Milford chronicle., 1914-06-05
h PER PERISH
| N SHIPWRECK
rrnprBss Of Ireland Sinks
IN Collision
4D3 WERE SAVED

RJJ Win"
.,w was Rammed by Collier In
..,.nes River and Goes to the
|..,n In Fourteen Minutes
-,o death 964 Of her passen'
',- row. the steamship Empress
4. IA VAS sunk in the St. Law
.-- twenty miles oil Rimouski'
IN Nv tbe swedish collier Stor'
4 collision in a dense fog.
= ! are only 4OS known survivors
|. tragedy. which, it is feared
\ me- toll of death that attend
y sinking of the huge acean
and. the Titanic.
y, The rescuing steamships ar.
etbe scene Of the collision they
spectacle somewhat similar
n which greeted the vessels that
I-s5 to the aid of the Titanic's
FmDress Of Ireland had sunk
s,rrteen minutes after being
IN and only the tops of her fun
mi her mastheads we're to be
.soye the surface Of the st. Law
dyer
h lteboats were nuddled the
Fms. dazed and moaning, some
|,su dying of injuries. Few could
mything but incoherent, almost
Ercs, accounts Of what had hap
lied BY the collision, injured in
eforts to leap into the lifeboats,
usering from immersion in the
Vsier and exposure in the life
/ ID which they escaped, the sur
b presented a pitiable condition
! had arms or legs broken and
b all we're clad only in their night
.s.
4 bodies Of twenty-one persons
died after they were taken from
gsier, we're sent ashore and were
q side by side on the wharf, with
faces covered.
1ying seVenty-seven first cabin
Agers, POS in the second and 504
L Storage, the Empress of Ire |
left Quebec at half-past four
d on Thursday for Liverpool, and |
quarter before two o'clock in the
Ing ran into a dense fog twenty |
Iaf Father Point, IFS miles down
D. lawrence from Quebec.
-lelant H. G. Kendall, of the |
Naval Reserve, commander OF |
Impress Of Ireland, reports that
steamer had stopped when the |
iatl Swedish collier, bound fol- |
C. struck her amidships on the
sie.
/. Siorstad literally tore her way
! to the Empress of Ireland's
leTs' leaving a rent through
tie water poured in such a
That she sank before many OF
assengers were aware of what
llpened
stricken vessel sank as if lead.
Ipi0sion, apparently originating
engine room, fastened her end
nose persons who were able tc
llelF way from their cabins
themselves on a perilous slant
aecE' Many leaped and were
a' others were fortunate enough
y arlltwood or were picked W
sboats.
rescued, fighting their way to
s'oats from the careening deck.
y desperately to the rails OF
overheard, broke their arms
$ or otherwise injured them.
50 badly that twenty-one died
,sng picked up.
! wireless calls for help sent out
Aarconi operator Of the En-.
o. Ireland we're heard by the
way Eureka at Rimouski, ten
lOm the scene, and the Eureka.
: oy the Lady Evelyn, a mail
pll on forced steam and made
90 Tor the spot.
as these two boats that found
" Is Few lifeboats that were
- from the stricken ship and
Up the survivors they contain.
y nose in the first cabin were
.-ly seton-Kerr, a noted Eng.
'!eI and big game hunter. and
" irving son Of the late Sir
h. living and his wife, Mabel
4 me rscue ships reached the
icy found nine lifeboats from
press y all TANNED full, and
y. " the occupants wounded.
's n covered the river every.
'ls Storstad, her bow badly
y. was still on the scene pick.
y. g' !, nVlng wherever she could.
, i, S,e llieboats crouched Cap.
sas dazed and greatly shak
~ -'u .i leaped from the deck and
! y picked up by members OF
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