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The Great Liner, Carrjing 1,867 Peo. pie la Bammed Amldshlp In a Dense Fog, and Before Stewarts Can Arouse Sleepers In Early Morning They Find (irilTP IB me 1 tj Waters of the Canadian Stream; Tragedy Happens Within Sight of Land Help Answers "Save, Oh, Save" Signal Biit Arrives Too Late. RImouskf, "Que., 29?Sinking In ninety feet of water within 16 min utes after being rammed amidships In the Upper Reaches of the St. Law rence River early today, the Cana dian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland carried down with her more than 900 of her passengers and crew. Of the 1,367 persons on board -the liner, only 433 are known to have been saved, making the probable death list 914. Looming up through the river mists as the Empress of Ireland was lying to, waiting for the fog to. lift or day to break, t[ie Danish collier ^torsted crashed bow on into the side of the big Canadian liner, striking her ab out midway of her length and ripping her side open clear to the stern. Die In Sight of Shore. The crash occured not far from the shore of Father Point, 150 miles from Quebec, which the Empress ot Ireland left yesterday afternoon bound for Liverpool, and ten miles from this point on the St. Lawrence. In reality, therefore, although the liner was heading for the sea and the col lier coming 1n from ltl the disaster waa not one of the ocean, but ot the Tlver. Unlike the Tltantlc's victims the Empress of Ireland lost their lives 'within sight of shore In lam\ locked waters. ; Immediately after the ship's crew recovered from the shock ot the col lision and It was seen that the liner had received a vital b!6w. a wireless "S. O. S." call was sounded. I Rescue Attempt Fritltless The hurried appeal was picked up by the government mall tender, Lady Evelyn, here ft the Government pilot boat Eureka at Father Point, and both set out to the rescue. So deep was the hurt of the Empress, however and so fasj (.he inrush of waters,that could reach the scene the liner had gone down. Only floating wreckage and a few life boats and rafts from the steamer, buoying up less than a third of those wbff had set sail on her, were to be -Umfcl. The rest had sunk with the liner, had been crush ed to the Storsted's past with her, or had been forced from exposure In the ice-chilled waters to loose their hold on bits of wreckage and had drowned, htjary and Exposure Kills Only a few persons were picked up by the Storsted, which was b*dly crippled herself end these were ? brought here by the Collier, as were those saved by the Eureka and Lady Evelyn. Twenty-two of the rescued died from Injury and exposure. The others, most of whom had Jumped Idto tlrt boats or plunged Into the water from the *|pfctKI vessel acantly clad, were given (ttch clothing as the town could supply, and later those who could travel where placed on board of train and started for Quebec. Accounts agree that In the brlet ?pace of time?not more than 14 min utes?between the shock of the collis ion and the Binking of the liner, there was little cltuice for systematic mar shalling of the passengers. Few Women Saved. Few women were among the sayqd, not more than a dozen, the llBts nfa'ke It appear. "It all happened so quickly we did not really know what was going on and nobody had time to cry "women first,' " one of the passengers told Captain Bellinger, of the Rescue boat Eureka. "The stewarts did not have time to rouse the people from their births," the survivor added. "Those who heard the friends calls of the officers for the passengers to hurry on deck and rushed up, piled Into the boats which were rapidly lowered and car ried a*ay. Many who waited to dress were drowned. Explosion Adds to Horror. The horror of the interval during the time the Empress was filing and the frightened throngs on board her were hurrying every effort to escape before she sank, was added to by an explosion which quickly followed the ripping given the liner by the Stor steds's bow. According to one of the rescued the explosion probably caused by the water reaching the boilers, bulged the liner's sides and catapul ted persons from her decks out into the sea. The ship's heavy list as water pouring in weighted her on the side she was struck made the work of launching boats Increasingly difficult and when she finally took her plunge to the bottom Bcores still left on her decks were carried down, only a few being able to clear her sides an