MANY SURVIVORS FATALLY INJURED.
MOST OF THE CREW ESCAPE. SCORES OF PROMINENT SALVATIQN OFFICERS LOST. (Received May 30, 10.45 a.m.) QUEBEC, -May 29. Those rescued include Mr, Mrs, and Miss Bryne, of Brisbane. Captain Kendell escaped. , . The fate of Mr Lawrence Irving's party is unknown. Many survivors had .arms and legs broken.
Twelve bodies lie on the wharf at Rimouski. They were fatally hurt by the collision, but escaped in the lifeboat and died before being landed. Wreckage strews the St. Lawrence: The funnels of tlie Empress *of Ireland are visible at low tide.
The Evelyn saved three hundred and ninety persons. ;• The Eureka saved sixty persons. Most of the members of the crew escaped.
Many. ]KOsserigers leaped into the water, and clung .to wreckage, thus escaping. ' The Storstad is expected to . roafih Quebec shortly. A number of survivors' dead bodies are aboard. ■ . • Scores of prominent Salvation officer**, including Rees, the South African Commissioner, have been lost. : . , Twenty-two are reported dead as the result of injuries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 3
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