The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-06-06
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ko0oou "a me Wrooko0 Umprooo o.
ireland testifying before Corouor n
nonJt eQknEdax, told. Tie. fnl1oH1ne;atogy
~ the sinking Of bis veaeel and he
nccomponying loss Of 1.oS2 lives: 4
'sTAo Empress Of Ireland left ouebee
~ l:1o ,. n, Nay -. Altar The pilot
vas dropped ct Father Point The
weather being clear at the time W
proceeded fan speed. After passing
Cock Point gas buoy ! sighted he
Steamer 0torstad. Al that time ! saw
. slight fog bank coming from the
land. mot moving Il was going bst
tween the etorstad and myself. Tbs
etoFstad Was then about two miles
away. Then the fog came and the
storstad's lights disappeared. I,
ehIps Exchange Signals. z
: II ordered full speed astern on my
engines and took the way on the ship
20 - 70 stop quick. At the same time
blew three short blasts on my whis-
4 ~, sneAnlng:a I an going, full speed
astern.' The Stofstad answered with
the whistle. giving me one prolonged
blast.
Il then looked over the side OF my
ship into the water and saw that my
ship was stopped. then stopped my
engines and blew two long blasts,
meaning: My ship Il stopped and has
no way upon her. It answered me
again with one prolonged blast.
The sound was then about four
points on my starboard bow. It was
still foggy. then looked to where
the sound came from. About two min
utes altar ] saw his red and green
| lights. He would then be about one
ships length away from me. shout
ed to him through the megaphons to
go full speed astern as / saw collision
was Inevitable.
Attempted to Start.
AT the same time put my engines
full speed ahead with my helm hard
aport with the object Of avoiding .
collision II roesib}e.. Almost at the
same instant the Storstad struck and
cut us down between the tunnels.
II then shouted to the storstad to
keep his ship full speed ahead to I'LL
the hole he had made. He then backed
away. The Empress then began to
all and listed over rapidly.
when the Storstad struck us had
stopped my engines. then rang full
speed ahead when ! saw the danger
was so great. My object was to try to
run her ashore to save the passengers.
Almost Immediately the engine stop
ped, the ship filing and going all the
time to starboard.
Orders Distress Call.
~ saw the chief officer rushing along
to the bridge and told him to tell the
wireless operator to send out distress
signals at once. He then told me this
had been done. Then said: Get these
boats out as quickly as possible That
was the last saw Of the chief ofiicer,
-In.fron. three to five minutes after
that the ship turned over and founder.
ed. l was shot into the sea from the
bridge and was taken down with the
suction. The next thing I remember
was seixing piece Of grating. How
long was on It / do not know, but ]
heard some men shout from lifeboat:
There's the captain. Let US save him.
They got to me and pulled me into
the boat.
Returns to Rescue.
Seeing we could. not possibly save
any more. we pulled to the Storstad
which was then about mile and q
half away. then got all these people
put on board and then left the Storstad
with six Of the crew and went back
and tried to save more. When we got
there everybody had gone.
There was NO panic had full con-
troll OF the crew. They fought bravely
to the end; There WIS NO panic In
passengers or crew. Everybody be-
haved splendidly.r
$50 Bodies Found.
Only $50 bodies have been recover
"a, according TO wireless dispatches
received from the scene Of the tragedy.
Most OF these are to arrive here on the
Lady Grey. government boat which
y bringing them from Father Point
and Rimou1ki.
Most Of the dead recovered were
found heating h ne wateE some Of
them b. The 0torstad's boats and on
err later BY the boats q the Lady NJ
elyn and the Eureka. KS