New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-30
Canadian Pacific Liner, Struck by Collier in
St. Lawrence River at Daybreak-
Laurence Irving Among the Missing.
MANY SURVIVORS TELL THE STORY
Blow Cleaves Ship Almost in Twain and Boiler Explo-
sion Ends Al-433 Saved Mostly from Second Cabin
and Crews. 0. S. Brings Vessels Too Late.

Rirnouski, May 29-Of of 1887 persons board the
Pacific liner Empress Ireland when she sailed
day from Quebec for Liverpool 9s4 lost when the liner
amed by the Danish collier Stoad and sank off Father Point in
the ST. Lawrence River before daylight to-day according to revised
figures late tonight Only 433 known have been saved OF
the 81 first cabin the late figures show 2e have been
saved Of the l53 in the second cabin 29 rescued OF the us
third class there o survivors, while 237 the
of 432 brought ashore
These figures for the 396 survivors landed here and
taken by train Quebec where they arrived tonight There
manned uncassed completing the total OF
433 known survivors,
Looming up through the msts the Empress Ireland
lying waiting for the fog lift day break the Danish
collier Sorstad crashed bow into the side of the big Canadian
liner striking her about midway of her length ripping and tearing
her side open clear the
The crash occurred far from the shore off Father Point $50
miles from Quebec which the Empress of Ireland left yesterday after
bound for Liverpool and miles from this point the St
In reality therefore, although the liner heading for
and the collier coming from the disaster of the
but of the Unlike the Of the Titanic the victims
Of the Empress of Ireland disaster lost their lives within sight OF
shore-n andlocked waters.
SOS" CALL BRINGS RESCUING BOATS.
Immediately the ships recovered from the shock of the
collision that the liner had received vital blow and
wireless IS S. call sounded The hurried appeal picked
Lady Evelyn the govern
pilot Eureka Father Point both
So deep the hurt of the Empress however and
the thrush that before either of the boats
could reach the the liner had gone down.
Only floating wreckage and few feboas and RATS from
buoyng third of those who had sail
her. be found The had sunk with the had been
crushed death the Sorstads with her had been forced
from exhaustion and exposure the chied northern waters
their hold bits of wrkage that had supported them and
had drowned.
Only few persons picked by the Storstad which
crippled the collision these brought here
collier together with those saved the Eureka and the Lady
Of the rescued died from injury
The Others whom had jumped the boats plunged into the
from the sinking liner scanty clad freely given such
clothing the could supply and later those that able
placed board and started for Quebec where
they arrived tonight
FEW WOMEN AMONG SAVED
Accounts agree in the brief space Of me-not than
the shock the collision and the sinking
liner there little chance for systematic mashalng of the
passengers Indeed everything indicates that hundreds of those
the probably reached the decks Very few
among the saved
all happened quickly that did not really know what
going nobody had time Women hrst! Of
passengers told Captain Benger of the boat Eureka
did have time the people from their
berts added Those who heard the enzed calls Of
the officers passengers hurry deck lost time in obey
inc them rushing from their cabins attire They piled
into boats which rapidly lowered and roVed