A TERRIBLE WRECK.
- —■ ——« EMIGRANT SHIP STRIKES ON A REEF, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DROWNED. (Received July 4, 11.32 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 4. It is foared that upwards of seven hundred and fifty Scandinavians and Finns, including the captain and crew of the Danish emigrant steamer Nonge, bound from. Copenhagen to New York, have 'bfcen lost. Tho vessel struck on Tuesday on a reef connected with Rockall Island, and fell back into deep water. A heavy sea was running, and tho ship gradually filled. Three boats were smashed while being launched, and five others were launched containing mostly women and children, who were given priority, but only two got away. A trawler rt-coverwl one bout, containing twenty-seven persons, and landed them at Grimsby. It is possible a second one may be recovered. When the wreck was last seen the captain (Guntoel) and many others remained on board the doomed stoainer.
(Rockall is a small rocky islet three' hundred miles west of North Uist, an island of the Outer Hebrides.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 155, 5 July 1904, Page 3
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168A TERRIBLE WRECK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 155, 5 July 1904, Page 3
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