PANIC BREAKS OUT.
SHIP'S DOCTOR SAVES MANY LIVES. 250 DEAD BODIES RECOVERED. QUEBEC, May 29. A panic broke out after the terrific collision. Men and women rushed from their cabins. Some reached the deck, and were hurled off it into the river, owing to the angle of the dock. Parerrte wore separated from their children, husbands from their wives. Dr. Grant, tho ship's surgeon, saved many lives, owing to his coolness and capable directions in giving medical attention when tho survivore wore picked up. Captain Kendall stood on the bridge when the vessel sank. Two hundred and fifty dead bodies have been recovered. Dr. Grant went down in the ship, but managed to escape through a porthole. The search still continues amongst the wreckage in the river for fivo persons seen clinging to wreckage. If still alive they, are unlikely to survive the exposure.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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