The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1914, Page 2

ran ote tata 7) VICTIMS DIED AFTER BEING RESCUED FROM WATER. THE EVENING WORLD, tiféboats. afidat when the two Government tenders reach the scene ‘of the disastes, and in some of the boats there was not a single passenger. _ Pew could give anything but incoherent, almost hysterical accounts of what had happened. J. L. Black and Mrs. Black of Ottawa sald they A jumped together into the river. They had been roused by the shock of cat ll gg fed yell tag had risked the leap. They were picked up by a boat from the Lady Evelyn, Another survivor was Mrs. Patten of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Although the water is icy-cold the air was warm and this favored. the are on none of whom, except the officers and members of the, créw on duty at the time, had anything on but night clothing. Most of ‘those landed at Rimouski were practically naked. There were few women among them. Of 140 Canadian members of the Salvation Army who were on their way to the international conference in Lon- don less than twenty were saved. FEW FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS SAVED. In a partial list of survivors sent from Rimouski this afternoon ap | pears the names of but six first-cabin passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Black, : Mrs. Patten, G. W. Henderson of Montreal and Mr. and Mrs. Win. Davis. _” Captain Kendall has been asked by wire for a detailed account of the wreck, but is reported to be utterly prostrated and unable to give any Connected description. Neither can accurate information be obtained from any of the other officers who were saved. These include the first and second engineers, the purser, the chief steward, the ship’s surgeon and a of the navigating officers, The rise and fall of the tide at the scene of the disaster is terrific. ‘The Empress went down at high tide. At low tide this afternoon the tops of her masts and funnels could be seen. She was valued at $2,000,000 and her cargo at $250,000. As she is a menace to navigation and it is possible that an attempt will be to ralse her. Undoubtedly many bodies will be found in the staterooms, saloons and passageways of the sunken liner, * It is believed that the Eureka and the Lady Evelyn picked only a small percentage ot those rescued out of the water. Nearly all the persons they brought ashore were taken from the Empress of Ireland's nine lifeboats. The ship went down so fast and at such a list that only nitie boats could be launched. 3 In some respects this disaster of the sea is similar to the sinking of La‘Bourgogne of the French line off the Grand Banks some sixteen years * agé:La Bourgogne, a vessel of about the size of the Empress of Ireland, wag. sunk by a little schooner called the Cromartyshire, which escaped, ly without injury. The Empress of Ireland was sunk by a dingy old'collier of a little over 3,000 tons burden, i Giesieer, Gi sceath teh ow the Dente Bw sxamers ot Ge feared that the same sort of a Fo timcemes clieeiag a he dene en ‘to light stories of pamic and rict on heard the Empress of Ireland 7 yodacdeermegin on the Empress of Ireland were Laurence Irv- ing, the English actor; his wife, Mabel Hackney; Sir Henry Seton-Kerr of London, returning from a big game hunt in Canada; Commissioner Rees, commander of the Salvation Army im Canada, and his wife and r, Laurence trving is a son of the late Henry Irving. We teen's the ren Gr whe commander of the Mortrone, Sie Dr.-Crippen, the wife murderer, and his paramour, Ethel Leneve, them to the authorit'es at Father Point. Tampa’s workmanship equals Havana’s— the tobacco in both alike. The Universal size, 10 cts. each. Box of 50, $5.00. tm Oh, What a Glorious View!|" dah 0 COUNTRY, of SEASHORE ey UNTAIN HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES Be Sure and Get a Copy of . - The World's Summer Resort Guide for 1914 ¥ Out About June 15. FREE AT ALL WORLD OFFICES AND Sa BY MAIL. ¥ PRIDAY, MAY 99, 191 — one Liner Sunk in Collision on the St. Lawrence, Noted Actor and Wife Who May Have Been Lost to a dense fog which hung over the river early this morning. The Em- press of Ireland, a fine big liner equipped with every modern saféty de- vice, had left Quebec at 4.20 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She was mov- ing at reduced ‘speed through the fog off Rimouski. Owing to the fact that at Father Point, just west of Rimouski, pilots are taken on by vessels bound for Quebec and put off by vessels bound out the steamship lane in this part of the river runs close to shore. The siren of the Empress of Ireland was sounding at regular intervals, Capt. Kendall was on the bridge of the Empress of Ireland. At 2.30 o'clock he heard the siren of a vessel close at hand. The vessel was the collier Storstad, Capt. Anderson, laden with 7,000 tons of coal and bound from Sydney, N. S., to Quebec. With signals sounding the vessels approached each other in the fog. The boom of the siren of the Storstad grew louder with each repetition, Capt, Kendall ordered the engines stopped, and the big passenger steam- ship lay to in the fog while the officers on the bridge peered anxiously into the fog to try to locate the ship so close at hand. COLLIER HIT LINER BROADSIDE. The whistle signals of the two vessels echoed in th:.fog. From the reports at hand it appears that the captain of the Storstad or whoever was in charge at the time had no idea that the other vessel was so close, At any rate the Storstad was wallowing along at a good rate of speed when she was sighted from the Empress of Ireland. The clumsy col- lier was beaded for the liner, which presented a broads EMPRESS oF IRELAND TWICE AS LARGE AS SHIP THAT HIT HLR. to yerslnd von MONTREAL, May 20.—The Em- passa dy Tentiee coe: Dress of Ireland was a twin scrow a ton bate a hate Vessel of 14,191 tons, She was bullt wanes yen *ODOL" fa| in Glasgow in 1906 by the Pairheld your grip. Company, Ltd., and was owned by Rinsieg the Canadian Pacific Railroad Com- morning and pany, She carried a full wiretens TECHON fy equipment and aubmarine signals. Te Uon ‘The Storstad registered 6,028 tons, whieh food ore 1s infented i portieles le for x, Mangere She was built by the Armstrong- which are reeponsibl. insass of tet and trent will also harden the gume Tey and beep the teeth in a healthy con There a Nothing “just as good” « A Vacation Suggestion we pA te rete PRO. in 1911, and’ her owners are Dampsk, Aktieselk Maritime of Christiania, tnd in loaded with coal, & crew of fifty men, The, disaster recalls the accident which happened to the sisto Price 50 Cente the ill-fated vessel, the gy ee aval @nd Deparrment Stoves Beiase ae pal) years ago rammed and sank the collier Helvet 1. GEO, BORGFELDT & CO, inost the same epot that the collision i" oe YORK, posrem 4am PaancuCs took place this morning, Whitworth Company at New Castte Norway, She is a single screw vessel inquest exonerated Friedinnder, but he She carrieg was arrested because of his endeavor | Deep laden, her decks almost awash, the Storstad blundered along. Her steel prow tore into the side of the Empress of Ireland. The force of the blow was exerted below the water line. The big liner keeled over. and then settled back, as the Storstad, after a minute or two, became dis- engaged and drifted away In the fog. For only a moment the Empress remained on an even keel. Swiftly she began to sag toward the side that had been torn In the collision. Water was gushing into her hull in torrents, flooding her engine and boiler rooms and compartments. Steadily she keeled over, pulled by the weight of the water below. The wireless operator sent out an “S O S” call, repeating it fran- tically. It was heard by the wireless operator at the big station at Father Point a few miles away. At the long steamship dock at Father Point were the Canadian Government steamer Eureka, used for the transfer of pilots, and the Government mail boat Lady Evelyn tied up for the night. The wireless man at the shore station telegraphed the news that the Empress of Ire- land was sinking to the land telegraph station a short distance away, and from the land telegraph station a messenger hurried to the Eureka and the Lady Evelyn, RESCUE SHIPS HASTEN TO SCENE. By the time these vessels were ready to start the wireless operator had learned the position of the sinking Empress, The Eureka and the Lady Evelyn were under way within fifteen minutes, headed for the scene of the wreck at top speed, but as they were leaving shore the wireless messages from the Empress ceased. The few boats of the Storstad had rescued many and transferred them to the decks of the collier. Before the Eureka and Lady Evelyn fad slowed down their boats were overboard and picking up persons clinging to wreckage. The water was very cold, but calm, Many of those atloat became chilled and gave up the struggle while the life boats were working around them. As the Empress of Ireland had keeled over with the rush of water into her hull until she was practically on hér beam ends it was impossible to lower any life boats from her upper side and only a few of those on the side toward the water. These boats were jammed to capacity and were pulled away from the sinking ship as soon as possible, Owing to their crowded condition they were of little use Vr} picking up persons] s7.07, from the water. No accurate report of the manner in which the Empress went down | were has been received, but from the fact that a heavy percentage of the saved are of the crew and steerage it is assumed that she sank stern first. The steerage and crew’s quarters were forward, First and second class passengers, awakened by the shock of the collision, terrified by the ex- citement and many of them injured by being thrown from their berths, were unable to fight their way to the decks in time to reach the boats, EVEN WIRELESS MAN HELPED TO RESCUE. ‘There was no wireless on the two Government tenders and the wireless man on the collier was presumably engaged in helping at the "| work of rescue, for no news of the accident reached shore until long after daylight. Then the Government boats put into Rimouski with sur- vivors and started out for another search of the vicinity of the wreck. Capt. Kendall filed a brief message to Capt. Walsh, Marine Superin- tendent of the Canadian Pacific at Montreal, advising him of the loss of the Empress of Ireland. This great disaster of the sea is remarkable in that it happened, not in midocean, but so close to land that the operations of the Government vessels, the Storstad, and the lifeboats were plainly visible from the tower above the telegraph station at Father Point and from other ele- vated spots along shore. The coast along that part of the St. Lawrence is of volcanic rock formation, and it would have done Capt. Kendall no good to try | to rum his vessel ashore. In fact, it is believed that his en- JAIL FOR F RUNNING AWAY. Chautteor Gatitiess ora Accide Puntshed for Escaping. Herman Friedlander of No. 311 Fast One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street was sentenced to serve three months tn Jail by Judge Wadhams fn the Court of General Seasions after pleading guilty to having violated the Cannon law, which makes it mandatory for chauffeurs to LUNCHEON OINNER—SUPPER heavy auto! truck when one of @ number of amall |boys skating on the atreet fell before! \the wheels and was killed. A Corone to escape. if three months In prison dees not! stop drivers of machines from trying to aid Judge | ~GULDEN’S gine rooms were 80 quickly flooded thatthe vessel was s poweltine potted the moment of the collision. She had been plying, in the service of Ker owners, the Canadian Po cific Railway, between St. John's and Quebec aad Liverpool.and, eapectally Guring thé summer evotrths, carried large numbers of passengers. Her speed and furniebings made Aer one of the most pupular of the trans-Atlantic lin- ere calling from Canadias ports i The steamer StdPutad, Capt: Andersen, is & vessel of 3,561 tons register, built for the coal trade, and is capable of carrying 7,000 tons dead weight. She has been engaged for some time carrying coal between Sytiney, Quebec and Montreal. She would have a crew of about forty-eight men. Bho was: due to arrive in Quebec about noon to-day. The collier Storatad, early reports said, also sank soon after the acet: Gent. Atdng thé naisés of the passenger Ist of the Empress of Ireland ts Sir Heary Seton Kerr, @ barfister, whose travels and big game shooting have taken him into many cersers of tlie world. Other passengers who also left Montreal yesterday to oin the Wmprese of Ireland at, Quebeo were Law fence Irving, thp actor, son of the late Sir Henry Irving, hie wife, Mise Mabel Hackney, and two other members of Mr. Irving's company, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Neville. Mrs, Irving’s maid, Hilda Hageston, was also in the prt oy, HANOVER WAS FIRST REPORTED IN COLLISION. Fitst news Gf the disaster reached Quebec shortly before 3 o'clock this morning, It came from the Marcon{ station at Father Point to the Marine. © Department here ang announced that the Empress of Ireland had collided with an unknown ship thirty miles east of Father Point and was sinking. ‘The Marcon! station had heard the “S O 8” signals of distress and re- ported that the Canadian Government steamer Eureka and the matfl Evelyn, which were at Father's Point, had been despatched to the rescue, wireless people reported they had been in communication with the Bm- press of Ireland but a short time when the messages suddenly ceased. ‘This led to fears that the steamer had sunk, and this afterward proved true, pateliessicien - - | LOST SHIP*S CAPTAIN i CAPTURED CRIPPEN, K eep your car from WIFE MURDERER|§| , carly” grave—lubdi- cate it it with Capt. Kendall, skipper of the liner Empress of Ireland, is the man who brocurea the arrest of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, murderer of his wife, Belle Elmore, the actress. . Capt. Kendall, who holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Re- serves, was in 1910 commander of the liner Montrose, on which Crippen fied from the Continent with Mthel Clare La Neve, love of whom inspired him to murder his wife. The commander of the liner recog- nised the Le Neve girl from photo- Graphs in a London paper, which he Bad om board the ship. He flashed the news by wireless, and Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard, met the Mont- rose at Father Point on the Cana- dian Government ship Eureka—one of the two rescue boats that went DIXON'S Graphite Grease 677 Fra Differenriels te reduces Friction to a mere nothing. The graph- ite in the grease eliminates passe dong coats be- tween parts by fo a poor th, veneer ite of graphite. yon Lubricating Chart has some valuable pointers for you, ‘We'll send it on request. to-day to the aid of the Empress of Ireland. The Ing} Wiad ace ine ‘THE JOSEPH DIZON CRUCIBLE CO, trip across on a faster ship than the JERSEY CITY, N. J. Montrose, passing way. ‘a Father Point everybody w: dered below apd Dew went aboard placed ‘under arrest. and through the shrewd- that vessel on the ROS meer | Bo baked and maid wes fhe hand coe toate bee el own, White ‘Fvose Capt. Ken ness ond sagacity he displayed in as- sistiny the police to take Crippen, ve- came a hero of two continents. So carefully did’he conceal his detective work al ship,’ not_a soul besides himeelf and Jones, the wire- leas operator, even knew that @ per- on suspected of being Dr. ‘was among the ——— SOME OF THOSE ABOARD THB ILL-FATED LINER. DENVER, May 19.—Mra. F. H. 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