The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-03
DEATH LIST is RAISED
FROM 969 TO 1924
Confusion ms to Number of Persons
Who Perished In Distressing
Feature.
INVESTIGATION TO FIX BLAME
First of Public Funerals of Victims
VIII lie Held To-Day With Imposing
Ceremony.

Quebec, June o.--The confusion as to
the number of persons who perished in
the Empress OF Ireland disaster last
week has been one OF the distressing
features OF the tragedy, and tonight
the uncertainty was further cmpha-
sized len figures declared by the Ga :
madam Pacific Railway Steamship
Company to be official. raised the death
list to 1,024 from 800 on Sunday night
--iifty-nve more.
Last Friday the company stated at
its Montreal office that the Empress of
Ireland carried 1887 persons when she
weighed anchor on her final and un-
completed voyage. It was on that
figure that tho list OF survivors and
missing was based. Tonight. how
ever. the company asserted that the
| Empress carried LAG passengers, o!ii-
GERS and crew. or an addition of
eighty y-n!ne. AS a partial offset the
figures giving the number OF rescued
were raised by thirty -siX-four from
the first cabin, three from second
cabin and steeraGe, and twenty-nine
officers and crew. y discrepancy of
! two in these figures was not explained
! by the company Tonight
SAVED FROM DISASTER
NOW PLACED At I5a
| The total saved from the disaster is
! now placed at iJ2 These include
! thirty-slx first cabin. forty-scven sec
| ond cabin 1876 steerage and 233 oiii-
/ GERS and crcw. OF the four classes.
! tho figures show the greatest percent
| age OF survivors among tho officers
and crow.
! or the 1923 who died. the bodies
| OF only n few more than 200 have
/ been recovered. and Of these only l03
| have been identihed-twenty-tw first
/ cabin, thirty-one second cabin, thirty
| eight storage and twelve officers and
! crew.
While arrangements were being COM
| pleted tonight for the first of the
| public funerals. inquiry was proceed =
! ing with n view to fixing tho reSpon-
/ sibility for the Empress's collision with
| the Norwegian collier Storstad.
The third member of the Royal Com
! mission, the official Investigating body
! will be Lord Mcrsey, of England. who
| presided over the British governments
! INQUIRY into the loss of the Titanic.
! Tho other two members are Ezekiel
| Macleod. chief Judge Of the Admiralty
! Court of tho Province OF New Bruins
wick, and Justice Sir Adolph Routhier.
! Judge OF the Admiralty Court OF
| Quebec. June was tentatively an
| nounced to-day as the day for the
| opening OF the proceedings.
COLLIER STORSTAD SHOWS
EFFECTS OF COLIISION
Montreal, June 2.--The collier Stor
| stad, which rammed the Canadian Pa
| cifc liner Empress OF Ireland in the
! St. Lawrence last Friday, causing tho
! loss Of more than 900 lives. completed
unloading her cargo of coal to-day.
! and IT was possible 10 make a thorough
I inspection OF her bow, shattered by
! the collision. Her stem was twisted
SO much to starboard that II almost
| formed a haif-circle. Some Of tho
! lowermost plates In her bow also were
twisted to starboard and torn away.
| There Is 4 large indentation on either
side of the stem. and rivetS are torn
! clear.
The condition of the Storstad's stem
Is pointed to In connection with Cap
tain Auderscn'a claim that when the
| occurred It was impossible for the col
lier's stem to remain in the holo bo-
cause il was twisted by the forward
movement of the Empress.
DEAD MEMBERS OF CREW
TO DE BURIED BY COMPANY
| The Canadian Pacific Railway Off
| cially stated tonight that the funeral
Of members of the crew OF the En-
| press OF Ireland who lost their lives
in the disaster and whose bodies have
not been claimed Will take place on
Thursday at 10 o'clock at Quebec. The
Canadian Pacific will bear the expense
According to the statement Of Mon
trcal post0iiicc officials the heavy reg
istercd mail, amounting to 1903 pack
ages, which went down on tho Em-
press. is "a total loss. and there will
be no compensation for scnders or ad.
| drcsSocs. Tho postal regulations pro
vide that the department only is re.
sponsiblo for registered mail actually
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