A GHASTLY STORY.
WOMEN CRIED AND PRAIT3D; MEN SHOUTED. MANY OF TTIiTIIESCUED GO RAVING MAD. LONDON, May 30. Duncan, a Londoner, states that the terrific crash of the collision was frightful. There was a grinding of plates, and the Empress of Ireland heeled over. Trough there was a sufficiency of boats they were unable to be launched owing to the list of the vessel. There was no panic, though there was some confusion. When tbo Empress of Ireland lurched, the passengers rolled down tho deck into the sea, the women crying and praying, tho men shouting. The cries continued until tho icy waters ended the sufferings of the criers. Duncan swam for an honr before lie was rescued. He felt tbo bodies of dead men under his feet. The officers, ho says, behaved splendidly, facing death fearlessly. Captain Kendall was on the bridge until the vessel sank. Duncan was taken aboard th© collier. He says many of those rescued went raving mad owing to the shock and exposure.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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