1000 LOST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 1 June 1914, Page 5

1000 LOST.

LONDON, May 30. The official report states that the Empress of Ireland carried 87 firstclass, 159 second-class ,and 715 €hird<lass passengers, and a, crew of 432. j Eighteen, of the first-class, 132 of the .second and third, 200 of the crew, and I four hundred bodies have been re--covered. QUEBEC, May 30. The final official totals are: Dead, 1032 •, saved, 355. ' LONDON, May 30. Among the survivors is Miss Townshend (or Thompson), of New Zealand.

Burt, of Toronto, on coming to the surface, saw Miss Thomson (? Townshend), who besought his help. He •caught a floating suit-case, which kept .both up till they were rescued.