Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-05


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Stornway, Scotland, July q.
One hundred and one survivors of
the steamer Norge have been land
ed here. The steamer Cervona
brought in thirty-two shortly be-
fore noon. She picked them up
from boat yesterday evening at
sea. They were in a woeful plight,
nearly all of them being naked.
Shortly afterwards the steamer
Energie arrived with sixty-nine
persons rescued from the Norge's
Iifcbl at. They were terribly ex
hausted.
The survivors say that aItogeth-
er, four of the Norge's boats got
away from the wreck. All, there
fore, are now accounted for and
the number of survivors of the
horrible accident Is 1923.
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Cohenhagen, July 4. - The news of
the disaster to the steamer Norge has
created indescribable excitement here.
The Norge had no first class passen-
gers on board and only nine names
were on her second cabin list. These
included three Americans: Elizabeth
and Anna Buckley and Hilma Fleisch-
man.
694 In Steerage.
All others were in the steerage and
numbered 694. OF these there were sew
enty-nine Danes, Sixty-eight Swedes, fif-
teen Films, 296 Norwegians, 236 Rus
SLAMS. The Norge carried a crew of
seventy-one. She was the oldest Dan
ish transatlantic steamer running.
Story Of the Catastrophe.
London, Eng, July A. - The Danish
steamer Norge bound from Copenha-
gen to New York, was wrecked off the
islet of Rockall in the North Allan
tic last Tuesday and more than 700
emigrants went down with her.
Out of nearly 800 who left Copenhag-
en- June % only 12S are known to have
escaped watery graves. The first twen-
ty-seven who escaped in two of the
Norge's boats were picked up Sunday
in the North sea. One hundred and one
reached Stornway, Scotland, today.
Early Tuesday morning the Norge
ran into heavy weather and had to
run out of her course. The captain
and crew battled with the elements
and were fighting to get her back to
the course when the boat hit the Rock
all reef. Two crashes following
in quick succession, the last more dis
astrous than the first, opened up the
bows and the water poured in.
Boat Sinks Quickly.
The Norge quickly backed off the
reef but the heavy seas rolled against
the hull with tremendous force and
made their way through the gaping
rents. The passengers, terrified, has
tened to the deck to escape the water
that was rapidly filling the steamship.
Some attempted to return below to
gather up their belongings, thinking
they would have time to escape with
out hurry, but this was found impos-
sible and a rush for the boats was
made.
Crowding the hatchways and chok-
ing the passages the crazed emigrants
ran to the boats. From the story told
by survivor the frightened crowd
drove the crew from the boats and
added to the danger from the waves
by their excitement and bungling ef-
forts at launching them,
Boats Crushed Like EegsheIIs.
Scores filled each boat and hardly
did it touch the water than it was
dashed to pieces and it's occupants
thrown into the sea. A few boats got
away from the wreck, but they were
without competent navigators and the
wives crushed them like eggshells.
Scores of passengers, despairing OF
getting into the boats, jumped into the
sea and were drowned.
Eight Boats Lowered.
The Norge quickly began to go
down by the head. Eight boats were
lowered, and into these the women and
children were hurrierly put Four of
these boats smashed against the side
of the Norge and their helpless in
mates were caught up by the heavy
seas.
The Norge foundered suddenly, and
some TX hundred terrified emigrants
were thrown into the water or drawn
down with the sinking ship. Those
who 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 some
hours. Practically all of their occu.