CABLE NEWS.
came with terrifying- rapidity. : The disaster apparently affected the brains of the survivors, who weie unable to give a coherent account except that when awakened by the shock scores jumped into the, • perishingjy cold water. COLONEL BLOMFIELD DROWNED. QUEBEC, May 2 y. There is no hope of Colonel Bloom field being saved. . .The Storstad landed only a Eandful of survivors, and seveal bodies. .Passengers who were unable to dress plungred overboard in their night clothes into the icy waters. J The crew hurled themselves ovei the vessel's side when the terrific im pact shook them from, their bunks. Much wreckage was torn off the vessel's side to which they were enabled^ to cling.
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Grey River Argus, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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