The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-06-04
934 PER|SHED ON
BIG OCEAN LINER
433 ARE SAVED
Empress of Ireland Sunk in Co..
Iision in the st. Lawrence
River.
ONLY 20 WOMEN ARE SAVED
Craft Goes Through Center Of Vessel
and Rips It Open From Midships
to Stern-Men, Women and
Children Struggle for Life
While Waiting to Be
Rescued.

Children struggle TOR 1T
While Waiting to Be
Rescued.
Quebec, May 90.-A train with 3e6
Survivors of the lost Canadian Pacific
steamship Empress of Ireland arrived
here from Rimouski shortly before
eight o'clock last Thursday night.
iThirty-seven wounded were left at
Rimouski.
These are all that live Of the 1875
who sailed from here Thursday after
noon bound for Liverpool on the queen
vessel Of a famous feet. The ship
sailed cut Of a sunlit harbor into the
tog of Father Point, where the rip
ping PROV Of the collier Storstad
struck the death blow in the dark.
The lost number 934.
237 of Crew Are Saved.
OF the living 237 are members OF
the erew.
OF the living only 20 are women;
two are children.
Thus the story Of the most terrible
disaster In the history Of Canadian
navigation is written more grindy,
more vividly tn hard figures than 1t
could ever be In words.
How the hundreds of strong men
of tho crew were saved while the hun
freds OF weak women and children
persisted only the Imagination can
fathom now.
Not even the survivors can fully
picture the 19-minute death throe Of
the riven ship-the passengers wax
ened in the dead Of night either to be
crushed BY the invading Prov OF the
storstad, drowned in the rush Of wa
ters or to drag themselves to the list
ing deck, where panic re4gned, where
shriekB Of terror and Of pain made al
Inferno under the shrouding mist. The
battle that surged about the lie
boats that had not been shattered In
the crash, the cruel triumph of the
strong yer the weak-let the hard fg-
res ten it. They alone can.
One Of the matters on which the
rescued agree Is that Captain Ander-
son Of the Storstad backed his eessea
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.
Water Rushes In.
AS the collier backed away the " a
ter rush listed the Empress so that
all her %lifeboats on the portside were
useless.
The Storstad, moreover, having no
mortal damage and lying in a river
that was rufhed only by the strewn
forms Of the drowning, the wounded
and the dead, picked up but a few Of
those who were taken to the hospital
at Rimouski.
er Evelyn and the pilot boat Eureka,
which had to run all the way from Ia
tller Point, hat did the big work Of
rescue.
y strict investigation Is to be imme-
diately begun.
There vas no time"
That is the phrase used by every
survivor in trying to tell something Of
what happened. There was no time
&c the people; 40 time to cry:
Women and children frst.'"
Nineuteen minutes was the time be-
tween the crash and the sinking. In
that time there were lifeboats to
launch, a panic to contend with. In
that time the wireless must lash Its
calls for help.
The IS. O. s." picked up by many
ships near and far brought response
too late to save even a third of the hui
man cargo.
Captain Kendall, one Of tho most
able and trusted shippers of the line
"a man who had captured Dootor
Erippen, the murderer. and had served
for many years without a mishap at
sca-stood IN the bridge during those
10 minuSes.
Gathered piecemeal from survives
the horrors Of this wreck Grows viii
the telling.
The doomed ones had little time
even to pray. They were ensulfed by
the onrusiitng waters that swallowed
the big ship.
The wireless operators on the EN-
press. sticking to their pests to the
last, had time only to send a few rs.
.. s." cals for help when the rising
waters silenced their instruments
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