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9s4 Persisted ON
BIG OCEAN LINER;
433 ARE SAVED
Empress Of Ireland Sunk In Co..
lisIon in the st. Lawrence
River.
ONLY 20 WOMEN ARE SAVED
crast ooss Through csntsr Of Vessel
and Rips Il Open From Midsh'ps
70 etsrn-Msn, Women and
Children oerueols for Life
While Waiting to Be
Rescued.

Children struggle fof Iue
While Waiting to Be
Rescued.
Quebec, May S0-A train with 3s6
survivors Of the lost Canadian Pacific
steamship Empress Of ireland arrived
here from Rimouski shortly before
eight o'clock last Thursday night.
Thirty-seven wounded were left at
Rimouski.
These are all that live Of the 1875
who sailed from here Thursday after
noon bound for Liverpool on the queen
vessel of famous feet. The ship
sailed out or q sunlit harbor Into the
fog OF Father Point. where the rip
ping prov of the collier Storstad
struck the death blow in the dark
The lost number 9S4.
2a7 Of Grew Are Saved.
OF the living 237 are members OF
the crew.
OF the living only 20 are women;
two are children.
Thus the story Of the most terrible
disaster in the history of Canadian
navigation is written more grimly.
more wildly in hard figures than It
could ever be in words.
How the hundreds OF strong men
Of the crew were saved while the hun
dreds of weak women and children
persisted only the Imagination can
fathom now.
Not even the survivors can fully
picture the 19-minute death three OF
the riven ship-the passengers wax
ened In the dead Of night either to be
crushed by the invading PROV OF the
Storstad, drowned In the rush OF wa
tiers or to drag themselves to the list
ing deck, where panic reigned. where
shrieks Of terror and Of pain made an
Inferno under the shrouding mist. The
battle that surged about the NE
boats that had not been shattered IN
the crash, the cruel triumph of the
strong over the weak-let the hard ns-
ures tell It. They alone can.
One of tho matters on which the
rescued agree IL that Captain Ander-
son Of the storstad backed his vessel
out of the hole she had dug into the
Empress side, nursing her own bent
prov despite the shouted pleas OF
Captain Kendall that he hold fast to
the wreck.
Watsr Rushes In.
As the collier backed away the wa
tor rush listed the Empress 80 that
all her lifeboats ON the portable were
useless.
The storstad. moreover. having no
mortal damage and lying In . river
that was rufned only by the strewn
forms of the drowning. the wounded
and the dead, picked up but . few OF
those who were taken to the hospital
at Rimoush.
II was the government mall steam
or Evelyn and the pilot boat Eureka.
which had to run all the way from Fa-
ther Point, that did the big work OF
rescue.
A strict investigation is to be imme-
diately begun.
There was no time"
That 10 the phrase used by every
survivor In trying to tell something Of
what happened. There was no time
to rouse the people: no time to cry:
Women and children first"
Ninenteen minutes was the time be-
tween the crash and the sinking. In
that time there were lifeboats to
launch, q panic to contend with. In
that time the wireless must fash Its
calls for help.
The -. o. g." picked up by many
ships near and far brought response
too late to save even a third Of the hu-
man cargo.
Captain Kendall. one Of the most
able and trusted shippers OF the line
"a man who had captured Doctor
Crippen. the murderer. and had served
for many years without q mishap at
sea-stood on the bridge during those
10 minutes.
Gathered piecemeal from survivors
the horrors Of this wreck grows with
the telling.
The doomed ones had little time
even to pray. They were ensulfed by
the onrushing waters that swallowed
the big ship.
The wireless operators on the EN-
press. sticking to their posts to the
last, had time only to send few %.
o. g." calls for help when the rising
waters silenced their instruments