THE LATEST ADVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 5

THE LATEST ADVICES.

NO HOPE FOR MR BLOOMFIELD. PASSENGERS FLUNG INTO THE ICY WATER. STORSTAD ARRIVES AT QUEBEC WITH SURVIVORS. i l.eccived 1.41 p.m. i

' QUF.BEC'. May MO. rt.e laie-i arii ic-s -late thai there is no hope that Mr. W. R. Bloomtield is I -• I| ■';v.-. Thr fate of I(i a wife and daughter is still in donbt. I!. W.i- at tir.-l. reported that the Storsiaei had saved two hundred from the i !.,,! !.n.-r an | v. i- e-onvoyinj, them to Quebec, but unhappily the arrival nf ihe I leellier .--re- ha- disproved the report. she .-aiuc the wharf to-day with crumpled hon, and oilier cvieiencc, ..;' ::.c fearful ,!;oek of the colli,ion. and landed here a handful of surviv'er-. ii.-ofiti r "ilh the bodies, ci: several who were drowned before they could be i-. - ; ;rv ...-- -talc that lie- pa.-,-eiierer- were unable 1., dress, and were I tl;;;,- ~ crl»>ar.| in ih'ir iii.lit clothes int., the- icy waters n: the St. Lawrence. Man.v ,•:' :". .;.« hurl-! themselves over the -i.'c ~f the liner vi hen the I ■ rritie nnpa I I'lilti: lliem from their hunks. I!n_e piece, of wreckage were torn off the e-ide- oi the vc—el. and many oi : ie riirvivrs clung to this until rescued. I: i, practically certain that Mr. Lawrence Irving is dead, ln the House of Vommons a± Ottawa to-tfay the Premier expressed -ym011111' at the terrible disaster, cxplaininc T.ehat it, was impossible to aver; it by ant-lhlnp the country could narve. done to render the. river mere safe. s,r Wilfred J.auricr joined in <_prcs_h_;: sympathy with the relatives ~f th'- drowncl