Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-08
STRUCK A ROCK and SANK
Steamer Norge Meets a Sad Fat;
in the North Sea.
Nearly 700 Danish and Norwegian
Emigrants Bound for New York
Believed to Have Been
Drowned.

London, July 5.-Of IA souls on
board the Danish steamer Norge, 1913,
including Capt. Gundel, are known to
have been saved. One of the children
died in life boat which brought 9TH
ers safely. OF the missing GAG persons
small hopes are entertained.
The enormous death roll which was
feared with the first news of the
wreck has been decreased 102, that
number of survivors, after many
privations, having been landed at
Stornoway yesterday.
Grimsby, England, July 5.-A lone
pile of granite rising sheer out of the
Atlantic 290 miles from the Scottish
mainland is now a monument to al
| most 700 dead. Bodies wash against
the rocks or lie In the ocean bed at it's
base. Nearby. completely hidden In
the water, is the Scaadinavian-Ameri-
can liner Norge, which was carrying
500 Danes, Norwegians, Swedes and
Firms to join friends in America. OF
these only about 100 were saved.
No tragedy of the sea has more ap-
palling consequences and none has oc-
CURED in shorter time. The passen-
gers were suddenly aroused from their
sleep, terrified by the contact Of the
bows Of the ship with the solid gran
ite, followed by a grinding, rasping
sound as if the hull was being shored
over huge rocks. Then silence, as the
changing bells brought the engines to
stop. Those of the passengers who
were standing at the time the steamer
struck the rock were thrown against
! the bulkheads or on the decks and had
not recovered their feet when stem
torian voice gave the terrifying order:
'All hands on deck! Hurry, or you
may sink!"
Immediately there was a rush for
the narrow companionways and men,
women and children struggled to
reach the deck Yhere the boats swung
from the davits. Many persons, re-
tanning their presence of mind, seized
life preservers only to find in some in
stances that the strings were rotten
and they could not be quickly put
around their bodies. Those who reach
ed the deck saw the nose of the Norge
pinned directly against the rock.
1t remained there only few min
utes, for Capt. Gundell, VINO had gone
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engine room to reverse the engines.
Some men of the engineer force had
relatives among the passengers and
after seeing them safely to the boats
they returned to their stations below
Slowly the ship backed off and as she
gained way it was found that water
was pouring into her hold. This an.
nouncement added to the supreme
fright and agony.
Suddenly one man threw himse,.
overheard and another followed his
example. Still another jumped into
the water and soon round the ship
hundreds of persons were struggling
in the sea.
Three boats successfully reached
the sea
The women in the boat which
reached Grimsby hid their eyes, but
the men who were sitting f;Scing the
Norge said they saw the captain still
on the bridge and the passengers or
deck in attitudes of resignation
While they looked the Norge plunged
forward, her stern shot up in the all
and she disappeared. The swimmers
in the vicinity of the ship were
drown into the vortex, around which
they swirled like chips in The mael
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