The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-06-03

tnem, ruSn1ng up from their CABINS
in scanty attire. They piled into
the boats, which were rapidly low
cred and were rowed away. Many
who waited to dress were drowned"
The horror of the interval during
the time the Empress was rapily fill
ing and the frightened throngs on
board her we're hurrying, every eff
fort to escape before she sank was
\ added to by an explosion which
quickly followed the ripping and
tearing given the liner by the Stor-
stad's bow. According to one of the
rescued the explosion, probably
caused by the water reaching the
boilers. bulged the liners sides and
catapulted people from her decks
out into the sea. The ships heavy
list as the water pouring in weigh
ed her on the side SHIT was struck.
made the work of launching boats
increasingly difficult from moment
to moment and when she finally
took her plunge to the bottom,
scores still left on her decks we're
carried down in the vortex. only a
few being able to clear her sides and
find support on pieces of wreckage.
From all accounts Captain H. G.
Kendall, of the Empress of Ireland,
bore himself like a true sailor as
long as his ship stood under him.
He retained such command of the
situation it appears, that while the
Storsad's stem still hung in the
cash it had made i'm the Empress's
side, Captain Kendall begged the
master of the collier to keep his pro-
pellers going so that the hole might
remain plugged. The Storstad, how
ever, dropped back and the Empress
filled and foundered.
' 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 in
the crash and suffered from expo
sure, but his hurts are not dangerous
and his speedy recovery is expected.
story of the Captain.
Rinouski. Que, May 3O.-While !
final tabulations of the casualties in |
the sinking of the Inflated steamer
Empress of Ireland were being made
to-day, showing that 463 of her pas
sengers and crew had been rescued |
and 964 had persisted. Capt. Henry
George Kendall. of the liner, was
telling his story of the disaster at an
inquiry conducted by Coroner Pin
aud here.
Capt. Kendall, in substance, de-
clared that he had taken all possible
precautions against a collision His
ship had been stopped, he gave the
requisite signals when the Danish
collier Storstad, which dealt the blow
which sent the Empress to the bot
tom, was still two miles away, but
the collier kept on through the fog
which settled down soon after the
two vessels sighted each other, and
had rammed the Empress of Ireland
while the latter was virtually mo-
tionless. Then. despite his plea to
the master of the collier that he run
his engines full speed ahead to keep
the hole in the liners side plugged
with the Storstad's bow, said Capt.
the Danish vessel backed
away, the water rushed in. and the
Empress sank.
Capt. Kendall, who stuck to the
bridge of his ship to the last, and. I
after being picked up by lifeboat
aided in saving a boatload of drown
ng- persons from the wreck. took up
his story of the disaster from the
point at which the Empress of Ire
and. bound from Quebec for Liver {
>ool had dropped her pilot Thurs
lay night at Father Point, near
which the disaster of yesterday
oScuTcu.
Chief Engineer Sampson. who re-
NAMED in the engine room until the
Tres We're drowned and the lights
was too i'll to appear !
md his testimony was taken at his ,
bedside. =
Il was In the engine room until
he lights went out and there was
10 more steam,s he said. II had .
reat difficulty in reaching the decks
wing to the great list of the ship.
10 sooner had | got on the deck
'hen the boats of the port side !.
Which had broken loose swept down !,
n top of us and carried us under
'ater When ] came to the surfacei !,
found myself under lifeboat and
ntangled In wreckage. was finally
ulled into one of the boats and
ould see the collier about "A mile