ABANDONED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 148, 24 June 1914, Page 7

ABANDONED

ATTEMPTS TO RECOVER BODIES EMPRESS OF IRELAND DISASTER VICTIMS C.P.R. COMPANY'S DECISION. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) QUEBEC, 22nd June. All attempts to recover th<! eight hundred bodies entombed in ihe sunken hull of the Empress of Ireland have been abandoned, following a conference between Lieutenant-Commander Forbes and the divers of the man-of-war Essex, at the scene of the wreck. This decision of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company will not affect the operations of the company attempting to salvage the ship, but it is thought that they will have to give up diving operations. DEATH OF A DIVER. RESULT OF A FALL ON THE HULL. RIMOUSKI, 23rd June. The death of Cossoboom, the diver who went down to attempt to recover some of the bodies from the hull of the Empress of Iceland, was the result of a fall oft" the slimy hull. RELIEF FUNDS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S CONTRIBUTION. (TIMIS AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) NEW YORK, aiind June. Mf J. D. Rockefeller contributed eleven thousand dollars to the relief of the relatives of the Salvationist victims of tho Empress of Ireland. / LONDON, 23rd June. The New Zealand Shipping Company has contributed one hundred guineas to the Lord Mayor's Empress of Ireland fund.