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All Are Safe

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
April
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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AOAtH ON DEY I.ANI). Delawabe Beeakwatek, DeL, April 23.- Tho steamer Missouri wbieh anived here yesterday has on board li of the passengere and crew of the ill-iated Dauinark which was wrecked on tho yth inst. in midocean, and the othcr 333 takou trom tho vcsiel were Ie ft at the Azores. The Danmark was sighted bv the In man Line stearaer City of Chester April 8, in latitudc 4(1 deirrees north and longitude 37 degrees went. foiir days, as it now appeaxs, aftei xho was disabled, and two days lifter lio was finally abandoned. The pufcsenjrers on the Missouri wül be sent on at once to New York, and they will bo given overy attention by the panmark'R agenta and forwarded to their detrtinations. Only stoerage passengers haye come on. Tho cabin passengerB went to IJsbon, Spain, from tho Azores, i Phtladblphia, April ï!. - The Bteamship Missouri, with 365 of the people froni the wrecked steamer Daumark, arrived at the American Line Steamsbip Company'g doek at C o'clock Monday eveninj. All of the Üanmark's passengers look hoaxty and bright. and show OO eigns of the hardships which t!iey must Oece8sarily have endured. Captain Murrill, of the BUssouri, is the lion of the day. When the steamer reached Greenwioh loint every locomotive in the yard sent up a long-continued sálate, which waf taken up by tho tuga and river craft in tbe streams, while from every pier arose ehouts from the thousanda who had boen watching for her appearancc At 11 o'clook p. m. s Bpecial train on the Pennsylvania railroad oonveyod nparly300 of the passengere toward thoir dstination in the Went and Northwest. Thr remuining axty-fivo or thereaboutí, who were destined for pointe in the East. al3o lef t. Captain Hamilton Murrill, commander of the Missturi, said that his vossel Ie ft London on Harch 28 ün April 5, at 3 :3l) p. m., the Danmark was discovercd fljing signáis ot distresa. On commumuating with the ill-fated steamshlp ho Wiis told that her Kliaft waa broken. lieing unable to aciommodate all tho passengers of the Dimmark, M he waa requested to do, Captain Murrill ordered a line fastened to the disabled vessel, and Bhe was towcd by the Missouri until tlio morning of the 7th, a trcmemlous frale blowiuir all the time, rendering it extremely dangeroua to both hipa. At last it was seen that the Danmark was sinking, and amid mucb perll tho ])assengers and orew were transferred to tho Missouri, aud the Danzaark was .uandoiiod. Captain MurriU iound that iu additlon to lii own crew and naesenirers, numbering forty-nino persons, ha Dow liad aboard tlio Mfi!0iu1 738 souls taken trom tho Danmark, which o orowded hls vcsscl :js to inaka progresa almost. iinposfdbie, and eaie:ially bo in the tace of tlio terrific gale which was by that time r;i!iinr Besides this hi itook oí jiiovisions and water woulil nolsuflloefor kucIi a multitude longer than three days. Tbrowlng overboard most v( Uis dock cargo, thc bravo captain headed m the port of t. Miohaels, 730 miles away The wind was increasing all the tiran, id Ule situation was hourly (frowing more preoailotu. The emigrante, althoujfh aoliu;.' adinirably throughout the trying times whloh liad preceded tho coming of tblH storm, becamo pantcBtaricken, and ultogetber ibiugs looked dubiou. Tho wind went down, however, on tho 8th, and fair progresa tnado. At 9:30 a. m., April 9, the Missouri reached 8t. Micbaels, where 6he left 370 of the passengere and crew of the Danmark, and at 6 p. m of the sume day Bailed for this city with ÖC8 of the people from the No trouble was onoountered duriop: the trip.

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