WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.
« Seven Hundred ami Fifty Lives Lost Vessel Strikes a Reef Six of Her Boats Swamped I'raio Amnmntnin.—t.oisyrlghi Copenhagen-, July ■! It is fea roil that upwards of 7">o ■Scandinavians ami Vinns (inchuling tlio captain and crow) on tlio Danish emigrant steamer Norge, bound from Copenhagen to New York have been Inst, She struck on Tuesday a tvrf connected with Kockall Island, and IWI back into deep water.
A heavy sea was running, and the vessel gradually filled. Three bonis were smashed while launching, Five olliern were launched, containing mostly women and children, who were given priority, but only two got away, A trawler recovered one containing 27 persone, and landed the occupants at Grimsby. Possibly the second will bo recovered, When last soon Captain Gunteol ''nil many otbcis were aboard the doomed steamer, Latkh, Sixiy-four additional survivors of th c Norgc disaster have been rescued,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1032, 5 July 1904, Page 3
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149WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP. Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1032, 5 July 1904, Page 3
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