TWO HUNDRED PASSENGERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 127, 30 May 1914, Page 5

TWO HUNDRED PASSENGERS

RESCUED BY THE STORSTAD. (Received May 30, 9.40 a.m.) QUEBEC, 29th Alay. It is reported that the Storstad rescued 200 passengers from the Empress of Ireland, and is conveying them to Quebec. THE CASUALTY LIST ADMISSION BY CANADIAN-PACI-FIC COMPANY. ONLY 537 LIVES SAVED. MONTREAL, 29th May. The Canadian-Pacific Company admit that only 337 were saved out of a total of 1367 passengers, leaving the remainder to have been drowned or else killed by the impact. [The total of passengers given probably includes the crew, if preceding .messages may be taken as any guide. The figures are also contradictory of those in a later message.] SOME OF THE RESCUED MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CREW ESCAPE. SCORES OF SALVATION OFFICERS LOST. TWENTY-TWO PERSONS DIE FROM INJURIES. (Received May 30, 11 a.m.) QUEBEC, 29th Alay. The rescued includo Mr., Airs., and Miss Byrne, Brisbane. Captain Kendall escaped. The fate' of Mr. Lawrence Irving, and also of his party, is not known. Tho arms and legs of some of the survivors wore broken. Twelve bodies lie on the wharf at Rimouski. They aro those of persons fatally hurt by the collision but who escaped in the lifeboats and died therein, Wreckage strews the St. Lawrence River. The funnels of the Empress of Ireland are visible at low tide. The Lady Evelyn saved 590 lives and the Eureka 60. Most of the members of the crew escaped. Alany of the passengers leaped into the Water, and chlhg to tho wreckage, thus escaping. The Stor3tad is expected to reach Quebec shortly with a number of the survivors and dead bodies aboard. Scores of piominent Salvation Army Officers, including Air. Rees, the South African (?Canadian) Commissioner, have been lost. Twenty-two are reported to bave died from injuries..