The Colorado statesman., 1914-06-06
LINER EMPRESS CARRIED MORE
PASSENGERS THAN AT FIRST
REPORTED.
255SAVEDB
Lord Mersey, Who Presided over tt
tanic Inquiry, Member OF Royal
Commission to Investigate EN-
press of Ireland Disaster.
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Montreal, June 5.-News that Lord
Mersey, who presided over the British
inquiry into the loss of life on the Ii
tanic, is to be member of the royal
commission appointed to investigate
the Empress of Ireland disaster, was
received here with satisfaction
AS Lord Mersey was president of
the Titanic court, it is assumed that
he will be similarly honored when the
royal commission meets The Cana
dian members of the commission are
Chief Justice Ezekiel Mcleod of New
Brunswick and Sir Adolph Routhier
of Quebec.
Another change has been made in
the number of dead The latest fig.
ures. given out in an official state.
ment by the Canadian Pacific Railway
Steamship Company, show that 1924
persons perished. The company hal
learned that there were LAG persons
aboard the Empress instead of 1887
as heretofore stated, hence the in
crease in the death list. The total
Capt Owe Lange Montreal agent OF
the Maritime Steamship Company
owners of the Storstad, declared that
of the 450 persons who survived the
disaster. $50 were cared for on the
Storstad. OF these, 225 were rescued
by the crew of the Storstad, while
thirty others, rescued by the Stor
OF nj hn
ernment steamship Eureka.
The lifeboats of the Empress of Ire
land are credited with saving 125 and
bringing them on board the Storstad.
"The Storstad's small boats" Cap.
tain Lange says, were loaded to the
limit of their capacity, and they
ceased their efforts only when there
were no more to be saved
Government vessels have been as,
signed to patrol the st. Lawrence
river in search of any more of the EN-
press of Irelands dead.
In sixty-nine counties and colonies
on Sunday memorial services will be
held by some 100000 soldiers of the
Salvation Army in memory of the 1873
members of the organization who per
ished when the Norwegian collier
Storstad collided with the Empress.
Salvation Army officers estimated
that more than 2,700,000 persons
would gather in the armys citadels
the world over to mourn.
Mrs. Dunlevy Among Dead.
Quebec.-The names of twenty-one
American passengers who were on the
Empress of Ireland when she went
down are contained in an official re-
port sent by Gebhard Willrich, Amer
lean consul here to the State Depart.
ment in Washington. OF these only
six were saved.
The names of the American sur.
vivors given by the consul are:
Charles P. Clark, Detroit; Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Freeman, Milwaukee;
Miss Edith Bach, Rochester, Mimi,
and Herman and Frieda Kruz, Sher,
burne, MINI.
The other names contained in the
report are: Americans whose bodies
have been brought here: Mrs. George
C. Richards, Terre Haute, Ind;
Rudolph Bach, Rochester, Mimi; Mrs.
F. H. Dunlevy, Denver, and Evan
Karalaske, Duluth, MINI.
Americans lost whose bodies have
not been found or identified: Mrs.
John Fisher, NJ. w. Mauncey. H. and
A. ]. Heath. Chicago; George c. Rich
ards, Terre Haute, Ind; Alexander
Bunthome and George Johnston,
Santa Barbara, Calf; the Misses Bes
sic and Florence Bawden, Hillsboro,
ILL.,; A. Matter, Indianapolis, and Miss
Eva Searle, Seattle.