The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-06-02
A GREAT MANY
NEVER AWOKE
Sank In So Minutes And NJ
Time Was Had For Rescue
Of Passengers---Heroic
Efforts Were Made.
(By Assocshted Press)

(By Associated Press)
Rimouski, Quebec. May 29.-Of to-
tai of 1887 on board the Canadian
Pacific liner Empress of Ireland when
she called yesterday from Quebec to
Liverpool. 954 were lost when the
liner was rammed by the Danish col
lier Storstad and sank of Father
Point in the st. Lawrence river before
daylight today, according to revised
figures late tonight. Only 433 are now
known to have been saved.
OF the 81 first cabin passengers the
late figures show 80 to have been
saved. or the 153 in the second cab
in, 29 were rescued; of the 715 third
class passengers, there are l01 sur
vivors, while 327 of the crew OF 492
were brought ashore.
These figures account for the S96
survivors landed here and taken BY
train TO Quebec. There remained
hera 81 rescued persons, unclassified,
comprising the total Of 433 knowr.
survivors = = - :
So deep was the cash in the striek
en- liners eide Inflicted by the aharl
prov OF the heavy laden collier ant
so faEt theg thrush yo1 The sea! stla !
although the first rescue steamer
SSAsShLhS tuO "INStCSS D.. ". D. cal.
and. hastcning out from Father Point
reached the scene within twenty min
ntest after the Tisating OF two yes-
selgs the liner already had gone,
down: s. = 4.
The wireless could hardly have
worked to- better effects-or the re-
spo1se have been more prompt. Yet
within the sight OF shore, in land
locked waters, with help close al
hand, nearly 1000 persons lost theiIl
lives by drowning when fog obscured
the vision OF the river navigators,
and two vessels, one virtually as q
Gtandstill as measure OF precau-
tion; and the. other from all accounts,
at not more than a moderate speed.
crashed together In fatal impact.
Investigation of the. cause OF the,
disrster will be started promptly.
T'hL story or the Storstad. which az.
ter picking up a few. survivors and
landing them here. resumed limpidiy,
With CRIPPLED bow, her way pppa the
n:st. will not be told until toR6feo$
when she reaches Quebec. From tho
evidence .oe the officers. on the EN-
press.i however. the liner had come
to dead halt In the fog and was
blowing her whistle atsthe! time of; her,
eoliision. IS
lEAITlNta FOR FOG no LIFT
RnFouski. Que, May 29.--Sinl;ing IN
ninety "-d OF water within fifteen,
minutes after being ranlined amid
ships In the upper reaches of the st
Lawrence river early today. tl,es Ca !
nadiun Pacific ilner, Empress or Ire
land, earried downIwith her more than
9nil OF neI messengers aud crew. 20
1887 persons on: board the liner o1il.
432 are known to have been Se.vedi
making the Jprobable death list 96.
Looming up through the river m.s,s
az the Empress of Ireland was iyInt
Stc, waiting for the iyg 10 lift or d5sE
TO hreak. The yaanislrt collier Stefstet
crashed b6ls--on into tho side or BIZ
Canadian timer. ssfflkfKaI her about
midway OF her length and dipping Hef
side soren cleaf 10 sflse $tefis \;
A RIVER sisti teE.
TEie crash occurred iioa far from thu
ehora off Father Point, so miles
fponf QueEec which the EmpreEs OF
IfelHnli left yesterday Afternoon bound
for Ligerhooll an d tea M les from this
poise on the st. lawrence. III reaiai
ity therefore. although the liner was
head 'tg for the fea nd Ae scoiiiefs
eornih Ia from II, the tilaastet WAS mol
one ef ocean hut of fiyers uuli Ike tho
Tita iess Wet ms. the press D { fEes
lands lost shssF lives Within sight OF
ahos inland Looked waters. 81
imnle ately the skip crew fecoTer-
Cd from the shock 81 the colIiglon and
& was seen that tllri3 liner had receIy4
ed 4 Vital blow & islteiess s. o. 81 Sa'
call wna eeund LED
s. Ileacas ii ss l'oe Late.
The hnFfed appesi WAS p.ckel up
hy the govefhmeAt mail tendes Lady
lsysssn here asia the eEsssrnInent pilot
boat Eureka Il. rather Point. ara hnfli
-aGt ont q The Seseales So deep egas The
hnrf os the 5rnpresa. however, and 90
.eas RE iarpsh ef watfs. that i0nE be-
fnfe lasl 1g tlle boatE could