Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-12-29
LINER EMPRESS CARRIED MORE
PASSENGERS THAN AT FIRST
REPORTED.
255SAVEDBYS
Lord Mersey, Who Presided Over IT,
tanie Inquiry, Member Of Royal
Commission to Investigate En-
press Of Ireland Disaster.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Montreal, June 5.-News that Lord
Mersey, who presided over the British
inquiry into the loss of life on the III
tanic, is to be a member of the royal
commission appointed +. to investigate
the Empress of Ireland disaster, was
received here with satisfaction.
AS Lord Mersey was president of
the Titanic court, 1t is assumed that
he will be similarly honored when the
royal commission meets. The Cana
dian members Of the commission are
Chief Justice Ezekiel Mcleod of New
Of Quebec.
Another change has been made In
the number of dead. The latest fig
ures, given out in an official state
ment by the Canadian Pacific Railway
Steamship Company, show that 1924
persons perished. The company has
learned that there were 1.476 persons
aboard the Empress instead of 1887.
as heretofore stated, hence the In
crease in the death list. The total
saved is now given as 452.
Capt. Owe Lange, Montreal agent Of
the Maritime Steamship Company,
owners of the Storstad. declared that
Of the 450 persons who survived the
disaster, $50 were cared for on the
Storstad. OF these, 225 were rescued
by the crew of the Storstad., while
thirty others. rescued by the Stor-
stad's men. were placed on the gov
ernmsut steamship Eureka
The lifeboats of the Empress of Ire
land are credited with saving 125 and
bringing them on board the Storstad.
"The Storstad's small boats" Cap
tain Lange says. were loaded to the
limit of their capacity. and they
ceased their efforts only when there
were no more to be saved"
Government vessels have been as.
signed to patrol the st. Lawrence
press of Ireland's dead.
In sixty-nine counties and colonies
on Sunday memorial services will be
held by some 100000 soldiers of the
Salvation Army In memory of the 1873
members of the organization who per-
ished when the Norwegian collier
Storstad collided with the Empress.
Salvation Army officers estimated
that more than 100000 persons
would gather in the army's citadels
the world over 20 mourn.
Mrs. Dunlevy Among Dead.
Quebec.-The names of twenty-one
American passengers who were on the
Empress of Ireland when she went
down are contained In an official re-
port sent by Gebhard willrich. Amer
lean consul here to the State Depart
ment in Washington. OF these only
six were saved.
The names of the American sur
vivors given by the consul are:
Charles p. Clark, Detroit; Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Freeman. Milwaukee,;
Miss Edith Bach, Rochester. Mimi,
and Herman and Frieda Kruz, Sher.
burne, MINI.
The other names contained in the
report are: Americans whose bodies
have been brought here: Mrs. George
C. Richards, Terre Haute, Ind;
Rudolph Bach. Rochester. Mimi; Mrs.
F. H. Dunlevy, Denver. and Evan
Karalaske, Duluth, MINI.
Americans lost whose bodies have
not been found or identified: Mrs.
John Fisher, NJ. w. Mauncey, H. and
A. ]. Heath, Chicago; George C. Rich
ards. Terre Haute, Ind; Alexander
Bunthome and George Johnston.
Santa Barbara. Calf; the Misses Bes-
sic and Florence Bawden, Hillsboro.
ILL.,: A. Matter. Indianapolis. and Miss
Eva Searle, Seattle.