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Show STEADIER COMES NEARJIIING LONDON. May 20 - The TttiiMian steamer Lltuanla. which called fro-ii Copenhagen Ma.v 21 for New Ynr!;, had a narrow escape from disaster Friday evening. Tho Lltuanla hnd 1.100 emigrant aboard hnd was proceeding" alnwiv 'n tho fog when sbo si nick the rorki ofT Orknev Islands. The steamer he'd fajt and many of the emigrants, greatly great-ly alarmed, fell on their knee and prayed. Fortunately, the fg lifted end after wireless communication wa established with the warship IJellona on Ivergordon and with Copenhagen, t'10 engines were reversed and th linr floated off. The bulkheads kept the water from (he iiinln hold and the Lltuanla saf.iv accomplished the run to Tyuemoutli whore repairs will be made. |