Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-31

ID the Empress sank.
Capt. Kendall, who stuck to the
bridge of the Empress to the last.
and after he was picked up by lie
boat, aided in saving boat.load OF
drowning persons, told how the Stor-
stad acknowledged his signals, and
that the Empress stopped after the
fog had settled. Then, he said, the
GOLFERS lights suddenly showed the
ships but a length apart. According
to his testimony. Kendall shouted
through the meg ,apho1e for the St0r-
stads captain to go full speed astern
and at the same time, seeing that the
collision was inevitable, put the EN-
press engines at full speed ahead
with the helm aport; His object
being to avoid, if possible, the shock.
"Almost at the same time he came
right in and cut me down in line be-
tween the tunnels. said Capt. Ken
dali.
Backs Out Of Gap.
After the Storstad backed out Of
the gap it made in the Empress side.
Kendall ordered full speed ahead,
his object being to run the ship
ashore and save the passengers and
ship. But Immediately afterward. the
engines stopped, the water reaching
the boilers. "
Ordered S. O. S. Message.
Then he told of ordering the wire
less, IS. 0. S." sent out. and the life
boats launched. Then, as the ship
plunged, he was shot out iIto the
sea, and taken down with the sue
ton. lie came up and was rescued
by boat He said the Empress had
sufficient boats for 1000. There was
no panic, and the crew behaved splen-
didly. The officers did every thing
thev could, and the engineers remain
ed below until they could get no more
steam aad the lights went out.
storstad's Boats Useless.
He said the Storstad's boats didn't
pick up many people.
"T passed a couple of his boats.
he said, (which had only three people
in them
Several others testified, including
the chief engineer of the Empress anu
the wireless operator at Father Point
and Captain Belanger, Of the Eureka,
one of the ships which went to the
Empress rescue.
The jury decided to adjourn the IN.
quest for one week. Meantime Coron-
er Pinault will investigate the posi-
bility of securing testimony from the
Storstad's captain and crew. Rela-
tives who identified bodies we're al
lowed to remove them.
BLAME OFFICER OF COLLIER.
Quebec, May 30.-An investigation
into the responsibility for the COLI
sion which sent the Empress of Ire
land to the bottom of the st. Law
renee, with loss of over 900 lives
has been begun. Captain Kendall or
the Empress told his story at Rimous-
XII, tending to show, as did the testi'
mony of others, that the blame is
upon the navigators Of the collier,
Storstad, which passed up the river
to Montreal tonight to land its cargo.
Masters Story Awaited.
The story of it's master is eagerly
awaited. The bodies Of It's victims
of the disaster are aboard the Lady
Gray. which is due to arrive here late
tonight. The mortuary chamber at
the wharf is in readiness for the bod
les.
Survivors Cared For.
Survivors here are being we'll cared
for. With the exception of 40, most
Of them are suffering in the hospital
at Rimouski, from injuries.
All who were brought here yester'
day were able to leave today for Mon
treal. Very few seemed willing to
continue on the journey Europeward
just now. Today the first death from
exposure was reported from Rtmous-
XII. The giving out tonight by the
company of a list of steerange pas
sengers showed that 226 were from
the United States and nearly all we're
by birth or extraction foreign to that
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