The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31
CAPTAIN KENDALL
TELLS HIS STORY
Continued from page I,

Oh picC0 Vi WICCha6o oAiAoos -
hausted. into boat from the Stors-
tad; how he aided to save others;
how they we're put aboard the collier
and how he then, with aid, returned
to the scene OF the Enpress's sinking.
when we got there, he said,
Everybody had gone We could not
see anybody alive. SO we returned to
the Storstad
There was no panic. had full
control OF the crew. They fought to
the end. Everybody behaved splen-
didly. Four boats were launched.
These were the four on which | had
loosened the grips as the ship sank
and as the water rose, these boats
tioated away. The people who were
saved were saved by the Empress
boats and by the wreckage.''
Several passengers followed Captain
Kendall on the stand. Their stories
of the disaster developed nothing
new and all praised warmly the action
OF Kendall and his crew.
The inquest developed rather along
the lines OF marine investigation,
the coroner evidently believing 1t was
his duty to prove the full cause Of the
collision other than determine the
death of the 200 odd bodies. During
The day DR.. Pinault ordered the re-
moval OF all the bodies here. Rela-
tives who had identified bodies were
allowed to remove them and the 9TH
ers were taken to Quebec. At 500
o'clock this afternoon the govern
ment steamer Lady Grey, with en-
signs half masted. left here for
Quebec, bearing It's bodies. some In
collins. The gruesome cargo was piled
on the decks and .he trim ice-breaker
presented sad spectacle as she
steamed away. No other bodies have
been found and It Is believed that the
greater number Of those lost we're
inside the hull of the EN-
press.
II. NJ. s. Essex was anchored on
st. Luce today. searching for bodies.
The grim. business-like warshtp was
busy all day but up to this evening
had not communicated with the shore.
So far not trace has been found
OF Laurence Irving or his wife. Mabel
Hackney, and 1t is believed the ia
nous actor went down In the ship.
A Pitifui story.
QUEBEC. May aO.--F. Oslender, an
engineer, one OF the Empress Ireland
survivors. told his story here tonight.
IT felt water" he said. land
jumped somewhere, somehow and
swan. l was picked UP by life boat,
nearly frozen and l think / got an oar
and pulled.
II kept my eyes on the floor Of that
boat, not wanting to see too much.
caught just one glimpse OF the collier
backing away.
up finally by the Evelyn think 1t
was-the government mail tender. !
wasn't badly off. I revived with some
coffee and tried to be OF some use
around the vessel.
II don't know how many souls were
on board My God, they were mixed
lot, mostly naked, first class and crew
and third class, all huddled together.
Some died on the way to shore.
Some had been cut by the prov of the
other vessel. They were terribly
mangled and the women
.'One woman" he continued brok-
emily. died while talking to her hus-
band. That is she thought she was.
She thought he was there and she just
ba bbled-and died.
"As we went to Rimouski there was
no sound save one blast OF our
whistle and the low whimpering of
men. whimpering of men. did you
ever hear of the like Men whin-
pering like girls, poor devils. their
nerve all gone One man had anoth-
er in his arms. comforting him as
man would a woman"
100000 on Board.
QUEBEC, May 3o-Men familiar
with ST. Lawrence river navigation
b alieve that inquiries to establish the
blame for the Empress Of Ireland
tragedy will reveal that the wreck
was due to a misunderstanding OF
whistles. They pointed out there Is
no material differences between oroin-
airy fog signals customary on the
river and the blasts with which Cap
tain Kendall sought to signal his
course to the Storstad. 1t was believ-
ed here that whsn Chief Wreckage
Commissioner James Lindsay on Mon
tay begins the Official inquiry into
the collision this will be the plea adj
vanced by Captain Anderson. Prac-
tically all the members of the En-
press crew who survived are being
held as witnesses together with a
number of the steerage passengers.
Plans are already being made for
raising the Empress. She lies in about
nineteen fathoms OF water. one OF
the reasons why her owners are
anxious for salvage Is that the YES
sci carried 81 900, 900 in silver bullion.