STEAMER TORN FROM CENTRE TO SCREW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 8

STEAMER TORN FROM CENTRE TO SCREW.

(Press Assn,— Dy Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received. May 30, 2.E0 p.m.)

'. Oi'TAvVA, luay 29. Mi- Snaughaneshy ■ declares that the disaster is the worst in the St. Law* rence history. - The Empress of Ireland was torn from tho middle to the screw, and sank before there was time to arouse the passengers or get them on deck. An -- unfortunate, feature was that the women suffered iirst through being unable to leap overboard as the men did. Most of tiiem- stayed quietly in their cabins, or were drowned while attempting to descend the companionway. A T ine ljfeboats were .loaded iii the darkness, «nd were pushed otf into the rirer.

.Meantime help was summoned bv wireless, and tlie ves^s picked up the sui-vivoisj many of whom we-re maimed. .•The Storslau's crew did thuir utmost. ■'due woman swam to the Ladv .Evelyn, but d U>il from the effort.

'I he wireleSs operators jumped over board, and were saved.

The captain, remained half an hour in the water before, he was rescued.

Adjutant Avcrell, of the Salvation Annyj ( hajs • been advised from headquarters to announce for Sunday week memorial services in connection with thi' great sea Colonel and Mis Bloomiield, who were on the ill-fated Empress of Ireland, were taking their only daughter for a trip to the Old Count rv.

Mv J/a,Avrcnce Irving 'is a. sen of the famous. *Sir. Henry Irving; and hejd a foremost place* in the theatrical/ profes-

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