The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-30
STEAMER, TORN FROM AMIDSHIPS
STERN, GOES DOWN WITHMANY
PASSENGERS STILL ASLEEP
Most of Survivors Picked Up From Water. While Few
Got Away i'm I.fehcats - Others Killed or
Fatally Injured i II the Collision.

QUEBEC May o9-The greatest loss life sea. except
for the sinking of the Titanic occurred in the St Lawrence River
$50 miles northeast of Quebec, early this morning.
Nearly thousand of the and the Canadian
Pacific liner Empress Ireland down with the ship when she
by the Norwegian collier Sosdad The liner
mooneSS fog Her officers she was sounding her siren
The collier, which is said have been unchecked speed
Numbered against her and pierced her from amdshp the
At midnight tonight the line officials here had list of 433
survivors, which indicated that 934 had been lost The Empress
carried 1867 passengers and officers and special train
with 1856 arrived here tonight from Rimou and 81 too
Ill to be moved were left at Rimouski.
This is mail post the southern shore, not far from the
the disaster Twenty-Five persons taken from boas
wecKage died from injuries exposure.
Late tonight $50 bodies had been taken from the river One
and four alive but unconscious when found
The most terrible fact of the daaster its apdty The
liner was vn and sunk within fourteen minutes Men and women
were trapped sateroos and drowned before they could struggle
to the decks Scores killed by the Sorsdads bow
through tiers of sateroos More of officers and saved
poionae than of passengers because it sad
alarming weather conditions there unusual number of
officers and sailors duty.
Among the first cabin passengers who died Laurence
irving the English actor of Sir Henry Irving; Sir
Henry Seton-Ka celebrated English baster and big game
hunter Many officers of the Salvation Army in the second
cabin Capt H. S. Kendall of the Empress saved but he
badly injured from eaping upon wreckage the Empress sank
under him. The first officer lost and the chief
the missing Both wireless operators the chief engineer the
an pursers No
fallen upon the officers of the liner be learned tonight
Capt Kendall took the usual precautions and the Empress
merely keeping seaway in the swift flood tide.
The first the disaster received Father
the Mon wireless station Rmousk the southern Shore
2 A. NJ Edward Bomford junior wireless operator the
Empress just able flash the to Father Point before
the liner the bottom in fathoms. j. McWams
Father Point OPERATOR did splendid work organizing
he started Government steamships the Eureka and the Lady
Evelyn from Rmousk They arrived at the the disaster
about A. M found eboats litter of wreage and picked
1893 PERSONS 81 of whom women They took these
Nor to Rmou where the whole town plunged into relief work
Meanwhile Canadian Pacific officials at Montreal and in this
city had heard of the disaster and equppng special trains with
Surgeons supplies food and clothing. The relief trains
reached Rmousk this evening.
The district which the collision occurred very isolated
ave for the wireless there is only of communication
The telegraph Intecolona Railroad the rivers southern
shore Tonight the wireless and the telegraph line
sated with private and official business.
TIL" able make her Rmousk
% OF the Empress Her bow
"nl the collision
to II In
In
1nl
The the the Canadian Pactncs At