Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — SIXTEEN SAILORS DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

SIXTEEN SAILORS DROWNED.

Ocean Steamship Collide* with French Fishing Schooner. The Thingvalla liner Norge sank the French fishing schooner La Coquette cBayonne, France, on Saturday on the • Grand Banks. Captain Guiguere and eight seamen were saved. Sixteen men went down with the unfortunate vessel. The Norge sailed from Christiansand Aug. 12 with seven first and thirty-three second cabin passengers and 143 persons in the steerage. The weather was fine to the banks of New Foundland, when thick fogs were encountered. Saturday between 3 and 4 in the afternoon the weather was foggy, but not so thick that the vessel’sspeed was reduced. Captain Knudson said he could see about three cable lengths ahead. Suddenly a vessel loomed up from the north with sails full and stood directly across the bow of the steamer. The bells were rung to stop and back at full speed, but were too late to check the steamer’s headway. The stranger, a fishing schooner, fell across the bow, and with a crash was forced over and sunk.