A PREVIOUS ACCIDENT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11093, 2 June 1914, Page 6

A PREVIOUS ACCIDENT.

IMPRESS OF IRELAND. STAKES ■ A'-ROOK-. [From bun Co«.rhspo.nde!vt.] DCSEDIN, duriel. A Dunediu gentleman and his wife ihared, with close' <M 1300 other pas*enff<vs. a menwrable experience on the ».*. Empress of Ireland early in October. VMI wlien crowing lrom Ltve.rnortl to Quebec. "When w« were roundiug Fnthar Paint," the gentleman mu " the splendid v*v««l struck a rock and ripped h«r bottom on the puilsud«>. Bh-« immediately heeled orm- to a. <lanBProu.% degree. Signab went up ior wRist«n<!e from Himouski. and soon the 1 Custom* boat and another. tiW arrived on the- scene. .-We wore, .all i.nstrurt«d to prepare our luggage for k<>ing ashore, hut tho ordf-r was ooHiivornianded a little'later. as it was tJuuight that the ship could ui»ke Quebec withntit ■<UnK*iv .AVe sfaypd all n«KTifc.o« hoard ami sot into oort the tollowiug day. The accident happened aboiit'i.W p.m. on a bsatitiful wiun.v day. doing up the river tho coast fe flat, wiri little . rockr hoadlfliids runuing out. The. locality is rex;ogni«ed as being dawgerons. On the 'occasion to which T roter the skipp*r fnot the last captain of the TenseL. it stAtod, went too close in vhore. Temporary. repairs were etfected at Halifax and complete repairs at. Liverpool."