Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-03

h~ySteriCal accounts of what had nap
pened. j. l.. Black and Mrs. Black,
of Ottawa, said they had jumDcd to-
gethcr in the river. They had been
reused by the shock of the collision.
and, unable to get into a lifeboat,
had risked the leap. They were
picked up by a boat from the Lady
Evelyn. Another survivor was Mrs.
Pattcn, of Sherbrooke, Que.
Storstad Able to Float.
First reports had it hat the col
lier StOrstad had also sunk. These
pro ID to be Incorrect. Though her
bow was badly damaged, the Storstad
was able to keep ahoat.
The water that poured into the
Empress engine room caused an OK
plosion and this forced many to
jump. Ernest Haynes, an assistant
purser, told Of leaping from the up
per promenade deck. He climbed
into No. 3 lifebOat. The boat man
Oeuvred about the wreck for a time
and found Capt. Kendall clinging to
4 piece Of wreckage. He had jumped
just before the Empress went down.
w. Davis. Of Montreal, one OF the
few survivors able to talk c]oherently
after first landing, said he and his
wife had not been awakened by the
impact Of the collision and knew
nothing of the accident until water
began to rush into their state room.
lie helped his wife to the boat deck
but the big ship had already listed
and il was impossible to launch a
boat. Together they crawled on
their hands and knees uD the slop-
ing deck Of the liner. The vessel
was rapidly sinking. His wife was
p.N, 49,, III. 49,
carried by the suction into the river.
They chung TO a piece Of wood and
were rescued. The wife was uncou-
scious.
A party Of Salvation Array mem
bers, ON route to London. was almost
wiped out. Only two of the party
being saved.
One million dollars in silver bars.
shipped from Cobalt to England.
went down with the Empress. The
snip sank in 90 feet Of water. Her
tunnels can he plainly seen from the
shore.
Storstad'S Captain Denies Blame.
Montreal, May 3l.-With her
bows crumpled in and twisted
around at an acute angle to port and
a gap showing on the port side only
a foot or so above the water line. in
mute evidence of the tragedy In
which she figured, the collier Stor-
Stad limped into the harbor here TO-
day.
a few minutes later a warrant Of
arrest. taken out by the Canadian
Pacific Railway. was nailed to her
main-mast by order Of w. S. Walker.
*. c., registrar Of the Quebec admi-
rally.
Did Not Back Away.
According to the captain and Off
GERS, the Storstad did not back away
after the collision. On the contrary,
she steamed ahead in an effort to
keep her bow in the hole she had
dug into the side of the Empress.
The Empress, however. according
to the Storstad's officers, headed
away and bent the Storstad's bow
Over at an acute angle to port. At
ter that the Empress was hidden
from the view OF the Storstad, and
despite the fact hat the Storstad
kept her whistle blowing, she could
not locate the Empress until the
cries Of some OF the victims in the
water were heard.
Capt. Andersen denied that he
moved a mile or so away from the
Empress after his vessel struck the
liner. The Storstad had not moved.
it was the Emp IS which had
changed position, he declared.
More Bodies Recovered.
Quebec, June 1.-The Canadian
government steamer Lady Grey
brought from Rimouski 1SS bodies
recovered from the wreck Of tie
Empress Of ireland.
Tho hictnrio hnjpht, nrnrlDnl,;,r
the st. Lawrence were black with
spectators as the funeral ship was
moorcd. The collins were carried
ashore and the work OF idpntiica-
ton begun without delay.
The Lady Grey was escorted by
His MaiestY'S ship ESseV. and fifty
sailors from the warShip carried the
collins down the gangplank and laid
them in rows under the freight shed
on the pier. The building was draped
with black. A crowd that included
many of the survivors and relatives
and friends Of the dead grouped at
The doors and waited for permission
to enter.
Three tables. each 10 feet long,
he'" collins Of every description. AS
sen. bled in n were Is small white
baskets that held the bodies OF chill
HillouSu tic LduN 'itN lldu
taken to Rimouski all available cot
fins there were not enough. Besides
the children's Baskets there were SO
containing the bodies of adults.
Other victims we're brought in rough
pine boxes.
There was no saddcr sight in the
building than the table where rested
those improvised collins; for many
held the bodies Of mothers and chill
drcn locked in the last embrace Just
rs they had gone to their death off