LOSS OF THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND.
(Press Assn;— By ' Telegraph— Copyright.) .(Received May 30, 2.5 p.m.) LOMJO-N, May 29. The, Storstad' was a. sister ship of the collier Helvetia, sunk by the Empress of Britain' on the same spot "within the St. Lawrence in July, 1912.
The remoteness of Rimouski renders it. difficult h> secure an accurate story of the disaster .
Colonel Garston, of the Salvation Army, asserts , that nine hundred people have been drowned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 8
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75LOSS OF THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 8
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