Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-01
THOROUGH PROBE
INTO SH|PWRECK
British and Canadian Authori-
ties to Cooperate in Con-
Quoting Investigation.
CAPTAIN OF THE COLLIER
DENIES HE is TO BLAME
Latest Figures Give Total Number of
Persons Who Perished on Empress
of ireland as 969.

OTTAWA June 1.-The British and
Canadian governments are cooperating
10 make the most thorough investigation
possible into the sinking of the steamer
Empress of Ireland.
The investigation will be held in Quebec
and will begin Tuesday. June 2. The in
yestigation will be conducted by a board
composed of two judges of the Canadian
admiralty, to be appointed by the do
minion government, and one representa-
tive of the British admiralty. appointed
by the imperial government.
While the commission is organizing &
Capt Lindsay. the wreck commissioner
of the government. is carrying on pre-
Gminary investigation preparing evidence
and getting the case ready as far as pos
sible. All the passengers who were saved
will be summoned to give evidence under
oath before Capt. Lindsay and officers
and members of the Empress and the
collier which sent her to the bottom will
be examined.
The royal commission will report upon
what measures should be taken to make
navigation in the marrow waters of the
St Lawrence more secure and whether
there should be a revision of the rules
which now govern shipping traffic in that
river. 1t is expected that a set of drastic
rules will be prepared and that they will
be thoroughly enforced.
To Aid in Investigation.
LONDON. June IA representative of
the board of trade left London yesterday
for Ottawa to confer and cooperate with
tine Canadian authorities in the official in
vestigation into the sinking of the En-
press of Ireland.
Capt. kendaiI's testimony al the Ri
mouski inquest has served to kindle to
the highest point public interest in one
OF the most piteous tragedies of the sea
on record.
The offices of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way are being kept open day and night
all through the Whitsun holidays, and not
for an hour since the news of the disaster
reached here has the London Office been
free of inquirers. At St. Pauls, West
minister Abbey and other places Of wor-
ship throughout the kingdom touching
references were made to the disaster.
Dead Being Identified.
QUEBEC. June liberalization of the
DEAD recovered from the scene of the
wreck Of the Canadian Pacific steamer
Empress Of ireland is proceeding more
rapidly than was expected. Nearly 100
of the 1sS bodies brought here yesterday
by the tender Lady Grey have thus far
been recognized by sorrowing friends and
relatives. This is in addition to the eight
cen bodies identified and claimed at Ri
mouski.
Some of the identifications include per-
sons of prominence who lost their lives in
the collision between the Empress of Ire
land and the collier Storstad early Friday
They are Sir Henry Seton-karr the big
game hunter; DR.. f. A. Barlow. lead
Ing geologist of Canada, and Mrs. w.
Leonard Palmer. wife of London news
paper man. Nearly score of members of
the Salvation Army have been identified
among the dead.
The funeral ship Lady Grey escorted
by the British warship Essex arrived in
quebec early yesterday morning, and
soon thereafter bluejackets from the Es-
sex were carrying the coffins ashore The
bodies were placed on long tables, draped
In black and white in the funeral shed
which had been prepared for their recep-
ton The pier shed was heavily draped
In black. and over the window sheets
were fastened to shut out the view of the
curious and til. morbid.
On the wharf. as the ship docked was
throng Of officials. newspape men, pho
tosraphers and moving picture men. while
outside sorroWing crowd awaited ad
rnittancc to search for their dead num-
bcr of survivors of the disaster were in
the crowd. hoping to find the bodies of
loved ones they had lost when the steamer
went down.