SALVATION ARMY'S LOSS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY'S LOSS.

TORONTO PLUNGED IN

MOURNING

HUNDRED AND EIGHT RESIDENTS

LOST.

ROYAL CONDOLENCES

INCIDENTS OF THE CALAMITY

London, May 31

References" were made throughout England in churches and chapels to the disaster. Notable services were held by I the Salvation Army. Two Board of .Trade-.representatives have gone to Canada. [ English correspondents in Canada give many interesting incidents of the disaster. Over a million dollars worth of silver was lost. Of 140 Toronto people on board the Empress of Ireland, 108 were drowned. Of 160 Salvationists, including dele- : gaies to the London Congress, 22 were rescued. The Storstadt's bow was smashed for 15 feet, and the anchors were driven into the hull. Mr. and Mrs. Neville were returning after a tour with Mr Irving's company. Captain Kendall bade Mr Hayes, the purser, farewell on the bridge when the water was lapping his feet, and gave a passenger his lifebelt. Mr. Hayes and Captain Kendall jumped together. The former was soon picked up, and Captain Kendall was found later clinging to wreckage. Hundreds were drowned in their sleep. Sir H. Seton-Kcrr insisted on Mr. Darling, of Shanghai, taking his belt. Mr. Darling was saved. The King cabled to the Duke of Connaught his deep grief at the awful disaster, and his heartfelt sympathy for the mourners. The Kaiser telegraphed to King George deploring the catastrophe and 1 loss of valuable lives. Among the watchers in London was Captain Kendall's niece, , Mrs. Wild, whose father was drowned in the Britannic. Her husband was chief officer of the Titanic and perished, her brother, Mr. George Evans, was sixth officer of the Titanic, and was also drowned, and her brother Frederick was an officer on the Empress of Ireland.