Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
80 SURVIVORS LANDED
TERRIBLE ORDEAL OF ONE PARTY
OF NORGE VICTIMS.
Rowed in Open Sea Eight Days-ons
More Boat From Wreck
Yet Missing

A cabIegram from Glasgow. July 3. says:
Restored If from the dead are thirty
rine additional SURVIVORS of the Scandinav-
ian-American liner Norge. which foundered
o. the reef Of Rockall on June p. A sail
ing ship has landed nineteen persons at
Thorsaven. Farce Islands. AMI twenty
other heroic souls have reached the Shot
land Islands.
These thirty-nine survivors had already
teen given up as lost for Il passed all COM
prehcnsion that human beings could sur
vive so long since the disaster against tho
tremendous odds which were known to
exist. Even had they escaped from the
doomed vessel and embarked in life boats
as is now proved to have been the case.
1t was believed they must have persisted on
the high seas
The Farce Islands survivors were rescued
from their boat by "A sailing vessel. which
headed AT once for the nearest land. Moth
ing IN detail Of their experience has yet
been received owing to the difficulty of COM
munication with their present refuge
Their Terrible Ordeal
The Shetland Island survivors have pass
ed through Ordeals which rival any story Of
maritime hardships ever told There are
In the little band eleven passengers eight
sailors and one child. Starvation and ex-
posure have made such serious inroxds
that it is not known If all will recover.
Their boat contained the SECOND mate Of
the Norge and he took command when they
put on from the laundering ship. In the
twenty minutes which elapsed from the
time the Norge struck until She sank there
was no time TO make provisions for those
in the life boats. The second mates boat
had not even a sail. but there We're oars
and these gave lighting chance for life
The men We're told of in relays and con-
fronted the seemingly impossible task OF
rowing to land, How far this might he
they had only vague idea. For eight days
they struggled, assailed by boistcrous seas
and winds. Hunger pinched them, but each
succeeding day found little more of ocean
traversed. But the strength OF the men
at the oars was fast failing Land was
sighted on last Wednesday, and 1t proved
to be the Shetland Islands.
Every One Utterly Exhausted
The haven made. but how the men
accomplished it they do not know so near
were they to the breaking point once the
boat grounded they crawed upon shore.
All on board Were exhausted and not one
could stand his feet
The arrival of the Farce Islands and Shet-
land Islands survivors reduces the number
o: missing TO 5o0 with one more boat of
the Norge yet to be heard from. Capt.
Gundell of the Norge, who is among the
saved said that seven boats had got away
safely from the wreck.
The arrival Of the steam trawler Saliva
at ofrimSby. England. July 3 with
twenty-three survivors OF the "a persons
on board the steamer brought the first news
of the disaster. The following day the Ger
man steamer Energie brought seventy sur
ViVorS to StornOrWay. Scotland. and the
same day the British steamer Cerveua
reached StOrnoway with thirty-twp persons.
On July > the steam trawler Largo Bay
landed seventeen additional survivors at
Leith.
Consequently. 1A persons have up TO the
present been reported rescued. although "A
few children afterward suCcumbed to ex-
hauston.
The British gunboat Jackal is still search
ing the seas in the vicinity of the wreck.