The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30
Tales Of Herois1n and Tragic
Details of Horror by the
Survivors, Now in Quebec
300 Dead Piled
In Grim Stack on
Pier at Roumiski


IN THE EMPRESS DISASTER ACCORDING TO FIGURES OFF
cIALLY COMPILED THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD
CO. oFFlcIALs AND ANNOUNCED HERE. THESE FIGURES
INDICATE THAT 1882 PEOPLE PERsHEo.
THE LIST FOLLOWS: FIRST GLASS PASSENGERS SAVED
1a; SECOND AND THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS SAVED 1871;
CREW SAVED 2o6; TOTAL SAVED 355.
NUMBER OF PASSENGERS CARRIED BY THE EMPRESS
OF IRELAND FIRST GLASS, 81; SECOND GLASS; 1885, THIRD
GLASS, us; GREW, 4a2; TOTAL, 1887
WITH THE SURVIVORS SAFE IN QUEBEC WHERE THEIR
WANTS ARE BEING GIVEN EVERY POSSIBLE CARE, ATTEN-
TON TURNED TO RoUMIskI, WHERE THE SEARCH FOR
BODIES AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEAD, IN PRO-
GREss.
MORE THAN 300 BODIES WERE RECOVERED YESTERDAY,
LAST NIGHT AND EARLY TODAY THE DEAD ARE PILED IN
TIERS IN THE DOCKS AT RoUMsk MAKING 1T IMPOSSIBLE
TO CLOSELY scRUTINIzE THE BODIES FOR PURPOSES OF
IDENTIFICATION
VERY FEW WERE IDENTIFIED UNTIL AFTER DAYRREAk
TODAY WHEN THIS WORK WAS EARNESTLY UNDERTAKEN
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE RAILROAD AND BOAT
OFFICIALS. THERE APPEAR TO BE MANY FOREIGNERS
AMONG THE DEAD, JUDGING FROM THE PASSPORTS ON THE
BODIES.
T4E WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE PLENTIFuLLY
RRoHoHT IN BY REscUn | SHIPS GNn AID our AN opEN
TIER. THERE WAS LITTLE ATTEMPT TO COVER coRPsEs
THEY WERE TAKEN OUT OF T4E WATER SOME HALF
DRESSED AND OTHERS ALMOST NAKED.
AS THE FUNERAL SHIP AND is EXPECTED TO REACH QUE
BEG LATE TO-DAY WITH THE BODIES so FAR RECOVERED
WORKED ALL NIGHT, STILL CONVERTING ONE
THE LARGE FREIGHT SHEDS THE HARRoR FRONT
BODIES.
THE COLLIER RsroRsrADr WHICH RAmMED THE EMP
REss, ARRIVED HERE SHORTLY AFTER I O'CLOCK THIS
MORNING ACCOMPANIED BY THE wREcKiNG STEAMER
sTRATHcoNA AND ANCHORED IN mIDsTREAM. THE sToR-
STADT is BADLY DAMAGED HAVING A HOLE FIFTEEN FEET
SQUARE IN BOW SHE is WAITING ORDERS, WHETH-
ER SHE WILL nocH HERE OR GO ON TO MoNJReAI CAT;
THE CRAFT REACHED AND LEFT ORDERS
THAT HE WAS NOT TO BE DISTURBED.
THE STORIES OF THE LOSS OF THE EMPRESS, BROUGHT
TO QUEBEC BY THE SURVIVORS, GAVE VIVID DETAILS OF
THE MOST TERRIBLE TRAGEDY in THE ANNALS OF THE ST.
LAWRENCE IN MANY CASES THE SURVIVORS DECLARED.
DEATH CAME WITH SUCH SWEETNESS THAT THE VICTIMS
APPARENTLY DID NOT REALIZE THEIR TIME HAD COME.
STORIES FROM THE SAVED 1T SEEMED THAT
SOON AFTER THE SHIP WAS RAMMEn SHE cAREEMED AND
STOOD AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE WATER SHE SLID SLOW
LY INTO THE WATER, BUT 1T WAS ONLY POSSIBLE TO
LAUNCH FIVE LIFERoATs IN THE BRIEF INTERVAL BEFORE
CAPTAIN KENDALL WAS ON THE BRIDGE WHEN THE
WASHED AWAY, LATER BEING PICKED UP BY ONE OF THE
BOATS, APPARENTLY TO HIS GREAT REGRET. THUS FAR HE
SAY He WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO HAVE GONE DOWN
F nuRre 'G g4E H c4u Few MTEe gR
WAS STRUCK SPEAK IN HIS PRAISE AND DECLARE HE DID
CHIEF OFFICER srEED. 1T is STATED, WAS KILLED BY
BOAT FALLING ON HIM WHILE He WAS WORKING TO HELP
THE STORY LAURENCE IRVING TRYING TO
SAVE HIS WIFE. ABBOTT WAS THE LAST MAN TO SEE 'R-
HIM eHs1 TIE sAssAeEwaxs ae a~o se!O AseoTT
Piled THAT 1T LOOKED LIKE 'DEARIE,i IRVING THEN
SAID TO HIS WIFE, HURRY, THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE
REACHED FOR LIFE BELT The BOAT SUDDENLY LuRcH
ED AND He WAS THROWN AGAINST THE DOOR OF HIS CAB
IN HIS FACE WAS BLOODY AND MRS. IRVING BECAME
FRANTIC.
KEEP COOL" IRVING URGED HIS WIFE, BUT SHE PER.
SISTED in HOLDING HER ARMS AROUND HIM. he FORCED
ALIFE BELT OVER HER AND PUSHED HER AHEAD or HIM
STAIRS ALL THE TIME TRYING TO STEADY Her AND EN-
COURAGE HER. IAskED If COULD HELP AND IRVING sAID
LOOK AFTER YOURSELF OLD MAN BUT GOD BLESS YOU ALL
THE SAME"
ABBOTT SAID He LEFT THE TWO MAN AND WIFE,
STRUGGLING. ABBOTT GOT DECK AND OWED OVER
BOARD. HE CAUGHT HOLD OF A PIECE OF PLANkING AND
THEN LOOKED BACK THE SHIP. IRVING RY THIS
TIME DECK. He WAS SEEN KISS HIS WIFE. AS THE
SHIP WENT DOWN THEY WERE cLAsPED IN EACH OTHERS
NJ. D. a. DARLING, A SURVIVOR, WAS SAVED BY A LIFE
BELT THAT MIGHT HAVE SAVED SIR HENRY sEToN-kERR.
aAaY CABIN WAS OPPOSITE HENRYsD DARL.
ING, aANp WHEN OPENED MY DOOR WE BUMPED INTO
OTHER THE PAssAGEWAY, SIR HENRY HAD LIFE q
BELT AND He OFFERED 1T TO ME. REFUSED IT, BUT He
SAID. go ON OLD MAN. TAKE AND WILL GET ANoTll-
Err. TOLD HIM TO SAVE HIMSELF, BUT He GOT ANGRY
AND ACTUALLY FORCED THE BELT OVER ME. He THEN