.
silence, as the changing bells brought
the engines to stop. Those of the
passengers VINO were standing at the
time the steamer struck the rock were
thrown against the bulkheads or on
the decks and had not recovered their
feet when stentorian voice gave the
terrifying order:
"All hands on deck! Hurry or you
may sink"
The Fight for Life.
Immediately there was rush for
the narrow companionways and men,
women and children pushed and strug-
gled and made every other effort to
reach the deck where the boats swung
from the davits.
Many persons, retaining their pres
ence Of mind, seized life preservers
only to find in some instances that the
strings were rotten and they could
not be quickly put around their bodies.
Those who reached the deck saw the
nose of the Norge pinned directly
against the rock. 1t remained there
only a few minutes for Capt. Gum
dell, commanding, who had immedate-
ly gone to the bridge, gave the order
to the engine room to reverse the en-
gines Some men of the engineer force
had relatives among the passengers
and after seeing them safely to the
boats, they heroically returned to their
stations below.
Slowly the ship backed off and as
she gained headway it was found that
water was pouring into her hold This
announcement called out in Scandina-
Wan and presaging death, added to
the supreme fright and agony. The
passengers who were piled in the
boats were the fortunate ones who
were to escape, while the unfortunates.
vicinity. seething. struggling masses,
some on their knees praying. surround.
ed by children, others supplicating aid
from any one and shrieking for per-
mission to enter the boats, elbowing,
lighting their way to the places from
which the boats were being lowered.
The Sen Then Claimed Her.
The sound of grinding ceased and the
bow of the Norge yawned as the
steamer returned to the deep water
The sea rushed hungrily into the huge
rents made by the rocks in the iron
hull. Swiftly the vesssi began to sink
by the bows.
without waiting for orders, without
paying attention TO their proper man.
ming, the occupants began 20 lower the
boats. The starboard lifeboat began
slowly 70 fall. when to the horror Of
those on board the stern tackle failed
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