ALLEGATIONS BY MRS ANDERSEN

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13485, 3 June 1914, Page 5

ALLEGATIONS BY MRS ANDERSEN

NEGLECT OF THE PASSENGERS

REFLECTIONS ON THE CAPTAIN

AND CREW.

(Received June 2, 9.30 p.m.)

Ottawa, June 2

Mrs. Andersen asserted that after the Empress of Ireland sank they heard continuous screams all around. Captain Andersen sent out lifeboats, picking up everyone possible.

She was positive Captain Kendall did not assist any passengers. Instead he came on board and lay down in the Storstadt's chart' room, while the Empress of Ireland's crew also came on board, refusing to go to assist the drowning passengers, stating that they were too numerous.

Starved and raving as the result of her experiences, a stalwart Norwegian woman passenger on the Empress of Ireland was found wandering in the sand dunes, clad only in a single garment.

Men sought to aid her, but the woman ran off, and was only caught when exhausted. She had forgotten her own name. Apparently she drifted in the water for eighteen miles, clinging to driftwood. She has not been identified yet. •