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Exeter Advocate, 1914-6-4, Page 7OVER 1LIYEsARE LOST The Empress of Ireland Sinks in Collision With Collier THE STORY IN BRIEF. Tot AL First Cabin'•Passengers on. Board $7 Second Cabin Passengers 153 Third Class Passengers 715 Officers and Crew .. , • . . 432 savae Loan . 29 •134 101 613 207 226 1,387 355 1,032 A despatch from .Quebec ;stays.: showed the pluck anddecision of a Unchecked ,speed in •a. fog oostt 1,032 naval officer. • In the 'first minute lives Friday morning whein, the col- of ;the disaster he oxrered young- her oun-Tier Sto'ramtaelt sank the , Canadian Edward Bomfortl, the wireless Pacific: liner Empress of Irelandin operator,' to 'flash tile. S:O.S. call, the St. Lawrence River, About 400 the cry for help that every •alp Were saved from the whale ship's must heeled, He orcl'ea:ed efflpers and company of 1,387 crew and passen stewards to collect as many. •passe•n gers, gers as .could be found aid' hold Among the dead are Laurence them fou' the boats.'• He bad 'eine Irving; the English auctor, who , was lifeboats overside within /ten min- a son of Sir Henry Irving; his Wife, utes, Mabel Hackney, and Sir Henry Se- No Time for Fligiit. tton-Kerr, a famous hunter" of- big ame and prominent at the English Had there been time, hundreds bar. , Very few of the first or eecond who went down with the ship would cabin passengers were saved. Only have survived. Buttime there was fewwomen were rescued.. nob. A thousand nuns and women The second greatest disaster in who had been asleep woke too lane. the hist'oey of the Atlantic naviga tto scramble 1: •o 'the decks. They tion occurred tat 1.45 Assn, Friday. were crushed or mangled by the The Empress of; Ireland; the finest bow of the Steretadt, injured by Bp team hi of 'the. Canadian Pacific splintered timbers or overwhelmed fleet, was motionless. in the St. in the terrific rush of waters. • It Lawrence awaiting the lilting of a is probablethat scores were ]tilled heavy fog, The Norwegian collier instantly, but ;hundreds perished SS'torstadt hardly & fifth of 'the While feebly stxuggiing fon door- 'ner's bulk, orashed into the ;Ewe ways, while trying for- a footing on press'pert sidesplit and s lit 'her from the sloping decks. 'the terror and amidships to the ;screws. The Empress sank within fourteen minutes. There was time only to lower nine lifeboats. More than 1,000 peasons 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 Stersttealt aas it ripped through tiers of, staterooms. The eurvivora in the lifeboats and upon bits of wreck- age were picked up by the D;oanin- .iron Government steamers which reached the scene of the disaster from Rimouski The ,survivors were taken to • Rimousk,i by the Government steamers Eureka and Lady Evelyn. Later many were placed on a spe- cial train and ate -sited for Quebec. Captaiin. Kendall, of the Empress was . saved, 'but he w,as badly hurt from falling upon wreckage as 'his ship sank, The chief offioer was lost. ee A tants which have reached, here . e o from survivors .make it clear that the sinking of the Empress of Ire- land will. rank with ,the Titanic ,dis- aster as one of the dreadful mis- fortunes of =larine history. The fact that 'stands out was the oom-. plate helplessness of most of the passenger's. They were trapped in their state rooms and were killed or drowned before officers and crew tad time tte help them. It was all . over within fourteen minutes. The collier was near to sinking, but was able to make her way to tiuski :after picking up few of he da survivors from the Empress. Her bow was sdharttered rte the waiter line from the collision. So far as could be learned the collision cai me without warning. A frightful blow came out of the fog and ruined the Empress of Ireland 'before their officers knew that dan- ger was tear. I,t was 1.45 a.m. When the Norwegian *oilier and freighter ' Sthor'sttad b, is ship hairdia a;; fifth of the ;size` of the Empress, blundered. spinet her' and cut her down as if she had been made of pasteboard instead of wood and xron. . The ,collier, weighted .with. 7,000 tens of coal, 'wee out: of her oourse }n the chasi'niel at's' `she came on at a good •speed. She drove ,into. the port side of the Es press and hex steel sheathed bow raked inward and backward. It cut through a length of state roems, watertight compartments and deck beams, 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- dell and hio'oftcei s did all that, was humanly possible in the 'fous,teen miniit,es that the Empress hung on oonfunsion of the few minutes while the Empress' staggered, listed and sank can hardly be put in wards. The survivors the•1nselves could not describe those moments .adequately. • THE ILL-FATED EMPRESS 0t" IRELAND passengers. Very few of the first cabin passengers were alive when ,the Eureka and the .Lady. Evelyn, the little. relief ,steamships, found the wreck and the nine over -crowd- ed lifeboats, Twenty-two Died of Injuries. Twenty-two persons died of their injuries and from exposure after be- ing taken out of 'the lifeboats or from floating wreckage. 'One .man suffered from broken legs. A wo- • man wee found who had a leg and en. arm :broken. Others were *rush- ed or injured internally. Many of. the survivors were rushed to Que- bec this :afternoon .after they had; had preliminary* oare, and at Ri- enouski: le river, : Captain Kendall was 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 -nigh.•• when -the 355 survivors orthe 1,387 pas- sengers and crew who so gaily sail- ed from Quebec on Thursday re- turned to this eity, ragged, ex- hausted and wounded, leaving. nine hundred and nnore of their sthip- mates dead in the river or strew- ing the hoxe with their oorpses. The survivors -were brought by a special Intel -colonial train; and a more mixed', worn out crowd of passengers never appeared on a train in Canada. It was more like a relief train • after aattlre than a' ret' from ming party froa bteaniiship The men were weary and woni;1, dressed in anyt'hin'g that could be secured at Rimouski to cover then;, most of them having be,en 'r:eseued 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 and other hospitals, while others suffering from minor injur- ies Were, assisted from the train by their more fortunate comrades: The women in ;the 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 bdottom.of the St. Law- rence, had claimed, a far greater toll of the weaker sex. Such few women as were left showed shocking traces, of the hard- ships and anguish they had en- dured. Most of them were sup,petrt ed by men, and after :disembarking from the train walked, through' the lime of curious sightseers with drawn features and with utter in, difference 'of anffering and fatigue. A Few Children. A pathetic 'contrastwas furnished by ,thepresenee of ta' few children in the sad procession, who had with the, buoyancy of youth '•recovered from the 'shipwreck • and prattled merrily to mothers or. to 'their p`?o- tee'tors when their mothers were not there, They carne ashore at Rimotuski, stunned mentally as well. 'ass pbysi- cally , • The proportion of the orew saved fax outnumbered the prosp,ortii?'n of pa.seengere rescued. That is ex- plained, however,: by. the statementth : that an unusual u dsu,al number of th e offi- cern and crew were on duty . at the time of the collision, and it was im- possible for them in the brief time A SURVIVORS STORY. • Several of the women tried to ex .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 land. by Mr. Fergus: Duncan, of London, Eng r1 was In my berth" said, he, "when I heard theee whistles, which meant I am'keeping onmy course.'. A moment later carne 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 aamoment later they were re- versed. I could see through the port- hole thatthere was a dense fog.' Then there dame a teriffie crash, which keel- ed the whole ship over with a terrible grinding: and ,smashing of bulkheads. I Started to rush up on deck half- dressed, butbefore l got there the Ein-? press 1}adalisted::so..1. could. ..hardly get;: along. There was not the slightest - chance to lower lifeboats owing to the' urt and in great pain, but he they had to arouse and: save the WRECK OF EMPRESS OF IRELAND SCENE OF Rit lovo WHERE RESCUED r m�' WERE LANDED �U LF QST, I:AWRENCI~ �T I��.x1 ' d`r. .. tiR 6WICH. - PRINCE?. ..r r ED-eeget 1 Under Arrest. Montreal, May 3n—With her bows crumpled in and twisted around at an acute angle be. port, aaid a gaping rent showing on the port side bust a foo>t.or so above the Water line, isji;:nnai,te'eviden•ce of the. tragedy in whieh she 'las figured, the Norwegian oollt er Stol.fbad limped into thebarber early this afternoon. A "few minutes,: latter a warean,t of 'arrest, taken out by the Canadian Ptioifie• Railway, was nail- ed to ail-ed'ibo her mainmast by order of W. Simpson Walker, K.C., Registrar of the Quebec .Admiralty Court. "By what .authority do you come on board any vessel and place it ander arrest 1" asked Captain An- de,risent, commander of the collier. "By authority of ,the Brihieh Em- pire," curtly replied the. Deputy Shenaff, who was commissioned to execute the warrant, and ' who forthwith proceeded to affix the warrant in the cwstomlaxy place. King Cables Sympathy. King Georget cabled the the Duke of Oonnaught, Governor-General of Canada: ` `I am deeply grieved over the g awful disasteo' to the Empress. of Ireland, in which son many Cana- dianra, lost their lives•. Queen 11tlbry and I both ta,ssure you of our heart-. felt:: sympathy with those who Mourn' loss of relatives aand sudden list. 'They all stuck in the day; .frle]1d''" .' its. Those who could got lifebelts, but `k With mans-." . CH1IROIIILLrl'O BE AIR PILOT. Crew Behaved Well. Asked as to how the' crew behaved, Hopes to Qualify for His Certificate Mr. Duncan said, as far as he could see, seen no sign of panic amongst thein. . • -Next Week.they had behaved very well, and he had p atch from Salisbury, Eng., : A des "Of course, there ,was disorder," said Mr. Duncai _"there could be nothing says•: The First Lord of the Admir- else in such a'frightfui emergency, but alt "Winston Spender. Churchill, I saw the crew helping passengers and saw several men hand- their lifelielts to accomplished the first series of, the time was too short even for that women. "I bad a lifebelt in my cabin," said Mr. Duncan; but I: meta man who twists required in.order to obtain an .had two and gave me one, otherwise I should -not be•here. 'While we' were all in this confusion the ship gave a sud- denlurch and- the whole lot of passen- gers were rolled down ,the decks into the sea. 7.t was,. -of course, a case of each man save as he could then. I hope never again to have such a terrible experi- ence," said Mr. Duncan. "There Was a shriek as the ship turned over. I heard women crying and praying and men s outing. - as they fell into the water. When, I came up there was the saute terrible noise in the sea. 'Women were crying and then drgp ping out -of sight be silence, while men were fighting together ,witb dying grips. 'Half a dozen :grappled me and I had to fight them off as best as I could, while often as I swam :I'felt the naked, bodies of -dead men under my feet. T was in•.the water about an hour and was finally Picked up byone of the drifting lifeboats, nearly dead with exhaustion and cold. I don't suppose one out of a hundred of the passengers was dressed, for the excitement was so terrific no one thought of that. We cannot speak too highly of the kindness shown us sines we landed at Bimouski, but I suppose it will be some time before most of us recover sufficiently to travel." Faced Beath Pearlessly. As to the officers. itr. Demean declar- ed that all had behaved admirably, and faced death fearlessly, Capt: Kendall standing at the bridge ,Until the ship sank, and doing everything ,possible o 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, that I canhardlythink of it clear- ly. From the time I dumped 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.". P Mr. Duncan stated that Just previous to the sluicing of the Empress the lights all went out, and, there was a sud- den lull, the machinery stopped work- ing, and there was a silence .only broken by the cries' ani prayers of the people a volunteer helper at Dr. Gren- in the water'.. Thert the vessel made a plunge and sank, while a few .minutes fell''s•miesion -to teach .the ,f'isherrnen. later the fog suddenly lifted and - the stlb-Arctic farming. The idea is to sun shone brightly on.the drowning hundreds.introduce the cultivation of cereals' Mr. Duncan paid a warm .tribute to and 'garden `produce in the Labra- of scued died from.exhauetion before belt of a diet too tnLleli restricted to Salt brought to land. and.niany more Would have died but for the heroic work Of pork, fish and molasses: D Crant air pilot's certificate. Mr. Church- ill at the ,steering apparatus of a naval aeroplane.rose at Nether - even, , and after a flight over Salis- bury Plain,. landed with ease in the yeomanry camp. The First Lord hopes to qualify for his certificate next week. DIED IN GRE4T AGONY. g. ' Fatal. to Sliver ln. ills :Finger 'Was WaIIterrillc Tian.' A despatch from Windsor, Ont., says: Two days ago Arolzibald Le- speraince, 45, an employee of Walk- erville dist llery, ran a small sliver into his finger. He died to -day at the Hotel Dieu frown blood poison- ing after suffering from intense agony. Soon after the accident 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. - - '3' w Grain, Cattle end Cheese Prices of These Products In the Leading Markets are 1'iere Recorded EreadstufPs. ' Toronto, ;tune 2.—Flour—Ontario Wheat flours, 90 per cent., •$$.';.80 to $3,85, seaboard, and at $3,85 to $3,90, Toronto. Manitobas---First patents, in lute bates, $5,00;' do, seconds, $5.10; strong bak- eLs'� in lute bags, $4, Manitoba wheat—Bay ports—No,. 1 Northern, 391c, and Na 2, 971c. Ontario W, Beat --No. 2 quote4 at $1:04 to $1,05, outside, and $1,06, en traolc, Toronto, Oats—No. 2 Ontario oats, 391 to 40e, outside, and at 420, on track, Toronto, Western Canada -Oats quoted at. 42c for No. 2, and at Me for No, 3, Pay ports. Peas --$1 to $1,03, outside. Barley --Good malting barley, 56 to 58c,• according to quality. Rye—No. 3 at 63 to G4e, outside, Buckwheat—as to 90e, outside Corn—No, 2 American, kilnedried, 78ao,' 'Toronto. Bran-.-Manitoba'bran, $24 to $26 a ton, in bags, Toronto freight. Shorts, 226 to- $27.• Country Produce. Butter—Ohoiee dairy, 18 to 20c; . in- ferior, 15 tp iGo; farmers' separator prints, 20 to 22o;• Creamery prints, fresh, 23. to '24e; do.,. sterage prints, 22 to 23e; solids, storage. 20 to 21c, Eggs -21 to 230 per dozen, in case lots. Honey—Extracted, in tins, let to 110 ter lb. Combs, $2,25 to 32;50 Per doz- en for No. 1. and e2 for No: 2. Cheese—New cheese, 14 to 14eo -for. Targe, and 14e to She for twins, Beans -el -Tana -picked, 32.25 to $2.30 Per bushel; pprimes, $2,10 to 32.20, Poultry, --Fowl, 17 to 190 Oper cele; chickens, 19 to' 20c; ducks, 2 g 15 to 16e; turkeys, 20 to. 23e. x track Potatoes ---Delawares, 31,20 en here, ,and Ontarios at 31.10; per bag on tree,. Baled Re,y'„, and Straw. Baled hay—No, 4, at'314.50 to $15 'a ton; on track here; No. 2 quoted at 813 to 313.25, and clover at $10 to 311. Baled straw—Car lots, 38.25 to 38.50, on track, Toronto. TO TEACH GARDENING. --- Young En lish'vommn Will join the g . Grenfell Mission. A despatch from London -says: Miss .Christina Fellows, a Yarmouth lady, hes sailed to Newfoundland as Provisions. Bacon=Long clear, 14 to 148o per lb. in case lots. Hams—Medium, 18 to 19c; do., heavy,: 17 to 18e; 'rolls, 148 to 15c; breakfast bacon, 18 to 19e; backs, 20 to 23c. Lard—Tierces. 123e; tubs, 123e; pails, 13e. the splendid work e the ships sus-' geon Dr, C, -rant. Several of those. re-. dor, so° as to combat the ill effects r, , One of the most stirring .escapes of ,p the disaster was that of the chief. 86 MILLION BLrSIr:1'%LS. steward, who .refused'. tOleave C the chip and ran to • thh sul?poi'to leapt • Winn -inn' Grain, Winnipeg, June 2.—Cash wheat elos- ed io to Re. higher for con.ract grades; cash oats ac lower to 3e higher; cash barley unchanged to $c higher, Montreal ,Markets. Montreal, ,Tune 2.' -- Corn, American No, 2 Fellow, 80 to 810. Oats, Canadian Western, No. 2, 433 to 4420; Canadian Western, No. 3, 422 to 43c 13ar1ey, lv1an, Peed, 51 to ; 52e. Flour Spring wheat patents, taste, '35,60,; sec- , onds, 35.10; strong. bakers'.: 34,90; Win- ter patents, .. cho ee, 35.25 to 35,50; straight rollers, $4,70 to $4.00; straight rollers, bags, 52,20. to • 52.85. Rolled - oats, barrels, 34,55; bags, 90 ibe., Bran, 323. Shorts, $25. Middlings, 328. Mouillie, 328. to '$32. Bay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14 to $.15,50, Cheese, en• est westerns, 123 to 1230; finest east - erns, 118,- to 12c, Butter, choicest creamery, 22;3 to 233e; seconds, 22 to 222o. Eggs,' fresh, 23c to -240; selected, 26 to 27c; No. 1 stock. 23 to 238c; No. 2 stock, 21 to 218e. Potatoes, per bar, car lots, 95 ,to 31.26, United States Markets. Minneapolis, June, 2,—Wheat•--)day. 903r July, 91e. Cash, No, i hard, 057. to 9se: No. • 2 Northern, 903 to 62ee., Corn. No. 3 yellow, 68 to 683c. Oats, No, 3 white, 384 to 883c. Flour and bran unchanged. Duluth. June 2.—'',Wheat -No. 1 hard, 91 a to Northern, nay, 938 No. 933Nor- thern, 19 911o; Live Stock Markets, Toronto, June 2.--Catle Cboiee but- chers', :38.65; good,'37.90 to•$8.30; common cows, 35. to $5.25' oanners and cutters, 33.60 to 34: choice fat cows, 56,50 to 37,50; choice bulls, 37 to. 37.50. Calves—Good veal, 38.75 to 310.50; common, $4,30 to 37. Stockers and feeders—Steers, S00 to 900' to 007 lbs., to 37 to 37.50; light u361 25 Y. to$ 7.25. Sheep : and lambs. -Light ewes,' 36 to $8.50; heavy, 34.50 to ,$5; bucks, $4.75 to 35.30; Spring lambs, each, '$6 to $7,50; yearling lambs, to 38. Hogs—$8.35 to 38.40,; fed and water- ed; $8.60 to 38.65, off cars; $7.95 to. 58f.o.b. Montreal, June 2.—Prime beeves. -79' to 83e; medium. 58• to 78c; common, 43 to 53e; milch cows, 530 to 380 each; calves, 30 to 7c;' sheep, 58 to 78c; lambs,' 34 to 86 each; hogs. 81 to 9c. LORD STRATHCONA'S ESTATE The Late High Commissioner's Fortune Amounted to the Large Total of S23,257,olo A despatch from London 'says: The_ personal propert'y left by the late Baron Stratheona and Mount Royal, former High Commissioner for Canada, amounted to $23;257,- 010. •.This -as disclosed _when pro- bate was granted on Wednesday. The precise value of the real es- tate left by the testator, who died in London, January 21 - this year, was not made'public, but the fact that the duty paid'amounted to $4,189,190, indicates that his entire estate, • real and personal, had a total value of $27,928,000. Th -e holdings consist of $6,606,340 of .Great- Northern Railway stocks $3,380,328 Northern Pacific Railway stocks; $4,112,803 Canadian Pacific' Railway 'atbclos:; $645,652 Bank of Montreal stock; 466,071 Laurentide stock; $400,522 Dominion Steel stock. The household effects in Lord Stratheona's Gr'osvener Square, residence have been valued at $130,000, and his pictures at $80,000 more. His Lordship's interest in the. Hudson's Bay Company -amounted to $1,240,000, and in the Anglo -Per- sian Syndicate` $280,000. His inter- est in Baring Brothers is valued at $220,000. If the will had cotcne under the previsions of Mr. Lloyd George's Buget, just -introduced, the duty, inarable would have been $0,585,000, head: of$4,135,190. 1 S .... A despatch front Madison, Wis- considn, says: The estates of Baron Strathcona of Canada will pay• nearly $190,000 inheritance tax to the State of Wisconsin. The.Wis- consin holdings which will be taxed are stocks of the Northern Paciffo Railway, approximately $3,780,000. BREAK R1I t 'S WINDOWS. Latest Maid of Militants is at Buck- ingham Palace. A despatch from London says, P Buckingham Palaee is to. be no longer exempt from the window - smashing raids of the suffragettes. It leaked out recently that two militants ,succeeded. in evading the sentries outside t11e palace. Enter- ing the quadrangle, they began throwing stones: at the windows, and had .lashed two of them when the se atrnes seized them and took them to the police station within the precincts of the palace, where they gave'their names to the police. The Master of the RoyalHousehold refused to prose,eute them, and they were released after a: few hours' 'detention. At, a meeting of the WoJLihen's Social and Political Union, when Mrs. Mansell vola of what the two women had succeeded in doing, the audienoe burst into cheers lasting several minutes. T.ho suggestion that the Queen iuust be h,orrifiecl, at the treatment metes out to imprisoned. suffragettes was received with loud cries of dissent. Mrs. Mansell. strongly protested against the action of the , Arch- bishop of Centerrbury in "refusing sanctuary" t'o• Miss Annie Ke,nney,, adding that the Archbishop would be allowed no peace until women obtained the vote. Miss Barbara Wylie, alluding to the raid on Buckingham Palace, said that "Reel --- Tl tlranday" would have results more deli on the badge, together wit', Purr th b' 1f '1 wheat r!'ill• xYasls t2 . fithatl jlad e he:^•n; fat ULt Lt aer�a4nl � �ie tub ser A. B. bracd0nald. The three officers USttlllatcfl 1 1 lit l Q 1 were the last living People on the Iter Co' 011 4zl Piess, and went down with her. Later 1 " t 1 1`1lroil h i41ou t'ea , e esu. t w Capt, Kendall a an 1 tl d Steward Geode w rescued, but the busses followed thq A. despatch r1 om Montreal says: the women would become mole and ship to death. 1aOColr In topraSt I d' 11 . `.J C r ith 'tl o e d?{'t+'TT hied ,tl "a a,' t f tli8i ' y , m i et`s,:eigi1 y roil set) .uls es o wheat o, ains, holdmy t-1ell' •heads and LIN]{,1L�1N ETiI'.0 illkOl. tt 1114), iatil,l this ; . ' . of Mass tllrcu h the ,,,,AA.� despatch coni GoTaa't sirs •: