Show SEVEN HUNDRED DEAD LOADED WITH EMIGRANTS GOES 70 THE BOTTOM Help leea women and children meet horrible death the life boats be ing smashed by the heavy seas more than danish and lan emigrants bound lor new yon from london are believed to have been drowned in the north atlantic on june 28 out of nearly souls on board the danish steamship norge which belt copenhagen june 22 twenty seven are known to be alive and for the rest no hope Is held out when last seen the orge was cinto ing where she struck on the isia ft rochall whose isolated peak raises itself from a deadly atlantic reef ellei oft the west coast of scotland earli on the morning of last tuesday the iorge which was out of hel course where she struck on the isia of reef which in the distance looks like a ship under full sail the was quickly backed off but tb heavy seas poured in through a rent in her bows the emigrants who were then awaiting breakfast below ran on deck the hatchways were scarcely built tor these hundreds 0 sauls and became clogged the orge quickly began to go down by the head eight boats were lowered and into these the women and children were hurriedly put six of these boats smashed against the side of the and their heiple le inmates were caught up by the heavy seas three boatloads got safely away from the side of the sinking ship and many of the emigrants who were left on board threw themselves into the sea and were drowned so say the survia ors stood on the bridge of the diomel vessel until it could be seen no more the narge foundered suddenly and some 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 ani their occupants beat off the drowning wretches with oars the boats 1 ept together for some time virtually all of their occupants were passengers and were not used to handling such craft the boat mccu pled by the survivors and which land ed at was a lifeboat the fate of the other two boats la unknown the lifeboat made taster progress and fe 1 in with tha steam trawler salvia what became of the other boats is not yet known |