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THE FCLTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
REVIEW OF PENNSYLVANIA
Happenings of tha . Week in the Capitol Euilding and Th uughout the State Reported tor
Our Readers In Fulton County and Elsewhere.
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COMMISSION
Five to Plan for Waterway From
Lake Erie to Ohio River.
FAIRS TO BE HELD IN STATE
"Antls" Accept Offer Of Suffragists To
Debate Instruction Camp For
N. Q. P. Officers Dropped.
Street Car Tariff!.
(Harrlsburg Correspondence.)
Harrlsburg. Announcement was
made hero of appointment by Governor
Tener of the Lake Erie & Ohio River
Canal Commission, authorized by the
last Legislature. The purpose of the
board Is to take up the preliminary
work (or the construction, if feasible,
of a ship canal from Pittsburgh to
Lake Erie, through the Beaver and
Mahoning Valleys. The members of
the board were named as .follows:
FreBldont, ex-Mayor W. A. Magee,
Pittsburgh; A. 8. McSwigan, Pitts
burgh; Colonel Thomas V. Symons,
formerly of Pittsburgh and now at
Washington; Tom P. Sloan, Lock No.
Four, Washington county, and James
A. Chambers, Pittsburgh. It was
stated that ex-Mayor Magee was
chosen a member of the board and Its
president because he was one of tho
originators of the project' and was In
strumental in the preparation and as
elated In having the bill passed by the
Legislature. The first duty of the
board will be to have a survey made,
tinO.OOO having been appropriated by
the State for this work. The board
has Jurisdiction over the entire work
and has authority to appoint a secre
tary, a treasurer, a chief engineer and
such other assistants as may be neces
sary. It Is to make a report to the
Governor each year of the progress
made. Each member is to furnish
bond In the sum of $25,000 for the
faithful performance of his duty. The
president will receive a salary of $5,000
a year and each member $4,000 a year.
The appointments take effect at once.
KEYSTONE STATE
SORT
ORDER
Latest News HappenlngsGather
ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Frank Wisner In the Cameron Mine.
Bethlehem Steel Company Rail
road Conductor Terribly
Burned,
John Reilly, of Palo Alto, fell and
Injured his knee. He may be crippled
for life.
MINERS OBJECT TO
OPEN EXAMINATION
Would Bar All Save Those Who
Cut Coal From ForemanshipsJ
RAILROAD Y. M. C. A. BURNED
Saves Baby By 4C0-Foot Slide Down
Mine Cable Robs Shrine In Read
ing Church Boy Kills Farm,
er Accidentally,
The annual Sunday school convon
Uon of Port Carbon district will bo
held in the Methodist Church, June 3.
Nearly fifty boys In ten townships
of Chester county are now enrolled In
the boys' corn clubs.
Borough council, of Tanian.ua, has
decided to build a $14,000 hose house
for the Citizens' Fire Company.
Candidates Begin Filing Expense Lists.
Ten counties have filed their official
returns of the primary election at the
State Department and the figures are
being tabulated.
Of nine candidates for Slate nomi
nations who have filed expense ac
counts at the Capitol only one shows
expenditure of over fifty dollars. This
one was .Harry Watson, Greenville,
candidate for Congress-at-Large on the
Washington party ticket He spent
$528, of which $500 went to the State
Committee.
Those filing affidavits of expenditure
of less than fifty dollars were M. 11.
Stevenson, Willurd E. Ritter and F. W.
Whiteside, candidates for Guberna
torial nominations; Percy F. Smith for
Lieutenant-governor; Fred E. Lewis
and W. N. McNalr for Secretary of In
ternal Affairs; S. Harper Smith, Congress-at-Large
and A. M. Fuller, Su
perior Court.
71 Fair To Be Held In State.
Announcement that seventy-one
county fairs, horse and cattle shows o
agricultural and horticultural exhibi
tions would be held in fifty counties
of the State was made by the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agriculture. The
dates run from tho Hagestown Horse
and Cattle Show In Cumberland coun
ty, June 17 and 18, to tho exhibition
In Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia,
November 3 to 6. The report shows
that the attendance at the fairs last
year was 1,776,600. The amount paid
by the State to encourage fairs last
year was $4G,S33.62, against $33,563.22
1912. Premiums paid Inst year ag
gregated $157,961.77. The offerings In
premiums for this year are $192,099.
Discuss Street Car Tariffs.
Ways and means to obtain a uniform
system of making reports and tariffs
were discussed with Chief ilson, of
the Rureau of Tariffs of the rublic
Service Commission by a committee of
the Pennsylvania Street Raiway As
sociation. The committee la headed
by Gordon Campbell, of York, and was
named at the recent meeting of the
association to co-operate with the State
authorities. C. L. S. Tingley, presi
dent, and H. M. Stlne, secretary of the
association, and a number of officials
from companies In Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and Scranton were with the
committee.
"Antlt" Accept Offer To Debate.
Miss Lucy Price, Anti-Woman Suf
frage Association leader In this part of
the State, Invaded the headquarters of
the suffragists and announced that she
would accept the challenge to debate
tba question of suffrage. Mrs. Frank
M. Rosslng, of Pittsburgh, president of
the' association, promptly accepted the
challenge, and a date will be arranged
later. Probably It will take place In
one of the local theatres.
Instruction Camp Dropped.
Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart
announced that the proposed camp of
Instruction at Mount Gretna for la
fsntry, engineer and departmental offi.
cert of the National Guard, scheduled
for June 7 to 11, had been cancelled.
The Adjutant General stated that the
reasons werft Insufficiency of avail
able funds and Inability of the War
Department to detail the necessary ofll
ers to act as Instructors.
Edwin Montford, of York, was fined
$100 by Major John R. Lafean for
operating his automobile recklessly
while Intoxicated.
The executive committee of tho
Shamukin High School Association,
decided to hold the 1914 class reunion
a( Kdgewoud Park, July 1.
Rev. A. Memverse, rector of the
Church of Our Lady, Mt. Carmel, left
for Holland, to visit his Invalid sister,
and to recuperate.
James Thomas, twelve years old, of
Port Carbon, was knocked uncon
scious when struck on the head by a
stone from a sling shot. His condi
tion Is serious.
The last concert of the sixth season
of the Perklomen Symphony Orchestra
was rendered Jn the Perklomen Semi
nary gymnasium, under the direction
of Prof. David E. Croll.
John Hunslcker, a Bethlehem Steel
Company railroad conductor, was ter
ribly burned when' In uncoupling cars
hot slag, which one of them con
tained, was spilled over him.
Frank Wisner, sixteen years old,
while In the Cameron mine, Shamokln,
thrust his head over the top of a
wagon and was killed when a timber
from a chute struck him.
Raymond Sifagoss, fifteen years old,
tried to run across the tracks of the
Iehlgh Valley Railroad at Easton. He
was caught between two cars and
crushed to death.
Blood poisoning which developed
from a wound which Mrs. Samuel
Parry, Mt. Carmel, received when she
stepped on a garden rake, caused her
death.
David Weller, eleven years old, of
Downlngtown, Is In the hospital at
West Chester with a fractured skull.
He was hit by a baseball bat while at
play.
A movement to consolidate Lltltz
and Warwick has been started, and
Elmer Eby was chosen chairman, and
Frank Schner, secretary, of a commit
tee to work for the proposition.
Rev. Cleveland Frame, pastor of the
First Tresbyterlnn Church In Malvern,
preached the baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating cluss of the Malvern
High School, In the First Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Mary Linden, eighty-four years
old, of Louisville, Ky., died as the re
sult of a shock from a fall down a
flight of stairs. Mrs. Linden was visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Helkon,
at Pottsvllle.
The Tarent-Teachers' Association, of
Frackvlllo, elected these officers:
President, J. Howard Buck; vice-presi
dent, Mrs. J. K. Berk; secretary, T.
M. Reed; treasurer, Mrs. J. C. McGIn-nis.
Ground has been broken at the coal
shipping yard of the Reading Railway
Company, between Mill Creek and St.
Clair, for the erection of a steel water
reservoir or standplpe, to be 105 feet
high.
While on the way to a fire at the
Penh Central gas plant, Lewistown,
Jesse Estep was thrown from the Hen
derson auto truck, which was wrecked
In making a turn at a street corner.
EBtop'i collarbone was broken.
Frank O'Mleno, a contract miner,
prominent In fraternal societies and an
athlete, waa crushed to death by a fall
of coal, and Joseph Wychan narrowly
escaped a similar fate at Shenandoah
City Colliery. O'Mlene leaves a bride
of two months, who Is In a critical
condition from the shock.
Harry Hill, a conductor on the
Marcus Hook division of the Southern
Pennsylvania Traction Company's
lines, was slashed on the face by an
unidentified colored man, at Third and
Market streets, Chester. Hill had
asked the mnn, who escaped, for his
fare. The passengers of the car were
greatly excited.
Saves Baby By 400-Foot Slide.
Irwin. "Tim" McDonough, after
sliding; down a 400-foot cable In a mine
shaft In saving the life of Tony Andy,
two years old, who had toddled over
the brink, Is at his home here suffer
ing from twelve broken ribs, a broken
ankle and contusions. McDonough
rescued the child and the physician
attending him says he has a good
chance to recover. McDonough was
surrounded by about twenty children
whom he had promised to take into
the mine. Tony Andy wriggled
through the crowd to the shsft for a
"look" down the hole. He lost his
balance and as he fell McDonough
grabbed him. As he did so he became
overbalanced and plunged into the
shaft, one hand clutching the child,
the other grasping for the cable. Mc
Donough managed to grab the cable,
but the friction burned his hands so
that he was forced to let go for an
Instant and In his further descent he
bumped a timber with his shoulder,
but he held onto the baby. Finally
he was able to wrap a leg about the
cable and down he slid until he struck
the cage at the bottom. He scrambled
off the cage with his burden, who was
unharmed, and then collapsed. The
baby hasn't a scratch.
Object To Open Examination,
rottsville. Leading miners held a
conference with attorneys here prep
aratory to bringing Injunction proceed
ings against the State Mining Depart
ment for permitting any class of mine
employes to take the examination for
mine foreman's certificates. Miners
say they believe it will Increase the
danger of coal mining If carpenters,
loaders, drivers and other classes of
men employed about the mines are al
lowed to become foremen. The law of
1901 requires that none but miners
having five years' practical experience
shall be permitted to take the examina
tion, but the Attorney General con
strues the word "miners" to mean all
engnged about the mines in any re
spect whatsoever. This is tho diction
ary definition of the word, but in the
coal region nobody considers himself
a miner except the men actually cut
ting coal, and this Interpretation of
the law was always followed heretofore.
Railroad Y. M. C. A. Burns.
Altoona. The Pennsylvania Rail
road Y. M. C. A. building, at Itellwood,
seven miles east of here, was virtually
destroyed by fire, which started from
a cigarette or a spark from a passing
locomotive. The building was owned
by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The
loss Is $5,000, partially insured. Few
furnishings or books were saved.
Storm Wrecks Breaker.
Shamokln. Lightning wrecked the
top of the Scott shaft breaker, and
caused tho Richards & Hickory Ridge
Collieries to suspend operations.
Workmen narrowly escaped death. The
plants are owned by the Susquehanna
Coal Company. Thousands of dollars
damages was caused by the wreck of
the power plant
Lone Graduate Heart Sermon.
Harrlsburg. Roy Hemp, sixteen
years old, comprised the graduating
class of the Samp Hill School and
heard a baccalaureate sermon all by
himself. The sermon was preached
by Rev. E. D. Weigle and was heard
by a large audience, the graduate sit
ting in a front pew.
Boy Kill Farmer Accidentally.
Heading. Frank Kramer, sixty
years old, employed on the Huyett
farm along the Wyomlsslng road,
about a mile from Shilllngton, was ac
cidentally shot and killed with a rifle
by Charles Berg, Bon of the tenant of
the farm. The boy had gone into the
woods to shoot snakes.
Pottsvllle Tax Levy Fix-d.
Pottsvllle. The City Council has
named as part of the budget for the
new fiscal year appropriations totalling
$87,000. Js'lne mills was the tax levy
fixed, "divided 7V4 mills for general
purposes and 1V4 mills for the sinking
fund. The City Treasurer, by ordl
ance, was made collector of taxes.
Robs Shrine In Reading Church.
Reading. Posing as a worshipper
on bended knees for a while in order
to avoid suspicion, a sneak thief en
tered St. Paul's Roman Catholio
Church, remained until he was alone,
then burst open the shrine of St.
Anthony and robbed it of Its contents.
Ball Players Collide, One Hurt.
Marietta. While playing baseball
Harvey Penwell and George Eater col
lided in center field, when both ran
after a long "fly" In a contest with Red
Lion, renwen was bo uauiy uijureu ,
internally that he was carried from
the field unconscious. j
LOST OCEAN LINER EMPRESS OF IRELAND
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Great Liner Goes to Bottom at Mouth of St. Law
renqe River Following a Collision
With a Collier.
Rimoubkl, Que., May 31. Nine hun
dred and sixty-four persons hist their
lives Friday morning when the great
Canadian Pacific twin screw liner Em
press of Ireland waa rammed amid
ships In a thick fog off Father Point
in the St. Lawrence and sunk by the
Norwegian collier Storstad.
Four hundred and three survivors
were picked up from floating wreck
age and two lifeboats.
And only 12 of the saved are women.
Gathered piecemeal from survivors
the horror of this wreck grows with
the telling.
Waters Quickly Engulf Ship.
The doomed ones hud little time
even to pray. They were engulfed by
the onrushiug waters that swallowed
the big ship inside of nineteen min
utes from the time she was struck.
The wireless operators on the Em
press, sticking to their posts to the
last, hud time only to send a few "S.
O. S." calls for help when the rising
waters silenced thoir Instruments.
That silence told the rescuers miles
away more potently than a bugle that
doom had overtaken the ship.
Only six hours before this fateful
collision the passengers sang aB a
good night hymn "God He With You
Till We Meet Again," played by the
Salvation Army band on board.
The members of that baud and most
of the 165 Salvationists were among
the lost.
Survivors Tell of Fog.
It was foggy, according to survivors,
when the Empress of Ireland, a stele
hulled, steel-bulkheaded ship of more
than eight thousand tons, left Mon
treal at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in
command of H. G. Kendall of tho
Royal Naval Reserve, one of the most
skilled of trunsatlauitc navigutors.
Forest fires also obscured the at
mosphere and the big ship, in charge
of a pilot, proceeded slowly on her
way to sea. At midnight the pilot
aide left near Father Point, shouting
a merry "Hon Voyage" us he went
down their ladder to his waiting bout.
Tho darkness tit this time was in
tense "and the ship under the slowest
speed possible with steerageway held
her course. Her decks we re deserted.
The passengers had all sought their
berths with no thought of impending
death.
Out of the darkness, on die port
Bide, soon after 2:30 in the morning
there loomed the little Norwegian col
lier, not half tho Bize of the Empress,
but fated to be her destroyer.
Not until the collier was almost
abeam of the big liner was the danger
known on either ship. The fog hud
blotted out the lights as well us the
port and starboard lights of both ships.
Quick orders trumpted on both ves
sels wero heard. But they came all
too late.
Strikes Ship Amidchip.
The Bteel-pointed prow of the Stor
stad struck the liner amidships and
then forged aft. ripping and tearing Its
way through the Empress of Ireland.
Clear to the stern of the Empress of
Ireland was this great steel shaving
cut from her side, from the top of the
hull far below the water line. Into
that rent the water poured with the
force of a Niagara.
The bow of the Storstad smashed its
way through berths on thut side of the
ship, killing pasKeiigem sleeping in
their berths and grinding bodies to
pieces.
Reaching- the Btern of the big liner,
tho Storstad staggered off In the durk
ness, her. bow crumpled by the Impact.
Her commander was ready a few mln
uteB later, when he found his ship
would float, to aid the crippled and
sinking Empress, but he was too late
to suve the majority of those on board.
Carried to Bottom.
The Empress of Ireland recoiled al
most on her starboard beam ends from
the blow of the collier and passengers
were flung from their berths against
the walls of their Btuteroonis.
Many wero stunned and before they
had time to recover wero carried to
the bottmn with the ship.
The vast torrents pouring into the
great gash on the port side, aft, filled
the corridors and flooded every Btate
room abaft tho midship section In
side of four minutes.
There was never a chance for the
helpless ones In the lifter cabins and
staterooms of the liner. With her port
side laid open for half Its length from
the midship section to the stern, a
seive had more chance to float than
the Empress of Ireland, and the
trapped passengers In that after sec
tion were doomed from the moment
the Storstad struck.
Reeling from the blow the ship be
gan to settle almost immediately as
the water rushed Into the big rent.
From the forward cabins, however,
men and women In night attire, stum
bled along tho corridors mid up tho
companion way to the promenade deck
the deck below, the one on which
the boats rested.
Swarra to Deck.
Vp they swarmed on deck In their
night clothing to find the ship heeling
away to port and the deck Blunting at
a degree thut made it almost impos
sible to stand even clinging to railings.
Men and women, shrieking, praying,
crying for aid thut was fated to arrive
too lute, fell over one another In that
last struggle for life on board tho
doomed Empress of Ireland.
Frenzied mothers leaped overboard
with their hubieB In their arms. Others
knelt on deck and tried to pruy in the
few moment left to them. Some were
flung overboard by the heeling of the
sinking ship and some broke their legs
or arms In trying to reach the life
boats. Above the din of the struggle on the
great promenade deck could be heard
Captain Kendall shouting commands
for the launching of the HfoboatB. Sev
eral were launched In the 19 minutes
that the ship floated.
There was no time to observe the
rule "Women first" in this disaster, for
those nearest the boats scrambled to
pluces In them.
Hut even as they were being
launched, while tho wireless still was
calling "S. O. S." there came a terrific
WIRELESS AGAIN PROVES DEATH NEMESIS ON SEA.
Wireless telegraphy, which has been
tba savior in the hour of gravest (lun
ger to thousands of helpless victims
In disasters at sea, and which flick
ered out the Bturdy "S. O. S." that
brought succor to the Empress of Ire
land early today, has again proved
Itself the Nemesis of death on the
ocean.
Statisticians who became busy
chalking up and adding the human
credit marks that wireless has earned.
declared that probably 6,000 persons
owe their lives to the fact thut a wire
less station was near them In some
disaster. They declared It hus re
duced the terrors of oceun travel as
nothing else under Providence has.
It cume Into practical use in 1909.
Tho steamship Republic, threatening
1,500 lives in a head-on collision with
the Florida, that year, guvo it its first
real sea try-out.
The Alaska was the next. In mid-
1
explosion Hint almost rent the ship In
twain.
It was the explosion of the boilers
struck by thn cold water. A geyser of
water shot upward from the midship
section, mingled with fragments of
wreckage, that showered down upon
the passengers still clinging to the
rails forward and upon those strug
gling In the water.
Tho explosion destroyed the lust
hope of the ship's floating until succor
could arrive, for the shock had
smashed the forward steel bulkhead
walls that had up to then shut out the
torrents Invading tho after part. The
water rushed forward and the Empress
of Ireland went swiftly to her doom,
carrying down with her hundreds of
passengers who stood on her slanting
deck, their arms stretched upward and
their last cries choked In the engulfing
waters.
One of the survivors, relnting that
last tragic scene on the decks of the
liner, said:
"I was asleep like most of the pas
sengers when tho collision came.
There was a sickening crunching of
wood and steel and then a grinding,
ripping sound as the Storstad smashed
her way along the port side of our
ship.
"I knew that we had been struck
and I rushed to the staterooms of some
friends and shouted to thorn to get up,
as the ship was sinking. Stateroom
doors flew open all along the corridor
and men and women begun to rush for
the grand companion forward. Those
aft must have been drowned in their
berths.
Darkness Is Intense.
"On deck officers of the Bhlp, par
tially dressed, wero rushing ubout
urging passengers to be calm. Sailors
under orders were trying to launch
the lifeboats.
"The darkness was Intense and a
few minutes after 1 reached the deck
the electric lights went out. At thnt
time there were still hundreds of pas
sengers below trying to grope their
way through the darkened corridors to
the compunlonway and reach the deck.
.Most of them went down with the
Bhlp, for the corridors below filled
right after the explosion of the boilers.
"I leaped overboard in despair Just
before the Bhlp went down and '.man
aged to find a bit of wreckage to which
I clung."
Intenso darkness covered the waters
when tho Empress of Ireland made
that final plunge, but the fog lifted a
few minutes later and then came the
first faint streaks of dawn.
It lighted waters strewed with
wreckage and struggling pussengers,
who Btrove to keep afloat.
The crippled Storstad, which had
wrought this tragedy of the waters,
hud lifeboats out picking up as many
survivors as possible.
The gray dawn revealed the govern
ment Btenmer8 Lady Evelyn and Eu
reka near tho scene of the disaster and
hastening to aid.
Somo of those In the water tried to
swim to the Eureka as she neared the
point where tho Empress had gone
down. One woman, wearing only an
undervest, swam to the Lady Evelyn,
and was helped on board, but died of
exhaustion Boon afterwards.
The work of rescue still was going
on when the sun arose In a cloudless
sky.
Men and women were clinging to
8 purs and bits of broken plunks. Many
of the survivors were Injured. Some
had broken legs, others fractured arms
and still others had been Injured Inter
nally In thut last mad rush to get away
from the sinking liner.
Women clinging with one hand to
little ones, while with the other they
tried to keep clutch on pieces of wreck
ocean with not another smokestack In
sight, flames burst out. The wireless
operator, unmindful of his danger,
kept clicking and clicking, and just
as the boat was going down, help
arrived and the 128 passengers aboard
wore saved.
Then came the Kentucky In 1910. In
the same year 10 were saved In the
Koenlgen Lulse. Heath was cheated
In tho Instunce of the burnlug freight
er, Temploniore, when all on board,
544, were saved.
Vfllnwlne ioKfl on this record, the
age, were picked up by the
and carried on board the rescuing V(.
sels.
Captain Kendall, dazed and untkv
to give any coherent account 0 u,
loss of his ship, was found clinging
a broken spar.
J. W. Langley, rancher, of Canto
B. C, went down with the ship, j,
held his breath, and, coming to u,
surface, found a piece of wreckages
clung to it until picked up.
One of the survivors, In explain,
the quickness with which the Kmpr(
of Ireland went down, said:
"The collier, being only sommiu
over 3,000 tons, did not reach up M
to the upper or topmost deck of 03
hull. Her bow cut under the uW
deck and took a peeling off tin. fi'ieij
our ship that allowed the uuti.rtl
rush into tho lower decks. Then n,
liner heeled over, and even thovc
the superstructure deck room hadu
chance to save themselves, limning
of them must have been dumped
of their berths and slammed nijalr.i
the walls with stunning fnren."
Scenes on Shore.
Father Point, Que., May 1!S. "Tin
Empress of Ireland passed and lar;iH
her pilot here at 1:30 this murnlni'
said an official of the Canadian h
cine. "There was a haze at tlm tin
At 1:50 a. m. I was awakened hj u
"S. O. R." ring on my door h. li U(
rushing down, w as Informed by a
conl operator that the KiiiprcHHoflrt
land was sinking, having been struct
by some vessel. In undress I starts
to help. No other signal could i,
got from the doomed vessel, she hit
no time to give another, as Mie m
ten minutes after being stnuk.
"Mr. Whiteside, manager of the Mu
conl station, rendered effective im
Ice by notifying the gnvernmni
steamer Eureka, at Father Polo:
wharf, and the Ijjdy Evelyn Rt Rj
mouskl wharf.
Help Rushed to Scene.
"Capt. .1. II. Ilelanger of the Kuwki
Immediately rushed to the scene t,l
Captain Poullot, wllh the Lady Etf
lyn, followed Inter, his ship Mt
three miles farther away.
"Meanwhile daylight hrok ml
scanning the horizon with n t-l-sccp
I saw the two government steamen
nlnn lifeboats and a collier In the rt
clnlty, going here and then- Later
the Eureka arrived at Father I'o:
wharf with 32 survivors and e:vn'
poor drowned bodies, also nev, rd d
the survivors who had ber-i n-ir.M
Agent in Narrow Escape.
"The scene on the Eun k.i was moil
distressing, the survivors ualklci
uroiind their dead shipmates. MretrM
out in their last sleep. Tie Kurfti
was sent to Remouskl wharf with 1!
on hoard, and the Canadian I'acltt
agent, Mr. Webber, who was here, hat
Ingjust got off the Ill-fated vessel witl
tho pilot, engnged all tho tabs hi
could find and telephoned for all pot
slblo medical assistance. As the d
pany's agent here, I advise,! all th
survivors that their cables a ad tele
grams to their families would he pall
by the Canadian Pacific railroad.
."The Lady Evelyn pasneil into Rt
mouskl wharf about 4 a. m. with k
more survivors and bodies. Amort
the survivors was Captain KeiiM
commander of tho Ill-fated f lilp. tn
was picked up by a lifeboat fmm th
wreckage after the ship had pi
down.
Survivors Almost Naked.
"Most of the survivors were alir.ml
.naked In the cold morning, withtl
temperature at 35 degrees and biW
frost on the ground.
"At f:10 tho NorwCKlai. rnlW
Storstad, coal laden, from Sidney, X
S for Montreal, came along slnlj
When her bow had been smashed
It became known thnt she was tt
vessel that had struck the Kmpre
of Ireland the fatal blow. The Str
tad was too much damaged to alio
her to proceed to Quebec under h
own steam, but before proceeding il
landed a few survivors and some dn
bodies, which were taken off by ,!"
steamer Eureka and Lady Kvelvn w'
landed on the Remouskl wharf."
Sing "God Be With You." on Ship
Montreal, Quo.. May 30.-W hen tb
liner Empress of Irelnnd steamed aF
from here Thursday, Bhe carried l
members of the Salvation Army f"
the United States and Canada. bnM
for the world convention In l"11
To the accompaniment of the n"'
band, thoy were singing. "("'I "
With You Till We Meet Again"
This prelude to the accident In t
Rt. Lawrence made the disaster n n'
parallel to the sinking of the Titanle.
whose passengers sang. "Nearer.
nod, to Thee." as the White Star Im"
went down.
Irving. Actor and Author.
New York, May 31. Laurence 9
Irving, drowned on Bteumshlp
press of Ireland, Is an nctor. nuthw
and ninnnger. Ho rocelved his
cation at Marlborough colleee. (wP
Rollln, Tarls, and spent three !'
In Russia studying for foreign eWJ
His plays are widely known, hi '
and 100! he presented sketches of
own authorship In Englnnd and A""
lea. On May 3. 1910. Mr. Irving'
dressed the Equal Suffrage leaf""
New York.
Scenes at Liverpool.
Liverpool. May 30. Pathetic 8cec
were enacted at the office of the J
adlan Pacific railway In this city
day. Crowds of weeping ,npn
women begged for news of tho ow
Bnd crew of the Empress of Ire"
the majority of whom wero pat"'
here. When confirmation of he
aBter was received several of the
en fainted. Friday's scenes
duplicate of those witnessed '
time the Titanic went to tho bo"
Lexington was caught in a nurrC!!
unprepared. AH were saved w
help the "S. O. 8." summoned- .
Nlobe, wrecked off Cape Sable.
In the Intermission until the I .
Bea disaster of the Titanic cla .
world attention by the ""P",,)
summoning of assistance from
different Bources.
Some people bear throe
trouble all they ever hud, a'
have now and all they expect W
Edward Everett Hale.