The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-06-04
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ONLY 20 WOMEN ARE SAVED

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sisht O'Clock last rhursday night
Thirty -ssven wounded were left at
Rimoush.
These are ali that live Of the 1876
vAo saiIsd from here Thursday after
aoon bound for Liverpool on the queen
vessel OF . famous feet. The ship
called out Of Q sunlit harbor into the
eog OF Father Point whore the Eip-
Ding PROV Of the collier Storstad
struck the death blow in the dark
Ths lost number 9S%.
2S7 eF Grew Az eavsd.
OF the living 237 are members Of
~ Grew.
OF the living only 70 are women;
two aFe children.
Thus the story Of the most terrible
Disaster in the history Of Canadian
nosisation Il written more grimly.
more wildly in hard hgurss than It
oould ever BE- in words.
How the hundreds Of strong men
a the crew wees saved while the hun
ArsAs Of weak women and children
perished only the Imagination can
eathom now.
Not even the survivors can fully
picture the 1S-minute death throe Of
The nven ship-ths passengers wax
sosd in the dead Of night either to BE-
crushed BY the invading prov Of the
etorstad, drowned in the rush Of va.
tses or to drag themselves to the list
ing deck. where panic reigned. where
shrieks Of terror and Of pain made an
inferno under the shrouding mist. The
battle that sursed about the life
boats that had not been shattered In
the crash, the cruel triumph Of the
strong over the weak-let the hard hg-
urss tell It. They alone can.
One Of the matters, on which the
rescued agree IL that Captain Ander-
con Of the 6torstad backed his vessel
out Of the hole she had dug into the
Empress' side. nursing her own bent
PROV despite the shouted pleas OF
Captain Kendall that he hold fast to
the wreck.
Watsr kvstss In.
A the collier backed away the wa
ter rush listed the Empress 80 that
al her hfeboats on the portside were
useless.
The Storstad, moreover, having NO
morIal damage and lying In = river
that was ruined only by the strewn
forms of the drowning. the wounded
and the dead, picked up but few of
those who we're taken to the hospital
at Rimouski.
H. was the government mail steam
Or Evelyn and the pilot boat Eureka.
which had to run all the way from Fa-
ther Point, that did the big work Of
rescue.
A strict investigation is to be imme-
diately begun.
There was no time"
That 10 the phrase used by every
survivor in trying to tell something Of
what happened. There was no time
to rouse the people; no time to cry:
Women and children first"
Ninenteen minutes was the time be-
tween the crash and the sinking. In
that time there were ufeboats to
launch. q panic to contend with. In
that time the wireless must fash Its
calls for help.
The "S. o. g." picked up by many
ships near and far brought response
too late to save even . third Of the hu-
man cargo.
Captain Kendall. one of the most
able and trusted skippers Of the line
"A man who had captured Doctor
Crippen. the murderer. and had served
for many years without . mishap at
sea-stood on the bridge during those
19 minutes.
Gathered piecemeal from survivors
the horrors Of this wreck grows with
the telling. s.
The doomed ones had little time
even to pray. They were engulfed by
the fonrushing waters that swallowed
- the big ship.
The wireless operators on the EN-
press. sticking to their posts to the
last, had time only to send q few "S.
O. s." calls for help when the rising
waters silenced their instruments