HEAVY DEATH-ROLL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1914, Page 7

HEAVY DEATH-ROLL

DISASTER. STORY OF A GREAT TRAGEDY IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COLLISION. VIVID NARRATIVES BY SURVIVORS. MIRACULOUS ESCAPES, (By Telegraph.—-Press Association.—-Copyright.) LONDON, 30th May. An official statement of the number of people on board the Empress of Ireland at the time ot her disastrous coJHsson with the collier Storstad is as follows:— First=class passengers" «„■ j.^ it, 87 Second=class passengers... -...- t.t v t .< 153 Third=class passengers ...■ ... •.., 4.. 715 Officers and crew „, ■„, w ... 432 Total «..- „.- w, UK s.. 1,387 THE SAVED. First=class t,e „, 18 Second ami thiid=class ... ... .., •„. 131 Officers and crew „,• v ... >..• 206 Total saved ..* '„> ..< v.,- ■„. 35S TOTAL MISSING ... w~ ,* ... 1,032 Only twelve women were rescued. Altogether twenly'two persons died after being rescued) from (ho effects of exposure. Four hundred bodies have been recovered. The missing include Lieutennnt<colonel Bloomfield, wife, and daughter, ol Auckland; and Sir Henry Seton-Karr, formerly M.P. for St. Helens, and a .noted traveller and hunter. Among the survivors is Miss Towushend, a New Zealander. Mr. Bnrt, a resident of Toronto, who was travelling on the Empress of Ireland, says that on coming to the surface aiter the plunge lie saw a Miss Thomson (? Miss Townshend) floating near by. She besought his help, and he managed to grasp a drifting suitcase, which Kept them both up till they were rescued.