MUTILATED BODIES
GREAT DIFFICULTY OF IDENTIFY
CATION.
“STORSTAD’S CAPTAIN DID NOTHING.”
AN APPEAL IGNORED,
By Tcleirnpfc—Press Association—'C6p>rigM
QUEBEC, Juntf 2. There is groat difficulty in ' idcutilying the Empress of Ireland’a , victims, owing to the mutilated i;state of tho bodies, it is apparent thatv.nmnyi Were killed instantly, diving to-striking ; wreckage or; ■ ; be»»g--‘*!6rttd»edr. - .!ibj*.: then Storstad’sdmpabti . '.vf.-i-v- 1 ‘ •«-■■'''-• ■.. Mr Jjouis Gossclin, K.C., declares that the Siorstad’s captain did nothing," and" that when.'ho fiUr Gosselin) reached the Storstad, after i being an w hour in‘ S oollapsiiblo' bbat, he appeal- " od 'to Captain Anderson I toi as-hat ,! drowning persons, but; the captain merely locked„ at him. 1 ,Vir Gossi'lin is willing to swear that no boats wore launched from tho Stomtad. the crew, of which were standing idle mi the deck when Air Goasolin . made aids appeal: “For God’s Kakc t [ you ought to do something.” Mr'Lionel Kent, another passenger, confirmed Mr Gosselin’s statement that the Storstad did not put out; bor boats for a consider- t able timer after the .collision.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8750, 4 June 1914, Page 7
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169MUTILATED BODIES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8750, 4 June 1914, Page 7
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