HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-06-05, Page 6uVEK 1,000 LIVES ARE LOST
T'i're Empress of Ireland Sinks in Collision With
Collier,
THE STORY IN BRIEF.
TOTAT. SAVED LOST
,First Cabin Passengers on Board , 87 18 69'
Second . Cabin Passengers 153 29 124
Third Class Passengers 715 101 613
officers and Crew
. .... .... 432 207 226
1,387 355 1,032
A despatch from Quebec seas:
'Un'cheeked s;Jed`in a fog cost 1,032
lives Friday' morning whet .:the col-
lier Storstadt sank the Canadian
'Pacific liner Empress of Ireland in
the St. Lawrence River, About 400
were saved from the whole ship's
company of 1,387 crew and passen-
gers.
Among the dead are Laurence
Irving, the English actor, who was
Meon 'of Sir Henry Irving; his wife,
abel Hackney, and Sir Henry Se-
tan-Iierr, a females hunter of big
game and prominent at the English
•b.ar. Very few of the first or second
cabin passengers were saved. Only
few women were rescued.
The .second greatrest disaster in
the history" of the - Atlaantic naviga-
tion occurred Sat l'.45 a.ni. Friday.
The Empress of Irelarnd, the finest
steamship of the Canadian Pacific
fleet, was motionless in the St.
Lawrence awaiting the lifting of a
heavy fog. The Norwegian collier
Storstadt hardly a fifth of the
liner's bulk, crashed into the Em-
press' pont side Sand rsplit her from
amidships to the 'Screws.
The Empress sank within fourteen
minutes. There wan; time only to
lower nine lifeboats. More than
1,000 persons were asleep and were
.unable to get to the decks before
they were carried down in seven-
teen fathoms of water. Scores were
crushed to death by the bow of the
Storstadt as it ripped through tiers
of staterooms. The :survivors in the
lifeboats and upon bits of wreck-
aago were :picked up by the Domin-
ion Government steamers whichi
reached the scene of the disaster
from Rimoueki.
The ' ; urvivors were ;taken to
Riznousli4 by the Government
reitear;*re Eureka: and Ladd' Evelyn.
Later marry were placed on a spe-
cial train and ,started for Quebec.
Captain Kendall, of the Empress'
was saved, but he was badlyhurt
from falling upon wreckage es his
ship sank. The chief officer was
lost.
Ae•counte which have reached here
from survivors make it clear that
the sinking of the Eanprese of Ire-
land will rank with the Titanic digs-
aster as one of the dreadful mis-
fortlmes of marine History. The
fact that strands ;out was the com-
plete helplessness . of most of the
passengers. They were trapped in
their rotate rooms and were killed
or drowned before officers and crew
.had time to help them. It was all
over within fourteen minutes.
The collier was near to sinking,
but wasable to make her way to.
Rimouski after picking up ka.. few of
the survivorsfrom the Empress.
Her bow was shattered ter the waiter
tine from the collision.
So far as could be learned the
collitian tame without warning. A
'frightful blow came out of the fog
and ruined the Empress of Ireland
before her careens 'knew that .lou-
ver was near. It was 1.45 a.m.
when the Norwegian collier -and
freighter 'Stosrstaclib, a ship ha'rd'ly
a fifth of the •size of the Empress,
blundered against, her and out her
dawn as if she head been made of
pasteboard instead of wood and
iron.
The collier, weiaghted with 7,000
tons 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 herr
steel sheathed bow raked .inward
and backward.' I,t cut througha
length of state rooms, watertight
compartments and deck beams, un-
til there was an enormous gap that
opened from ;amidships to the stern
of the ..liner. •
The watee rushed in with the
power of Niagara. Captain Ken-
dall and his oflioers did all that was
humanly possible in the fourteen
minutes that the Empress hung on
the river. captain Kendall was
hurt and in great pain, but 'he
showed the .pluck and decision of a
naval officer. In the first minute
of the disaster he ordered young
Edward Bamford, the wireless
operator, to flush the S.O.S. ca11,
the ery for help that every ship
must heed. He ordered officers and
stewards to collect as many passen-
gers as could be found and hold
them for the boats. He had nine
lifeboats overside within ten min-
utes.
No Time for Flight.
Had there been time, hundreds
who went down with the ship would
have survived. But time there was
not. A thousand m,en and women
who had been asleep woke too late
to scramble to the decks. They
were crushed or mangled by the
bow of the Stoestadt, injured by
splintered timbers or overwhelmed
in the terrific rush of waters. It
is probable that scores were killed
instantly, but hundreds perished.
while feebly struggling -for door-
ways, while trying for a footing on
the sloping <leeks. The terror and
confession of the few minutes while
the . Empress staggered, listed and
sank can hardly, be put in words.
The survivors themselves •could nai.
describe those moments .adequately.
• Quebec, May 29.-A grim, remind-
er .of the fact that•even. the- most
perfect of modern Atlantic liners
was subject to the dangers of the
sea was given here to -night; when
the 355 'survivors of the 1;387 pas-
sengers and erew who• so gaily sail-
ed from Quebec on Thursday re-
turned to this eity, ragged, . ex-
hausted and wounded, leaving nine
hundred and mom of their ehip-
metes dead in the river or strew-
ing the shore with their corpses.
The survivors were brought by a
special Inbereolonial train, and a
more mixed, warn out -crowd of
passengers never appeared on a
train in Canada, It was more like
a relief train after .a battle than .a
returning pasty from a steamship.
The men were weary and worn,
dressed in anything that could be
secured at Rimouski to cover them,
most of these having been rescued
either nude or in their night
clothes. Several of them were So
badly injured that they had to be
removed in ambulances to the Jef-
frey Hale rand other hospitals, while
others suffering from minor injur-
ies were assisted from the train by
their More fortunate comrades.
The women in rthe party were few,
it being evident that the terrible
experiences of the early part of the
day, when the Empress of Ireland
went to the bottom of the St. Law-
rence, had elainie•d a far greater
toll of the, weaker sex.
Such few women es were left
showed shocking traces of the hard-
ships end anguish they had en-
dured. Most of them were support-
ed by me:n, • and after ddsembarlking
front the,train walked through, the
SCENE OF WRECK OF EMPRESS OF IRELAND
A�U
111a1OUoIil
WHERE RESCUED
WERE LANDED
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THE ILL-FATED EI/ZI RESS . O1 IRELAND.
line of curious sightseers with
drawn features arid_ with 'utter in-
difference of suffering and fatigue.
A Few Children.
A pathetic contrast was furnished
by the presence of a, few children in
the sad procesweion, who had with
the buoyancy of youth recovered
from the shipwreck and prattled
merrily to mothers or to their pr'a-
tectors when their mothers were
not there,
They came ashore. at Rimousk
stunned mentally as well 'as phys;
tally.
The proportion of the crew e
far outnumbered the proportion
passengers rescued. That is
gleaned, however, by the statemer
than an unusual number of the ofl
cels and crew were on duty' at th^:
time of the colli,sie'n, rand it was in -
possible for them in the brief tins
they had to arouse and save the
pessengere. Very few of the first
cabin passengers were alive when
the .Eureka, and the Lady Evelyn
the little relief steamships, four'
the w.ieck and the nine over -crows.,
ed 1ifeiboiats. ' -
save lives. The ship. he said, had been
going slow 'before he heard the first
warning signal, which was followed by
the crash.
It was all so sudden," said Mr. Dun-
can, "tliat I can hardly think of it clear-
ly. From the time I jumped out of
bed not fifteen minutes elapsed from the
time I was fighting for life in the sea
and the Empress of Ireland was at the
bottom,"
Mr. Duncan stated that lust previous
to the sinking of the Empress the
lights all went out. and there was a sud-
den
and there wmachinery inceoonly broken
by the cries and prayers of the people
in the water. Then the vessel made a
litter plunge then fogd suddenly lifted and the
sun shone brightly on the drowning
hundreds.
Mr. Duncan paid a warm tribute to
ea
the splendid work of the ship's sur-
geon, Dr. Grant. Several 0
1 those re-
�'. 'cued died from exhaustion before being
ee brought to land: 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 Ken-
dall on the bridge, together with Pur-
ser A. B. Macdonald. The three officers
were the last living people on the Em-
press, and went dower with her. Later
Capt. Kendall and Steward Gaade were
rescued, but the purser . followed the
ship to death.
Twenty>,two Died of Injuries.
Twenty-two' persons died of their'
injuries arid from exposure after be-
ing taken out of the lifeboats or
from &,siting wreckage. One man
suffered from broken legs. A wo-
man was found who had a leg .end
en arm brroke'n. Others were crusdl.-
ed or injured internally. Many of
the survivors were rushed to •Que-
bec this afternoon after they had
had preliminary care, and at Ri-
mouski.
a smart -crows STORY.
Several of the women tried to et -
plain what they had suffered, but in
every case they broke down and were
only able to sob a few incoherent ex-
pressions as to the horror of it all. A
much more clear statement was made
by Mr. Fergus Duncan, of London, Eng-
land.
I heardthreewhistles, said
"when
I am keeping on my course.' A moment
later came two short blasts, meaning 'I
have stopped.' I was scared and jump-
ed out of bed like a shot and started to
dress. Then the engines, suddenly stop-
ped, and a moment later they were re -
'versed.
tatxthet^e wase atdensehfog.e Tobe
there carne a toriffic crash, which keel-
ed the whole ship over with a terrible
grinding and smashing of bulkheads. -
"I started to rush on deck half-
dressed, but before.I got there the Em-
press had listed so 1 could hardly get
along. There was not the slightest
chance to lower lifeboats owing to the
sudden list. :They all stuck in the day-`
its, Those who could got lifebeits, but
the time was too short even for that
.with many."
Crew Behaved Well.
Mi- Duncan howsaid,far as crewhcould see,
they had behaved very well, and he had
seen no sign of panic amongst them.
Of course, there was disorder," said
Mr. Duncan, "there could be nothing
else in such a frightful emergency, but
I :saw the crew helping passengers and
saw several mon hand their lifebelts to
women. I had a 14febelt in my cabin,"
said Mr, Duncan, "but I• met a man who
had two and gave nee One, otherwise 1
should not be here. While we were all
in this confusion the ship gave a sud-
den lurch and the whole lot of .passen-
gers were rolled down the decks into the
sea. It was, of course, a case of each
man save as he could then. I hope Bever
againgcto have such a terrible experi-
ence,"
shriek asldtheMship turned over 1 heard
women crying and . praying and men
shouting as they fell into the water.
When .1 came up there was the same
terrible noise in the sea.
'"Women were crying and then drop-
ping; out of sight in silence, while men
were fighting together with dying grips.
Half a dozen grappled me and I had
to fight them off as best as I could
while
od; ees often
as Imen undefelt
el nyhfeet 1{e r.
was in the water about an hour and was;
finally picked up by one 0E the drifting
lifeboats, nearly dead with exhaustion.
and cold. 1 :don't suppose one out of a'
hundred of the passengers was dressed;
for the excitement was' so terrific no one
-tthought htbfof that, We cannot speak too
g y the 'kindness shown us •etnoe
we landed at Rlmouslxi, but I suppose
it will -be some time before most of 1.25
recover sufficiently to travel,"
Paced Beath >E•barlesiily,
As to the officers, Mr, Duncan racier -
ed
cedatdelaththad
earleeas ,a Capt. Rendal'.
standing* at the bridge Until the ship.
frank, and doing everything possible e
Ileider Arrest.
•
'Montreal, . May 31.: With her
bows cr'unsppled in and twisted
n• acuteennead at angle to -port,
and a gaping rent showing on the
port side but a foot or so above the
water line, in ante evidence of the
tragedy in which she has figured,
the .. Norwegian collier Storstad
limped into the harbor early this
afternoon. A few minutes later a
warrant of .arrest, taken out by the
Canadian Pacific Railway, was nail-
ed ;bo her mainmast by- order rof W.
Simpson Walker, K.C., Registrar
of the Quebec Admiralty Court.
. "By what authority do you ,Come
on board my vessel and place it
under arrest 1" asked Captain An
deiirsn, commander of the collier.
"By authority of the British Em-
pire, curtly replied the Deputy
Sheriff, who was commissioned to
execute ..the w.aera+nt, and who
forthwith proceeded to affix. the
warrant in, the customary place.
Ring Cables Sympathy.
King Goole: cabled to the Duke
of Connaught, Governor-General of
Canada :
"I am deeply grieved over tbe.
awful disaster to the. Empress of
Ireland, in, which so, many Cana -
dilate lost their"lives•. Queens Af ry
and: I both assure you .of our heart-
felt sympathy with &ose who
mourn the loss of relatives and
friends."
SIR JOSEPH SWAN DEAD.
Was Inventor of the First Ideals-
deecent Electric Lamp.
• A despatch from London says :
The death occurred on Wednesday
of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, inven-
tor (in 1879) of the first incandes-
cent electric lamp. He was 86 years
of age, and was born in Sunder-
land, Eng. He. was the inventor of
many other electrical devices, in-
cluding a. miner'e safety lamp and
an electric meter, and was probably
also as well known for his photo-
graphic appliances, as he perfected
the 'carbon' poetess and ,,the dry
.plate.
LIi tENA.N ELECTROCUTED.
A despatch from Cobalt says
Thomas Taylor, aged 19, an em-
ploye : of the Tima;tktaning Telephraee
Company, was ele
etroc
u
red
hers on
Wednesday, while repairing
the
telephone lire, when he touclxed a
wire earrying 1.11000 volts, Despite
his injuries, he laved for eight hours
after the. accident. •
PRICES QF FARM PRODUCTS THE NEWS IN A PaRAGR
REPQi6Ts •,r e34e*,n Teti enaDel.Pfi
Tit&EB` GENTILES Oz'' AMZIBIQA.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Mamie ma;
Other Produce at nome and Abroad.
Ereadstuge.
Toronto, • June 2.-.F$lottr--Ontario
Wheatezd and at, $0 3r86 to $339 , Torontoo..
Mahttobas- First patents in lute bags,
$5.60; do„ seconds, $5.1&; strong bait=
ers', in jute bags, $4.
Manitobawheat--Bay ports No. 1
Northern, • 998c, and No. 2, 972c
Ontario wheat -No. 2 quoted. at $1.04
to $1.05, outside, and $1.06, on track,
Toronto. - -
Oats-No.Ontario
4cioa�r,ouide, nd a2ntrackToonto
Western Canada oats quoted at 42c for
No. 2, and at 398c for No. 3, Bay ports,
Peas -$1 to $t.00 -outside.
Barley -Good malting barley, 56 to
58c, according to quality.
Rye -No. 3 at 63 to 64c, outside.
I3uot 8Soutside. 2American ln-dried,
783c, Toronto.
Bran -Manitoba bran, $24 to $26 a
ton, in bags. Toronto freight. Shorts,
$26 to $27.•
Country Produce.
in-
ferior, Butter-Choice5 c dairy,
to ' separator
prints, 20
do22storage prints,i22stor23c
solids, storage, 20 to 21c.
Eggs -21 to 23c per dozen, in" case
lots.
Honey -Extracted, in tins, 103 to 110
ner ib. Combs, $2,25 to $2,5.0 per doz-
en for No. 1, and 32 for No. 2.
Cheese -Neve cheese, 14 to 148c for
large, and l43 to 16c for twins.
Beans -Hand-picked, $2.25 to $2.30
per bushel; primes, 32.10 to 32.20.
Poultry -Fowl, 17 to 190 per ib;
chickens, 19 to 20c; ducks, 20c; geese,
15 to 16c; turkeys, 20 to 23c.
Potatoes -Delawares, 20 on track
here, Otarios1.10per bag, ontrack.
Baled Hay .and Straw.
tonaon track Nhere No.$24quoted
a1
5313
toB$ ted st and
clover-at
to 138.50,
on track, Toronto.
Provisions.
Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 140c per
lb. in case lots. Hams -Medium, 18 to
19c; do., heavy, 17 to 18c; rolls, 148 to
15c; breakfast bacon, 18 to 19c; backs,
20 to 23c.
Lard -Tierces, 128c; tubs, 122c; pails,
13e.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, June 2. -Cash wheat clos-
ed 8c to Sc higher for contract grades;
cash oats 9c lower to lc higher; cash
barley unchanged to 8c higher,
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, June 2. - Corn, American
No. 2 yellow, 80 to Sic. Oats, Canadian
Western, No. 2, 432 to 448c; Canadian
Western, No. 3, 429 to 43c. Barley,
Man. feed, 51 to 62c. Flour Man.
Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.60; sec-
onds, 35.10; strong bakers', 34.90; Win-
ter patents, choice,' $5.26 to 35.50;
straight rollers, 34.70 to 34.90; straight
rollers, bags, $2.20 to $8.35. Rolled
oats, barrels, 34,55; bags, 90 lbs., 32.15.
BrShorts, Middlings, 3rMouille,3288o32.R,N.p
ton, car lots, $14 to 315.50. Cheese, fin-
est westerns, x2$ to 128c; finest east -
erns, 112 to 12e. Butter, choicest
creamery, 228 to 238e; seconds, 22 to
22263e. to 27c; Eggs, fresh,
1 .sock, to to423 o; selected.
stock, 21 to 2180. " Potatoes, per bag,
car lots, 95 to 31.25.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis,
n.l9Jsha190c Ty, 1c, Cah,2.-Wheat-May.
o1 ad
to 98c; No. 2 Northern, 009 to 9280,
Corn, No. 3 yellow, 68 to 688c. Oats,
No. 3 white, 388 to 3880. Flour and
bran unchanged. -
Duluth, June 2. -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
949c; No. 1 Northern, 9090;' No. 2 Nor-
thern, 919c to 94c; July, 938 to 938e.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, June 2-Catle--Choice but-
chers', 38.65; good, $7.90 to 38.30;
common cows, $5 to 35.25; canners and
cutters, $3.60 to 34; choice fat cows,
$6C lves 37.50;
choice
381175 $tot 310 50;
common, 34.30 to 37. •
Stockers and feeders -Steers, 800 to
900 bs., 37.25 to 37.90; good quality.
700 to 800 lbs., 37 to 37.50; light, 36.25
to $7.25.
Sheep and lambs -Light ewes, 36 to
$6.50;. heavy, $4.50 to 35; bucks, 34.75
to 36.80; Spring lambs, each, 36 to
$7.50;• yearling lambs. to 38.
Hogs -$8.35 to. 38.40, fed and water-
ed; $S.60 to 38.65, off cars; $7.95 to
$8, f.o.b.
Montreal, June 2. -Prime beeves, 7$
to 88c; medium, 58 to 72c; common, 48
to 58c; milch cows, 330 to80 each;
calves, 3c to 7c; sheep, 58 to 78c; lambs,
34 to 36 each; hogs, 8e to 9e.
C.IIURCIULL TO BE AIR PILOT.
Hopes to Qualify for His Certificate
Next. i'Veek.
A despatch frown Salisbury, Eng.,
dere: The First Lord of the Admir-
alty, Winston Spencer Churchill,
accomplished the first ' series of
tests required in order to obtain an
air pilot's certificate. Mr. Church -
i11 at the steeeteg apparatus of a
naval aeroplane' rose at Nether-
avon, and after aflight over Salis-
bury Plain, landed with ease in
the yeoma0,ry camp. The First Lord
hopes to qualify for his certificate
next week.
DIED IN GRBA.T AGONY.
Sliver in Ms Finger Was Fatal to
Wallterville 'Ian.
A despatch from Windsor, Ont.,
says: Two days ago Archibald Le-
sperenee, 45, ran employee of Walk-
erville distillery, ran a, small sliver
into his finger. He died to -day at
the Hotel -Dieu from blood poison-
ing after suffering from intense
agony. Soon after -the aceident oc-
curred the man's entire . body be-
came affected, the arms and legs
swelling, and delirium, set. in. He
leaves :a widow, and six young child-
ren.
Several Montreal poltiaem,en are
under instructions to• give would
be street "mashers" a sound
trouncing in•Stead of arresting them.
tlap',ell INelS PRO 31 ALL a
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Canada; the Empire anis the 'W
Iti General Before Your
• Eyes.
Canada.
Shale's, 'K1ngston, alai
appointed science' 'master ;at, In
soil 0. I.
• The German flag which for e
teen `years has flown at Bea
Ont., Victoria Pa,rk, below
Union Jack, was cut down
mutilated,
Antonio Russo, arrested in M
real for murder a week ,age on
strength. of a telegram frem
York, was not the man wanted.
James Ebert, farmer, near 0
bell's Bay, Que., and his 21 -year
son are dead, after eating to.
stools. The mother and th
young children are critically ill.
A systematic exploration
Noetliern Alberta with a view to
location ,and development of oil
posits in the remote township's
Entheglispro
hoilvincinteree is stoontes,mmplated
The Canadian Pacific Railway
has made a, out of $2 in the we
bound immigrant rate of $31.
agreed to 'about •a month ago by t
steamship lines in the North At
tic conference.
Premier McBride, of B.C., su
ge:sts that it is a, curious coin
donee that the Hindu questi
should be brought up as an add
worry to the British Govern=
already perplexed/ by the Ulster i
sue.
Quebec Board of Trade urges tl
Dominion Government to insist th
one of the conditions of the adc
-Lionel aid to :the Grand Trunk P
cific be a, freight rate of ten .cen
per bYshel on wheat from Winnip
to Quebec, and a proportionate. re,
to. Halifax and St. John, N.B.
Great Britain. •
Sir Charles Waldstein has pr
stinted the Victoria. and Albert M
scum with a velvet cope -which tr
dition asserts was given by the E.
peror Charles V. to the Cabhedr
of Burgos in Spain.
United States. '
The estate • of Lord Strarla:co
will pay nearly $100•,000,1n1'Leriten
tax to the State of Wisconsin on h
Northern Pacific Ry. holdings.-`.'`
General.
A woman who, after forty, a
sumed man -like physique, with lou
black beard, was exhibited • to th
Paris Academy of Medicine..
A German e liner, the Bavaria
evaded the U.S. blockade and land
ed 1,800,000 rounds of ammunitio
and 3,000 rolls of barbed wire, to'
Huerta, at Puerto, Mexico.
What is believed to bo the re-
mains of the balloon in which Prof:
Salagen A. Andres ascended from
Dane's Island, near S;pitzbergen,
with a. retinue of servants to minis -
have more for the new, The butler
was no ordinary servant. He did
not work by himself. An autocrat
July 11, 1897, in an attempt to
reach the North Pole, have been
found in a forest in eastern Siberia.
There was a violent ,scene in the
lobby' of the Spanish Chamblee cif
Deputies when Antonio Moura, at-
tacked with his sane and his. fists
the radical 'deputy, Rodrigo Soria,.
na, who bad called his father -a caw.
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TO TEACH GARDENING..
Young Englishwoman Will Join the
Grenfell' Mission.
A despatch from. London says:
Miss Christina, Fellows, a Yarmouth,
lady, has sailed to Newfoundland a3
a volunteer helper at Dr. Gren-,
fell'e 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 i11 affects
of a diet, too much restricted to salt
pork, fish and molasses.
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80 .MILLION BUSHELS.
Estimated that Milch Wheat will
Go Through Montreal.
A despatch from.. Montreal says
According to Mr. James Cebruuth-
ers, eighty million bushels of wheat
will this .season pass through the
harbor ^of Montreal, This :estimate
is based, on sant year's figures,
which were 65,0002000 bushels, ; by
far 'the' lairg+esrt shipment in year.
One order for a million 'bushels
wars received this week for expert,
bringing Lite total amount for the:
week up .to i,6op,000 or.,2,000,000
bushels,
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