Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-05-30
Another Terrible Disaster Added
to Long List of Sea Tragedies

''0t no TIME IN 0DeNlng them.
rushing up from their cabins I'm scantv
azure They piled into the boats.
which We're rapidly lowered ana were
roWed away Many who waited to
dress We're drowned
Horrible Panic Ensues.
lhe horror of the interval during
which the Empress of ireland was
rapidly ulling and the frightened
ihrongs ON board her were scurrying
about .n an effort to escape before she
sank. was added to by an exnJosio
which quickly followed the ripping
and tearing given the liner by the
Storstad's bow According to one Of
the rescued the explosion, probably
caused by the water reaching the
boilers bulged the liners sides and
hurled people from her decks out into
the sea.
Launching Boats Difficult
The ships heavy list as the water
pouring in weighted her on the side
she was struck made the work Of
launching boats Increasingly difficult
and when she finally took her plunge
to the bottom scores of persons stiu
Ileft on her decks were carried down in
the vortex Only a few were able to
clear her sides and find support on
pieces Of wreckage
From all accounts Captain II. G.
Kendall, Of the Empress Of ireland,
bore himself like a true sailor, as long
as his ship stood under him. He re-
talned such mastery command Of the
situation It appears. that while the
Storstad's stem still hung in the cash.
it had made I'm the Empress side. cap
tain Kendall begged the master Of the
collier to keep his propelers going
SO that the hole might remain plug
ged The Storstad, however. dropped
back and the Empress filled and foun-
dered
Captain STAYS by Ship.
Captain Kendall stood on his bridge
as the ship went down One of the
boats from the liner picked him up
and he directed its work of saving
others until the craft was loaded. The
captain was injured u the crash and
suffered from exposure hut his
speedy recovery is expected.
When day broke this morning the
rescue boats had not Vet returned
from the scene Of the wreck People
standing on snore at Father Point
scanning the horizon with telescopes.
saw the rescue steamers picking up
boats off in the river. and prepared
to give help 20 the survivors They
We're sorely in need of aid as most
of them had on little clothing and the
temperature was down almost 10 the
freezing point
When they had been given attention
and gotten on their way 90 Quebec
the work of recovering bodies was un-
dertaken
Wireless Aid Prompt.
The rescue steamers themselves had
brought in nearly fifty Of these ana
tonight after they had continued their
search a total of about $50 bodies had
been recovered. one woman and four
men still unconscious We're picked up
during the day hy The steamers Few
of the bodies had been identified t9.
night.
The wireless is given credit for saw
ing many lives from the sinking liner
Responding promptly to the "SOS"
call, the Eureka was on the spot ap
proximately twenty minutes after the
disaster and the Lady Evelyn but ILL.,
tie later.
Investigation OF the cause of the
disaster Is to be started promptly
The story OF the storstad, which after
picking up a few Of the survivors anl
landing them here resumed with
erumpled bow. her way up the river,
viii not be told until tomorrow. when
she reaches Quebec, where she was
bound from sydney with a cargo of
coal when she deat the Empress OF
ireland the blow that sent the big
liner. plummet-like 10 the bottom.
From the evidence Of officers on the
Empress, however the liner had come
10 a dead halt in the fog ana was
blowing her whistle as a warning Of
her presence.
About three hundred bodies from
the Empress Of ireland lie tonight in
the sheds al the wharf here. one of
the bodies is that Of a woman whose
arms are clasped tightly about her
child Many are torn and bruised
Captain Kendall was downcast over
the disaster 20 his ship n wish /
had gone 10 the bottom with her he
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