Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-30
Passports Show That
Many of the Victims
Are Foreigners.
PILE BODIES IN TIERS
EMPRESS of Ireland Slides Slow
Iy Into the Water After
Rammed BY Collier.

Quebec, May 30.-F1gures compiled
by the Canadian Pacific Railway com
paay and made public today indicated
1882 persons perished when the En-
press Of Ireland sank.
The list follows: Saved, first class.
is; second and third class, 131; crew,
2Os; total, 555-
The number Of passengers carried:
First class, 81; second class, 153;
third class, 715; crew. 432: total, 1887.
Efforts to recover bodies of the vic.
tins are being made today Up to an
early hour 800 bodies had been landed
at Rimoush Apparently there are
many foreigners among the dead judg-
ing from passports found on the bodies
The dead were piled in tiers Few
so far have been identified The wom-
en- and children are plentifully repre-
sented In the grim pile Among them
was a mother with q child pressed
closely 10 her breast
corps-s Half Dressed.
Many Of the dead laid on the piers
and stared heayenward with their open
eyes There was but little attempt to
cover the corpses- Some were half
dressed and others naked
.The -tendsF-Laty- Grey wfIici1 irzs
been designated as a funeral ship, is
expected 10 reach Quebec late today
with the bodies Of the dead SO far re-
covered Army carpenters and under
takers worked all night and are still
busy converting the large freight sheds
On the harbor front into temporary
morgue for the reception Of bodies
The collier StorsIad, which rammed
the Empress of Ireland arrived here
this morning. Newspapermen were re-
fused permission to board the collier.
storstad Badly Damaged
Il was learned, however, she had
saved many Of the Ireland's passen-
gers. The Storstad is badly damaged. !
with hole Is feet square in her bow I
room
From accounts Of survivors who !.
have arrived az Quebec it seems soon 4
after the Empress of Ireland /
vas ranmed she careened un-
IL the deck stood at right 4
angles 70 the water. She slid slowly .
INTO the water. and IL was possible to I
hunch only FIVE boats Captain Ken
Dali was on the bridge when the COLI
non occurred When the steamer
sank she was washed away and was
ia,er picked up by boat. The cap
ta-r said he would have preferred TO
aaVe gone down with the ship.
chief Engineer Steed. was killed by
. boat falling on him while he was
heiping Passengers escape. Laurence
Irving. the actor. according to surviv.
ors' died while trying TO save his wife.
both we're last seen on deck embrao
ns one another. as II in farewell They
vent down locked in each others arms.
Only p women and two children OF
ne many who boarded the vessel at
montreal and Quebec appear 10 have
oeen saved Mrs. Greenway, bride of
= = week. thought she lost her husband.
oat the two had a happy reunion at
RimouskL
On the body of Mr.. Taylor was a
oeit holding $4,000 Survivors agree {
On outstanding points disaster. II was I
70 quick there was no time for intelli- :
eent concerted action. Hundreds Of
-Omen, II is said, might have been ]
'e'eo mad they not stopped to dress
Ship In Complete Darkness.
Probably the chief cause of the con-
lasSon after the collision was the fact
nat the water rushing into the engine
oom noodtDg the dynamos threw the ,
'n-p INTO complete darkness. The
uussles OF the terrified passengers
escape may be imagined
beach patrol was established at
'inoush 70 prevent looting by beach
'moers- There are still several hun
4eo bodies 70 be recovered from the
'@ters OF the St Lawrence. r.,
Survivors Describe Collision.
Montreal May 3O.-Exhausted sur
VOTE wearing misfit clothing supplied
! lne people OF Rimousk arrived at
lonueal today. In the party was the
enhant OF the Salvation Army band,
ore than one hundred OF whom per-
Aeo' Band Sergeant Fowler Of the
1no said: Il was looking through the
III hole OF my cabin amidship and |
black shape loom out Of the L
). IKhess few feet away. Then came
'oit II could not be called a crash, p
'csuse II was more OF a grinding SEN