The sinking of the Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of Ireland constitutes a shipping disaster second only to the loss of the Titanic. ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Canadian Government steamer Lady Grey, with ensign half-masted, brought 175 collins from Quebec. It is believed that the remainder of the dead ...
Article : 36 wordsThe newspapers emphasise the fact that the nature of the disaster has nullified many of the precautions for safety at sea which have been carried out since the Titanic ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsPhillip Lawler, a steerage passenger, asserted, after his rescue, that it was the explosion that really caused the Empress of Ireland to sink so rapidly. "People were ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Empress of Ireland was insured with Lloyd's as follows:—Hull, £270,000; cargo, £200,000; freight and disbursements, £100,000. Individual policies on passengers' lives and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe scene immediately after the terrific collision baffles description. The shrieks of the passengers, who were rudely awakened from their slumbers by the hoarse cries of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 426 wordsThe Coroner opened his investigation this afternoon, Captain Kendall being the chief witness. Captain Kendall had recovered from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 651 wordsMr. Duncan, a Londoner, who was among those saved, states that there was a terrific crash and a frightful grinding of plates, and the vessel heeled over. Though there was ...
Article : 402 wordsThe River St. Lawrence, at Rimouski, runs between heavily timbered shores, the banks being about twenty miles apart. Only a short distance from the scene of the ...
Article : 149 wordsSir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, in the course of an interview, declared that the disaster is the worst in the history of the ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Massey) sent the following cablegram to the Prime Minister of Canada. (Mr. Borden): "On behalf of the Government and peoplo of New Zealand, I desire to ...
Article : 473 wordsThe Norwegian collier Storstad, struck the Empress of Ireland amidships, when the latter was hove-to off Father Point, near Rimouski, a watering-place on the south shore ...
Article : 225 wordsAccording to advices received by Salvation Army headquarters in Melbourne, the deathroll among the Salvationists on board the Empress of Ireland was 130. ...
Article : 147 words"One of my first duties in the morning," said the Lord Mayor (Alderman R. W. Richards) last night, "will be to cable condolences on behalf of the Lord Mayor, aldermen, ...
Article : 150 wordsIn the Canadian House of Commons this afternoon sympathy was expressed in connection with the terrible disaster. The Premier explained that it would have been ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Empress of Ireland left Quebec yesterday with 990 passengers for Liverpool. The passenger-list contains the names of many Australians and New Zealanders, who ...
Article : 131 wordsThe majority of the officers and crew of the Empress of Ireland belonged to Liverpool, where many distressing scenes occurred, the office of the Canadian-Pacific Company ...
Article : 138 wordsOn behalf of the State Government, the Premier (Mr. Holman) will to-day send a cable of condolence. Discussing the subject last night, Mr. ...
Article : 79 wordsTwo well-known Melbourne people, Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Marks, were expected to join the Empress of Ireland at Quebec en route to London. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Borden) read, in the House of Commons to-day, a message from the Premier of New Zealand (Mr. Massey), expressing sympathy with the sister ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Laurence Irving and his wife were among those who managed to secure lifebelts. "Dearie," said Mr. Irving, "hurry. There's no time to lose." He placed a lifebelt round ...
Article : 122 wordsFeeling references were made to the disaster in very many pulpits during the course of yesterday's church services. In his sermon at St. Andrew's Cathedral ...
Article : 1,518 wordsThe Salvation Army lost heavily by the disaster, the whole of the territorial field forces for Canada being wiped out, including Commissioner Rees. ...
Article : 219 wordsA Mansion House fund has been opened for the relief of survivors and bercaved. ...
Article : 21 wordsPoignant scenes were witnessed yesterday, hysterically-anxious crowds beseiging the Canadian-Pacific Company's London offices throughout a day of alternating hopes and ...
Article : 188 wordsLaurence Sidney Irving was the younger son of the late Sir Henry Irving, the elder of whom, Henry Brodribb Irving, is well known in Australia. The deceased actor was ...
Article : 523 wordsPresident Poincare has telegraphed to King George his personal condolences, and France's great sympathy with Britain in the disaster. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsSir Henry Seton Kerr gave up his lifebelt to another passenger. He insisted on the latter accepting it, saying he could easily get another for himself. ...
Article : 88 wordsSilver bars, amounting to 1,000,000 dollars' worth, en route for England, and large quantities of valuable mails were lost. ...
Article : 25 wordsDr. Johnson, the Canadian Pacific Company's medical officer, said that if the Storstad had not backed out from the rent in the liner's side many more lives would have ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Thomas Smartt, of Toronto, says that Captain Kondall, who was on the bridge when the crash came, shouted: "Keep your heads, there. Don't got excited." He then ordered ...
Article : 109 wordsCaptain Kendall states that he saw the Storstad two miles off, before the fog obliterated her. He stopped the ship and whistled three short blasts, to which the Storstad replied ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsThe Storstad was badly damaged about the bows, but she proceeded to Quebec under her own steam. Captain Anderson, of the Storstad, on his ...
Article : 266 wordsCaptain Kendall was found clinging to some wreckage, and was picked up by a lifeboat. He assumed command, and 73 people were saved under his direction. The boat ...
Article : 135 wordsMiss Townsend, of New Zealand, was swimming alongside Mr. Clinton Burt, a motor car manufacturer, and appealed to him for aid. Mr. Burt caught an empty suit case, which was ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Government has ordered a searching inquiry into the circumstances of the collision. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 1 Jun 1914, Page 9
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