Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-30
LINER SINKS N E MINUTES
 WITH A DEATH TOLL OF 954

vehicles to the Chateau Frontenac. A of the injured.
 Among the twenty-five survivors of the first cabin there were eight Wo- men and one child. and strangely among the twenty nine rescued rom the second cabin there were only eight women and one child. Of the 101 per sons saved from the steerage, four were women.
 Among the fifty passengers left in Rimouski were a number who were so ill or so badly injured that they had to be taken to the hospital.
 Special praise was given the heroic work of Dr. James F. Grant of Victo- ria, B. O., ships surgeon on the Elm press To his coolness was credited the saving of a large nubmer of per- ably would have perished had they not received prompt medical attention
 Graphic Description of Scene.
 A graphic description of the scene on board the Empress of Ireland aft CT the collision was given by Dr. Grant.
 Story of Ships Surgeon.
 "I was in my cabin,D said the ships Surgeon, "and knew nothing of the accident until the boat listed so badly that tumbled out of my berth and then rolled under it. I tried to turn on the light, but there was no power. I reached the bolted door, but the list was so strong that 1t took me con- siderable time to open it. When finally got out and reached the passage way, it was so steep, due to the way the ship was canted, that my efforts to climb up were rendered impossible by the carpet whiche was clinging to breaking away.
 T then scrambled up and managed to get my head through a pOrthole, but I was unable to get my shoulders through. At that time the ship was lying almost flat in the water on her starboard side A passenger who was standing on the plated side of the ship finally managed to pull me through the port hole.
 About a hundred passengers were gathered on the side of the ship at the time, but a moment after I had joined them the vessel took another list and plunged to the bottom.
 q next found myself in the water and swam towards the lights of the steamer Storstad, and when nearly exhausted from the struggle and ex- posture, I was picked up by life boat. This boat went on to the scene of the disaster and picked up load of sur yiyors from the water and then took them on board the Storstad. There we were wrapped in blankets and was rDTONlQcu NILfl ti1t ClOkntS WIIlIlI I now wear. When able. l did what could to help the survivors. Some of them, however were in SHch an ex-4 hausted condition that they. died"
 Story of Second Cabin Survivor.
 K. A. Mcintyre was in the second cabin with most of the other Salvation Army passengers. He told a vivid what he saw as he swam to safety,
 Virtually every leading officer of the Salvation Army in Canada he said, 'is gone. Commissioner Rees and his wife and the children went down and only three of this family survive. And out of our Salvation party of 150 on board probably less than 20 were res- cued.
 "I was on the upper deck and there fore had a better chance to get to safety than those in the lower berths. The water came in through the port passengers there realized their danger, or that there was any danger at all.
 T was aroused from my sleer by tho impact and awakened the others in my cabinet. I could then hear plainly the rush of water, and felt sure that something serious had happened. I also heard the machinery of the boat running. It did not stop immediately after tho crash, but continued until the explosion occurred.
 
 out to the deck. On deck there were no life belts and quite a number of people were standing about, apparent ly unable to determine what to do. l gave my belt to Mrs. FOord, one of our party. I tied the belt on her my self
 My three comrades went to the bot tom. was pulled into lifeboat be- longing to the Storstad. When I was taken on board saw many men reS- 1l most naked myself and the rest of those on board were shivering from the icy water and the chilly morning air. Soon, however, we were attended to by those on board the collier and made warm and comfortable.
 "AS I Swam I heard the dull eXplo- sion caused by the water reaching the engines of the sinking ship. It was followed by a burst of stea mthat Spread to all parts of the vessel. Then came a quick listing of the liner and she turned over. It looked to me as if she turned turtle.
 T do not think many first class cabin passengers were saved. saw only one of the first class boats lowered.
 "The weather was virtually calm and there was plenty of light on the water when I came on deck. saw no fog. I thought at first we had hit a rock. Some of the officers of the ves- sel came along and said that the ship would nor go any Iurtner, TOT DottOm had been struck.
 "The behavior of the crew was on the whole good, though 1t must be said that the men hardly had time to collect themselves or to effect rescues in any systematic way. The boat was really sinking before the crew or anybody eise realized it or could no anything.
 Those of the crew who got to the deck tried to launch boat on the up- turned eide of the vessel. but this was impossible because the list was such that the boat could not be put into the water and landed on the side of the vessel
 The decks were almost PefPendieu- lar. so that many passengers in order to escape had to slide down from the hieher side to the lower CT water side CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
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