CAPTAIN KENDALL'S WORK

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

CAPTAIN KENDALL'S WORK

QUEBEC, May 30.

Thomas Smart, of Toronto, says that Captain Kendall, when the crash came, was on the bridge. Hse shouted, "Keep your heads, there. Don't get excited." He then ordered the stewards to assist the passengers, shouting, "Women and children .first. Break open any locked doors."

There was so much screaming and moaning that although the <captain spoke through & megaphone, Ms voice was drowned.

When told by the ship's doctor that the ship- was lost, Captain Kendall buried his face beneath the tarpaulin on which he was lying., and after he was rescued he cried as if heartbroken.

Several passengers assert that lifeboats fell from the port davits and crashed across the sloping decks, killing passengers against the farther rails.