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Show U rlii lull uliLn Men From Sunken Steamer Five Days in Open Boats in Snowstorm. UNABLE TO WALK Survivors Being Brought to Ymuiden by Steamer to Be Cared For. LONDON, April 9. A Rotterdam dispatch to tho Times says that the steamer Borneo is bringing to Ymuiden Ymui-den seventeen members of the crew of tho Danish steamer Esther, which has been sunk. The men had been five days in open boats in snowstorms when they were rescued and the majority ma-jority were unable to walk. The Belgian Bel-gian relief ship Trevier is reported to havo boon still afloat on Thursday afternoon. There are three small Danish steamers steam-ers named Esther, tho largest of which, and presumably the one torpedoed torpe-doed in view of the number of survivors surviv-ors was a vessel of 2GG tons. The Trevier was torpedoed without warning on Wednesday off Schevenin-gen, Schevenin-gen, Holland. |