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Show J! pile of Granite Rising From Sea Hi (DIES LIE J 1 i OCEAN t Wicrs Washed Against 1 1 the loch. Usarby Hidden in Water is H a Great Steamer on Which )(j ' They Sailed. at I IJQfElght Hundred Persons on Board, j Only 130 Were Saved Prom j Watery Graves. n RIMSBT England, July 4. A pile 1 If oi Gran,tc rising clear out of the j IS Atlantic, 200 miles from the Scot-S?' Scot-S?' tlfli mainland, is now a monu-1 monu-1 J cot to almost seven hundred dead, f Biis wash against the rocks or lie vl . j iithcoceap bed at Its base. Npar by. ' j, (tmrleteiy hidden In the water, Is (he .: ! cndlnavlan-Amerlcan liner Norge, Hill' ryc!l was cftrry,nS -no Iacs. Nor-Hj Nor-Hj rtflar.a Swedes and linns to join rel-i!lves rel-i!lves or frlendsjn America. Of these, Up w ftij- about 130 were saved, s 'm $ tragedy of the sea has hafl a more -'m ifpalllng consequence and none oc-j oc-j rarred In a shorter time. The passc-n-'m, t-rs were suddenly aroused from thejr ilef-P, terrified by the contact of the fc9! Igk9 of the ship with the solid granitic gran-itic i'f- followed by a grinding, rasping ilW !ttlC(5 as f tne nul1 was ,cing shored ySr cr huge rocks. Then silence as the altf! Slns be lis brought the engines to "Hurry or You May Sink." a 'Tfcre of tne passengers who were rifl standing at the time the Btenmer Btruck the rock were thrown against tho bulkhead." bulk-head." or on the decks, and had not recovered re-covered their feet when n stentorian voice gave the terrifying order; "All hands on deck. Hurry or you may sink." Immediately there was a rush for the narrow companion-way, and men women and children pushed and struggled and made every efrv.rt to reach the deck, where tho boats swung from the davits. Many persons retained re-tained their presence of mind and seized life-preservers, only to find in some instances that the strings were rotten and that thoy could not bo quickly put around their bodies. Those who reached the deck saw tho nose of the Norge pinned directly against the rocks. It remained there only a few minutes, for Capt. Gundcll, commanding, who had Immediately gone to the bridge, gave the order to the engineer to reverse the engines. Some men of the engineer force had relatives among the passengers, and, oifter seeing see-ing them safely to the boats, they heroically he-roically returned to their stations. Backs Off Pvocks. Slowly the ship backed off, and as she gained headway it was found that water was pouring Into her hold. This announcement, called out In Scandinavian, Scandina-vian, and presaging death, added to the supreme fright and agony. The passengers who were pilel m the boats were the fortunate ones to escape, while the unfortunates who saw death near clustered in the vicinity, seething, struggling masses, some on their knees, praying, surrounded by children, chil-dren, others supplicating aid from any one and shrieking for permission to enter the boats, elbowing, fighting their way to the places fronv'whlch the boats were being lowered. The, spund of grinding ceased and the bow' of the Norge yawned as the steamer returned to deep water. The sea rushed hungrily hun-grily Into the huge rents made by the rocks In the iron hull. Swiftly the vessel ves-sel began to sink by the bows. Lowering tho Lifo Boats. Without waiting for orders, without with-out paying attention to their proper manning, the occupants began to louver the boats. The starboard lifeboat began be-gan slowly to fall when, to the horror of those on board, the stern tackle failed, while the bow tackle ran free. Soon the boat was almost perpendicular. perpendicu-lar. Those who were in it clung desperately des-perately to the sides and seats until a great wave came towering along and struck the boat, smashing it against the side of the ship. Tho occupants of the boat who were not killed by th impact were thrown into tho water. The crew and passengers on deck had no time to spare to assist the few who had a chance, to escape but lost It, Second Boat Lowered. Undeterred by the experience of the first boat, a second, loaded principally with women and children, wns lowered. This time the tackle ran smoothly, but the hopes of escape of the passengers on board were blasted. The moment the boat touched the water waves picked up the small craft as If It had been a feather and dashed It against the side pf the ship, in spite of the frantic efforts ef-forts of the, passengers to send It cff. The crash was heard on deck. Then the sea swallowed more victims nnd pieces of wreckage slowly drifted toward tho rock. Pear Vented in Blasphemy. The upper deck of the Norge at the time of the disaster to the second boat was only a few feet from the water, and it was apparent to every one that only a few minutes more and she? would plunge beneath the waves. In the final crisis those who were able to remember clearly what happened say that the shrieks and sobs died away and that the quiet was only broken by the curses of some men whose fear found vent in blasphemy. Suddenly one man threw himself overboard and another followed his example. ex-ample. Still another Jumped Into the water, and soon around the ship hundreds hun-dreds of persons were struggling in the sea, having preferred death in the open to being submerged with the ship. Others determined to stand by the yhip, hoping against hope that she would remain re-main lifloat. Three Boats Beached Sea. Three boats, it Is known, successfully success-fully reached the sea. The passengers frantically pulled away from the doomed ship, passing by poor wretches who were still afloat and who vainly begged to be taken on board, whlie from the ship came long, despairing cries. The women In the boat which reached Grlsby hid their eyes, but the men who were sitting facing the Norge say they saw the captain still on the bridge and the passengers on deck in attltud-js of resignation. While they looked the Norge plunged forward, her stem shot up In the air and she disappeared. The swimmers in the vicinity of the ship were drawn Into the vortex, around which they whirled like chips In the maelstrom. Sunk in Pew Minutes. But twelve minutes elapsed from the time the ship struck until she sank.' A fine Scotch mist which was falling at the time shut out the other survivors from the view of those who were brought to Grimsby. These latter, as soon as their boat was clear of tho scene of the wreck, devoted themselves to thoughts of their own safety. A Jacket was tied to an oar which was in turn fastened in the bow of the boat and a sailor, a Dane, took charge of 1 the boat. Men and women wero put to work keeping the boat afloat, as a hole hud been stove In her bow when It was lowered from tho ship. An examination exami-nation of the water cask showed that It did not contain a drop of water. There were some biscuits, however, and theso were eaten by the shipwrecked people during the twenty-four hours from the tlmo the ship struck at 7 a, m,, June 2S, until they were picked up by the Grimsby trawler, Silvia. Story of Woman Survivor. "And we who sat, horror-stricken, In tho small boat, avoiding as much aa possible the heavy seas because we were afraid we would sink," said Larra Christina Pederson, of Copenhagen, who is on her way to Join her cousin, John Schroeder. at Chicago, "wo were dancing and singing to the music of guitars and violins the night before on the promenade deck df the Norgo. We were so happy, then, in that small boat, not knowing what would be our fate, with the memory of horrible scenes on the steamer, we could do nothing more than pray miserably for the succor and help that came." Picked Up by Fishermen. "I was on the bridge looking at the men gathering In tho Seine," said Hon- j ry Glover, second engineer of the SU- ' via, "Is that a buoy out of place? I asked the cook, who was with me on deck. " 'You don't see any buoy,' ho answered, "I went below and got the glasses. " 'It's a small boat, and they have got. a jacket flyjns at tho bow. They have been shipwrecked.' "We told tho captain and he Immediately Immed-iately told us to go ahead and we Immediately Im-mediately picked them up. They were In a terrible plight. Men and women Insufficiently clothed and so cramped that they could hardly come on board. We could not start Immediately for we had our nets out, but ns soon as they were stowed In we went directly to where the Norge went down. There was no trace of the ship, but In the water back of the rocks were the bodies of more than a hundred men, women and little children." Had No Instructions. Karl Mathlcson, the Danish sailor who asumcd command of the boat brought to Grimsby, only Joined the Norge at Copenhagen, Just before she sailed for New York. He said he knew nothing about the ship's arrangements in case of collision or fire. He had never been instructed in the fire drill and did not understand what It meant. He was on deck when the vessel struck but he did not know until ho henrd the captain shout the order to man the boats that the damage was great. Mathieson's Story. Mathleson said to the reporter of the Associated Press: "I worked with the third mate and followed him to the different dif-ferent boats. The first we attempted to lower fouled her tackle, keeping her stern fixed while her bow fell and shot the occupants Into the water. A heavy sea was pounding the boats against the ship's side. We went to another, a crowd of shrieking women and children child-ren following. The launching operations opera-tions were not conducted simultaneously, simultaneous-ly, the officers and crew going from one to another. Had men been set at work at each boat more would havo been saved. "Some of the crew were worse than' the passengers and a Jew of tho officers would have put off in tho boats themselves. them-selves. These were driven back and threatened with death unless they obeyed orders. Tho captain never left the bridge but he shouted so many orders or-ders that the crew did not know what to do. Therefore I stuck to the third mate. Together we Jumped into a small boat just before the vessel went down, but we did not think so many wero left behind as appeared on the water when the Norge sank. Those remaining re-maining on board were chiefly women and children. I say only two other boats afloat, ono a big life boat, easily carrying sixty persons, and the, other a smaller boat, carrying possibly forty. No other boats got away, though there were eight aboard. i |