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The Washington times., 1914-03-13

raised the prices of certain articles TO
.'',v',te making the employees the suf-
ferers. ~.
III statement authorized by the
board of governors of the Retail Mer-
chants Association. Charles ]. Column
bus. secretary. said today:
1T is a great injustice TO local busi-
ness interests that certain statements
have appeared in the Washington news
papers to the effect that many en-
ployers of female help have reduced
wages on account Of the eight-hour law
for female employees.
ITO substantiate this, 1 called a
number Of employers Of female help. as
official representative Of the Retail
Merchants Association,
The Washington times., 1914-03-13
All Deny Charge.

"All of those to whom T spoke de-
clared that they had not reduced the
wages of women employees. Among this
number were seven Of the largest laun-
dries in washington. the proprietors and
managers of which stated positively
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

onIy One .BROMO QUININE.r
Tn get the genuine. call for full name. LAXA.
TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature
Of W Grove. Cures a Cold In One Day. =.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

Senator Jacob H. Gallinger Of New
HamI shire, former chairman of the
Senate District Committee. will be the
guest Of honor at the meeting of the
Brightwood Citizens Association this
evening at the Brightwood Hotel.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

TIDE TABLE.
High tide, S:55 a. n. and 9:22 .. m.
Low tide, 800 a. m. and 3:9 p. m.
SUN TABLE.
Sun rises w 6:14 Sun sets..... sos
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Calls for inquiry.

London, May 30.-The London morn
ing papers in commenting cditorially
on the disaster call for a thorough in
v~estigation as to whether the bulk
heads were closed, and. II So. how was
1t that the most modern system Of
watertight compartments failed to
keep the ship from sinking?
The claim for the Empress of Ire
land will be the heaviest suffered by
the Lloyds underwriters since the
sinking Of the Titanic. 1t ID expected
that the disaster will give a serious
check to the scheme for establishing
a Canadian Lloyds, with a view of re-
ducing the rates charged in London
for ~insuring vessels navigating the
st. Lawrence.
Statistics show that the underwrit-
ers have consistently lost money on
such voyages, owing to the dangers Of
the river and the prevalence Of fogs
and Ice.
The Times, in an editorial, con
siders that nothing could have saved
the Empress of Ireland, considering
the nature OF the collision, but asks:
What was the Storstad doing to run
into the Empress OF Ireland with such
~suddenness and yiolence?"
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.CARRANzA BEGINS
WORK ON CABINET
ASSUMES PRESIDENCY OF mEx-
leo IN ORDER TO FoREsTALL
PEACE MEpIAToRs.
CAPITAL TO Be At saLTlLLo
Gen. Gonzales, With Army of 5000,
Will Guard New Seat of Govern
ment, and viii Move to Mex
leo City When Captured.

Torreon. Mexico.-To forestall ac-
ton by the peace mediators at Mia
CARA Falls in selecting a provisional
government for Mexico, Gen. Venus
tiano Carranza virtually assumed the
position OF provisional president and
began the work of selecting his eabi-
net. Advices to this effect were re-
ceiyed here from Durango, and also
that Carranza was to leave Durango
for Saltillo to formally establish a pro-
visional government.
The new capital will have the pro-
lection of nearly 5000 troops Of the
army of Gen. Pablo Gonzales, who has
transferred his army from Monterey
to Saltillo.
This action by the rebels, it is claim
ed, put them in line to be intrusted
by the mediators with the task Of
governing Mexico after The Huerta.
government has been removed and
until a new government al be chosen
by elective method.
Carranza already has selected a por-
tion of his cabinet and has decided
upon Roberto v. Pesqueira, formerly
rebel diplomatic agent at Washing
ton, to be governor of the federal dis
trict, in which is the City of Mexico.
Rafael Bubaran Capmany, who 10Y is
representing Carranza in Washington,
Is to be a cabinet minister and later
will be main ambassador to the United
States.
Luis Cabrera is to be minister of
foreign relations, and has been asked
by Carranza to proceed to Saltillo at
once. He now is in Washington. Gen.
Felipe Angeles is to be retained in
the new cabinet, probably as minister
of war, and Fernando Iglesias Cal
deron, who now is at the head of the
Liberal party in Mexico, is to be given
a cabinet portfolio in order to obtain
the support of the Liberals for the
new government. Upon his arrival in
Saltillo. Gen. Carranza, it is IN
nounced, will perfect his plans for es-
tablishing a provisional government.
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ARMY.

ATwELL. Mai. and Mrs. Toronto.
BALES, Miss Alice, address IN
known.
BROOKS, Thomas, Toronto.
DELAMoNT, 1.-TWO brothers) Moose
Jaw.
FOORD, Ernst, Toronto.
GREEN, Ernest, Toronto.
GREENAWAY. Herbert, Toronto.
GREENAWAY, Mr.. and Mrs, To-
ronto.
daughter Of Bandmaster Hannagan,)
daughter of Bandmoaster Hannagan,)
Toronto.
JOHNSTON, James, Toronto.
KEITH. Alfred, lieutenant, Toronto.
M'AMMON, D., staff captain, TO
ronto.
MORRIS, Maj. Frank, Lindsay, Ont.
MINTYRE, Kenneth, Toronto.
SPOONER, R., captain, Toronto.
TURIN, Richard, major. Toronto.
WILSON, George. captain, Toronto.
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declared that probably 5000 persons
owe their lives to the fact that a wire
less station was nea them in some
disaster. They declared 1t has re-
duced the terrors OF ocean travel as
nothing else under Providence has.
It came into practical use in 1909.
The steamship Republic. threatening
1880 lives In O head-on collision with
the Florida, that year, gave 1t its first
real sea try-out.
The Alaska was the next. In mid
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Kansas Wheat Crop Winner.

Kansas City, Mo.-The Kansas
wheat crop promises to be 179, 100000
bushels, according to estimates COM
piled by Allen Logan Of the board Of
trade. Mr.. Logan has obtained as
SCISSORS reports from nearly ell coun-
ties, which show that more than 9,O00,-
600 acres were sown to wheat last
fall and 8,750,O 600 acres remain stand
ing for harvest.
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Arrested at Hugbandg Grave.

Wichita, aKn.-Mrs. Grace g. Pat
ton was arranged here on a charge Of
numbering her husband in this city,
Dec. 10, 1912. Mrs. Patton was taken
in custody soon after she arrived from
Wellington, her present home, to place
flowers on her husbands grave on
Decoration day.
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ocean with not another smokestack in
sight, flames burst out. The wireless
operator, unmindful Of his danger,
kept clicking and clicking, and Just
as the boat was going down, help
arrived and the 1873 passengers aboard
were saved.
Then came the Kentucky in 1910. In
the same year 10 were saved in the
Koenigen Luise. Death was cheated
in the Instance Of the burning freight
er, TemDlemore, when all on board.
544. were saved.
Following close On this record. the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-06-04
Scenes at Liverpool.

Liverpool, May 30.-Pathetic scenes
were enacted at the office of the Can
adam Pacific railway In this city Fri
day. Crowds OF weeping men and
women begged for news of the officers
and crew OF the Empress Of Ireland,
the majority of whom we're gathered
here. When confirmation of the dis
aster was received several Of the WON
en- tainted. Fridays scene were a
duplicate of those Witnessed at the
time the Titanic went to the bottom.
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wIRELEss AGAIN PROVES pgATH NEMEsIs ON sEA.

Wireless telegraphy, which has been
the savior in the hour Of gravest dan
ger to thousands Of helpless victims
In disasters at sea, and which flick
cred out the sturdy IS. o. s." that
brought succor to the Empress Of Ire
hand early today, has again proved
itself tie Nemesis Of death on the
ocean.
statisticians who became busy
chaiking up and adding tina human
credit marks that wirelssB hair earned
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Lexington was caught in a HURRICANE
unprepared. All we're saved by the
help the IS. o. 81 summoned. The
Niobe, wrecked OK Cape Sable, filed
in the intermission until the great
sea disaster OF the Titanic claimed
world attention by the unparalleled
summoning OF assistance from many
different sources.
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GOTHAM SENDS SYMPATHY

Mayor Mitchell Regrets Loss Of Life
on Steamer.
Nov York. May SO,-Mayor Mitchell
sent the following telegram to the
duke OF Connaught. governor general
Of Canada:
The city Of New York sends
sincere sympathy 10 the people OF Can
ada who have suffered through the
tragedy on the Gulf Of st. Lawrence.
President McAneny Of the boaid OF
aldermen, who has just returned yEEpm
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BIG SEA DISASTERS

AoOV moiNh oV. OtcdmSI uugdl
Adelaide wrecked off Margate; over
400 lives lost.
1852-February 26. Troopship Biz
kenhead, Queenstown to Cape of Good
Hope wrecked; 545 lives lost.
1S54-March. Steamer City of Glas-
gov, Liverpool to Philadelphia, with
45O passengers; never heard from.
1S54-Eleven transports with sup
plies for the army in the Crimaa,
wrecked in storm on Black sea; near
ly 500 lives lost.
1859-0ctober "a. Steamer Royal
Charter, wrecked on the AM elses.
coast; 446 lives lost.
1S67-October 29. Royal mail steam
ers Rhone and Wye and about fifty
other vessels driven ashore and
wrecked at st. Thomas, West indies,
by a hurricane; about 1000 lives lost.
1S70-September 7. British warshir
Captain foundered off F~inisterre; 472
lives lost.
1S73-April l. White Star steamer
Atlantic wrecked off Nova Scotia; SAT
lives lost.
1874-December 6. Emigrant ship
Cospatrick burned at sea; 47o lives
lost.
1S7S-September 3. British steamer
Princess Alice sunk in collision in the
Thames river; 700 lives lost.
18S7-November Is. British steam
er Wah Young burned; 400 live3vlost.
1890-February II. British steamer
Duburg wrecked in China sea; 400
lives lost.
189O-September 10. Turkish frigata
Ertogrul foundered of coast of Japani
$40 lives lost.
1S91-March II. Steamer Utopia,
Anchor line, sunk by collision of
Gibraltar; STA lives lost.
1S92-January 10. Steamer Nam
chow wrecked in China sea; Ala lives
lost.
1895-March IL. Spanish cruiser
Reina Regenta f%oundered in the Allan
tic at entrance to the Mediterranean;
400 lives lost.
1898-July 4. French line steamer
La Bourgogne in collision with British
sailing ship Cromartyshire; about $50
lives lost.
1904-June Is. Steamboat General
Slocum, took fire going through He'll
Gate, East river; over 1000 lives lost.
" 1Q0d- T11nn HH. 90 #I.. Cfnn-nNu h. NJa,,~o
wrecked off Scottish coast; GAG lives
lost.
1905-September Is. Japanese war
ship Mikasa sunk by explosion; 500
lives lost.
19OS-March 20. Japanese steamer
MutGu Maru sunk in collision near
H~akodate; 900 lives lost.
1908-April 80. Japanese training
cruiser Matsu Shima sunk by ex-
plosion off the Peecadores; 200 lives
lost.
19OS-July %. Steamer Ying King
foundered off Hongkong; 800 lives lost.
1909-August l.. British steamer
Waratah, from Sydney via Port Natal
fer London, left Port Natal July 26;
never heard from; 300 lives lost.
19Oe-November IA. Steamer Seyne
sunk in collision with steamer Onda
off Singapore; 100 lives lost.
1910-February g.. French line
steamer General Chanzy wrecked off
Minorca; 200 lives lost.
1911-April 2. Steamer Koombuna
wrecked; $50 lives lost.
1911-September rs. French battle
ship Liberte sunk by explosion in Tou-
lon harbor; 1856 lives lost.
1912-April IA. Steamer Titanic,
White Star line, wrecked by collision
with iceberg; about 1903 lives lost.
1914-May 20. Steamer Empress Of
Ireland and collier storstad collide in
Gulf Of st. Lawrence; more than 800
lives lost.
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Rrothera kilIed hx wlrn

Chicago, sll;-Hugh and August 9.
Becker, brothers, were electrocuted as
they stepped from a florists. Were
they had purchased flowers for tho
funeral of their younger brother, An-
drew, who was killed In an accident.
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Illinois Woman. 1o2. pies.

Arcola, Ill.-Mrs. Sarah Pate, aged
102, the oldest inhabitant of this sec
tion of Illinois, died suddenly. She
had lived with her foster son, Matt
B%arricklow Of Arcola for more than
so years.
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judge George GRAY Resions.

Wilmington, Del.-Judge George
Gray Of the United States court for
the Third judicial circuit announced
that he had forwarded his resignation
to take effect June 10, to Washington.
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Tamaqua, Pa.-Six miners were
killed and two injured at the Mary
Colliery when a cage turned over after
1t had gone 40 feet past the landing
where the men were supposed to dis
embark. The dead were foreigners.
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New York.-Baby Lucille S%pofford.
worth a million, and three months old,
must have $4,000 a month for her
keep, her father explained to Surro-
gate Fowler.
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Five rrainmen Are Killed.

Coannellsville, Fla.-Five trainmen
were killed and two persons fatally
injured when a passenger locomotive
on the Connellsville division of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad was de-
rallied OF Cooks Mills. east of here.
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Diamond Brinoa Bad Luok

Denver, colo.--William Bartli, mix
~lionaire, who has sued his son-iniaw,
two daughtersin-law and his grand
daughter, blames all his misfortune
a large gem he owns, known as the
Isabella diamond.
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EuuCdIUTI ID UItS OF CdHCtT.
Gettysburg, Pa.-Dr. Harvey W. Nc
Knight, II, former president of Gettys-
burg college, is dead after a years
illness. He was also a former presi-
dent of the general synod of the Luth-
eran church.
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Women Lose Hats in Train praf4.

Women Lose Hats in Train Draft.
characterization caused by ele-
waited trains passing the canyon be-
tween two s%yscrapers at Clinton
street has deprived women passengers
of 5000 worth Of millinery in five days.
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Some people bear three kinds OF
troubie-ell they ever had, all they
have now and all they expect to have
howard Everett Hale.
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Sinu AGod Be With YOU" on Ship
lrvinu. Actor and Author.

New York, May 31.-Laurence S. B.
Irving, drowned on steamship EN-
press of ireland, is an actor, author
and manager. He received his edu-
cation at Marlborough college, College
Rollin, Paris, and spent three years
in Russia studying for foreign office.
His plays are widely known. In 1908
and 1909 he presented sketches Of his
own authorship in England and Amer
lea. On May 3, 1910, Mr.. Irving adj
dressed the Equal Suffrage league at
New York.
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Haughtiness lives under the same
roof as solitude.--Plato.
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BURROWS. w. T.
CANEPA, w.
CAPPLIN, George.
CLARKSON, H.
CONE, ]. M.
COURT, Miss, E., Liverpool, Eng.
DARCY, p.
DAVIES, John.
DAVIES, Peter.
DONAVAN, G.
DORIS, John.
Z ELGEVISH, A.
ERzINGER, Walter.
EVANSON, Arthur.
FAVEUSTEND, Mrs.
FERGUSON, A. C.
FENEDAY, Arthur.
FENTON, Walter.
FISHER, Mrs. John, Chicago.
FITZPATRICK, John.
FLOR, Roy.
FUGENT, William.
GARD, John, Chicago.
GAADE, A. w, chief engineer,
GIBSON, John.
GRAY, Arthur.
GRIVERI, Alex.
HACKNEY, Miss Mabel, wife of
Lawrence Irving.
HAES, assistant purser.
HAMPTER, w.
HARBANN, Renne.
HEATH, H. L., Chicago.
HEATH, Jack" four-year-old son
Of above.
HELLER, w.
HENDERSON, G. ". 8.
HOLM, S. F.
HOLT, P. r.
HoNRALAIN, William.
HUGHES, Hugh.
HUGHES, W. H.
TOMBSTONE, George, Santa Bar
aara, Cal.
JUBAINER, Sims.
KAVALSKE, Evan, Duluth.
KOHL, Miss Grace.
KORONIC, Michael
LAWLER, Herbert.
LEDDELL, r.
LEE, Miss Alice, Nassau, Bahamas.
LOMMI, Matte.
M'CREADY, Thomas.
MCDONALD, G. P.
M'DOUGAL, d.
M'WILLIAMS, R.
METCALFE, G. :.
MOUNSEY, Mrs. William, Chicago.
NISITO, F.
OWEN, W. s.
PRoBSI, P.
QUINN, William.
RICATETENTO, Fedor.
REGINALD, A., Moreland.
ROBERTS, W.
ROMANUS, John.
ROVER, William.
ROWAN, w, steward.
RYAN, Phona.
RYAN, John.
SALINSKI, w.
SAMUELSON, G.
SCOTT,
SHANNON, Edward.
SIMS, John.
SMITH, C. H.
SMITH. H. HI.
SMITH, J.
SPENCER, G., bellboy.
SUZzERA, Adam.
TALBACHA, Alex.
WALINSKI, Thorne.
WEINRUCH, b., Montreal.
WEISS, Alex.
WHITE, J.. B.
WILLIAMS, O.
ZUH, II.
COMBES, G., pantryman.
BAMFORD. B., Marconi operator.
BUNTHROME, Alex, Santa Bar
bara, Cal.
BYRNE, Mr.. and Mrs, Brisbane,
Australia.
BYRNE, Mrs. G.
ELLIOTT, A., baker.
TNLAY, J. M, Liverpool.
FOSTER, e. Baker.
GREY, seaman.
HOLT, Parkinson r., bedroom
,teward. b.,
DOELIK, Moscal.
GRATWICK, It.
EIADLEY, Alex, boatswain's mate.
MURPHY, o. s.
.EH.H ~ NMI"-
REGINALD, A.
SAMSON. G. S., CHIEF steward.
SIMONS, Mrs. R.
SORAHUE, T.
SWAN, J. X, tenth engineer.
WHITE, Morland.
WILLIAMS, Joseph, assistant stew-
ard.
DUCKWORTH, o. H., electrician.
NOVEK, Pededon.
DONOVAN.
CLANDON. q
CLARK, Charles.
SAP0KE.
SAVEIN.
SEBALAK, Joseph, Ordburg.
SEARLE, Miss Eva, Seattle.
VINCENT, Mrs, A. Faircross, Eng
land.
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964 PERISH IN SEA DISASTER
Great Liner Goes to Bottom at Mouth of St. Law
renee River Following a Collision
With a Collier.

Rimouski, Que, May 31.-Nine hum
dred and sixty-four persons lost their
lives Friday morning when the great
Canadian Pacific twin screw liner EN-
press of Ireland was rammed amid
ships in a thick fog off Father Point
in the st. Lawrence and sunk by the
Norwegian collier Storstad.
Four hundred and three survivors
were picked up from floating wreck
age and two lifeboats.
And only IL of the saved are women.
Gathered piecemeal from survivors
the horror of this wreck grows with
the telling.
Waters Quickly Engulf Ship.
The doomed ones had little time
even to pray. They were ~engulfed by
the onrushing waters that swallowed
the big ship inside of nineteen min
utes from the time she was struck.
The wireless operators on the EN-
press, sticking to their posts to the
last, had time only to send a few IS.
0. S" calls for help when the rising
waters silenced their Instruments.
That, silence told the rescuers miles
away more ~potently than a bugle that
doom had overtaken the ship.
Only six hours before this fateful
collision the passengers sang as a
goodnight hymn God Be With You
Till We Meet Again." played by the
Salvation Army band on board.
The members of that band and most
of the 165 salvationists were among
the lost.
Survivors Tell of Fog.
1t was foggy, according to survivors,
when the Empress of Ireland, a STEELE
hulled, steel-bulkheaded ship of more
than eight thousand tons, left Mon
treal at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in
command of H. G. Kendall of the
Royal Naval Reserve, one Of the most
skilled of transatlantic n~avigators.
Forest fires also obscured the at
mosphere and the big ship, in charge
of a pilot, proceeded slowly on her
way to sea. At midnight the pilot
aide left near Father Point, shouting
a merry Bon Voyage as he went
down their ladder to his waiting boat.
The darkness at this time was in
tense and the ship under the slowest
speed possible with ~steerageway held
her course. Her decks we're deserted.
The passengers had all sought their
berths with no thought Of impending
death.
Out of the darkness, on the port
side, soon after $3.50 in the morning
there doomed the little Norwegian col
lier, not half the size Of the Empress,
but fated to be her destroyer.
Not until the collier was almost
abeam Of the big liner was the danger
known on either ship. The fog had
blotted out the lights as well as the
port and ~starboard lights of both ships.
Quick orders trumpted on both yes
sells were heard. But they came all
too late.
Strikes Ship Amidship.
The st~eel-pointed prov Of the Stor-
stad struck the liner amidships and
then forged aft. ripping and tearing its
way through the Empress Of ireland.
Clear to the stern Of the Empress of
Ireland wNs this great steel shaving
cut from her side, from the top Of the
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Swarm to Deck.

Up they swarmed on deck in their
night clothing to find the ship heeling
away to port and the deck slanting at
a degree that made 1t almost impos-
sible to stand even clinging to ratings.
Men and women, shrieking, praying,
crying for aid that was fated to arrive
too late, fell over one another in that
last struggle for life on board the
doomed Empress Of Ireland.
Frenzied mothers leaped overheard
with their babies In their arms. Others
knelt on deck and tried to pray in the
few moment left 10 them. Some were
flung overheard by the heeling Of the
sinking ship and some broke their legs
or arms in trying to reach the life
boats.
Above the din of the struggle on the
great promenade deck could be heard
Captain Kendall shouting commands
for the launching of the lifeboats. Sew.
eral we're launched in the 10 minutes
that the ship fioated.
There was no time to observe the
rule Women first" in this disaster, for
those nearest the boats scrambled to
places In them.
But even as they were being
launched, while the wireless still was
calling IS. o. s." there came a terrific
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hull far below the water line. Into
that rent the water poured with the
force of a Niagara.
The bow of the Storstad smashed it's
way through berths,on that side of the
ship, killing passengers sleeping in
their berths and grinding bodies to
pieces.
Reaching the stern of the big liner,
The Storstad staggered off in the dark
ness, her bow crumpled by the impact.
her commander was ready a few min
utes later, when he found his ship
would float, to aid the crippled and
sinking Empress. but he was too late
to ave the majority of those on board.
Carried to Bottom.
The Empress of Ireland recoiled al
most on her starboard beam ends from
the blow of the collier and passengers
were flung from their berths against
the walls of their staterooms.
Many were stunned and before they
hoN eilhC W IVCOfOA "StO CdIIleu W
the bottom with the ship.
The vast torrents pouring into the
great cash on the port side, aft, filled
the corridors and flooded every state
room abaft the midship section in
side of four minutes.
There was never a chance for the
helpless ones in the after cabins and
staterooms of the liner. With her port
side laid open for half its length from
the midship section to the stern, a
seive had more chance to float than
the Empress of Ireland, and the
trapped passengers in that after Sec
ton were doomed from the moment
the Storstad struck.
Keeling from the blow the ship be-
gan to settle almost Immediately as
the water rushed into the big rent.
From the forward cabins, however,
men and women in night attire STUN
bled along the corridors and up the
companion way to the promenade deck
the deck below, the one on which
the boats rested.
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Strikes Ship Amidship.

The steelpointed PROV Of the Stor.
stad struck the liner amidships and
then forged aft. ripping and tearing its
way through the Empress of Ireland.
Clear to the stern Of the Empress Of
Ireland vs. this great steel shaving
cut from her side, from the top Of the