Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-03
LINER EMPRESS OF IRELAND is RAMMED
~ COLLIER IN FOG AND SINKS WITHIN
Ten MINUTES FOLLOWING FATAL CRASH

=. hamoqskl, May 29-Probably more than 1000 lives and surely
E Enn ,@ss 'u ia ~ were lost when the great Canadian Pacific liner
e.ver. ripped open from amidships to stern by the Danish collier
s oss ~" me estimate varies from 6Ts to more than LOO. This
hi many OF them pitably manned and almost naked, We're being
brought. 1t was based on the fact that the Empress carried 1,437
shps Eureka and Lady Evelyn. The Storstad at first reported to
nave more than 300 survivors on board, but has sailed for Quebec
a1'er LANDING only a handful of rescued and a number of dead.
VI those saved, crew members and third class passengers pre-
dominated. From partial lists available at 2 o'clock it was evident
mat out a mere sprinklng of the first cabin passengers were saved.
vnly three names OF those in the cabins appeared in the preliminary
lists OF rescued. They were G. w. G. Henderson and c. r. Burt, adj
dress unstated, and Walter Fenton, of Manchester, England.
SANK LIKE LEAD.
The stricken vessel sank Is if she was lead. An explosion APP
parently originating in her engine room, FASTENED her end and those
persons who were able to make their way from their cabins found
a isp1 others we're fortunate enough to grasp drftwoodo or We're
picked up by life boats. 1t is apparent that the great hole torn in the
smp $ sde admitted such a deMge OF water that many must have
,?e overcome IN their beds. The rescued, fighting their way to the
NE boats from the careening deck, clinging desperately to the rails or
ieapng bindly overheard, broke their arms o legs Of otherwise in
Jusea themselves so badly that % died after being picked up.
,GroanIng, and lin some eases practically insenible, others were
landed here. while the populace of the village gathered with medi-
clnes and stimulants to relieve their sufferings. A special train was
Montreal.
NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE.
The president of the Canadian Pacific railway issued a state
ment this afternoon, saying that the Empress had sunk within IL
minutes. No one aboard had time to seize his belongings much less
10 afess. mhose III Inc nfeboats were IN their night clothes. The
women suffered most. Only a few were saved, according to the
early lists, and indications are that they lacked the strength to COM
bat conditions which confronted them. There a not, as was the
case on the Titanic, time for calm elaboration and rigid observance
OF the unwritten rule OF the sea, Women first"
A party of Salvation army members, e route to London, was
almost wiped out; Laurence Irving, son of the late Sir Henry Irving.
is among the missing, and other prominent persons in the first cabin
n unaccounted for late this afternoon. When the rescue ships Eureka
and Lady Evelyn reached the scene before daybrealz thew found nine
lifeboats from the Empress, all damned full and many of the occu-
pants wounded: It was still dark. Wreckage covered the river
scene, picking up the living wherever she could. In one of the life
boats crouched Captain Kendall, commander of the Empress. dazed
and greatly shaken. He had leaped from the deck and had been