The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-06-05


Hereupon the council, adjourned.
FROM firdsys bsHy.
Montreal, May 2s.-The Canadian
Pacffc raiiruad liner. Empress OF
|rreland. which sailed from Quebec.
for Liverpool yesterday afternoon.
with a crew OF, 600 esficers and men.
|6of thira-ciass passengers. zoe sec
ondcIass, seventy-seven first class,
at l:45 O'Clock this morning coilided
with the inbound Collier Storstad.
twenty miles out from Father Point.
Quebec, IN the Gulf OF st. Lawrence.
The Empress went down In nineteen
fathoms OF water within a little
more than ten minutes after the cob
lision. -
In response to the Empress wire
Hess IS. o. g." calls. the Canadian
government steamers, Lady Evelyn
land Eureka raced out TO the wreck
from Father Point. ana greatly aid
ing the survivors from the Empress
and the crew of the much damaged
Isterstad. which remained afioat, aid
led In the rescue work. &C.,.
Great Difficulty 20 GET Information.
There was great dificulty In get
ting quick and accurate Information
from the scene Of the disaster, II
was first reported that no life boats
put out for the Empress. This, how
ever, was contradicted in later re-
ports. 49,. "A
At 10 a. m, Lady Evelyn and Eu-
tyreka had rescued and brought to
tport of Rimo1ski, nearest the disas-
tier, 500. picked from the boats and
Iwreckage in the gulf. The govern
ment steamers then raced back for
more. II Is reported that the Stor.
stad had $50 survivors on board and
was iimping slowly to port. This, out
| of the 1887 passengers and crew
aboard the Empress, leaves ST. un-
accounted for at 10 a. m.
/ Nearly Thousand Lost.
| Rimouski, May 2s.-The most ac-
CITRATE obtainable estimate OF the loss
iof life In the Empress OF Ireland
disaster In the st. Lawrence river is
Iplaced az between SIS to 100, with
the seeming probability that the A.
NAL figures may be near a thousand.
THE Empress was cut wide open by
the Collier Storstad and sank within
ttwenty minutes. s..,..
| AT noon 39s~ survivors had been
brought ashore here by Canadian
government steamers, 500 aboard
the Lady Evelyn and sixty aboard
THE Pilot Boat Eureka. OF this mum
tber twenty-five died after reaching
short as a result OF injuries. A large
humber were rescued with broken
farms and legs and other injuries.
| Rochester .Fsesidens Rescued.
/ Among the rescued h fteinholdt
IBech, his daughter. Miss Edith Boch,
Herman Kruse, and his daughter.
Miss Freda Kruse, all of Rochester.
Minn. They were brought ashore
Jon the Lady Evelyn. They were sec
iond cabin passengers. or the others
saved a majority seemed to be mem
bers of the crew or from the steer.
age. A.
+ The collier was bound for Que
bee and strnck the Empress on the
port side about the middle of the
tship. The Storstad literally tore her
way back almost 10 the liners
tscrews, leaving rent through which
sthe water poured In such a deluge
that the Empress sank before many
passengers were aware Of what had
happened.
Brief Gals for help were heard
here by the Pilot Boat Eureka. and
ten miles from the scene, which was
followed by the Lady Evelyn which
lput out under forced steam.
| II was these two crafts that found
Eafioat a few life boats that were
launched and picked up the surviy-
Tors they contained. Some also were
fpicked from the fioating wreckage.
IFronr fridays Daily. So
Abducting a girl Of sixteen
| from her home and keeping her
away from her parents for sew
eral months, while she became
/ the mother or his child, is the
startling charge against Oscar