"WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!"
ANOTHER NEW ZEALANDER SAVED. QUEBEC, Sunday. Mr Thomas Smartt, of Toronto, says Captain Kendall, when the crush came, was on the bridge. He shouted: "Keep your heads there. Don't get excited." Then he ordered the stewards to assist the passengers, shouting: "Women and children first! Break open any locked doors. " There was so much screaming and moaning that although tho captain spoke through a megaphone his voice was drowned. When told by the ship's doctor that his ship was lost, Captain Kendall buried his . face beneath a tarpaulin on which he was lying after the rescue, and cried as if heart-broken. Several passengers assert that tho lifeboats fell from the port davits and crashed across the sloping deck, killing passengers by jambing them against the further rails. It is now ascertained that a Miss Thompson, a New Zealandor, is among those saved. No Australians were lost in the wreck.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11992, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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