EMPRESS OF IRELAND WRECK.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 10

EMPRESS OF IRELAND WRECK.

NO. TIME TO ROUSE PASSENGERS. I SAD PLIGHT OF THE _WO*MEN. (Receive May, 30. °.O p.m.) Sir Thomas G. Shaughanessy, presii dent of the Canadian-Pacific Railway, declares them disaster is the worst in St. Lawrence history. The Empress of Ireland was torn from the middle to the screw, and sank before there was time xo rouse the passengers, or get r them on deck. An unfortunate feature [was that the women _~ suffered jrhbst,',being unable to leap overboard as the, men did. Most of them stayed 7 quietly-'.'in' their cabins, and were drowned ■While attempting to ascend, the companion-way. Nine lifeboats were loaded in the; darkness and pushed off up the 7 river. Meantime help ? was summoned by wire-

TORN FROM MIDDLE TO SCREW.

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I( £V&nd picked up the.survivors, many of whom were maimed. The Storstad's crew did their utmost. , One swam? to 1 the Lady Evelyn, but died as the result of her effort. The wireless ; operators jumped overboard and were saved. The captain remained half an hour in the water before being rescued. ,

A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE. EMPRESS LINE AND, COLLIERS, (Received May 30, 2.5, p.m.) -'■. LONDON, May 29. The-Storstad is a sister ship to the collier Helvetia, winch ; was sunk by the Empress of. Britain /on jtho same spot on' the Stv Lawrence in.. July, of 1912; ■;"-":;."■''•"■. ;. •'." " [ -, : . The remoteness of Rimouski renders it difficult.to secure an accurate story. Colonel Garston, of the Salvation Army, assorts that 900 have ". been drowned.