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Transatlantic Liner Norge
Founders 27O Miles Off
Coast of Scotland.
STRUCK ON ROCKALL REEF
BOUND FROM COPENHAGEN ron
NEW YORK.

Twenty-seven Survivors Picked Up BY
steam Trswler Saliva which Branga
First News of the Disaster-Eaghs
Hundred souls Aboard Most Of wAom
Were Emisrants-Boats smashed BY
Heavy Seas as They Were LOwersd--
stories Of urvtvOrz-DrOwnins Vie
Tins Beaten on.
London. July s.-over seven hundred
Danish and Norwegian emigrants
bound for New York are believed to
have been drowned in the North At
lantic. Out of nearly eight hundred
souls on board the Danish steamer
Norge which left Copenhagen June 22.
only twenty-seven are known to be
alive and for the rest no hope Is held
out.
| At last seen the Norge was sinking
where she struck on the islet of Rock
EaIl, whose isolated peak raises itself
lfrom deadly reef some go miles of
the west coast Of Scotland
Early on the morning of June 2Sth
the Norge, which was out of her course
in heavy weather. ran on to the Rock
lall reef, which in the distance looks
like a ship under full sail. The Norge
was quickly backed off, but the heavy
4 seas poured In through rent in her
Lhnws and she quickly began to go
down by the head. Eight boats were
~,
Ichildren were hurriedly put, Six of
these boats smashed against the side Of
the Norge and their helpless occupants
Iwere swallowed up by the heavy seas.
Two boat loads got away safely from
the side of the sinking ship, and many
lof the emigrants who were left on
Iboard seizing life belts, threw them
selves into the sea and were drowned,
/ Captain Cundell, SO say the survivors,
Istood on the bridge of the doomed ves-
Isel until it could be seen no more.
The Norge foundered suddenly and
lsome six hundred terrified emigTants
lwere thrown into the water or drawn
tdown with the sinking ship. Those
lwho could swim tried to reach the
Lboats, but those were already too full
/
ling victims with oars.
The boats kept together for some
ilhours Practically all of their occu-
lpants were passengers and were not
used to handling such craft. The boat
occupied by the survivors landed at
i Grimsby was a life boat
| One account says that three boats
were successfully launched, the other
two holding about ten each. The life
boat made faster progress and fell in
with the Saliva. What became of the
other boats is not vet known.
The rescue of those on the life-boat
took place at eight o'clock on the
morning Of June 20, the survivors con-
Esisting of twenty men, one of them al
seaman, six women and a girl.
il One of the survivors said that when
4 he got on deck the Norge was half
Submerged and was rapidly getting
lower in the water. Half mad with
Ifright the survivors 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 then told the men to get in.
The officer then took charge and got
the. boat away from the side Of the
Norge. Seeing that the boat was an
ready over laden, the officer with great
Eheroism jumped into the water and
tried to board another boat which was
not so full. He failed and was
drowned.
In the sea by this time was a. mass of
struggling men, women and children.
90 es,,i,,sn ood nJ,oly;,,Sr fyrs,,, fe affoofn
of the water. The boat rowed clear OF
this seething inferno, and just as she
drew away the Norge went down.
Peter Nelson, one of the survivors,
described as a young American, said:
For some hours we rowed in COM
lpany with the other boats, but the
strong tide drifted JUS away from the
others and nothing has been seen Of
them since. The Saliva picked us up
and we were well cared for on board
the trawler All of us lost our entire
!. belongings, We had no time In that
fierce fight for life to think Of any
thing but the getting of seats in the
boat
The only hope now is that some Of
the emigrants might have been washed
being rescued even then is practically
nil, for vessels sailing the North At
lantic give Rockall as wide berth as
POSSIBLE.
The news Of this disaster, which it Is
feared in its death record is greater
l1than any previous tragedy Of the At
llantic, came with the arrival tonight
!: lof the steam trawler Saliva at her
I home port, the quiet fishing town Of
7 Grimsby. The Saliva had been on a
!, fortnight's cruise around the Hebrides.
BY lucky chance she steamed further
! west than usual for Grimsby trawlerG
and fell in with the survivors Of the
? ? Norge, who for twenty-four hours had
/; been tossed about In a small boat on
the rough waters Of the North Atlantic.
: The survivors were taken on board the
7 Saliva and were landed at Grimsby tor
: might
!, The steam trawler Saliva put into
Grimsby late tonight with the twenty
I; seven rescued Scandinavians aboard.
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