LAURENCE IRVING'S FATE.
BOTH HE AND HIS Will-: DISAPPEAR. "LOOK AFTER~YOURSELF, OLD MAN." LONDON", May 30. Many limbs wero broken. There -was no time to arouse all the passengers. I Laurence Irving tied a lifebelt round; his wife. When the vessel lurched, Irving ivas thrown against a door and his face cut. Ho carried his wife upstairs, where one of the other passengers offered his help. Irving said : "Look after yourself, old man, but God bless you all the same." Both Trying and his wife climbed the ship's rail as the explosion occurred, and neither was seen again. Mr Burt, of Toronto, on coming to tlie surface, saw Miss Thomson (Townshend 1 ?), who besought his help. Ho caught hold of a floating suit-case, which kept both up till they were rescued.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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