Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-02
Collier Held Under Arrest Upon Complaint of Canadian Pacific,
 Owner of the Empress; Cap
 tain Tells of Actions in Wreck.
Says He Did Not Back off, But
 That Empress Released Self;
 Afterwards Gave All Possible Assistance; Picked Up 300.

MONTREAL. June With her bows crumpled in and listed and gap showing on the port side, only a foot or SO above the wsterline, in mute evidence of the tragedy in which she figured the collier Storstad docked here this afternoon. A few minutes later warrant of arrest, talk en out by the Canadian Pacific Rail way, was nailed to her mainmast by order of w. Simpson Walker. K. c. egistrar of the Quebec admiralty.
 By what authority do you come on board my vessel and place it under ar- rest?" Captain Anderson. commander ! of the collier. asked.
 By authority of the British em- pire," curtly replied the deputy sheriff commissioned to execute the warrant.
 No sooner was the vessel moored than she began to unload her cargo of coal and were it not for the battered condition of her bows, it would be diff ncult to imagine that the collier had SO recently taken part in one of the worst marine disasters in the history of Canadian navigation.
 The officers and men, however, bore traces of their narrowing experiences. When questioned on the subject of the disaster they were averse 10 entering into any conversation.
 Captain Anderson, after the collier docked, was in conference with Cap tain Owe Lang, American chief of the Maritime Steamship Company of Nor way, and John Griffin, attorney for the company both of whom had come from New York to get the report of the captain and sailors first hand
 Captain Anderson declined at first to discuss the accident, declaring that he would make a statement later in the evening. Subsequently,. a state ment based on Captain Anderson's re- port. as well as reports of other off cers to Messrs. Lang and Griffin, was given out
 Did Not Back Away.
 According to the captain and off cers, contrary to what had been stated by the captain of the Empress of Ire Hand. the Storstad did not back away after the collision On the contrary D she steamed ahead in an effort to keep . her bow in the hole she had dug into ] the side of the Empress. The Elm l press, however according to the Storstad's officers, headed away and bent the Storstad's bow over at an acute angle to port After that 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 Captain Ander son said
 "It has been said that the Storstad should not have backed out of the hole caused by the collision She did not do so As the vessels came together - the storstad's engines were ordered ahead for the purpose of holding hel
 bow against the side of the Empress 1, and thus preventing the entrance oI - water into the Empress.
 "The headway of the Empress. how
 ever. swung the storstad around if . butN way 70 lWlhl lut ohoA aAoA HNN
 over to port The Empress at onc'
 disappeared in the fog The storsta'
 sounded her whistle repeatedly in aI
 effort to locate the Empress of Ire I, land, but 1t could obtain no indication
 of her whereabouts until cries wer'
 heard The Storstad was then man 7 euvered as close to the Empress a H was safe in view of the danger of in . jury to the persons who were alread '. in the water.
 "The Storstad at once lowered ever " one of her boats and sent them to say
 the passengers and crew of the En
 press although herself was in seriou
 danger of sinking When two boat
 from the Empress reached the Sto ls stad the storstad's men manned thes .r boats and went in them to the rescue a- Her own boats made several trips an u- ip an about $50 persons were take r. on board and everything that th