The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
CAPTAIN TELLS THE
TALE OF THE WRECK
Continued From Ninth Page

in bailing her out. We could do moth
Ing but allow the boat to drift
The I'VE women behaved splendidly,
never murmuring. All around us were
hundreds fighting for their lives. The.
shrieks of those left on the Ship par
tfcularly the children, could be heard
above all the confusion around us. But
II was soon over, as we saw the Norge
sink 1nsless than half an hour from the
first Shock, 81
One of the five surviving women
was going out to her husband, and she
had throughout chung to her little girl
OF five. Another woman in her de-
hrious joy at being picked up offered
one of the crew1of the trawler her we'd
ding ring.
News of the loss at sea of the Sean,
sdinavian7 American ocean liner Norge
IN the icy waters of the North At,
lantic will bring sorrow to the homes.
OF numbers : of Northwestern Sean.
dinavians.
A. e. Johnson, Minneapolis. North.
west agent for the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lean Steamship company, say that at
the least estimate -thirty-eigl1t persons.
We're on the Inflated steamship which
went on. the rocks of Rockalf who were
bound for the Northwest, intending to-
make 1T theirsfuture home. A number
OF the passengers destined for Minne-
sofa and the Daketas We're being.
brought to the Northwest by relatives
already residents of the States and to
them the knowledge that the big
steamer has gone down and the loss OF
life is so great makes the fate of their
relatives and friends on board almost
certain DEATH
There is a possibility, of course, that
among the. few passengers saved there
q W h<..c Sc LIZ
We're bound for Northw eStern states
and in view of this situation johnson,
refuses: to give any information as to
VINO was on board the Norge Johnson
has copy of the ships passenger list,
which Included ten cabin and 707 steer
age passengers, and of this compile
ment and the crew of officers and men
only tWenty-seven were saved. Whole
families went down with the sinking
ship and the distance from land-the-
Norge struck on rocks 290 miles off
the Scottish coaSt-made the proba-
billty of saving those who escaped on
life RATS very remote
1t is one of the Saddest ocean hor-
rors in many years." said Mr.. Johnson
yesterday, but do not propose to
add to the anxiety of friends in Mime
sofa and the Dakotas by publishing a
list of people coming from Sweden to
this country and who have probably
been drowned at sea in the sinking of
the Norge. The press dispatches say
q number-a comparatively small num-
Der, it is true-eScaped, and among
these may be some of the people whom
Northwestern relatives and friends
would mourn as dead did make public
a list of the passengers on board the
Norge when she sailed from Copen-
hagen loaded with people looking for
ward to making happy and prosperous
new homes for themselves, but who
are now victims of one of those unac--
countable accidents of the sea.
L have, telegraphed the New York
office. of the company for particulars of
the tragedy, and may obtain informa-
ton that will be of interest to the wait
ing ones in these Northwestern states.
AS has long been the custom in the
prosperous Northwest, friends and rela-
tives, once established here. are not
content until they send money or tick
cts for the passage of their old friends
in Sweden, and many of the passengers
on the Norge were being brought over
by their American es tablished country
men. Only a few of the passengers had
ever been in America. and the ira gedy
is not SO severe a blow to the Scan
d1nayians of the Northwest as though
the passengers, as is often the case,
consisted largely of returning Scan
the Norge will long be remembered by
hundreds of Scandinavian families who
lost some member, brother, sister, ia
Their or mother in the saddest tragedy
in transatlantic steamship travel in
recent years.
Additional news of the loss of the
Norge and the roster of those saved
will be yanxiously awaited by Scan
dinavians of Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, for scarcely Swedish COM
munity which has not a personal inter-
est in the story of the wreck, from the
fact that some old-country friend was
passenger on the steamer which went
on RockaH rocks in the cold North At
lantic and who swent down with the
ship
Seattle Women Are Passengers