SADDEST SCENE OF ALL.
("Times" _cd "Sydney Son" Services.) LONDON, May 29. Perhaps the saddest scene in Liverpool in connexion with the Empress of Ireland disaster was that of a won_in wearing mourning, eutering to claim insurance at the office of the Canadian-
Pacific Company on her dead husband's policy. When she heard a commissionaire describing the collision, she enquired the name of the steamer, and fainted upon hearing the name of the Empress of Ireland, whereon her son was a sailor.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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