HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1914-6-4, Page 2DISAST
er 1mpress of Ireland Sunk in
32 Peopte Drowned
LI SEA
oliision and
THE STORY IN B. 1
270.T.41, VD XOST
'-rst Cabin Passengers on Board, = , 87 18 69
eCQnd Cabin Passengers .. . 153 29 124
Third Class Passengers. . — , 715 101 613
Officers and crew 432 207 226
—
1,387 355 1,032
Fpatelt Quebec s•ap...,..; Isho ed the pluelc, and decision of a
Unchecked speed n a og cost 1,032 ilaSal Oftieer. In the first minute
lives Friday 'morning whea th•e. eoir the disaster he ordered young,
lier Storstadt. saok zne .Canadtari.
Pael&c. liner Bniairess of Ireland in operator, to 1144 the S.O.S. egg,
the $t. Lawrence River„ 4S -bout 4Qa' the ory for heip that every "p
weresaved from the whole ship's nutst heed, Reordered ofil,oe.y.g
comneny of 1,;387 otoW And PaSSen- stewards to coltect 1,1•,ezz-
gers„ as eouid be. found and hoid!
hem:t11, beats, Re had nine
„,ats: 0N -et -side witilin ten win,
Up -raid Bomford, the wireless
Ataong
Irking, the
a son of Sir
Mabel Hackue
ton -Kerr,
and lig
ad aro Laarene
eh, noto ho was i.
Irving; bis. wife, s
aM Sir Jr Se -
hunter of hi ,
ent at the English
th fust or seoond
saved, Onl, 4
xd
the -
d at
o lrelan
steainsbap of ths Claundlou
W`a,"i 3:Pat ill the
Lawrence awAlti tito
heavy fog,, The Norwegian vo
Stmrs, tadt, hart,11$ ftfth of
liner's hulk, e‘raehed into the .
Press' port= nide land eplit her .fr,
amidships to the 60141,w3••
The EtnpreSssaa within tuteu
Taiitutes.. .!rtiere was agine oulY
loWer ,ninie lifeboats= More . than
1,40a pre,4re.ons= were Weep and w
unnblo, to get to the• decks befo
oanied down in 4.0Vd
1.0didii 7,vnter= Sports we,
' death by tate bo* of th
.0.4Itripped; through tit
6114$. ThO•sturvivors int
upon hits of wroe,
up by tD0031.11.
eieargallA
Of 410 disa.6ber
aster
WV
er
e
k Th e
eke
badi
the sinking o,f
land will rank
aster as one o
of hsbor The
Fact thab tads ut ws heoe. -
pletehe1pIesues f t.
passengers. The.)were r»ped in
tbeir 4t,tat e rooms and verekiThd
or drowned before officers and crew
had time to hap them. It was all
over within fourteen, 'minutes.
The eollier was near to sinking,
but was able to make her lray to
Runouski after picking hp a few of
the survivors from the Empress.
Her bow was shattered to the water
line from the collision.
So far as could 'be learned the
sollision tame without warning. A
?rightful blow came out of the fog
and ruined the Empre.ss of Ireland
1before her offioers knew that den -
fifth of the size of the Empress,
ger u,as near. It was 1.45 a.m.
hen he Norwegian collier
eighter Stomtadt, a ship hardly
t
1,and
blundered amainst her and cut her
down as if she had been made of
pasteboard instead of wood 01.!.0
iron.
T e collier, 'weighted with 7,000
bons of coal, was out of her course
in the channel as she came on at a
good speed. She drove into the
port side of• the Empress and her
steel sheathed bow raked inward
and backward. It cut through a
length of state rooms, watertight
compartan.ents and deckbeams, un-
til there was an enormous gap that
opened from amidships to the stern
of the liner.
The water rushed in with the
power of Niagara. Captain Ken-
dall and his officers did aU that was
'aum,anly ,possible in the fourteen
tinutes that the Empress hung on
he raver. Captain Kendall was
aurt and in great pain, but he
or Flight,
tno, hu e
Slit, ship W•gtil
there ve
d wmei
AvOlIe WO.
IP% They
th
sonn4 ew
ed
turned
itaustAel ,and
bundrecl and
imi.t <lend in t
the Quo° wit
t.
the Sever
ati3itre
ed in anil
r or 6
oug
d o
bMUO
ould
d to ter. the
"bn reszu
in. tefrnight
v bad to be
lnnees to th
frey Hale and .ot ospitels,ivhUe
others suffering from minor illjtt
ies were assisted from. the train by
their more fortunate comrades.
The Wontort. in the party were kw,
it ben g evident that the terrible
experlonees of the early plrt of the
day, when the EmpreSs of Ireland
went to tho bottom of the St. Lair-
rence, had claimed a far greater
tOII of the weaker sex.
Such few women as were left
showed shookbg. tattoos, of rtheliard-
Ships and .tingtmli they bad en-
dured. Most of them were support -
et/ by men, and after disembaridng
fromthe train walked through the
line of curious sightseers with •
drawn feutures and with utter ut-
differenoe of suffering and fatiguct.
A Few Children.
A pathetic contrast was fprnisbed
by the presence of a few children in
the sad procession, who ha,d with
the buoyancy of youth recovered
from the ,shipwreek and prattled
merrily to mothers or to their pro-
tectors wben their 'northers were
not there.
They came ashore at Rimouski
.stunned mentally as well as physi-
cally.
The proportion of the crew saved
far -outatinabered- the proportion of
passen&•e,rs rescued. That is ex-
plained, however, by the statement,
that an untistual number iof the offi-
cers, and crew were on duty at the
time of the collision, and it was im-
possible for -them in the brief time
they had to arouse and save the
SC'ENE OF WRECK OF EMPRESS ,OF IRELAND
Ilic401161i1
• WHERE RESCUED
weas, LANDED
THE
LL -FAT
D EMPRESS OF IRELAND
f
•,,wera the
every case
caw ehte to
salons ao t
moro vicar •
b FerOutsLn
V
•
tt,
bit betore
d to
ones to 20'
dtltn 1
.
tints w
th
omen
0 b
eOU
0
a
•
be
shave
o how the PrOW 0
aid. as far us ite ein
weed very well, untll.
or mote t000mot the
eousethere Was disorde,
r: „
• an, there could be mai
s rt, frightful emerge/ten htn
crew helnlior passengers all
saw ° 1 Men hand their
wornen. L Itad a iifeheit rey
aW ie, mean, "but 1 Mei a Man Who
=We mo Mie. OtherWine
shoulG 210tte bore. Willie we were an
le thlaerosion the ship gave a sod-
aee 2ureh anti the whole lot, Of ie-
ers olied down the decks Into the
's of course, a ease of each.
Man save as he coUlogatn to have suehd thelt. one never
r. t. ore was a
ter"fg° "Peri*
shriek as the ship turned Over. 1 heard
women e ying and praying and men
shouting as they Tell into the water.
'When I name up there was the saute
tel7;•111ZZitr A' sea
il drop
Ing ng ad t len
ping out of Sight in silence, while men
rirti
to light thertt 0••• as heSt as I could,
tl.:11:sagc.71;,!](1.sd x.,Aattniertl.b;orell
was In the water about art hour and 'was
nally picked, rip by one of the drifting
lifeboat% nearly dead with eXhatistion
and eold, 1 don't suppose one oat of a
httridred of the Passengers was dressed.
for the excitement was so terrific no one
thought of that We cartnot speak too
'highly or the kindness shown us since
we landed at Rimousiti, but 1 SuPPOsa
It will be some time before most of us
recover sufficiently to travel."
Paced Death DearleasiY.
As to the officers, Mr. Punctut declar-
ed that all had behaved admirably'and
faced death feariesslY, Capt. Kendall
standing at the bridge until the ,shiP
sank, and doing everything possibie o
save lives. The• ship, he said, had been
going slow before be heard the first
warning signal, 'which was followed -by
the crash.
It was all so sudden," said, Mr. Dun-
ean, think. cy etlear-
litelenclt -,,Iftseen minutes elapsed frouin tl%
a fighting for life in the sea
itigtottitit," Empress of, Ireland was at the
Mr. Duncan statedthtleiatAu.t previou
the s
to e sinking of Empress the
lights all went out.,alid there was a sud-
den lull, the machinery stopped work-
ing, and there was a silenee only broken
by the cries and prayers of the people
in the water. Then thevessel made a
plunge and sank, while a few minutes
later the fog stiddenly 1ifte..4 and the
sunshone brightly on the drowning
hundreds.
Mr. Duncan paid a warm tribute to
the 'splendid work of the ship's sur-
geon, Dr. Grant. Several of those re-
scued died from exhaustion before being
brought to laxicl, and many more would
have died but for the heroic work Of
Dr. Grant.
One of .the most stirring escapes of
the disaster was that of the chief
steward, who refused to leave the ship,
and ran to the support of Capt'Nen-
doll on the bridge, together with Pur-
ser A. B. Macdonald. The three officers
were the _ast living people on the Em-
press, and -went down with her. Later
Capt. Kendall and Steward Goode were
rescued, but the purser followed the
ship to death.
0
LINEMAN 'ELECTIIO CtITED.
A despatch from Cobalt says:
Thomas Taylor; aged 19, an :Dm-
ployo of the Timiskaming Telephone
Company, was electrocuted here on
Wednesday, while repairing the
telephone line, whe-n he touched a
wire carrying 11,000 volts, De.spite
hii injurie,s he lived for eight.hours
ter the accident.
ER HANTS BAN
ot
I
v felt
a Century in
Business
th u
) Nov
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CA'S RI? EtiCrY414 To
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ROYAL WIT
Name4mmom5.
Of FARM
.PPon s ritomr
e.P4Gil.t.ETT CO, LTD.
TORONTO.
wniscpi.s. mouri-REAL.
RO S
wa.anE on/TTRBS ozAliES.R241,0.
rzfces of
Int Cheese
Other Pro re ato * and Abroad.
zreadutwfrit.
Toronto, ,Inne 2.---floPte—Oatakip
eAt nour4. 0 pc- ceat,. ;3.40 to 43,35,
rol• d t4a..$4 to 444e,. Toronto,
bas Vlr§t *Monts, Juto kogs
tiscon40. 4341n2 4 0
ngs• 44.
Itgot—aay pc
conorilt;
41..06.
Q 5404 on4 41.04,
4049.
trr,--„'"•79. Ontario Dote,
oad at 4•Ve trPe.
12
4Uo
a oafs euotoe at.4otor
90 --for o. 3, 110,T pe
401, Ot11,Si0o.
• malting barley, 56 to
to
Atiaitty.
3 to 04e. outside.
3045 outside.
rteatt.
424 to
freight.
o
pitss,
94ge; No.. 1 Northern, 502e; No. 2
thern„ stie to .11o.; July.s34 to
Tdve .Stock 11Tarkets.
Toronto,. Juno cuotoo 1pt-
d6 gravi4. $7.94 P4 11•10
gerumeri eeWS.,. 45 to /5,25; getattera,
cuttero, $3,54t $4,4 choice fat, go
40,o 7..; choice bulls. $7 to $ , s.,
CalYOeed vea1,8-1a to '41.0,50.
wawa. ;Lae to ST,
Steciier% 'and feeders--Steers804 t
01.1s4 $1,25 to geed d.twity
ge SQ0 IPS., to VI, ,01;,.12614.
to $7.45,
$iteop egad 2acebs-,-,..101ght eweSt
4 44,50 to is; ToRek„.5,4
to .•.POring 144114., Vet% 10 tO
10;rling lantit!s•
110 5 to 41;.40 fed sand:watt
; *.$40$$,,.05• oft cars. ;It tk10
lontreat. Room; '4.
P1 , medium to nci geattratin.
doh CONVP• QPin each.,
lo Tot PlWe At 310; 1W4W04$8,
oga, $ to,
•
in
he bank n ht the
nged
r aoth to. Ajrfl.. 0t1
nent issued
overwl t.
An etiinivattou I the
otbnt ti re,
shows
arttne the bank's aetLv.-
ies4 Por the time in the Ids-
tIIO bank, the reserve fund
eqwtis the paid-up capital, each of
• tAndiug at $7,000,000, a
siderablegain over the showin
a• g
- the pl'evious year. ne batik's
holdings are $1400,000 greater
t at the end ot April, 1913,
gs deposits have berms-
',4aoo,000. The banlee cur-
nereased &ring the
r by o'er 81,000,000, and now
,)nnt to 851,700,000, indicating
that the bank has been doing its full
share by tatering to the commercial
needs of the eommunities in which
ls branches are located. The total
assets Show a gain of atIMOSt $2,600,.
000, and row amount to S93420,000.
During the year the bank issued
new retook, on width, the .prerniure
$1
mounted to 80,000, winch, with
the net earnings of $1,91.8,000 and
balance brought forward amounting
to $401,000, made $1,800,000 avail-
able for distribution. Dividend re-
quirements absorbed $686,000, pro
fit ancl loss $580,000, bank premises
account 81,000,000, officers pensions
fund $50,000, written off for depre-
ciation in bonds and investments
$135,000, leaving $248,000 to be
carried forward, A feature of the
bank's report Was the large, propor-
tion of quiekly available assets,
which represent over 36 per cent.
of its total liabilities to the public.
This is a satisfactory showing, espe-
cially in view of the recent financial
stringency. Altogether, the show
made by the bank is most encour-
aging, as it shows that good bank-
ing practice and careful conserva-
tive management characterized 'the
year's operations. At the annual
meeting it was also decided to es-
tablish a Holding Company for the
purpose of taking over and manag-
ing the premises utilized by the
bank for the housing of the various
offices. The old Board were re-
elected, and, at a subsequent meet -
ting, Sir H. Montagu Allan was re-
elected President and K. W. Black-
well, Vice -President.
fi d
NITA.TER IMPURE.
A aespatch from Berlin, Ont.,
8a-Yg t Water'consumers are boiling
the Water, according- to an order
issued by the Board of Health as a
reult of an unfavorable analysis of
the city's supply. Various tests
showed the • water to be infested
with Bacteria. The Board will in-
struct the, ;Water Commissioner to
discontinue drawing on ,Shoe-
maker's dam for a supply until a
filtration plantl is installed.
t .0
11
4
raids
--Long
Ade lets, fl
heavy. 17
Winn
ed to10
cash oats It
barley UUC1UL
4
1 .
tafost bac° 4 ie•
Wi
151
irhe
tor ntruct r
lQwer o 012
7nrea
dont 9u . Corn. Asnerkan
No. 2 e11ow. I2 *0 S1, Oats, eanadun
• Western, No. 2 421 to 4410; ea
gittTeStelbli. 411c.,10 Vietiur ntgley*
• Spring wheat patents, tirsts, 65,t10: sten:
ondo, 45,10; strong halters', 64.60; Win-
ter patents choice. ;5.26 to 45.50;
truism rollers, 14.70 to 64.90; straight
rollers, bags, 32.20 to 62.35. Rolled
oats, barrels, 44.06; bziss. 20 lbs.. 42.16.
Brou, 623. Shorts. i2Ali
6. ddlings. 622.
Mountie, $23 to 631., Ilay, No. 2, per
ton, ear lots. Sit to 610.5e. cheese, 1ln-
est westerns, 22i to 12Lo; finest east -
erns 111 to Ye. Butt choIdeOt
PrearrterY, 221 to 23Ic; seconds, 22 to
22}c. Eggs. fresh, 23e to 24e; selected.
car lots, 95 to $1,25.
stock, 21 to 212e. Potatoes, per bag,
26 to 27o; No. 1 s_tock, 23 to 23i0: Na 2
Vatted. States 31Tar3ets.
145inneapolls, June ^.—Wheat--Ma.y.
901e: Ju_IV. 21e. Cash. No. 1 hard. 98i
to 53e; No. 2 Northern. 901i to 024a
Corn. No. 3 yellow, 03 to 6s4e. Oats,
NO. 3 white. 33i to 23e. Flour and
bran unehanged.
• Duluth. June 2.—Wheat-No. 1 hard,
OST I),
413, II thn
ther enbiect
'melt attention hi Cu2
e,I Nvill be a, urp
dere i I:120W tllatdn
year which entled
Canada paid $11,
u, food and all of
vrtnaiy 4wet"
o nod
,xe t rnsoives
tny bees,
le ed pre
equal
ado m
an' oun
•
tho
bnldng powder
wsre 007,904
be
tow<
5 2
2 X01.
u tat e
iU Cc
) V
and the 411uvotywould
1
ai441;v0
tention to
eet a large amount of InOney
u1d and would be saved. Cana-
an Bomo Journal,
lo w r
12s2 Ilt
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TIIE NEWS IJ ARAGRAPII
MATT Nl is FR 0 M ALL OVEM
THE GLOBE IN A ,
N UTSII ELL.
Canada, the F:111/4re anl the WOrla
tn Genera a Before Your.
Eyes.
- Canada.
aPPointed 50iOnee lzta.5ter at Inger.
s,01 o been
- The German fag which for eigh-
teen years has flown ,nt Berlin,
Ont., Vtria, Bask, below the
Union. Jack, was out. down and
mutilated.
Several Montreal policemen
Wader instructions to give would-
t4ro,Ao uuntessego itunsutee'so'andiasoahfrekirsit:scr ain4g Ittoct.13:5111:
Mai for laitirder a week ago on the
trength ofa teiegrarn front New
York, was not the man wanted,
James Ebert, farnscrk near Camp
-
ars Bay, Que_, and los, 2t -year -o/d
itn.erre dead, after eating toad -
The ittolher rand
nng hildren ale critically ill,
Aya:,enialle exploratten of
rtheru Alberta,
with a vier,' to the.
40014 Oild development of oil de-,
Is ill the remote townships of
theprovine0 is ortterohtted by
glisitoUin‘tereStA,
The Canadian Paeifto Railway 0o4
h Adei,=ent $.2, in, the west-
inunigmut rate of
to about 22 'month erg.° t9i the
ship 14livtioe! 221 thd ISTOrgi Agark-
Teird:
the Rh quest
bo ught 11»040
to the Br2t2h GOVernine
xed by the Ulster 1
do
TO TRAM G Alt D EN IN G
oung Englishwoman Will ;loin the
Grenfell
A despp.toh from London says:
Christina Fellows, a Yarmouth
lady, has sailed to Newfoundland as
a volunteer helper .at Dr. Gaon-
fell's mission to teach the fishermen
sub -Arctic farming. The idea. is to
introduce the cultivation of cereals
and garden produce in the Labra-
dor, so as to combat the ill effects
-of a diet:We much restricted to salt
pork, 'fish and molasses.
YOU CAN S
LATER
And still breakfast on time by using a
ecizon,
No fires to kindle -no wood or coal to muss with. just
touch a match to the wick -then you have all the heat you
want, when you want it Lessens the labor in the kitchen.
I, 2, 3 and 4 burner sizes, and a new stove with Fireless
Cooking Oven. All hardware and general stores.
Use Royalite Oil for Best Results
THE IMPERIAL OIL CO., Limited
Toront, Quebec Halifax Montreal
St. John VIrinnipeg Vancouver
X
To
1 U10
Trot
21
o
rents
on 'heat ont uipeg
bee, andaoz42o1iat4 ratO
•
rfax and St, John,
Great 1k1tjn.
Charles Weldstein
Victoria, and AlbertMfl
'wLtb O� velvet cope which tra
WAS on by the 1w
1' Ohnrles V. to the Cathedral
in Spain,
115
ed
Lord St,ratheoxp
$109,000 inheri
te of Wisconsin on hi
By, holdings.
./
woman who, after forty
tumod man -like physique, with
bisek beard, 1,031.5. exhibited tt
Academy of Medicine.
A. German liner, •the
evaded the U.S. Idoekatle and land-
ed 1,800,000 rounds of ammunition
and 3,000 rolls of barbed wire, for
Huorta, at Puerto, Mexico,
What is believed to be the re-
mains of the balloon in which Prof.
Salagon A. Andre° ascended from
Dane's Island, near Spitzbergen
July 11, 1897, in an attempt to
reach the North Pole, have boon
found in a forest in eastern Siberia.
Thero was a violent scenc in ills
lobby of the ,Spanish Chamber of
•Deputies when Antonio 31,itattra, at-
tacked with his cane and his fists
the radical deputy, Rodrigo Soria-
na, who had called'his father a cow-
ard.
ENGLISIT BETLER PASSES.
,National Type Vanishing From Br*
tislt Emoire.
The. English butler is rapidly dis-
appearing into the shadowy past,
which is so clo.sely peopled with
ghosts of personalities. The rea-
sons of his extinction are not far t4.
seek. In fact, they were fully e
plained in the daily press last week
People are limiting -their extrava-
gances in th-e. old way itt order to
have more for the new. The butler
was no ordinary servant. Ile did
not work by himself. An autocrat
with a, retinue Of Servants -to minis-
ter to his wants, he was a 1u-xury,
and n.ow, in an age when even the
least decorative luxuries have be-
come necessities, he is going. The
or
gcrooe3mg;giaroreausttin.voelryeteildliej.ea,p. ea,i (hi ptlaerrl
ma..ias.ntdalcisilhge csalino
is
All this is a sign of the times, ami
Ore rwst, signs of tilue, ver
sad. Tho plesent generation ills
knows ithe biut,ler because he lvas
great.' figure in the pageani of ils
youth, and we remember tha peopla
who dominated us in our chil€111004i.
But the generation of to -morrow
will have no greater knowledge .2f .
thc b utl er than of itl4ose roan Lie
courtiers Who rode abouh thr o
the pages of Fielding and Smolletib
and Richardson and "WhO are to-cia,"7
-ikatl as a doornail or any other
article etdomestio utility which no-
vor possessed a spark of life.