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The Clinton New Era, 1914-06-04, Page 3'Thursday, Jane 4th, 1914. CLINTON NEW BEA. Major and Mrs. Creighton of the Salvation Army, Toronto. 'Both were lost: TRIED TO SAVE LEADER 'Frank Morris Swam With Commis- sioner Rees on His Back In Vain• "I did my best. Arthur and Daisy lost. Have got Daisy's bddy. No trace of Arthur's. I did my utmost 'to save Commissioner Rees. Swam with him on my back until both were exhausted, and Commissioner slipped •off my back. "Frank Morris." The, foregoing :message was re-. •ceived- at the SalvationArmy head - "quarters, Toronto, on Saturday morn- ing, -'from Major Frank` Morris, of London, Ont., one of the heroes of the terrible disaster. Arthur Morris was his brother and 'Daisy was Ar- lhur's wife. Storstadt Under Arrest The steam Storstadt is held under -arrest at Montreal under a writ for $2,000,000 damages issued by the C.P.R. The statements of Captain Bendall of the 'Empress and Captain Andersen of the Storstadt are hope- lessly at variance as to the respon- sibility for the accident. One Case Out of Many' The sickening lunge which carried the Empress to the bottom, parted forever wives and husbands, parents and children. One couple rudely wrenched asunder were Mr. and Mrs. William Davies, of Toronto. Mr. Davies was rescued by a boat from the Eureka; and his wife disappeared In the swirl and was never seen eagle.. Loss Covered by Insurance Both the steamer and her cargo were fully covered by insurance, mostly in English and Continental companies. Ontario Elections The provincial Legislature has been •dissolved and elections will be held ,Tune 29. WILL CELEBRATE HERE. At a meeting held on {Friday eve- ning of last week ittwas decidedto hold sports here ion the 1st of July ito make headway a strong body of enthusiastic men were elected to office and roman rtteee. Chairman, H. T. ,Rance Secretary. J. 11. Doherty Treasurer, J. E. !Hovey Goriunitteee Dr. Shaw ip,' Couch: M. D. MsTaggart, A, J. Morrish, C. B. Dowding and Harry Baltl.df. and George Hoare. The committee have .power to add totheir number to snake the other necessary committees. as they see fit. TIIbI comnrlttee is to meet this week and snake ,final arrrangements for the program of the day. With the Katie Band at the hoed and the Base ball, foot ball, lacross,'and some attractions a full day can be spent The Council has already grant a made a g. to help the 'day along. Let every body get out and boost the day along. Remember to celebrate/ the let at Clinton. The big announce- menta will be out thfsweek. +r,a� Had Salt Rheum. Could Scarcely Work.• Skin diseases are invariably due to bad or impoverished blood, and while not usually attended with fatal results are nevertheless very distressing to the average person. Among the most prevalent are: Salt Rheum, Eczema, Tetter, Rash, Boils, Pimples, and Itching Skin Eruptions. Burdock Blood Bitters drives out all the humor from the blood, and makes it pure and rich. Mrs. Ellwood Nesbitt, Apsley, Ont., writes: -"I had Salt Rheum so bad I could scarcely do my work. I took two treatments of doctor's medicine, but they did me no good. A friend told me his wife had had Salt Rheum, and that Burdock Blood Bitters had cured her, so I got a bottle, and before I had it all taken my hand was better." Burdock Blood Bitters is manufac- tured only by The T. Milburn Co.,. Limited. Toronto Ont. CLUBBING BATES ew Era and Daly Globe,.-... $4.50 New Era and Daily Mail .and Emp:re 4.50 New Era and Daily World 3.35 New Era and Daily News 2.35 ,ew Era and `Daily Star 2.35 .qew Era and Fam:ly Herald and Weekly Star Sew Era and Weekly Witness 1.85 New Era and Northern Mes- senger 1.60 New Era and Canadian Farm 1.85 New Era and. Farmer's Sun1.85 New Era and !Daily Free Press, morning 3.35 Now Era and Daily- Free r:SS, evening ...-.. New Era and Weekly Free Pi a s:f ' New ora and Da'Iy Advertiser mew Era and Weekly Adver- tiser few Era and Farm and Dairy few Era and Farmer's Advo- cate 1.85 2.85 1.85 2.85 1.60 1.85 2,36 HINTS TO CORRESPONDENTS, Write on ope side of paper only Mail to reach us Wednesday of each week or sooner, Avoid all items respecting on per- sonalcharacter but ;send Ali the News, Cheeh off this list it may assist you to remember an imporltant item. ' . Births, Marriages', Deaths. Accidents, Church News Suppers or Presentations. Removals, Visitors. Lodge News, Fires. IPublic Improvements. LCases, Law the Crops. p. School Matters. Correspondent. will please re- frain from sending ,notices.ofen- tertainments ' where an admission fee is charged, 'unless :they send word who is responsible for the payment of such advertisment. The charge id five, cents a line -six words make a line, One of the lounges on the Empress. mpress The Empress of Ireland WORST. DISASTER Quebec, came this deeply -laden co111er Storstadt, a Norwegian ship engaged in carrying coal from Nova Scotia to gage , beams untn mere was an enormour gap that opened from amidships to the stern of the liner. - The water 'rushed in with the power of Niagara up -river ports. She struck the Em= Captain Kendall and his officers did CANADA EVER KNEW press amidships with such force that the side of the great ship was pierced, and the plates were ripped off for, a considerable distance below the water - Over a Thoussnd Drowned. When lasitre. At once she began to fill, and the water poured in she careened C.F.R. Steamer Empress of .over so far that the launching of the ,boats became a matter of the: utmost Ireland Was Sunk in Col- difiicnit3:. I Stewards rushed below calling frau- lision in St. Lawrence tically to the passengers- to come on . 'deck, but there, was slight time for preparation and many hurried up I RAMMED' BY "COLLIER IN A `FOG .froi m _their berths clad only in tlefr night clothing. Passengers Trapped In Their Berths The callsof the wireless operator -No Time to Launch all for aid were heard at Father Point. Wirelers Station immediately after the Boats they beg--, and two Government) steamers' which bad steam up raced Second only to the Titanic disaster to the• spot 'indicated. Before they in the number of lives lost was the arrived the Empress had gone down, catastrophe which overtook the C.P.Ra C.P.R.and all that could be done was to steamer Empress of Ireland which was gather the survivors, many of whom sent to the bottom of the St. .Law- had taken to• the boats or thrown themselves into the cold water with but little clothing on them. It was almost three hours before the work of rescue was completed, and the sur- , and 1,002 were lost, It was, from the vivors were landed at Rimouski and' numbers of Canadians lost, the most mustered for roll call. marine Wo- of disaster in the appalling Separated ra e Families a d F mlli s a p tory thef thetDominion. From all parts • It was only then, when parents df country the passengers were failed to find 'their children and bus - drawn, Aa contingent of 166 being Sal -s bands their wives among the sur- bus - Yellen Army ngdelegates lto the World's • vivors, that the full horror of the Decennial Congress at London. Of i dis- those barely more than a score sur-,; aster began to make itself felt. For vive. The Empress sank within four- ; a time there was a ray of hope tbat teen minutes after being struck. There ;others might be saved and landed was time only to lower nine life- !later, but the number of passengers boats. Morethan1,000 persons were ' .who reported was pitifully few. As asleep and were unable to get to the ''Captain Kendall stated, many of them decks before they were carried down had not been able to make their way in seventeen fathoms of water. Scores 'on deck, and were, therefore, carried were crushed to death by the bow of 'down with the ship, the Storstadt as it ripped through Among the dead are Laurence Irv - tiers of staterooms. The survivors in Ing, the English actor, who was a son the lifeboats and upon bits of wreck- of Sir Henry Irving; his wife, Mabel Hackney, and Sir Henry Seton -Kerr, age were picked up by Dominion Government steamers which reached a- famous hunter of big game and the scene of the disaster from Ill- ' prominent at the English bar. Very mouski. I ,few of the first or second cabin pas - The survivors were taken to RI- sengers were saved. Only a few wo. mouski by the Government steamers men were escued. Tureka and Lady Evelyn. Later; Passengers Were Helpless many were placed on a special train 1. The fact that stands out wasthe and . started for Quebec. Captain ,co-•-plete helplessness of most of the Kendall, of the Empress, was saved, passengers. They were trapped i1 but he was badly hurt from falling their staterooms and were killed or upon wreckage as his ship sank. drowned before officers: and crew had The chief officer was lost. So far time to help them. It was all over as scan be learned no blame attaches to the officers or crew of the Empress. Anchored Because of Fog ranee River at 1.45 Friday morning in collision with the collier Storstadt near Father Point, Of the 1.467 per- sons on board only 465 were saved The Empress was motionless in the river awaiting the lifting of a heavy fog, which had thickened as she steamed down the stream. After she took the mails aboard off Rimouski Captain Kendall decided that the bet- ter course would be to tie to till morn- ing. The, activity following the talc= Ing aboard of the mails being at an end, the passengers and the bulk of the crew were in their berths. Out of the fog, steaming rapidly toward within fourteen minutes. The collier was near to sinking, but was able to make her way to Rimous. ki after picking up a few of the sur- vivors from the Empress. Her bow was shattered to the waterline from the collision. The collier, weighted with 7,000 •tons of coal, was out of her course In the channel as she came on of 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, ..,anortleht compartments. and deck Map of the locality with (x) Empress of Ireland disaster. showing the scene of all that was humanly possible in 'the' fourteen minutes that' 'the Empress hung on the river. Captain Kendall as hurt and in great painbut he wshowed the pluck and decision of a naval officer. In the first minute. f, the disaster he ordered young Edward Bomford, tho wireless operator, to flash the S.O.S. call, the cry far help that every ship', must heed. 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.mon and women who had been asleep woke too late to scramble to the decks. They were crushed or mangled by the bow of the Storstadt, injuredby splintered timbers or over- whelmed In the terrific rush of water. It is probable that scores were killed instantly, but • hundreds perished while feebly struggling for doorways, while trying for a footing on the slop- ing decks. The terror and confusion of the few minutes while the Em- press staggered, listed and sank caa hardly be put in words. The sur- vivors themselves could not describe those moments adequately. They came ashore at Rimouski, stunned mentally as well as phyaica'ly. A corner of the smoking room on the Empress of Ireland. THOSE WHO WERE LOST Every Part of Canada Suffered Severe- ly-WholeFamilies Wiped Out A 'list of passengers and, crew of of- ficially the Empress of Ireland issued ued f- ficially'by the C.P,R, gives the total number aboard as 1,367, divided as follows: First cabin passengers, 87; second cabin passengers, 153; third- class passengers, 716; officers and crew, 432. Total, 1,387. The following list of Canadian dead of the Empresa of Ireland is compiled 'from all ava,ls js pources ` -^^� A. B. Anderson, Loft' don; Miss A. S. 54. Assafrey, Winnlsec Miss M. Atkin, Prince Albert; John. `Ald- ridge, S.A., Toronto; Mrs. H. Axton, S.A.; Ernest Aldridge, Toronto; Elsie Ailse, Toronto; H. Andrews, Port Col- borne; Mrs. Aligrove and children, ,Windsor; Charles Apple, Toronto. Miss D. Balcomb, Vancouver; Miss A. Bates, Toronto; Mrs. W. and Misses Florence and Evelyn Barbour, Silverton, B.C.; Alfred Barker Saska- toon; Miss Mary Baxter, Toronto; Edward Beale, London, Ont.; Mies E. Berry, Vancouver; Henry Birkett, Car- staire, Alberta; G. D. Bishop,- Van- couver; Miss .I. Blackhurst, Paris, Ont.;; Reinholdt !loch, Mrs. F. E. Royton, St, 'Thomas; Ensign G. tis nynge, S.A,, Toronto; Adjutant Beck- sted, S.A., Winnipeg; Lieut. S, Big - ,land, S.A., Torouto; Miss Alice Bales, S.A., ;Toronto; - Boardman, Hamil- ton; W. Barrie, Silverton, B.C.; 0. Brown, Kendra; ,Mrs. Bughler, Costa, ,Regina; IS, Blulpitt, Vancouver; Mrs, S. Burgess, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. L. Bolton and children Toronto; Mrd. Burch andasaChildreu,Toronto; he . re' Colonel and Mrs. Gaskin, of the Salvation- Army, both were saved. A. Blackham, Toronto; Mis.: Board- man, Hamilton; Miss D. Brooks,, Tor onto; Miss Rose Butler, Toronto; Mr: and Mrs. A. E. Barlow, Montreal; Miss Alice Brown, Toronto. J. J. Cayley, Ilamilton; Mrs., C. A. Cay, Golden, B.C.; Miss Juanita Ci•a thern, Montreal; Mrs. F. W., Miss Maud and Master Cullen, Toronto; Major and Mrs. D. Creighton, S,A., Toronto; Mrs. F. Cotsell, S.A., and baby, Mrs. Crafton, S.A.; R. Oreilin, Silverton, 13.C.; Mrs. M. Crawford, , Torouto; Mrs. E. Cotterill, London, Ont; R. H. Clements, Port Hope; Percy Cooper, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Caughey, Ottawa; Mrs. T. Chig- nell, Victoria; Mrs. W. and Miss Nellie Clarke, Toronto; Mrs. A. Cole, Princeton, B.C. Capt. and Mrs. Dodd, S.A., Toronto; Adjutant and Mrs. T. DelIow, Toronto; Mrs. E. Dunn, S.A.; Miss Delamont, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Durrant Campbell ford; Mr, and Mrs. F. Deveson, Lamb - tons; Mrs. E. Davis, Toronto; Mrs. Dutton, Windsor; 'Mrs, M. Dale and baby, Toronto; Mrs. J. F. Dandy, Pierson, Man.; Mrs. J. Dargue, Ke-. nora; A. H. Death, Regina. Mr. and Mrs. E. Evans, S.A., Tor- onto; Miss Easton, S.A., Toronto; Adjutant Edwards, S.A., Ottawa,• H. E. Ford, Winnipeg; Major and Mrs. ih Findlay, S.A., Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. E. Ford, S.A., and baby, Toronto;. Mr. and Mrs. George Fal - stead, S.A., child and baby, Toronto; Fishwicks, Windsor; Miss E. Fell, Toronto; Misses K., N., D. and B. Farr, Moose Jaw. Mr. and Mrs. J. Gregg, Chilllwaok, B.C.; Mrs. W. H. Griffin and baby, Cloverdale, B.C.; Captain Groome, S.A.; J. A. Goddard, S.A., Toronto; Adjutant and. Mrs, I3. Green, T. Green, and Miss Jessie Green, S.A., Toronto; Capt. E. P. Grey, S.A., Toronto; H. Greenaway, S.A., Toronto; Miss Goff, Toronto; Miss Violet Griffin, Brant- ford., Mrs. D. T. Halley, Vancouver; Mrs. C. G. Holloway, Quebec; Emma Hayes, St. Capt., i3.A., Toronto; W, Horwood,. S.A., Toronto; Brigadier, Mrs, Miss C. and Master D. Hunter, S.A., Lon- don; Adjutant and Mrs, T. Hannagan, S.A., Toronto; Mrs, J. Humphreys, S.A., Toronto; Mrs, J. and, Miss Judith' Hakker, Winnipeg; C. Halliday, Pier- son, Man.; Mr., Mrs. W., Miss Edith and Master William Hart, Mortlake, Sask.; Mrs. M. K., Miss 13. M. and Master H. M. Hepburn, Vancouver; Mrs. Robert Hoggan, Nanaimo; Miss F. Holcombe, Calgary; Miss C. Hope, Hamilton; 11. W. Hudson, Montreal; Miss C. Harvey, Windsor; Mrs. Hunt, Windsor; Miss Mabel F. Hays, Tor- onto; Mrs. A. and Miss Lily Howell, Brantford; Miss K. Haverinen, Tor- onto; henry and Miss E. Hall, Tor- onto; Mrs. M. E. Hill, Mrs, and Miss Hobbs, Brantford; Mrs. Howatt and child, Calgary; Mr. and Mrs. William and Melvin Howarth, Calgary; W. Iisenheimer, Montreal, Mr, and Mrs, F. Jay and child, Toronto; David Johnson, Fredericton; Ensign Jones, S.A., Calgary; E. Jones, S.A., Toronto; Mrs. and Master Jeffs, Paris, Ont.; Mrs. A. Juniper and child,' Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Edward John- ston, Toronto; Mrs. 0. Jack, Toronto; Mrs. A. Jarry and children, Brantford. Capt. H. Knudson, S.A.,Parry Sound; T. Keeley, Toronto; Mrs. til. Kerr and children, London, Ont,; - Kilsby, Toronto. Dr. Alex, Lindsay, Halifax; H, 13. and Mrs. Lyman, Mohtreall Mei, J. 19, Linslie, Moosemin, Sask.; Mr., Mrs. and Master Lawlor, Brantford; Nr: ap,d. Mr3, Lir ley land chill Brant- ford; Frederick Laskey, London •Ont. Capt. McGrath, S.A., Winnipegi Mrs. M. McGeehan and children, Lon- don, Ont.; George McWhinney, Tor- onto; A. G. Maginnis, London; Miss E. Mullins, Col. and Mrs. S, Matdment, S.A,, Toronto; Ensign 0.'.1Viardelll, Vancouver; Capt. J. Myers, S,A, Tor- onto; St. Capt. and Mrs. A. Morns, SA., Toronto; Major David Moore, S.A., Toronto; George Meecher, S.A., Toronto; Mrs. T., Miss and baby Mutttill, Winnipeg; Mr. and Mrs. :Ar- thur Morris Toronto; Mrs, Amelia Mott, Woodstock; Mrs. Ma,wby and chlid, Toronto Williain.Moore, Lon- don, Ont. Mr. and Mrs. 13, Neville, London; T. Neave, 0.A., Toronto Mrs. and Mrs, William Naulls, Toronto. IT. R; O'Hara, Toronto; George Oakley, Toronto; Mrs, W, L. Palmer, London; Mrs. W. N'. Prica, New Zeland; Miss Parker Toronto; J. Phillips, Toronto; John Iatterson Calgary; Robert Pat- terson, Toronto; W. H. Perry, Peter - bore; Mr, and Mrs, Id Peterson, Win- nipeg; Misses A. and M. Priestley, Edmonton (Jeorge' Prior, Winnipeg; Brig. S. and MaSter W.Potter, S.A., Toronto; Eiialan 13, Pattendan,_ Sara, Toronto; gerkins SIT Adjutant Price, S,A., Hamilton; Mrs, Paulling, S.A., Toronto; Mrs. J, Puyer, Toronto; Mrs. M. Pratt and: child, Toronto; Mrs. A. Perich and children, Toronto; Miss Parkinson, Toronto; Mrs, and Mrs. W. Prince and child, Hamilton; Miss Parkhurst, Toronto. Miss W. M. Quartley, Vancouver. F. J. Rutherford,' Montreal; John Reilly, Hamilton; Commissioner and Mrs. D. M. Rees, S.A., Toronto; Capts. H. and M., and Miss A Rees, S.A., Toronto; E. Rutherford, Tor- • onto; Mrs. and Master Reeves, Wind- sor; William and Miss Russell, Lon- don, Ont.; Charles Reed, Paris, Ont.; Mrs. S. A. and Miss Rig -bey, Toronto; Mrs. M, Radburn, London, Ont. Major N. Simcoe, S.A., Vancouver; Adjutant and Mrs. W. Stitt, S.A., Toronto; Mrs. Seybold, Ottawa; G. Bogue Smart, Ottawa; Mrs. A. Stork, Toronto; S. J. Sampson, Guelph; Miss Schongutt, Montreal); John Scott, Mortlake, Sask.; Wm. Shattock, Nes- bitt, Man.; Reginald' S'.mmcnds, Lan- don; Mrs, E. Smith, Calgary; Miss, Isabel Stage, Toronto; Mrs. E. Stain- er, Calgary; M. Stayon, Montreal; A. E. Stillman, Calgary; Miss A. Swindlehurst, Toronto; Fred J. and Miss Maud Smith, Toronto; was Rose Smedley, Toronto; Mrs. Steele and children, Brantford; Mr. G. and Miss Spurgeon, Ham 'ton; Thomas Smart, Toronto; F. Sni'ith, Toronto; W. S. Strobridge, St. Catharines; Mr. and Mrs. Simper, Torosft,o; Mrs. I. Smith, Toronto; Mr. and Airs. Stevenson, Toronto; Mrs. R. Smadley, Toronto; Adjutant W. Still, S.A.,'troronto. Mr, and Mrs. C. D. Tyke, J. T. Tay- lor, Montreal; Miss Elira Taplin, Kamloops, B.C.; Mrs. atdd,...Maaten Turnbull, Toronto; James T. and Mies Taylor, Hamilton; A. Treherne, Strat- ford; A. Tales, Toronto. Miss B, Veatch, Victoria; Miss Alice Voneley, Hamilton. Capt. G. Whatmore, 5.A.,` Toronto; W. Wakefield, S.A., Vancouver; Brig.. Heary Walker, S.A., Toronto; Mrs. Sarah and Miss Woodward, S.A., -Tor- onto; Mrs. J. Whitelaw, New West- minster, B.C.; Mrs. George White and'. baby, New Westminster, B.C.; Miss E. Willmot, Campbellford, Ont.; bliss Mary Wood, Regina; Mrs. S. Wood. Toronto; Mrs. 17. Watson, Toronto; Mrs. and Miss White, Guelph;' Mrs. D. White, lerantford; Henry Willcock Toronto. Mrs. H, and Harry Yates, Hamilton. Doctor's Thriting Escape Dr. Jas. F. Grant, a young McGill graduate and ship's doctor on the Em- press was pulled through a porthole as the Empress sank. lie swam. to, , y• the Storstadt and took charge t`h'e rearmed. Las OVERWORK AND WORRV A Fruitful Source of Broken . • Down Constitutions, ig 17 A .little )worry does a great' delay of harm,Overwork and worry, gives rine te to headaches ;nervous ,ness, sleeplessness, weak back, lack Of fnrterest isa your work ,indigest- ion 'and sometimes a complete breakdown of the. iniervous system leading to garalysis. 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I can res- ommend the,Pills to an aff1tetled' with -,nervousness ar a broken con stitutigrn as I feet sure they ;will effect a cure?' Thes'e Pills are sold by,all medic- .ane dealers or iv�."rh be sent. by mail ' at 50 cents a box or. ;six boxes for 1$2.50 by e rrtiingl The Dr, Williams Mediicilne Co., Brockville Onit,