TOTAL OF 1030 MISSING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 30 May 1914, Page 5

TOTAL OF 1030 MISSING

STATEMENT BY CANADIANPACIFIC COMPANY. (Rec. May 30, 10.20 a.m.) (Extraordinary.) OTTAWA, May 29. . The Canadian-Pacific Company admit that only 33i liavo been saved, and that the total number of passengers and crew was 1367. • 1 'The remainder wore either- drowned or killed by impact.

NEW ZEALAND' SALVATIONISTS. WELLINGTON, This Day. So far as is known Brigadier Annette Paulo and Envoy and. Mrs Underwood were the only members of the Salvation Army in New Zealand Avho went Home via America, and as they intended visiting the United States en route, it is- considered unlikely that they were on the ill-fated Empress of Ireland. News was received here last. Monday of the safe arrival in London of Commissioner Richards and the New Zealand delegates. They went by the Orient steamer Orsova. Miss Bright, of the Nelson Corps, is one of the New Zealandevs attending the Congress. PREVIOUS OCEAN 1 TRAGEDIES. The principal great ocean tragedies during the past 30 odd years are as follows : Lives lost.

Tararua, wrecked off Waipipa Pt, New Zealand., April 28, 1881.' 130 Utopia, sank after collision -with. ' ; H.M.S. Anson, March, 1891. 554 H.M.S. Victoria, sank after collision with H.M.'S. 'Camperdown, June 22, 1895 359 White Star Naronic, disappeared on voyage to New York, 1893 80 Wairarapa, wrecked on the Great ■Barrier Island, Oct. 29, 1894 126 Elbe, 6unk off Lowestoft, Jan 30, 1895 334 Reina Regente, Spanish cruiser, wrecked off Cape Tra/algar, March 10, 1895 108 Driraimond Castle, wrecked off TJshant, June 16, 1896 247 Salier, wrecked off north coast of Spain,, Dec. 7, 1896 289 Aden, wrecked off Socotra, June 9, 1897 92 La Burgogne, sank after collision. in Atlantic, July 4, 1898 546 Mohegan, wrecked oil Manacles, October 14, 1898 107 Stella, wrecked off Casquete. Mar. 30, 1899 105 City of Rio de Janeiro, wrecked off Saii 'Francisco, Feb. 22, 1901 122 Cobra, torpedo-boat destroyer, sank in a. gale on the Outer Dowsing Shoal, Lincolnshire, 1901 67 Asian, Turkish -transport, wrecked in Red Sea, April i, 1901 180 Govermoi'ta, lost in cyclone, Bay of Bengal, May 6, 1902 739 Elingamite, lost off the Three Kings, in the north of New Zealand, i\ov. 9, 1902 40 General Slocum, burned, Long Island Sound, June 35, 1904 , 1020 Norge, emigrant ship, wrecked on Rockal'l Reef, June 28, 1904 637 Mikasa, Admiral Togc'? flagship, sunk by explosion in her magazine, Sept. 10, 1905 599 Hilda, wrecked off St. Malo, Nov 19, J905 . 128 Berlin, Great Eastern Harwich boat, driven by violent, gale on to a pier at the Hook of Holland, and totally lost, Feb. 21, 1907 . . 141 PenEuin, lost off Cape Terawliiti, near Wellington, Feb. 12, 1909 _J£O AVaratali, lest- after leaving Durban, July, 1909 , 211 Yongala. lost off Queensland ccfast ■alarch. 1911 150 Titanic, lost after striking an iceberg, April 14, 1912 1503 Koombana. lost in cyclonic, storm, off the West Australian coast, ■March, 1913 100