Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05

into the river. Iney were picked up
by a boat from the Lady Evelyn.
Edward Bomford, first Marconi
operator and Ronald Furgusson, sec
ond operator were saved.
The Empress was built In GLASGOW
in 1906. She was a twin screw vessel
14,191 tons.
w. Davis and wife of Montreal stay
ed with the boat until it went down.
They we're saved.
The Storstad carried a crew of 55
and was loaded with coal.
81 wished I had gone to the bottom
with her." said Captain Kendall of
the Empress when brought ashore.
The first rescue vessel arrived with
in 20 minutes of the accident. The
wireless worked perfectly.
Sir Wilfred Laurier declares that
the disasters which have occurred in
the st. Lawrence river have been
inexcusable.
But two children so far are known
to have been saved.
Of the $50 Salvation Army people
aboard, scarce 20 were rescued.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Greenway,
who had been married a week, were
reunited at Rimouski after each be-
lieved the other lost.
The American National Red Cross
society announced it would forward to
the proper authorities any contribu-
tinos sem to it for that purpose by
Americans.
Captain Kendall, Ireland's command
er, was lieutenant of the royal naval
reserves and attained considerable
celebrity a few years ago when cap
tain of the Montrose by discovering
DR.. Crippen among the passengers,
notifying the authorities by wireless
and turning the fugitives over to the
police at Father Point. whence he re-
turned to London and was hanged for
numbering his wife.
Captain Kendall Exonerated.
Captain Kendall has been exonera.
ted by the Canadian Pacific railroad
Captain Anderson denies that he
was to blame for the collision, or that
he backed away from the Empress Of
Ireland, saying he ordered full steam
doomed craft twisted it away from the
Storstad and it then disappeared il
the mist, but he stood by and lowered
all his boats.
A deputy sheriff seized the Storstat
as security for So. 000, 900 loss,
The Victims at Quebec.
t. Quebec.-The British flag was a
half-mast and all Quebec was il
, mourning when the funeral ship Lad,
Grey, escorted by the cruiser Esse,
arrived Sunday with 1873 who died il
the sinking ship.
: Upon many of the crude collins wa
t written, do not shed tears Owe me,
but thousands wept as the dead wer
carried t o the morgue pier.
The awfulness of the tragedy of tn
st. Lawrence river was keenly realize
7 when it was seen that many of tn
: bodies were mutilated bruised @
gashed. There is a story that wome
, were stabbed. That may be false, bu
the dead carry dreadful marks.
$ Twenty-Five of the bodies were thos
of babies.
; Twenty-one bodies were identifie
and left at Rimouski, SO that up [
Sunday night only 201 have been r
covered out of 957 lost.
Freight Shed a Morgue.
Stretched in three rows in a loy
t ceiling freight shed Monday mornin
were 1856 black, brown and white pir
coffins containing 1856 bodies, les
; than one-fifth of the victims of til
q collision. Twenty-Five of these CO
: fins covered with white satin and a
sembled irregularly together had bo
= les of babies.
Late Report.
Montreal.-The latest lists furnis
ed by the Canadian Pacific railway l
dictate that a total of $50 persons pc
ished in the wreck. The saved nur
Der is 418. The tabulation follows:
First cabin-Passengers carried, g
passengers SdV0u, o., pdSoCh6Oio ioE
SIS.
Second and third class-Of who
1913 we're second class, passengers ca
ried, 1858; passengers saved, 1870; pa
sengers lost, 688.
Crew-Carried, 1872; saved, 200; los
226.
investigating Tribunal Named.
The public is awaiting the result
the governments inquiry to fix the +
sponsibility for the disaster that I
suited in the loss of nearly 1000 lv'
on the Empress of Ireland. A roy
commission of three was appointed
Tuesday to investigate the cause
the disaster. The three men who W
compose the investigating tribun
are Sir Adolph Routhier, Judge of Il
court of admiralty of Quebec; Il
Hon. Ezekiel McLeon, chief justi
and judge of the admiralty court
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