Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — OCEAN ENTOMBS SEVEN HUNDRED [ARTICLE]

OCEAN ENTOMBS SEVEN HUNDRED

Steamer Norge, for New York, Sinks in the North Atlantic. WAS LOADED WITH EMIGRANTS Coming to the United States from Norway, Sweden and Finland. STRUCK A TREACHEROUS ROCK Only Twenty-Seven of Nearly 800 Souls on Board Hav* Reached Port—Railway Wreck Kill* Nineteen. v London, July s.—Over 700 Danish and Norwegian emigrants bound for New York are believed to have been drowned In the north Atlantic on June 28. Out of nearly eight hundred souls on board tbe Danish steamer Norge, which left Copenhagen, July 22, only twenty-seven are known to be alive and for tbe rest no hope is held oat. When last seen the Norge was sinking where she struck on the Islet of Rockall, whose isolated peak raises itself from a deadly reef some 290 miles off the west coast of Scotland.

Norge Wa* Out of Her Course. Early on the morning of last Tuesday the Norge, which was out of her course in heavy weather, ran on the Rockall reef, which in the distance looks like a ship under full sail. The Norge was quickly backed off, but the heavy seas poured in through a rent In her bows. Two Rost* Got Safely Away. Two boat loads got safely away from the side of the sinking ship and many of the emigrants who were left on board, seizing life belts, threw themselves into the sea and were drowned. The Norge foundered suddenly, and some 600 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. Officer Sacrifice* Hlinaelf. One of the survivors said that when he got on deck tbe Norge was half submerged and was rapidly getting lower in the water. Half maa with fright the survivors all struggled for places in the boats. They fought their way to the big life boat and an officer stowed 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 already overloaded the officer, with great heroism, jumped into the water and tried to board another boat which was not so full. He failed and was drowned.

STORY OF A SURVIVOR Telia of th# Scene on the Iteclc—Greatest Tragedy of the Sea. The steam trawler Salvia put into Grimsby with the twenty-seven rescued Scandinavians aboard. Only one of them could speak English. He said: "We left Copenhagen, June 22. There were 700 emigrants—Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Finns—on board. The crew numbered about eighty. All went well until June 28th. I lay in my bunk waiting for breakfast. We heard a little bump, then another bump and then I rushed on deck. 1 saw at once that something serious had happened and 1 made a dash below to gather up my few belongings. "Scores were rushing on deck, and the hatchway was crowded with emigrants. They were launching boats and rushing into them, but there was no panic. Foutf or five were in the boat into which I got. and we cleared the ship. Luckily for us in our party was the only seaman from the Norge who escaped, and be was able to navigate our little boat. We saw two other boats capsize, owing to the heavy weather and because no one could navigate them. We made straight away and when we last saw the Norge a Urge number of emigrants were on the deck. Captain Gundei stood on the bridge. “Dozens of passengers had jumped into the sea. They wore life belts, but were drowned before our eyes. After twenty-four hours the SalvU bore down and picked us up. About TOO persons must have been drowned.” The Norge was last sighted off the Butt of Lewis (the northermost point of the Hebrides islands) on June 27. Rockall, the islet on which she struck, is about 200 miles west of the Hebrides. It is a. dangerous reef with a rock about seventy-five feet above water TERRIBLE WRECK ON WABASH MiSmo Deaths and Many Injuries Dae to Misplaced Switch. St. Louis, July 5.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from Litcbeld, 111., says: Nineteen are dead and a number is missing 'as *a~result~of”the wreck on the Wabash railroad here Sunday

night, when train No. 11. from Chicago, left tbe track at a misplaced switch and crashed Into a line of freight cars standing ou a sidetrack. Seven hundred persons were bn the Illfated traiu at tbe time It dashed into the sidetrack. Two more bodies have been taken from beneath the wreckage. Tbe remains of Hon. 1. R. Mills, internal revenue collector of the central Illinois district, have been sent to his home In Decatur. * The list of dead now contains the following names: Mrs. Florence Smith, Mrs. Perkins, Charles Galalse and Harry M. Dietrich, all of Chicago; Miss C. Luther, Milwaukee; Isaac R. Mills, Decatur; Übald St. Pierre, Montreal, Cab.; Jacob Barder, Park River, N. D.; L. A. Elchstadt, Chicago; James Sanford, engineer, Decatur; Rev.U.M. Mills, Bridgeton, N.Y.; Charles Ward, Chicago; H. L. Graves, train dispatcher, and W. F. Smith, fireman, Decatur; Richie Noack, boy about 8 years, Chicago; Wm. Camdalis, Chicago; three unidentified men. Those Injured severely enough to put them In bed are: James Fizzell, of Taylorville, 111., leg broken in two places, arm broken, hip dislocated and ao umbrella driven into bip; William J. Shrader, Chicago, hip and back; Henry M. Gassaway, St Louis, left arm broken, Internally; Train Collector Livingston, thought to be injured internally; Wilcot Kunocbt Chicago, legs crushed and hips injured; James Crashaw, conductor, Chicago, injured about bead and back; William Balls, Chicago, badly crushed; William Archibald, Honeoye Falls, N. Y., broken hip; George Archibald, Honeoye Falls, N. Y., broken leg; Hulda Noack, Chicago, badly burned; Miss Fannie Tipton, Chicago, Internal; W. B. Thorp, Chicago, leg broken; Henry Rink, Cincinnati, fatally; Mr. and Mrs. Aloise Gehrig, Chicago, both Injured about the head; Q. A. Ellis, Mansfield, Wis., wrist broken and badly cut about the face and shoulders; Mrs. Gertrude Kitt, Chicago, burned and bruised, and her daughter Mary, 12 years old, and son Joseph, 10 years old, burned about the face; Mrs. Eliza, Chicago, internally; Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Tenney, Ada, Minn., sprained leg; Jas. B. Roberts, Catlih, internal; Mrs. Canlyou, Milwaukee, internal; S. A. Asqulrth. Waterloo, la., internal; Mrs. Anna Kenyon, Kingston, N. Y., right leg badly mashed and face injured; Mrs. S. L. Smith, Chicago, bruised and Internal injuries; four others injured, unknown.