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Survivors Give Details of the Most
TerribU- Tragedy in the Annals
of tlie Liawrence.
Quebec, May 30.—-Mote than 1,000
persons lost their lives when the Ca
nadian Pacific Steamship Empress of
Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence ear
ly Friday after a collision with the
Danish collier Storstad. Figures com-
niipid hy the- Canadisn Pacific Railv/ay
Company and made public today in
dicated that I»632 persons in all had
perished. They list follows:
Saved: First class passengers* !•»;
second and third class passengers,
i:U; crew, 20; total, 355.
. The number of passengers carried
by the Empress of Ireland: First class
87; second cla.«:s, 153; third class, 715;
crew, *132; total; 1,387.,.
With the survivors safe in Quebec,
■where they were being given every
^ssible care, attention iagain turned
today to Rimouski, vliere efforts to
recover the bodies of victims are in
prdgress. Early today the number of
bodies landed there passed t!ie :iOO
mark.
DEAD PILED IN TIERS.
The (lead were piled in tiers, mak
ing it possible to closely scrutinise
the bodies for Identification. Few
have far been recognized. There
appear to be many for?igners among:
thf? dead, jndginir from p«sspurts
feu I'd on tho S'idie.'^.
V,‘i men and childiiri: ai't* plentiful
ly r*’ij'*eseiited in zho, gvint pile, iimons?:
them molhei* wi":h hei chilJ pressed
closely to her broi\st.
Those who w;;r-es?ed the scene at
Rimouski where the sad harvest o£
the rescue ships was laid on the piers,
said the sijrht was heart-rending.
Many of them staved heavenward
\%*it}i wide open eyes; some with hor
ror in them and others with an air of
puzzled surprise. . There was little
attempt to co^er the corpsjes and for
the niDst part tiiey lay practically as
they had been taken our of the water,
soni& ha]t'-dre??ed and others nearly
naked. .
The lender Lady Grey has been
de?i{rnalc({ as a funeral ship and is
expected tc» reac*h Quebec today with
the bodies of the dead so far remov
ed. An army of carpenters and un-
dortaker.'i worked all night and today
converiinjr one of the large freight
.•^heds of the harbor front into a tem
porary moi'jrue.
compared TO TITANIC.
The collier Stor.stad. which rammed
the ill-faced liner, arrived here short
ly after one o'clock this morning ac
companied by the wiecking steamer
Strathcona and anchored in mid
stream. A press boat went out but
newspaper men were refused permis
sion to board. It was learned, howev
er, that she had saved many of the
Empress’ passengers.
The Storstad is badly damager,
havinji a hole some 15 feet square in
her bow. She is waitin.T for orilers
to say whether .^he will 4}ock here or
go to Montreal.
Stories of disaster brought to
Quel>er by survivors have vivid de
tails of the most tenific tragedy in
the annals of the St. Lawrence. Some
compared it to the sinking of the Ti
tanic but pointed out that in the case
of the Titanic there was time to pre
pare for death while with those vrho
perished on the Empress there was
little lime for reflection or prayer.
PRAISE FOK THE CAPTAIN,
From the accounts of the saved it
seems that soon after the ship was
rammed she careened until her deck
stood at right angles to the water.
She slid slowly into the water and
u was only possible to launch five
boats in the brief interval before she
finally sank.
Captain Kendall was on the bridge
when the collision occurred. When the
steamer sank he was washed away,
later lo be picked up by one of the
boats, apparently to his great regret.
Thus far he has vouchsafed no public
statement except to say that he would
have preferred to go down with his
ship. Passengers speak in his praise
and declare he did his full duty.
Chief officer Steed, it is stated, was
killed by a boat falling on him while
working to help the passengers es~
cape.
lUVING DIED LIKE A HERO.
Laurence Irving, author and actor,
and son of Sir Henry Irving, accord
ing to survivors, died while trying to
fiave hi.-^ wife. Mr, and !\frs. Irving
wore last seen on deck embracing one
anoihei* as if in farewelL They wenv
down with the ship locked in each
others' arms.
F. E. Abbott, of Toronto, was the
l^st man to see Mr. Irving alive.
met him first in the passageway,”
he said, “and he said calmly. *Is the
boat going down?’ I said it looked
like it. 'Dearie,' Irving then said to
his wife, ‘hurry. There is no time
to lose.’
*‘Mrs. Irving began to cry and as
the actor reached for a life belt the
boat suddenly lurched and he was
thrown against the door of his cabin.
Hia fac« was Moody tM Mrs. Irv
ing becaine frantic. ^'K«ep cool, h«
warned her, but she persisted in hold*
ing her arms around him. He forced
the Mfe belt over her» pushed her out
of the door and practically carried
her up stairs. I asked if I could help
and Ir\ing said: *I*ook after yourself
first, old man, but God bless you all
the same.”
Abbott got on d^k and dived over
board. He caught bold of a piece of
kj Kg ficated £S'-V Irv
ing oh deck kissinp: his wife us tne
ship went down.
~GOprTHY* WILL BE DONE.”
M. D. A. Darling, a survivor here,
was sav^ by a life belt that might,
have saved Sir Henry Seton-Karr. “My
cabin was opposite Sir Henry’s," said
Darling today, “and when I opened
my door we bumped into each other
in the passage way. He had a life
belt and lie offered it to me. I refus
ed it, but he said 'go on, man,.take it,
and I will get another.’ I told him
to save himselfi but he got angry and
actually forced the belt over me. He
then hurried me along the corridor to
tlie door. Apparently he went back
for another belt, but .x irtement or two
•fler he hed left me the ship went
down. I was picked up.”
Comimssipner Rees, of the Salva
tion Army, stood on the deck of the
doomed vessel trying to persuade the
people to keep cool and lending a
helping hsnd to many. When she ship
was almost under water one of his
men shouted to him to jump for his
\ife. He replied he would stand by
his wife and children aiid sank with
the words, “0, God, Thy will be
done/’ on his lips.
THE MOTHER WAS LOST.
One of the touching sights on the
survivors’s train was that present
ed by Phillip Lawler. With his wife
and son he had left his home in Bran-
fcrd, Ontario, where they had lived
for the la:tt seven years, to v*i.«it their
old home. Keitghly, Yorkshire, Eng
land. The raother went down with
he ship, while the fther, after a des
perate struggle, managed to save his
son. Herbert, and him.solf. He was
injured when the explosion occurred
and with his head swathed in band-
a^res and bowed with grief, he sat a
disconsolate figure at his son’s side.
Only 22 women and two children of
the many al>oard appear to have been
.avod.
One littif girl, Helen O’Hara, f-wam
until she was picked up. as also did
Miss Thompson, from New Zealand.
Mrs. Cheer.away. a iu'ide of a week,
was separated from her husband and
thought she had 2ost him. bu( the
two had a haj>py reunion later at
Rimouski.
Prosably Die chief cau.se of con
fusion on the steamer after the im
pact w;;.*i the fact that the water, l ush-
ing into the engine room and flood
ing the dynamos, threw the ship in-
ti complete darkness. The struggle
ff the terrified passengers to escape
can be imagined.
One of the first .•^teps taken at Rim
ouski this mornii’.g was the establish
ment of a regular beach patrol to pre
vent looting by beach combei's.
SL'KVIVORS GIVE DETAILS.
Jlontrer.l. .May Exhausted sur
vivors of the Empress of Ireland dis-
a.ster, wearing misfit clotLing sup
plied by the people ot Himouski, ar
rived in Montreal today. In the par
ty was a remnant of the Salvation
.Army band, more than a hundred of
whom had perished.
The survivors incjaded:
Messrs. McIntyre, Measures, Green
away, Staff Captain McAmmond,
Liuet. Kieth, James Johnstone, Mr.
and Mrs. Atwell, E. Green, Captain
Spooner, little Grace Hannagan, Miss
Bales, all of Toronto; Miss Cook and
band sergeant Fowler and Miss Wil-
mot, of Winnepeg.
'*1 was looking through the port
hole in my cabin ami|ships’* said
Band sergeant Fowler when I saw a
big black shape loom up out of the
darkness. It seemed only a few feet
away.
“Then came the jolt; it could not
l»e called a crash because it was more
of a grinding sensation. Before I re
alized what had happened my cabin
begiin to fill with water. I rushed
up the main companionway. I saw
a girl with a little baby in her arms
and a little child follownng her. The
girl begged me to put a life belt on
her, >0 1 flopped long enough lo do
this."
By this lime I-'uwler had reached
the deck, he said, tho ship was listing
l>adly and the passengers had to cling
to the rail to keep from going over
the side. Fowler jumped.
“I went down and down until I
tliought my lungs would burst/* he
said. ‘‘Bodies buniped into me. Once
a man threw his arms around me and
I had to fight to break his grip.
‘‘I swam several hundred feet and
\\ns almost exhausted when a boat
picked me up.'^ Among residence sur
vivors in the Salvation Army who ar
rived here was Thomas Smart, who
says he believ'es he was the last man
‘to speak to Captain Kendall before
the collision.
*TWAS A NICE NIGHT.
was sitting out on the upper
deck,” he said, “and when, the CAptain
walked past about half past one a. m.
and said *If is a ni-^e liight but it looks
to me as though a Jog is coming. You
never know how sooji a fog will drop
on you at this part of the river.''
When the crash cams Smart says
he p;iw Captain Kendall on the bridge.
H'.* wa* boldine onto the rail, shout
ing orders to the crew, leaning ocer
and -wavi&g his hands. He heard him
say: “Keep your heads-there, don’t bo-
excited.^' When 3. boat, droppen side
ways into the water the captain seem
ed to r^lize that the liner was lost,
lor he shoQted, “Hurrup up there ev
erybody, there is not a minute to lose.
Get tho blewards through the corri
dors- If there are doors locked break
them In. ' Get the people out and don’t
forget that women and children must
come first.”
*He spoke through a megaphone''
said Smart, “btu there was so much
sci-eaming and moaning that his voice
was drowned. But he stuck to his
post to the very last.
‘When I got to the Lady Evelyn
I saw him stretched out there and
they were giving him brandy. When
he was able to speak he looked around
and asked ‘Where is the Ship?’ A
passenger told him the boat had gone.
On hearinjf this Captain Kendall bur
ied his face in a piece of tarpaulin
and cried as though his heart would
break.”
SAW STORSTAD TWO MILES OFF.
Rimouski, May Captain H. G.
Kendall, of the Empress of Ireland,
in testifying at the inquest into the
disaster here today, said he saw the
Storstad two miles away before the
fog obliterated her from view. He
inimediately stopped his ship and rang
for full speed astern. At the same
time Captain Kendall said he blew
three short blasts on Ms whistle,
meaning “I am going full speed as
tern.” Captain Kendall added that
the Storstad’s whistle answered with
long blasts on his whistle, meaning
*‘My ship was under way but stopped
one long blast. Soon he blew two
and has no way upon her."' This
whistle signal was also an.swered by
the Storstad. Two minutes later, the
captain said, the Storstad’s starbiiard
and port light loomed out of the fog.
The Storstad was a ship’s le'igth
away. Captain Kendall said he shout
ed through his megaphone at the Stor-
stad to back water and at the same
time had his vessel go full .speed ahead
to try to avert a collision/'
£P1SCX>PAL
TIm Qi«r«ik TIm Hoiy CftHf«rt«r*
The R«v. John Benners Gibble, Stector.
Servioas:
Every Sunday, 11:00 a m,, and 8:00
p. la.
Koly Communion; First Sunday/11
ft. BU Third Sunday, 7:80 a. m.
Koly and Saints' Days, XQ:00 a. ».
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
The is cordially invited..
All pews fre#. Fins vested choir.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
•• ^er Church and Daris Sreets.
■ V, A. B* Kendiull, Pastor.
t every Sunday, 11:00 a. m.»
a.
SuRda, 'ol, 9:45 a. m. John K.
Fotta 'PArintendenU
Christina Services Sunday
ev«nlnc» , -
Mid-Woek Service, ever^
Wednesday . ' •■sr p, «.
Ladles* Aid anb lonary Society
mssta on Mona. r the sdcond
Stinday in each irv
A eerdial invitation ext-
A Chuith Home for vjst
strangers.
\ to all.
'4 for
REFORMED CHURCH.
Corner Front and Anderson Streets.
^^ , Pastor.
Sunday ' School every Sabbath. 9:45
a. m.
Preaching every Second and Fourth
Sabbath, 11:00 a. m., and 7:30 p. m.
Mid-Week Service every Thursday,
7:S0 p. m.
A cordial welcome to all.
Parsonage second door from church.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. Donald Mclver Pastor.
Services evnry Sunday at 11:00 a. m.
and 7:30 p. m.
Sunday School at 9:45 a. m. B. ]ft.
Sellars, Superintendent.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday at *?:30
p. m.
The public is cordially invited to &U
services.
The Republican party has its Pen
rose. and the Democratic party will
-soon have its Roger Sullivan.—The
Greensboro News.
Thought of those Gearman guns
may give Villa pause.—Greensboro
News. .
They take politics seriously in the
Third anl the Tenth.—Greensbooro
News.
If the President didn’t have so much
help, what a good President he would
be!—Greensboro News.
Wonder if the G. A. R. really thin):s
any more of it.self for having acted
the baby?—Greensboro News.
& UJ Norfolk & Western
N.LW
May 10, l»i4.
Leave Winiton-Salem:
6:50 A. M. dai’y for Roanoke and in
termediate stations. Connect
with Main Line traii\s North.
East and West with Pullman
Sleeper, Dining Cars.
2:10 P. M. daily for Martinsville
Roanoke, the North and East.
Pullman Steel Electric Lighted
Sleeper Winston-Salem to Har
risburg, Philadelphia, New York.
Dining Cars North of Roanoke.
4:15 P. M. daily for Roanoke and lo
cal stations.
Trains arrive Winston-Salem 11:00
A. M.. 1:10 P. M„ V:35 P. M.
Trains leave Durham for Roxboro.
South Boston and Lynchburg, 6:45 a.
m., daily, and 5:30 p. m., daily except
Su.iday.
W. B. Bevill, Pass. Traff. Mgr.
W. C. Saunders, Gen. Pas. Agt.
I CHURCH DIRECTORY
HOCUTT MEMORIAL BAPTIST
CHURCH,
Adams Avenue and Hall St.
Rev. Jas. W. Rose, Pastor.
Preaching every fourth Sunday at 11
a. m. and 7 p. m.
Sunday Schol every Sunday at 9:80
a. m.
Prayer Moeting Wednesday, 7:;;0 p.
m.
Ladies' Aid Society first Sunday af-
tcmnrtn.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. Martin W. Buck, Pastor.
Sunday Worship, 11:00 a. m., and
7:30 p. m.
Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. J. L.
Scott, Superintendent.
Praise and Prayer Services, Wednes
day, at 7:.^0 p. m.
Christian Culture Class, Saturday at
3:00 p. m.
Church Conference, Wednesday befora
first Sunday of each month, 7:30
p. m.
Observance of Lord’s Snpper, tirst
Sunday in each month.
Woman’s Union, fiist Monday of each
month, 3:30 p. m.
THE METHODIST/PROTESTANT
CHURCH.
East Davis Street.
Rev. George L. Curry, Pastor.
Services:
Homing, 11:00 Evening, 7:30
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday eveningp,
LaUes’ Aid and Missionary Societies
every Monday afternoon after first
Sunday in each month.
Sunday School, tf;30 a. m. J. G. Rog
ers, Superintendent.
Good Biiruca and Philathea Classes.
You are invited to attend ell these
aerrices.
M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH.
FRONT STREET.
Rev. D. H. Tuttle, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and
evening.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. W. E.
Sbjupe, Superintendent.
Prayer Service, Wednesday evening
at 7:30 o’clock.
Epworth League, 7:00 o’cloak evsrjr
Sunday evening.
M. E. CHUKCH, SOUTH.
WEBB AVENUE,
kev. Oblette, Pastoi
Preaching every first Sunday at 11:09
a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Second Sun
day at 7:30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at 10
H. F. Moore, Superintendent.
Everybody welcome.
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Macedonia luiheran
CHURCH.
Front Street.
Rev. T. S. Brown, Pastor.
Morning Services at 11:00 a. m.
No services on third Sundays.
Sui-.day School S:45 a. m. Prof. 3.
IS. llobcrtson, Superintendent.
Tsachers' Meeting Wednesday, 7:80
p. m. (Pastor’s Study).
Woman’s Missionary Society, first
Thursday in cvcry month at S:Sd
p. tn,
L. C. B. Society, second Thursday In
every month at 3:30 p. m.
I.uther League, second and fourth
Sundays at 8:00 p. in.
Vesper* at 8:30 p. m.
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