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Show SEVEN ITUNDIlEl) DEAD SHIP LOADED WITH EMIGRANT! GOES TO THE BOTTOM. Helpless Women and Children Mee Horrible Death, the Life Boats Being Be-ing Smashed by the Heavy Seas. Moro than 700 Danish nnd Norwoj-Ian Norwoj-Ian emigrants bound for Now York from London, nro believed to have been drowned In tho Nortli Atlantic on Juno 28. Out of nearly 800 sonli on board tho Danish steamship Norgo which loft Copenhagen Juno 22, onl; twonty-soven aro known to bo nllvt and for tho rest no liopo Is hold out. Whon last soon tho Norgo was sink, ing whero sho struck on tho Isla ol Rockall, whoso Isolatod peak ralsci itsolf from a deadly Atlantic reef 291 miles off tho weBt coast of Scotland Early on tho morning of Inst Tuesday Tues-day Uio Norgo, which was out of bet courso whore sho struck on tho Isla of Ilockall reef, which, In tho distance, looks llko a ship under full sail. The Norgo was quickly backed off, but tho heavy seas poured In through a rent In her bows. Tho cmlgrnnts who wcro then awaiting breakfast below rnn on deck. Tho hatchways woro scarcely built for thoso hundreds of souls and bocamo clogged. Tho Norgo quickly began to go down by tho head. Eight boots wcro lowered und Into theso tho women nnd children woro hurriedly puL Six of theso boats nmashed against tho side of tho Norgo nnd their holplesi lnmntcs woro caught up by tho heavy seas. Thrco boatloads got safely away from tho sldo of tho sinking ship nnd many of tho emigrants who woro loff on board, throw themselves into tin soa and woro drowned. Captain Gundcl, so say tho survlv. ors, stood on tho brldgo of tho doomed vessel until It could bo seen no moro. Tho Norgo foundered suddenly and somo COO terrlflod emigrants wore thrown Into tho water or drawn down with tho Binklng ship. Thoso whe could swim tried to reach tho boats but theso weio nlrcady too fill, and thoir occupants beat off tho drowning wretches with oars. Tho boat kept together for somo tlmo. Virtually all of their occupants woro pnssetigcrs and wcro not used to handling such craft. Tho boat occupied occu-pied by tho survivors nnd which landed land-ed nt drlmsby was a lifeboat. Tho fato of tho nthor two boat is unknown. Tho lifeboat mado faster progress nnd foil in with tho steam trawler Salvia. What beramo of tho othor boats Is not yet known. |