The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-30
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exposure to lose their holds on bits of wr eckage
teat had supported them and drowned.
| Only few persons were picked up by the Stor-
stad which was badly crippled herself by the col
lision and taey were brought here by the collier,
together with those saved by the Eureka and the
! Lady Evelyn Twenty two of the rescued died
from exposure others most OF whom had jumped
, into the boats or been plunged into the water
scantily clad were given such clothing as the two
could supply; and later those who were able to
travel were placed on boad trains for Quebec,
where they arrived tonight.
Accounts agree that in the fourteen minut es
interval between the striking by the collier and
the sinking of the liner there was little chance of
systematic marshalling of the passengers. Indeed
Everything indicated that hundreds of those on
the steamer probably new er reached the deck at
all. Very few women were saved, not more than
la dozen. 1T all happened so quickly we did not
really know what was going on and nobody had
time to cry women first " one of the passengers
told Capt. Belinger OF the rescue boat Eureka.
"The Steward did not have time to arouse the
passengers" He added, ''those who heard the
c,|ls of the officers tor the passengers to hurry on
their cabins ia scanty attire They piled into the
boats which lowered rapidly and which were row.
ed awav. Many of those who waited to dress
We're drowned"
The horror of the interval when the Empress
Of lrean was filling, the frightened throngs on
On board were hurryng to escape before she
ank, was added to by an explosion which quick
ly followed the tearing of the liner side
From all accounts Captain Kendall of the En-
press of Ireland bore himself like true sailor,
long as the ship stood under him. He retained
such command of the situation it appeared that
while the Storstad still hung in the cash it had
made in the Empress of lreland's SIDE Captain
Kendall begged the master of the collier to keep
his propeller going so that the hole might remain
plugged. The collier, however, dropped back and
the Empress filled and toundered.
i Captain Kendall stood on his bridge as the ship
went down. One of the boats of the liner pick
ed him up. He was not in ured in the crash,
but suffered from exposure; his hurts arenot dan
serous and his speedy recovery is expected
/ When day broke this morning the rescue boats
not returned from the scene the disaster Peo-
/ pie stood on shore at Fatherpoint scanning the
horizon with telescopes, saw the res cue steamers
picking boats off in the yer and preparing to
Igive help to the survivors
! They were sorely in need of aid as most Ct
them had on little clothing and the temperature
was almost at freezing point. When they had
received attention and gotten on teeir way to
Quebec the work of recovering bodies was under
taken. The rescue steamers themselves had
brought in fifty of these, anb tonight after they
had continued the research the totrl of about $50
bodies had been recovered. One woman and
our men still living but unconscious were picked
Up during the day by the steamers. Few of tine
bodies had been identified tonight
| The wireless is given credit for saving many
| ives from the sinking liner. responding promptly