REFERENCES IN CHURCHES.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS. (Received Monday, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. References were made throughout England, in churches and chapels, to the disaster. Notable services wera held by the Salvation Army. Two Board of Trade representatives have gone to Canada. English correspondents in Canada give many interesting incidents. Over a million dollars' worth of silver were lost. Of 140 Toronto people aboard, 108 were drowned, and of 160 Salvationists, including delegates to the London Congress, twenty-two were rescued. The Storstad's bow was smashed, and fifteen feet anchors were driven into 'the hull. Mr and Mrs Neville were returning after a tour with Irving's company. Captain Kendall, bade Hayes, the purser, farewell on the bridge when the water was lapping his feet. He gave a passenger his belt. Hayes and Kendall jumped together. Hayes was soon picked up, and Kendall was found later clinging to wreckage. Hundreds were drowned in their sleep. Sir H. Seton-Karr insisted on Darling, of Shanghai, taking his belt. Darling was saved.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11992, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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