Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-06-05

Mrs. Black of Ottawa jumped together |
into the river. They we're 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
OF 14,191 tons.
w. Davis and wife Of Montreal stay
ed with the boat until 1t went down.
They we're saved
The Storstad carried crew of So
men and was loaded with coal.
81 wished l 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 we're rescued
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Greenway,
who had been married a week, we're
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 sent to it for that purpose by
Americans.
Captain Kendall, Ireland's command
er, was lieutenant of the royal naval
reserves and attained considerable
celebrity 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
ahead, but that the Roadway of the
doomed craft twisted it away from the
Storstad and it then disappeared in
the mist, but he stood by and lowered
all his boats
A deputy sheriff seized the Storstad
as security for 100000 loss.
The Victims at Quebec.
Quebec.-The British flag was at
half-mast and all Quebec was in
mourning when the funeral ship Lady
} Grey, escorted by the cruiser Essex
' arrived Sunday with 1873 who died in
the sinking ship.
: Upon many of the crude collins was
t written, do not shed tears over me-
but thousands wept as the dead were
: carried to the morgue pier.
5 The awfulness of the tragedy of the
D st. Lawrence river was keenly realized
when it was seen that many of the
bodies were mutilated bruised OF
gashed. There is story that women
3 were stabbed. That may be false, but
the dead carry dreadful marks.
4 Twenty-Five of the bodies we're those
: of babies
Twenty-one bodies were identified
and left at Rimouski, so that up tt
; Sunday night only POI have been re
covered out of 957 lost.
q Freight Shed a Morgue.
Stretched in three rows in a low
t ceiling freight shed Monday morning
s were 1876 black brown and white pint
collins containing 1856 bodies, les
, than one-fifth of the victims of tn,
4 collision. Twenty-Five of these cot
fins covered with white satin and as
sembled irregularly together had bod
les of babies.
Late Report.
Montreal.-The latest lists furnish
ed by the Canadian Pacific railway In
dictate that a total of 500 persons per
ished in the wreck. The saved mum
Der is 41S. The tabulation follows:
First cabin-Passengers carried, 81
passengers saved, 80; passengers lost
55.
Second and third class-Of whom
1913 were second class, passengers cal
ried, 868; passengers saved, $780, pas
sengers lost, 6SS.
Crew-Carried, 432; saved. 2O6 lost
226.
investigating Tribunal Named.
The public is awaiting the result o