Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-05-30
396 SURVIVORS, ARRIVE
IN THE CITY OF QUEBEC

quebec. May ga train OF 3q6
survivors from the sunken steamer
Empress of ireland. reached here 3t
s o'clock tonight The rescued on
board numbered twenty-nine first
class twenty N-nine seeond-cmss and
10l thrd-class passenger, and 237
of the crew. Thirty-scren survivors
We're left az Rimousld, which would
make a total OF 43S saved AS revised
figures show l,3S7 persons % have
been on the steamer, This makes the
probable number lost 954
A fun equipment Of ambulmccs
supplied boy the city Of Quebec. by the
town Of Lewis, ON the opposite side of
the river and the army medical scr-
Vice eerps was awaiting at Lewis.
when the special survivors train lr-
rived The passengers we're mmedi-
atelY transferred 10 the ferry steum-
er which had been waiting 10 mcii-
tate the transfer to Quebec
1t was "a piuful sight when tine ferry
steamer Potaris. docked ON the Que
bee side and the 396 women and men
saved from the Empress of Ireland
trooped falternRly down the gang
way Very few of them possessed "a
complete outfit Of clothes. the ma
jority wearing only shirts. trousers
and boots
Heads We're barred as the injured
were brought ashore The second and
. fr3 .Ise. ,.,sua,eare ma tt,. ..,....t.
We're made comfortable on the Allan
liner Alsauan which was living at the
wharf The first class and injured
passengers We're transferred in auto
mobiles and other vehicles 10 the
Chateau Fronteuac A staff Of doctors
and nurses took charge of the in-
iured
Among the twenty-five survivors of
the first cabin. there were eight wom-
en- and one child, and strangely
among the twenty mine rescued from
the second cabin there We're also
eight women and one child OF the
l0i persons saved from the Storage,
-four We're women
Among the nifty passengers left in
Bimousk. were number who were
SO ill or So badly Injured that they
had 90 Dee taken to q hospital
A story of a tremendous explosion
ON board the Empress Of ireland after
she was hit by the storstad was told
tonight by Phillip LaWler. steeragc
passenger from Branford, ont lay
Ter was on his way to England with
his wife and son.
People were simply sho, out OF
the ship into the sea by the explosion.
Mr. Lawler said. 81 WAS pushed over
board with my wife and boy The boF
could swim. so ] tried to take care OF
my wife, but She slipped from my
grasp ana sank
Dr Johnston, chief medical officer
Of the Empress. said that had not the
Storstad backed out So soon from the
Empress a large number of the pas
sengers would have been saved. He
said that when the collier pulled herr
self free the sea sureed into the hole
she bad torn in the side Of the Em-
press and the liner quickly sank
chief Marconi Operator Hayes of
the Empress. told Of the sinking &c
The vessel
"As soon as J felt the shock, he
said Il was ordered 10 sound the
danger signal ana the flash of nay
$. % s. was picked up by the operator
az Father Point and answered But I
ruuI4 NOT faIk tD him for five min
utes after my dynamos failed me. ana
seventeen minutes after the collision
our boat went down
10 pluckily leap from the deck Of
The sinking liner and swim around for
nearly an hour In the river and then
20 fan dead from exhaustion on the
deck Of the pilot boat Eureka, was the
ale Of an unidentified woman.
The noise of the water rushing into
his cabin awakened w Davis of Toe
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