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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 7

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TftAGIO DEATH 0F MR. IRYING A HERO'S SACRIFICE SOME MIRACULOUS ESCAPES (Bee. Juno 1, 0.20 a.m.) Quebec, May 30. Miss Thompson, of Now Kcaland, has been rescued. Final ofKfial total of the Empress dead. 1032: saved, 355, Mr. 1/avvi'e.nco Irving and his wife se* cured lifebelts, "Dearie," said Mr. Irviiig, "hurry; there's no tamo to . lose." Mr. Irving placed a lifebelt around his wife, calfiilj donned his o\* h, and clftiilicjl sjv'ot tho rails as the huge Vessel <yirtimied. Sits. Irving y a:s tcr-iw-stricketi, ami Mf. Irving o:vi:ieti her to tho fleck. The first explosion occurred as the I.rvin.gs prepared to leap into tho water. Apparency tho shock Liilvd them. _ Sir Henry Sato Kerr gave up his lifebelt to auothftr passenger, insisting that ho accept it, saying inat lio could

easily get another for himself, Be entered hts cabin .to. procure ojte and was never seen again. Many women could easily have escaped, hat waited to procure articles of dress, . Salvation Array J3-nsj.gn'l 4 agHiiS?e declared thai- all his comrades died like Salvationists. Commissioner Hoc* ran back to rescue his wife. Another Salvationist tried to save ji-irrt s Ikrfc tailed. Major jUtveli swam half a mile.-, cr.rrviftg bis wii'o on. his back. • Then when he •was- succumbing through cold and es- ' iiausiion his wife kept up his head. Betii were saved. Another Salvationist wr-scribed walking down the side <>f the careened ship just, as if they were walking down a sloping beafth into the sea. There was tjo 'disturbance aiid little panic. When tho ship turned sideways it was si-rnply. like entering the water in order to take a swim. liars of silver amounting to a million dollars in,value* .en route to Jiig-h'-nd, am] large quantities of valuable mails were lost. (RfiC. Jutie 1, 0-.30 a.m.) „ , . ... Quebec, May 31. Captain Anderson, ot the Bf-orstad, who arrived aboard tho Storstad, de-

ckirefi tk-rit the collision was entirely diia to tli© fogj which abut down o.n both vessels quickly. fi i( , Stors-tad. pictea bj? three hundred jiersons, transfailing iliom later sboar'l GcvMiMnent : vessels. This fact gave riso to tho belief that additional paoserigor.s and Crow to those first reported had been rescued, The Stofstjid'a bows were stovo in, i mill an anchor lost, Oaptaift Kendall, of the Emoross of Ireland, fl*!io sank with liin sMp bnt ■ was rescued, is incapacitated owing to nervous shock. Ho is spec'chloss. Tt : is UR-.-icrstood 'that Captain Kendall signalled: in tli.fi customary way, ili.&aiiiig ■that tie Empress of Ire-land was nifuntaiii.i«g l:er e*wrsa. 0 (Beers of ib'e 33mpress of Irfefond assert that tW Starstiid answered the. signals, lint failed to Change her <:Onr?o. The Empress « Ireland was mo'.'ing slowly wlten tho' Storstad strue'e horfuK on'tlie side. Tin mi as Smart 1, »f Toronto, (says Captain Ivi'iicWl when the err. rsTi Cii.ino Wrts on tlie bridge and shoiited "Kr<rp vonf j heads tliore. Don't get excited." Ho j tken ordorwl the stewards to ns- ] fist passengers, shunting, "Woivu ;i j anil, children first. Break open any lackijri doors." 'fbore was so rowcii sffl'eatciiiJg and moaning that, although iho eaptsrJ! spoko through a megaphone hfs vpiir, was drowned- AVimn t'>ld by t[to snip's doctor that ti.« sJii;p was. lost Captaia IveudaU buried lis ftps fceaeat]i

the tarjpanlin whereon lio was lying after his rescue, and cried as if liftnrfbraten. Several passengers assert that lii'cbMts fell from {ho port davits and crashed across i.li-o sloping deck, killing passengers against the further rails, (itee. Jvhio 1, 0,45 a.m.) Miss ToWnsiiensl sttam alongside Cliistoii Bart, motor-car fnanutsctawr, until ho caught a suitcase ivhifth held Miss Towiishend Bp until tin Storslad picked him mj». Sirs. Prico, Miss ToiVjvshiMid's fumtj was test. After being rosonod Miss Tmviislipnd hiisied iiorsoJf amongst She rftscucd, heroically aiding tho wpr-st stricken. Ah Englishman named Duncan declared. that _ every otvo of tho ctew acted liito tneu, attempting to . roii:So the women and j)la£i)i£ numbers cf lifebelts, on. f.iio deck, so as to ha.vft them ready when those- Mow slraukl reach there. When . Mr. Duncan was thrown into the water bjr the chip's lurch, five men attempted te gra.sp him, and lie Tins obliged to fight them off. otherwise ho would hare baou drowned. a ferrlbfo Nightmare. The rapidity' with which tiro vessel

eareensd and sank made it .impossible to do ;:voto than was done. The whole thing was like a terrible nightmare, from which one- cspcetsd'to &jvake'ii any moment. T;io thick f«g, dark . ivjites, aiirl tlrn -siSiMng sMli i.ee.itie| n-'hollv unreal. Thfe passengers did not full.y ftrasp the daapi'r unt'l • thrown from berths. Torrents of icy water fell in eascades down the'' cmriPffinlonwajS'S, drowning £e6ple before thef were able to mako a Single effort to save themselves. B-mio women describe m horrorsi ricken tones haw tliey- slid down this deck into. the icy waters, sinking, and coming to the surface, grasping wreckage, being dragged into boats half unconscious. Olio woman described the snisation as bein,g chloroformed, in order to undergo 5, surgical operation, then reviving to find that death had taken some loved one. Meanwhile the rescued are being eared for at Qviobcc, JSjlany Jest everything they possessed. SiirVATJON ARMY'S HEAVY LOSS. (Roc. May 31~, 5.5 p.m.) Quebec, "Uiv 29. The Salvation Army lost heavily. Tho

whole territorial field forc& for Canada W wipel out, iiiehidiiiq; Cbmiiiis§}ffsie'r Bees. The Army .promptly; mot here and organised a T! : Bw got of delegates, «mf dispatched rhom by tiis next outgoing steamer, the band playir.R tli. m through t'uv streets to' tlifc '"God lie, tvitli you till wo meet again.'-'