SHOT OUT LIKE PEAS.
WOMAN DIES AFTER BEING RESCUED. A steerage passenger named Phillip Lawlor, asserts that an explosion really caused the Empress of Ireland to sini; so rapidly. People were shot oat of the ship like peas from a pod. Lawlor, his wife and son, slipped overboard, being unable to stand on tbs -loping deck. His wife slipped from Lawlor's grasp and was drowned. Another woman leaped from the sinking steamer and swam round awaiting succour for nearly an hour. Then"
she was picked up, but died aboard tbo J rescuing tug. j
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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94SHOT OUT LIKE PEAS. Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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