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’ «<â€" Rimouski, May 30.â€"(Can. Press.)â€" Capt. Kendall, who is sufieting _‘Srom injuries, and was vesterday reporte’d as dving, was a little better E this morning, and able to talk atout the disaster. lis story as related _ &o friends is as follows:â€" L 5 & "At oneâ€"thirty . o‘clock Friday morning the Empress had passed Rimâ€" _ouski, and was proceding on her course. The weathered thickened, _ hot jmh actual fog, but what sailors describe ay nisty." _ He was on â€" the ‘pridge and ordered the ship to be slgwed down. ‘Then he made â€" out . the wlights of an approaching steamer and ordered a stop. The Empress whisâ€" tled, ani the other steamer answered, indicating that Captain _ Kendal‘s ~signal had been understood. y The steamers were two miles apart when the first action was taken by (Ale Empress, and as the two bouts approached, the Empress‘ engine, had gome to a full stop, but she was stiil proceeding forward under her own momentum. The,Captain then ordered the engings to be reversed to slow _astern. "‘The Empress of Ireland Had Stopped in _the Dense Fog and the Storstadt Pierced *‘ Her in One Spot Where Not All the _ Hulls or Bulkheads Ever Made ; Could Have Saved Her â€"â€"‘ The Storstadt ‘meanwhit> kept on her way tow airds the liner, and it is ‘Ahought that Captain Anderson of the Storstudt tried to ctoss . the Emâ€" E‘)ttss’ bows, but his intentions are not known. As she came closer and E.,closer, her nose missed the Empress‘ bow and plunged into the starboard Bide just amidships. It was not a severe shock, and one man said that he heurd a grinding and scraping sound,. . but vhe heavily ladened collier "had weight behind it, and het bows tore through the linet‘s tough steel . mdudiiifuits : bdbdiina d hndfi ie MB abnindie n uin ons ht in is c in en erce : on , Alates as if they were tin, piercing her in one spot where not all the hulls or bulkheads. ever made could save her. i : If the Storstadt had hbad her bows in the gaping wound she | might have kept the Empress afloat long enough for the people aboard to have gwarmed aboard the collier, and havye given the liner‘s crew time to Taunch ‘the boats, but she backed out, and the Empress immediately began to list. Every minute the injured ship careened further and further until fifâ€" }teen minutes after the blow was strock she rolled over on her side, and in another instant plunged to the bottom. Pf DEATH OF A FAMOUS ACTOR * STORY OF THE COLLISION ; TOLD BY THE CAPTAIN Quebec, May 30.â€"Mr. F. E. Abpott, of Teronto, was the last _ man who saw Lawrence Irving, the famous actor. alive. Irying‘s wife had beâ€" come bysterical, and thwarted her husband‘s efNorts to save her. Abbott asked ‘‘Can I help you," and Trving replied, "Look after yourself first, old man, but God bless you all the same." Abbott thereupon dived overâ€" board and supported himsclf on a plece of timber. Irving and his wife by this time woere on deck and he was kissing her, and as the ship _ went down they were clasped in each other‘s arms. / Quebec, #ay 30. â€"The Jife boats of the Empress, of, which there were epnough to care for all the passengers, could not pe lowered, owing to the heavy list, and only two hoats were suceessfully launched, The fact that only about 25 women were in the party of 400 odd that was rescued is explained py the fact that most of the . first and ond class passengers were caught in their cabins, and hundreds of the yomen stopped to dress. The explosion of the boilers greatly increased tue pant: on board, and is wounded many of both the passengers and crew. The fact that such large numberâ€"of the; members of the crew appear among | the sutvivors, explained by their beiug on deck at the time of the collision, and ost of them were picked up after swimming round. teamer Sank Within Ten Minutes and Only ©452© Passengers and ‘Crew are Landed . at Rimousl# CORN FLAKES Some people may eat lots of meat without inâ€" jury to their health, but it‘s hard on their pockets. Others should avoid meat almost entirely, yet they eat it dailyâ€"these pay in both health and purse. Meat May Be Injurious and Is Expensive! It gives much more nourishment than its cost in meat, is infinitely more easy to digestâ€"conseâ€" quently better for you. â€" Either class will benefit by cating less meat and more Kellogg‘s Toasted Corn Flakes. sels: Two Miles Apart > When Collier Was First _ Noticed by Capt. Kendall welblo39" It‘s the original. 10 cents per package. May 30.â€"(Can. Press.)â€" Capt. Kendall, who is suffering and was vesterday repurte‘d as dving, was a little | better and able to talk atout the disaster. His story as related COULD NuT LOWER LIFE BOAXTS EXPLOSION OF THE BOILERS Liner Collides With a Collier at 1.45 a.m. Off Father Point S OF 104 | _ yNCEBEC, May 30.â€"Out from tars , I rt Thursday afternoon with all the stately pride of a great ocean linet went the Empress of Ireland of the Canadian Pacific service, bound for Liverpool. She carried almost fourâ€" teen hundred persons, ineluding many men and womeA of distinction l on both siacs of the Atlantic. As the ‘ buge ship left her dock and beaded down the river the band of the Salâ€" ‘ vation Army Headquarters in Toronâ€" | to played "God Be With You Till We i‘Meet Again." The two hundred deleâ€" | gates to the Army Congress on board stood around the band, a brilliant ‘ bit of color in the seene. As the Empress steamed down the river the fog" thickened, and:> after shoe took the mails aboard off Riâ€" mouski Captain Kendall, whose first voyage in command it was, decided that the better course would be to lie to till morning. The activity folâ€" lowing the taking aboard of the mails being at an end, the passengers and the bulk of the crew were in their berths. Out of the fog, steaming raâ€" pidly toward Quebec, came the deepâ€" lyâ€"laden collier Storstad, a Norwegian ship ngaged in carrying coal from Nova Scotia to upâ€"river ports. She «truck the Emoress amidshina with such force tnzt the sice Of the great ship was pierced, and the plates were ripped off for a considerable distance below the waterline. At once she beâ€" gan to fill, and as the water poured in she careened over so far that the launching of the boats became a matâ€" ter ®f the utmdst difficulty. In fourâ€" ‘teen \minutes from the time the colâ€" liston \pccurred the Empress went down, dgrrying with her hundreds of passengets who bad not been able to make the way up on deck. Toâ€"day the Empress of Ireland lies at ths bottom of the St. Lawrence, rammed in a dense fog Friday mornâ€" ing by a heavilyâ€"laden collier as she lay to near Father Point. awaitine gay and the sun. Of all the great company that sailed gut so confidentâ€" ly Thursday but lltt)g over four hunâ€" dred returned last night. Almost a thousand bodies tie entombed in the illâ€"fated ship, or drift amid the eddies of the St. Lawrence. The calls of the wireless operator for aid were heard a*~Father Point‘ Wireless Station immediately after they began, and two Government sgteamers which bad steam up raced to the spot indicatel. Before they arrived the Empress had gone down, and all that could be done was to g ther the survivors, many of whom had taken to the boats or thrown. themselves into the cold water with but littls clothing on them. It was. almost three hours before the work of rescue was completed, and the surâ€". vivors were landed at Rimouski and mustered for roll call. It was only then, when parents failed to find their children and husbands their wives among the survivors, that the full horror of the disaster began to make ‘ itself felt. For a time there was a ray of hope that others might be saved and landed later, bu‘ the number of passengers who reported was pitifulâ€" ly few. As Captain Kendall stated, many of them had not been able to make their way on deck, and were, therefore, carried down with the ship. When the train bearing the surâ€" vivors reached here at 7.45 last night It carried 29 firstâ€"clas* passengers, 29 secondâ€"class and 101 third. Of the crew 237 were saved. It is stated that 37 additional surviv<rs have been landed at Rimouski cince the train left. This would make the total number rescued 433. As the crew and passengers totalled 1,387, the dead or missing number 954. No ocean traâ€" gedy in Canada‘s history has cost so many lives, and only two others in _modern times, the sinking of the Tiâ€" tanic and the burning of the Volturâ€" no in midâ€"Atlantic have exceeded the loss in yesterday‘s horror. Stories of the frighiful panic ; which broke out in the darkness as | the ship listed and her sights | went out; _ of _ the futue efforts of the crew to lower the boats, which was made impossible by the , strong list of the ship, and the desâ€" | perate atruggle which occurred in the water after the ship save the last plunge, are told by the survivors, ail «* rhom were wilnesses of the dis asier which will go down in the htsâ€" tory as the most appalling in the story df navigation in the St. Lawâ€" â€"ene rlver. The imost prominent men among the vieting were Comqissioner ll"}! of the Salvation Army, who was‘in charge of the Canadian contingent to the convention in Lo~don; the actor, 4. ch MR en c# * LC HIP HCLFW t:iving. his wife, nd mit ienry seionâ€" V aurr, the famous sportsiman and big :oime hunter k Swine ddea of the ferrible exeite~ ment that exised on board the ship as she a‘nried to sink is found in the story related of an Otfawa passenger, J. W. Black, who did not wait for the boata but jumped with his wife Into the river and kept afioat until picked up. tm~nesea of Ireland was valued ; Dr. Grant Was Pulled Through Port 1 hole After Ship Careened. QUEBEC, May 30.â€"A graphic deâ€" scripticn of the scene on the Empress after the collision was given by Dr. James F. Grant, the shipa surgeon on the Empress, who described the awful scene as follows: "I wis in my cabin and beard nothing until the boat â€"listed so badâ€" ty that I tumbled out of my berth and rolled under it. 1 concluded that something had goue wrong and tried to turn on the light, but there was no power. I tried to find the door bolt, but the list was so strong that it took me considerable time to open the door. When I reached the alleyâ€" wy it was so steep, due to the way the ship was canted, that my efforts to cl‘mb up were rendered impossible by the carpet, which 1 was clinging to, breaking away. I then scrambled up and managed to get my heard through a port bhole, but I was unâ€" uwble to get my shoulders through. At that time the sbip was lying almost fGat in the water on her starboard side, and a passenger who was standâ€" ing on the side of the plated side of the ship finally managed to pull me through the porthole. ~ ‘‘About a hundred passengers were | standing on the side of the ship at | the time, and a moment after 1 bad | joined them the ship took another list and plunged to the bottom,. I | next found myself in the water, and swam towards the lights of the | steamer Storstad, and when nearly exhausted from the struggle and the , exposure I was picked up by a lifeâ€" : boat, which went on to the scene of the disaster andâ€"was loaded with surâ€" vivors who wersg pulled out of the . water and takeg.â€"on board the Stor-‘ stad. Then v_"'we heated and | wrapped in blankets, And I was proâ€" ‘ vided with th e which I now wear, and wb?c bled me to do what I could tojhdip the survivors, | some of whom mwese in such an exâ€" { some of whom wese‘jn such an bausted condlugo‘-mt they died. Stayed Until the Last and Then Pickâ€" ‘ ed Up Others. QUEBEC, May 3 Assistant Purâ€" ser Hayes, in an in?%w last night, speaking about Caplain Kendall, states that the capfain said goodâ€"bye to him on the bridge, as the water was lapping at their feet. The capâ€" tain bad a life preserver, but bhandâ€" ed it over to a passenger. They jumpâ€" ed together and Hayes was picked up by lifeboat No. 3 after an interval of 30 minutes. â€" _ After the ship bad foundered they discovered Captain Kendall clinging to a piece of wreckage. He was taken in to No. 3 boat and immediately took active commani and saved 73 lives in that boat alone. _ After placing these safely on one of the rescue steamers, Captain Kendall returned to the disaster and rowed around in No. 3 boat for over ‘three hours, searching carefully for any survivors. They Form Small Part of Survivors Who Reach Quebec. QUEBEC, May 30.â€"Of 1,387 souls who left for Liverpool Thursday afâ€" ternoon on the C.P.R. Empress of Ireland, not more than 400 returned last night to tell the awful story of a marine disaster unparalleled in Canada. If one thing more than anâ€" other stood out as the survivors limpâ€" ed, â€" alked or were carried from the relie{ train at Levis, which reached bere at cight o‘clock, It was the presâ€" ence of so few women in the crowd of 400, not more than 25 in all. As they stole out of the train among the three or four hundred men their drawn faces showed only too well the awful exporiences of the night before, when the steamer on whict they were pasâ€" sengers was rammed by the colller Starstad. Clad only in the scantiest of clothing, principally gweater coats and skirts, and with l(M-Ir bair disâ€" heyelled, in striking contrast to the women were the faces of the children, who seemed as bright as If nothing of the disaster lingered in their memâ€" ory. The survivors were brought to thi@ side and core l for by the C P.R. \ law iit6 t‘4s nâ€"oâ€"ning the top i‘te {nrn~l; of the impress of Ireâ€" t onidf te. (on. Bive is lying right n tie channe}. lt is thought bere by rovicaror« that it mmay be possible to raise her « At present the wreck i ® miér s io nhviration, _ Captain Kendall bimself took one of the cars and was indefatigable in T. CATHARINES, May 28 Wit 4am stevens was struck by lightning and seslonusly injured yesterday while prtting a melal evetrangh on the roof ~f his house. His brother. with whom he was working, escaped injury. Very few childrar were saved. On the frain that bronmght the eurvivors to this city there were anly three chilâ€" dron to hy reen _ Many wore drownâ€" e4.. One of ‘he poo‘ts wonlerfnul resâ€" enmes was the it ceis‘ C verroold girl, Aracle Manssum 4ss Pror of a Falb va fon . Asaiy fooctc=ein. Her father and mother were ho h drowne1, and the HtAe l en edrg rv on the train svinta that heth her frtDHr and mothâ€" rowoll join her apain. coming on the {r SURCECDON TELLS STCRY. xt hnnt CAPT. KENDALL A HERO. ta f + + â€" "tan r uw ks # ul ©,.29,800, wag 'l:uy' 0h Fawo@hecv ved my ed she ; Indian Is Killed and Chatham Roy ; | May Die, | | _ HAMILTON. May 28. â€"Scurrying | from the tierce rainstorm yesterday morning, a young Indian, James | Smith, and others sougbt shelter beâ€" ‘ neath an old sbhack at Burlington, the property of W. C. Bell, Brant street. A few minutes after hal a dozelf‘ | had gathered, _ bolt of lightning :struck the structure, stunning three ‘ , ~* faur and killing the Indian. reel ... om, .000 .0. 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Bruce of East GotmJey, Master of Norwegian Steamer Which Rammed â€"the Empress of lreland Declares That He Did Not Back Away After the Collision, But MONTREAL, June 1. â€" With betr bows crampled in and twisted around at an acut~ angle to port, and a gapâ€" Ing ren‘ showing on the port side but a foot or so above the water line, in mute evidence of the tragedy in which she has figured, the Norwegian collier Sterstad ‘mped into the harâ€" bor early yesterday afternoon. A few minutes later a warrant of arrest, taken out ty the Canadian Pacific Railway, was nalled to ber mainmast by order of W. Simpson Walker, K.C., registrar of the Quebec Admiralty Court. "By whet authority do you come on board my vessel and place it unâ€" der arrest?" asked Captain Anderson, commander of the collier. Deputv Sheriff at Mantreal Arâ€" rests Collier en Arrival. "By ~uthority of the British Emâ€" pire," curtly replied the Deputy Sherâ€" iff, who was commissioned to éxecute the warrant, and who fortbwith proâ€" ceeded to affix the warrant in the customary place. No socner was the vessel moored than the work of unloading her carâ€" go of some 11,000 tons of coal startâ€" ed, and were it no*t for the battered condition of her ‘bows it would be diflcult to imagine that the collier had but a few hours previously taken part in one of the greatest marine disâ€" asters in the history of Canadian navigation. _The officers> and men, however, bore traces of the harrowing experiâ€" ences through wh.ch they had just passed. When questioned on the subâ€" ject of the disaster they were ayerse to entering into conversation . . HARDWARE &"° PAINT WATERLOO Upâ€"Liner Slipped Away. 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En Spite of Serious Hiness Master of Empress of Ireland Gives His Tesâ€" timony Regarding the Disasterâ€" He Asked Collier In Vain to Stcam Ahead En Order to Keep Empress Afloat. "I rang full speed astern on my engines and stopped my ship. I took the way of the ship so as to stop her quick. . At the same time I blew three short blasts on the steamer‘s whistle, meaning ‘I am going. full speed astern.‘ After that he answered me with bis whistle, giving me one proâ€" lone~ * blast. RIMOUSKI, Que., June 1. â€" The Inquest into the deat ofâ€"the victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster began Saturday in a little schoolâ€" house, which has been bastily turned into a morgue to accommodate the 200 bodies brougbt here. Coroner Pinaud conducted *be irquest, and all the evidence hbad to be translated beâ€" cause the jury was French. The cenâ€" tre of attraction war Captain Henry Genrge Kendal, mastor of the lost liner, who consente‘. to give evidence, though .e "a" to leay> a sick bed to INQUEST IS _ COMMENCED ‘‘The pilot was dropped at Father Point," said Captain Kendal, ‘"We then proceeded full speed. After passing.Cockpoint gas buoy 1 sighted the steamer Storstad, it then being clear, "Will you tell us whâ€"t bappened when you bad ‘he nce‘dent?" asked the coroner of C. ptain Kendal. LONDON, May 29.â€"SBeginning yesâ€" terday, the "No ‘drink before ten" taw will be rigorously enforced in scouand. The act is aimed at the "black squad," namely, the open air work /s in the shipyards, who are a€â€" dicted to anteâ€"breakfast refreshment generally a gill of whisky, followed Ly a pin of beer. . (Continued on page 2, No Drink Before Ten, 1016