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TaLo no uthrr- lltiy nf your v Vrneaint. Ask rpr4'lll.rilKM.TER BIG LINER SINKS WITH 969, SOULS Empress ol Ireland Goss to Bottom Alter Collision ONLY 403 PERSONS SAVED Worst Disaster Since Foundering of Titanic Occurs In St. Lawrence River When Collier Storstad De livers Death Blow to Fine Trans Atlantic Liner Vessel Stays Afloat Only Fourteen Minutes After Crash. Unchecked speed in a fog cost 96!) lives when the collier StorRtad sank the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence river. The death estimate is furnished by the railroad officials after receiving a tjjjffvivors' list which numbers 403. TrappeJ in their berths as tliey were, many of theni imprisoned in staterooms whose doors had jammed, many more unable to climb to the decks, were overwhelmed by the ter rific ruj'.i of water. Among the dead are Lawrence Ir ving, tho English actor, who was a son of Sir Henry Irving; his wife, Mabel Hackney, and Sir Henry Scton Kerr, a famous hunter of big game and promlnient at the English bar. Very few of the first or second cabin passengers were saved. It was 1:45 a. m. Friday morning when the Norwegian collier Storstad, a ship hardly a fifth of the size of the Empress of Ireland, blundered against her and cut her down as if she had been made of paper board. The collier, freighted with 7,000 tons of coal, was following the course of the channel as she came on at good speed. She drove Into the port side of the Empress and her steel sheathed bow raked inward and backward. It. cut throrgh a length of state rooms, water tight compartments and deik beams until there was an enor mous sash that opened from amid ships to the stern of the liner. The water did not flow in. It rushed in. Captain Kendall and his ofllcers did all that was humanly possible in the fourteen minutes that the Empresa hung on the river. Kendall was hurt and in great pain, but he showed the pluck of a navul officer. In the first minute of the dis aster he ordered Edward Bomford, the wireless operator, to flash the S. O. S. call. He ordered officers and stewards to collect as many passengers as could be found and hold them for the boats. He had nine lifeboats over board within ten minutes. Had there been time hundreds who went down with the ship would have survived. A thousand men and wo men who had been asleep awoke tou late to scramble to the decks. Tliey were crushed or mangled by the bov of the Storstad, injured by nprnterei) timbers or .overwhelmed in the ter rifle ru!ih of water. It Is probable that scores were killed Instantly, but hundreds perished while feebly struggling for doorways while trying for a footing on sloping decks. The terror and confusion of the few minutes while the Empress staggered, listed and sank can hardly be put In words. The proportion of the crew saved far outnumbered the proportion ot passengers rescued. That is explained, however, by the statement that an unusual number of tho officers and crew were on duty when the collision occurred and that It was impossible for them in the brief time they had to arouse and save the passengers. Very few of the seventy-seven In the first cabin were alive when the Eureka and the Lady Evelyn, the little relief steamships, found a wreckage strewn river and nine over crowded lifeboats. Only ft handful from tho stcond cabin managed to get into the lifeboats or be picked up by the relief uteamers and the Storstad. The toll among the third cabin pas sengers was very heavy. It is impossible to say how many were ground to death when tha Storstad ripped through tiers of state rooms. Many of the survivors were brought ashore suffering from broken legs or arms or deep cuts or bruises. Many died after reaching this place. Big and powerful as she was, ol 14,500 tons register and displaying 20,000 ions, tho Empress went to tho bottom as a stone sinks'. Fourteen miuutes after the collision there whs nothing on the Biuface of the river save the lifeboats drifting with tin tide, a little wreckage and the rri,i pled collier hacking away Into the fog One of tho saddest features was the Inability of the collier to rescue many of the pussengers. The officers wero afraid 'or u few minutes tlmt sin would sink. Her how wits crushed to the water line and she took iu a great deal o.' watr, but she was able to continue on her way up the river to Rimouski and land a few survivors that her crew had taken from tho wreckage or who munnged to swim to her In the fog. The Canadian government Bteamer Lady Grey brought from Rimouski 1S8 bodies recovered from the wreck of the Empress of Ireland. The cof fins were carried ashore at Quebec and the mournful work of Identifica tion beinn without delay. The Lady Grey was escorted by his Commander ot ill Fated Em press of Ireland Photo by American Press Association. CAPTAIN KENDALL. majesty's ship Essex and fifty sailors from the warship with bared heads carried the collins down the gang plunk and laid them in rows on three long tables stretched under the freight shed on the pier. The building was draped w ith black. In the hunt for bodies of the victims there was no distinction ol class. Every person, whether finely dressed or roughly clad, took theli turn in the line that moved constantly from poflin to coffin. - Almost all the bodies bore marks of violence inflicted by contact with parts of the wrecked ship or in strug gles In the water. There were bodies of women whose heads were split open or gashed. It Is possible that women running from their staterooms in the darkness following the collision ran against stanchions or were whirled against the walls of the sides of the alleys The wounds also indicated that some of the women had been crushed when tho collier burled her steel nose in the side of the Empress. Officials in Rimouski have said alsc that the bodies of the women showed that several of them had been stabbed and that bodies of men had been found with knives in their hands. At any rate, it was apparent by a glance at the shrouds that had been placed on the bodies of both men and women that there were other wounds not disclosed on the faces. Only 209 bodies have been recovered from the wreck. The probability Is that the re nialnder will never be recovered fot the current will sweep tjiem out to a watery grave in the ocean. If the Empress is raised many othei bodies trapped in their staterooms will be recovered, but there is a ques tion as to whether the ship will be raised. At an inquiry at Rimouski Captain Kendall told his story of the disaster. The collier Storstad, in charge ol the tug Lord Stratlicona, came into port under her own steam. She was badly damaged about the bows, but so far as could be seen this did not extend more than twenty feet from tho stem. She was low in the water except at the bows, where she had evidently been lightened. Heru the draught was twenty-six feet. That the impact with the Empress of Ireland had been great was evident by the way the vessel's stem was twisted to port, the hawser liolo com pletely smashed, plutes cracked, rivets twisted or missing, while the heavy anchor had evidently been driven back several feet Into the bows. In anticipation of the arrival of the collier V. Simpson Walker, registrar of the admiralty court, was instructed by solicitors for the Canadian Pacific railroad to issue documents for the seizure of the Storstad for damages by collision to the extent of J2.000, 000. GIVE LIVES AS SACRIFICE Three Plunge Into River to Lighten Sinking Boat. Sacrificing their lives in order that the lives oi four companions, two of them girls, might be saved, three young 'nen, none of whom could swim, leaped into the Delaware river off Philadelphia from a sinking rowboat and drowned. The dead are: John Mouchech, Ray mond Tinney and John Murphy. The saved are: George German, Sarah German, Mary German and John Nevill. All resided in the north eastern section of Philadelphia and ranged in age from sixteen to twenty six years. hi spite of the heroic sacrifice the boat capsized shortly after the three meu hud disappeared iu the water and the four other occupants were thrown into the rl"'er. Nevill and German, however, succeeded in clinging to tho overturned craft and saving the girls. Cornell Gets Chance to Cheer. Cornell won tho lutercollegiute fleM and track championships at the Har vard stadium with Penn second and Michigan third. Camden Appointed Senator. Johnson N. Camden was anpointed United States senator by Governor McCreary of Kentucky to fill the unex pired term of O. Eradley. CRIES: STIFLED rrAS SHIP SINKS Darkness Hides Scenes ot An-' guisi) Aboard Vessel CRASH PUT OUT LINER'S LIGHTS Survivors Tell of Their Experiences and Their Good Fortune In Being Saved Several Jumped Overboard. Suffering dreadfully from their ex periences there is hardly a man or woman who was saved from the Em press of Ireland who can give a lucid account of what occurred on the ill fated steamer between the time of the delivery of the death blow by the Storstad and the final submersion of the ship. That quarter of an hour was a ter rible one and the hour's wait for help by the half naked survivors was hard to endure. Although the survivors are unable to detail what they went through they say the helplessness of the . women and children after the crash cauie was particularly terrible. Hardly more than a dozen women of the scores that took passage on tho Empress were alive after the ship had sunk. There were many children, some of them babies in arms, among the passengers. A few of these were saved because of the courage of men who risked their own lives for the sake of a child's but most died. The few survivors who could tell of their experiences agree pretty ac curately that nearly everybody save officers and members of the crew were asleep at & few minutes before 2 o'clock. There was a terrific shock as the Storstad hurled her ponderous weight against the Empress a shock that threw passengers from their berths. Then there was a long, grinding, rending crash as the Storstad's bow cut deep into the liner's vitals. Instantly, It seemed to those who told t'-.e story, there was a nightmare of sounds, cries of fear and agony that was too awful. All lights went out at the first crash. More than 1,400 persons were fighting for life In the black darkness. Those who man aged to find a way to the top deck saw scores leap into the sea. Pas sengers who could not get to the few lifeboats in time seized chairs, any thing loose they could find and leaped Into the river. Very many persons perished in the cold water while clinging to bits of wreckage and pray ing for help. Mr. Longley, a rancher of British Columbia, explained quietly that he had made up his mind that he had to die. The boats had gone. He could find nothing that promised to support him in the water. He made his way to the rail of the ship and waited until she sank. As she went down he held his breath, held it for an age, it seemed to him, but finally he came to the surlace and luckily near a life boat. A sailor hauled him in. W. Davis ot Montreal said that he and his wife were asleep and were not awakened by the crash. They got out of their berths when the water began to come in and were able to make their way to the boat deck. The Empress was listing and it was im possible for him and other men on the top deck to get one of the bouts launched. They gave it up. As the Empress sank Davis put his arm around ills wife and told her not to cling to him. They were sucked Into the whirlpool as the ship went down and Mrs. Davis was wrenched from his grasp. He kept his nerve and swam to her, grasped her by the hair and supported iter and himself upon a piece ot timber until they were rescued. Mrs. Davis was uncon scious and near to death when help got to them. L. E. Gossettin, a well known law yer of Montreal, said that he was able to get a liferaft overboard and that he clung to it with others until tho Lady Evelyn reached the scene. He said he suffered terribly from the cold. J. L. Black and his wife, who live In Ottawa, jumped" together before the ship sank. They were awakened by the crash, but they got on deck too late to find places in a lifeboat. They declared they decided to jump and take chances. Fortune was with them, for it sent wreckage to Mr. Black's hand and he kept his wife above water until a boat from the Evelyn reached them. Frenchman Wins Auto Event. Rene Thomas, driving a French car, won the fourth annual 500-mile race on the Indianapolis motor speedway. All speedway records from 5 to 600 miles were broken. Tho first Ameri can to finish was Barney Oldfield, who crossed the wire in fifth place. Thomas' time was 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 and 99-100 seconds. The winner maintained an average speed of 82.47 miles an hour. Sleeping Man Perishes In Fire. John L. Brownfelter, aged forty, a mill employe, was burned to death when the sawmill of D. D. Baker near Renova, Pp., was destroyed by fire, The man was asleep in the building. McClure Kills Himself. Robert Bruce McClure, former pro prietor of the McClure newspaper syn dicate, and a brother of Colonel S. McClure, killed himself with a shot gun In 'lis home In Yonkers, V. Y. LANGLEY'S MACHINE FLOWN Aviator Curtiss Crosses Over Lake In Old Aeroplane. "Langley's Folly," the famous old tandem aeroplane that has been hang ing in the Smithsonian institute in Washington for a decade, was success fully flown by Glenn H. Curtiss over Lake Keuka, near Hammondsport, N. Y. It is thought that this successful flight of a machine that was complete ly built before Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flights may bring about more litigation over the basic patents granted to the Wright brothers. The Langley machine was built for the government and was not patented. It has been contended that the Wrights obtained many of their ideas from Dr. Langley's experiments. BUSINESS TAKES A JUMP Period of Warm Weather Does Whole Lot of Good. Dun's Review of Trade says this week: "A period of continuous warm weather has had a beneficial effect upon practically all commercial lines and Is tending to offset the earlier handicap of a backward spring. "The movement of seasonable goods, both at wholesale and retail, shows encouraging increase and most reports ii.dicate that confidence Is gaining strength. Low merchandise stocks .it distributing centers, cheap money and the favorable crop outlook are chief factors operating to create more cheerful sentiment regarding the future." FORTUNE FOR $50 Woman's Land Option Brings Her Rich Strike. Mrs. John Kane of Northumberland, Pa., wife of a real estate salesman who worked for a Rldgway real es tate man for $15 a week several weeks ago, took an option on 300 acres of what was helieved to be oil or gas land near T'dgway. The "flyer" cost her $50. Last week a test well was sunk on the land adjoining her lease and a gas gusher was struck. Mrs. Kane sold part of her holdings for $500 an acre and this week re ceived another offer which she says will net her close to $200,000. She says she will accept the offer. Uses Revolver to End Life. Despondent because of ill health, John M. Coons, aged sixty-four, of Pittsburg, ended his life by shooting himself hi the right temple with a revolver. Arson Charged to Negro Couple. James E. Clark, a negro, and his wife of Latrobe, Pa., were arrested by Deputy State Fire Marshal Clyde Seanor on a charge of arson. Clark's house w:m burned recently. STARTLING t SETS HIMSELF UP AS PRESIDENT Carranza Is Establishing Pro visional Governs MAY EMBARRASS PEACE PLAN Rebel Chief Wants to Be Ready to Govern Mexico Should Conferees Decide on Provisional Body. Advices from Durango, Mex., say that General Carranza has left thero for Salttllo, where he will formally establish a provisional government. Carranza has virtually assumed tho position of provisional president and has started the work of forming cabinet. This action by Carranza, It is be lieved, has for its object the forestall ing of any arrangement by the peace mediators at Niagara Falls for the governing of Mexico. The new capital will have the pro tection of nearly 6,000 troops ot the army of General Pablo Gonzales, whe has transferred his army from Mon terey to Saltillo. He will protect Saltillo while it re mains the provisional capital and will send detachments of troops to garri son the smaller towns in that vicinity while Villa's main army Is conduct ing the campaign against Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi. When the rebel army moves upon Mexico City General Gonzales and hU army will escort the provisional presi dent and his cabinet to the permanent capital. This action by the rebels, it is claimed, puts them in line to be in trusted by the mediators with the task of governing Mexico after tho Huerta government has been removed and until a new government can be chosen by elective method. May Go Bad With Germans. German subjects in revolutionary territory in Mexico may suffer because the German steamers landed ammuni tion for Huerta at Puerto Mexico. When Villa expelled the Spaniards from Chihuahua he is said to have an nounced that the Germans would be the next to go. But the killing of Den ton, which followed soon afler, caused him to change his plans and to aban don the idea. The landing of ammunition for the federal government by the German vessels may result in the Germans In rebel territory being driven out and their property confiscated, the revolu tionists declare. Piano Era At Hand! Price Sensation of the Hour Let nothing keep you from visiting us at once. Look it up now. Lifetime's opportunity is calling you. The time has come when people see they don't need to pay an exorbitant price in order to secure a High Grade Piano. Time Worn Methods Are Shattered To Pieces In Favor of The Consumer. Let the Doubting Thomases answer this ad. Those are the people we want just now. Convince a Doubting Thomas with facts he can't answer and he becomes a booster. And that is what we want just now is boosters. We are putting fame into this sale by knocking the life out of any other terms or prices you ever heard of. Put these claims to the test. Let nothing keep you from writing us today. Buy now while the opportunity of a lifetime is at hand. You get a handsome stool and beautiful scarf free, and we deliver right at your door free of charge. So don't miss this opportunity. Don't contribute to the big combine, but buy your Piano stripped of the fat profits usually tacked on by the old factory decree or manufacturer's contract stipulations. Don't let that fat profit come out of your pocket, and don't let the other fat profit of 500 to GOO per cent, which goes to the dealer, his agents and his outside recommenders, come out of your pocket either. Now just fill out below and mail at once, and we will be at your door in a day or so, with a Piano right on the rig. Queen City Piano Company, Oil City, Pa.. Queen City Piano Co., Oil City, Pa. Please call on At. Japanese m rebel territory, too, may be expelled from Mexico by Villa and Carranza as a result of the sending of ammunition from Jupan to President Huerta. German Steamers Heavily Assessed The Hamburg American line steam ers Yplrunfca and liavaria did not sail from Vera Cruz, Mex., Sunday as ex pected owing to the refusal of the American port authorities to accept a bond which would cover the fines imposed en the two vessels for land ing arms at Puerto Mexico for the Huerta administration. The fines imposed on the vessels amount to over a million pesos. The amount assessed against the Ypiranga Is S!4.6:!5 pesos. The captains of the two vessels were anxious to get away ti nd the agents were Insistent that the bond be incepted, but the authorities declared that this could not be done on Sunday. ENGINE DERAILED; 5 DEAD Trainmen Killed on Way to Work. Two Perhaps Fatally Hurt. Five trainmen were killed and two perhaps fatally injured when a pas senger locomotive on the Connellsville division cf the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was derailed at Cooks Mills, east of Connellsville, Pa. The locomo tive was running light. The deud are: Harry Hughes cf Pittsburg, engineer of locomotive; C. C. Eyster, Connellsville, flagman; II. S. Lloyd, Connellsville, flagman; G. W. Dean, Cumberland, brakeman; Ted Riser, Cumberland, engineer. Trobably fatally injured: J. J. Romesburg, Connellsville, brakeman; Eugene Miller, Cumberland, fireman. An extra freight crew had boarded the engine to ride down the line in order to relieve a crew whose work ing time had expired. In some un known manner the engine jumped from the rails and the men were scalded. Steps From Car to Death. Grover A. Miller, aged twenty-five, stepped from a trolley car in Altoona, I'a and wad hit by an automobile re ceiving injuries which caused his death within half an hour. HEAT IN CHURCH KILLS GIRL Falls Over Dead Just as Pastor Starts His Sermon. Miss Sue Melkrantz, aged twenty three, ono of the most popular young women In the village of Hopewell, near Unlontown, Pa., was stricken by the heat and died Instantly in the Hopewell church just as Rev. W. A. Weaver stepped forward to begin the baccalaureate senium to the gradu ating cluss of the Luzerne township school. Physicians in the audience went to her ussi-taiice, but the girl was dead when tli- v reached her side. NEWS !
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