Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-07-08
GREAT OCEAN
HORROR OCCURS
Six Hundred Lives Are Lost
OFF the Coast of
Scotland.
THREE AMERICANS ARE LOST
Danish Steamer Norge Carried a
Crew Of Fifty and Was the Oldest
Danish Steamer in the Ocean Pass
enger Business.

Stornoway, Scotland, July 5.-One
hundred aAd one survivors of the
Danish steamer Norge have been
landed here.
The British steamer Ceronva, from
Leith, July /, for Montreal, brought
picked them up from boat Sat-
urday evening westward of the butt
of Lewis. They were in woeful
plight. nearly all Of them being naked.
One dead child was with the party.
Shortly afterwards the German
steamer Emerge arrived with sixty
nine persons rescued from the
Norge's life boat. They all were ter
ribly exhausted.
The Cervona proceeded on her voy-
age, but will keep a lookout for posi-
BILE survivors of the Danish steamer.
London, July 5.-More than 700
Danish and Norwegian emigrants
bound for New YORK are believed to
have been drowned in the north At
iantic on June g. Out Of nearly 800
souls on board the Danish steamer
Norge, which left Copenhagen on
June o., 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 isle ol
Rockall, whose isolated peak raises
itself from a deadly Atlantic reef
some 290 miles off the west coast of
| Scotland. -
Early Tuesday the Norge, which
| was out of her course in heavy wealth
er, ran onto the Rockall reef, which
| in the distance loo like ship under
full SAIL The Norge was quickly
backed of, but the heavy seas poured
in through rent in her bows. The
emigrants who were then awaiting
breakfast below ran on deck. me
hatchways became clogged.
The Norge quickly began to go
down by the head. Eight boats were
lowered and into these the women
and children were hurriedly put Six
of these boats smashed against me
sides of the Norge, and their help
less inmates we're caught up by the
heavy seas.
Two boat loads got safely away
from the side of the sinking ship, and
many of the emigrants, who were left
on board, Selling life belts, threw
themselves into the sea and were
drowned.
Captain Gundel, so say the surviv-
ors, stood on the bridge of the doom
ed vessel until it could be seen no
more
The Norge foundered suddenly, and
some 600 terrified emigrants were
thrown into the water or drawn down
with the sinking ship. Those VINO
could swim tried to reach the boats
but these were already too full, and
their occupants beat off the drowning
wretches with oars.
The boats kept together for several
hours: Prac 4tally all OF the occu-
pants were passengers and were not
used to handling such craft. The
boat occupied by the survivors, which
landed at Grlmsby. was life boat.
One account says that three boats
were successfully launched, the other
two holding about ten persons each.
The life boat made faster progress
and fell in with the Saliva. What be-
came Of the other boats is not yet
known.
The rescue of those in the life boat
took place at o'clock on the morn
ing of June 20, the survivors consist
ing Of twenty men, one of them
seaman: six women and girl.
One Of the survivors said that when
he got on deck, the Norge was hall
submerged and was rapidly getting
lower in the water Half mad with
fight. the survivors all struggled for
places in the boats. They fought
their way to the big life boat and an
officer stocked 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 edge of the
Norge. Seeing that the boat was al
ready overloaded, the officer, with
great heroism. jumped into the water
End tried to board another boat which
was not SO full. He failed, ard was
drowned.
In the sea by this time was mass
Of struggling men, women and chill
dren, gasping and choking from the
effects Of the water The boat was