Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-06-04
KNOWN VICTIMS OF THE ST.
LAWRENCE RIVERS WORST
DISASTER NUMBER 1854 SOUL
THE SURVIVORS Of
CATASTROPHE ARE
TAKEN To QUEBEC

total Of 1897 persons on board
the Canadian Pacific liner EN-
press of Ireland when she sailed
yesterday from Quebec for Liv-
erpool 954 were lost when the
liner was rammed by the Danish
collier Storstad and sank off
Father Point in the st. Lawrence
river before daylight to-day, ac-
cording to revised figures late
tonight. Only 433 are known
! to have been saved.
Of the 81 first cabin passen-
gers, the late figures show 20 to
have been saved. Of the 153 in
the second cabin 20 were rescued ;
of the tbs third-class passengers,
there are 101 survivors, while
237 of the crew of 1872 were
brought ashore.
| These figures account for the 1906 sur
vivors landed here and taken by train to
| Quebec, where they arrived tonight
| There remained here 81 rescued persons
|
| known survivors.
So deep was the cash in the striker
liners side inflicted by the sharp prov
! of the heavy laden collier and so fast
the thrush of the sea that although the
! first rescue steamer, catching the wire
less IS. o. S" call and Fastening out
from Father Point, reached the scene
within 20 minutes after the meeting of
tI,n garg no al an1I had
gone down
Bulletin Quebec May Ga train with
800 survivors from the sunken steamer
Empress of ireland reached here shortly
before eight o'clock tonight. The rescued
on board number % frst-clasS % second
class and lol third-cass Passengers and
237 of the crew Thirty-seve survivors
were left at Rimouski, which would
make a total of 1873 saved AS revised
figures show 1861 persons to have been
on the steamer this makes the probable
number of lost 93i
a fun equipment of ambuances sup
piled by the city of Quebec by the town
of Lewis, on the opposite side of the
river. and the army medical service corps
was awaiting in readiness at Lewis when
the special survivors train arrived and
embarked and transferred to the ferry
steamer which had been waiting at the
special wharf to facilitate the transfer
70 Quebec.
It was ptiful sight when the ferry
steamer Polaris locked on the Quebec
side at $50 o'clock tonight and tht
296 men and women saved from the
Inflated Empress of ireland troorcd
~
faces of all plainly Registered the
frightful experience they had gonc
through Very few of the survivor:
9 possessed complete outfit of clothes
Il the majority wearing only shirts
trousers and boots.
/, HEADS ARE Barred.
/ Heads were barred as the iniure'
= were brought ashore, supported h.
8 friends and officials of the company
The second and third class passenger
n and the crew were Immediately mad
e comfortable on the Allan liner Alsa
= tian. which was lying in an adjoinin
= berth a the breakWater. The first
i class and injured passengers wer
r transferred in automobiles and othe
o vehicles to the Chateau Frontenac .
n staff of doctors and nurses took charg
= of the injured.
V Among the twenty five survivors o
i the first cabin there were eight wome,
and one child, and, strangely, anon,
z the twenty-nine rescued from the sec
= ond cabin there also were eight won
, | en- and one child. OF the 1Ol person
= saved from the steerage four wer
o women.
Among the fifty passengers left il
Rimouski were a number who We're s
III or so badly injured that they ha
10 be taken to the hospital.
DIR. GRANT A HERO
Special praise was given the heroi
work of DIR. James +. Grant Of Vic
toria, r. c.. ships surgeon on the EN-
press. To his GOODNESS was credite
the saving of a large number of per
sons taken out of the water, who prob
, ably would have persisted had the
not received prompt medical attention
A graphic description of the scene Of
J board the Empress of Ireland afte
!, the collision was given by DR. Grant
( II was in my cabin" said the ship
surgeon land knew nothing of the &C
cident until the boat listed so badi
V that | tumbled out of my berth an
then rolled under il. | tried to tur
on the light, but there was no power
I reached the bolted door, but the lis
u was so strong that ii took me consld
cradle time to open IT. When final
e ! got out and reached tho passagcway
1t was so steep, due to the way tn
10 ship was canted, that my efforts t
l. climb up were rendered Impossible b
u the carpet which | was clinslng t
"a breaking away.
Il then scrambled up and managed t
l. get my head through a port hole, but
he was unable to get my shoulders through
Is At that time the ship was lying almos
lie Hat in the water on her starboard side. 4
passenger who was standing on the plate
side OF the ship finally managed to pu
me through the port hole.
~ about hundred passengers Were gatf
- cred on the side of the ship at the tim
but a moment after ! had joined thei
W the vessel took another list and plunge
l. to the bottom
ID II next found myself in the water an
z, swan towards the lights of the steamt
Storstad and when early exhausted froi
the struggle and the exposure l wa
picked up by "A lifeboat, This boat wer
on TO the scene of the disaster and pickle
no a load of survivors from the wat,
and then took them aboard the Storsta'
Is There we were wrapped in blankets and
D. was provided with the clothes watch
~ now wear when able | did what coul
ITO help the survivors Some Of then