EA 4 \ --_----E YEAR 81 NO, 126 E HEROIC ATTEMPT 10 SAVE SALVATION ARMY COMMISSIONER Major Morris, London, Ont®' Swam With Him On His Back For Half An Hour. ; Only Those On Deck Or Near If, And Able To Survive Hours In The Cold Water, Had Any Chance Of Being Saved From SS. Empress Of Ireland Montreal, May 30.--There came this morning the first word of heroic work at the sinking of the "mpress of Ireland, and an officer of the Sal- vation Army, Major Morris, london, Ont., getd the credit. For one half hour he swam about in the icy wg- ters of the gulf with Commissioner Rees upon his back, and refused to let go until death came to the 'fo- ronto army leader. Details are mea- gre but the act rivals any of manyy such that marked the sinking of the Titanic. Commissioner Rees was an old ian and not in! health and Major , Morris young and stalwart, risked his every chance of safety t6 save his superior officer. It is wonderful the story of obedience to duty and care for his superior officer and older nian hefore any attempt at seli-preservation wae made. Major Morris is forty years of age. With great difficulty report- ers were able to secure and file this report, the first actual interview with a survivor of the wreck. Tt is the testd of Major Morris. of London, Ont., one of the handful of Salvation Army officers who 'escaped the vortex. When seen in 4 hospital cot the officer was being slowly nursed{ to re- covery, but was able to make the following statement : STATEMENT MADE BY MAJOR MORRIS "I cannot tell you how if. happen: ; awake in my » fnpact, | experience . any shock, but even to my untrained ears there came an impression that something dreadful had taken place." Continuing his narrative with ob- vious efforts he said : "I leaped from my berth at once and ran for the deck. As I did so 1 felt the dosh tilt. hd the list, Rrow more perceptible as I sprang up the stairs. As 1 reached the toplsaw another steamer hacklng: off and peo- ple pouring from below. Running to my cabin I j on my trousers and a light pair of shoes and raced back again. Throngs on the ustairs my my progress. As I was com ing out. I met Commissioner Rees. assisting his wife to the deck. 'What is wrong ¥' he asked 'Something very serious," I apie. On the there was a frightful scene. People were climbing to the uppermost side of the tilting vessel and as I sorambled up to the rail the liner turned gently on her side and sank (below the waters. I_was carried down in the maelstrom, but shot up again in a column of . air. On the way, to the surfaece several hodies brushed against me and arms reached out to pu e down, but 1 came up. I was then in smoother water and §gwam for the cqllier, which lay some distance away. 1am a strong swimmer and got along with. out any' trouble. With two other men I reached a floating spar and held on to it like grim \death. Short- "dy afterwards we were picked up by a hoat from. a government steamer. Major Morris absolutely refuses to take any eredit in attempting to vave the late Cammissioner Rees, although DAILY MEMORANDA Bee tol 8, right hand corner tor PRA Don't forget lawn social at Mrlar- en's, Wolfe Island, Monday evening Boat leaves § pm. O'Connor's orches ra. Intensive Farming When the manufacturer uses the newspapers for his adver- tising campaign he is applying the principle of the intensive farmer. When he advertises in "the "Rn rs of any city, he is thereby picking out a particu lar spot and cultivating it for all there is in It. He 18 not wasting time nor oney nor energy. He is not spreading his advertising over territory where he may have little or no distribution. His campaign is concentrat- ed where it may be studied and results ean be definitely ) ted. Perhaps more important than all, he is gaining the sip- port and the co-operation of the local dealers in the com- munity where he advertises, who appreciate that the missionary work done in their 'own town is bound to send 'enstomers to their 3 eve-witnesses can swear to hie gallant efforts. "Some died on the way to shore. Some had 'been cut hy the prow of other vessel They were terribly mangled and the women-- he did not. finish, * Pain swept across this strong's man's face ar the mewniory of the sights of that rescue ship, struggling home with her dead and living. 'One woman," he said brokenly," died--talking to her hus- band. She thought he was there-- she used all the little silly names ob ho had" inuch chance CAPTAIN H. G. KF < * Captain of the Empress of [reland, who, it will be remembered, was the captain of the Montrose, When Crippen, the murderer, was caught on her He was found clinging to some of the wreckage, and was saved, but is dan- gerously ill. of pneumonia in Montreal hospital a good woman calls her husband, when she is happy. Bhe just babbled and died." J STORY TOLD BY SALVATION1ST Montreal, May 30.--Tales of cau) others heroic resene and shudlder- ing were told by the survivors who stinctively 1 turned around. There was a cluster of people; it was a life- boat, | he pext few minutes art indisting{ to "my memory. Spmeone was liftidg" Me, dragging me over something hard. Now they were speaking to me, 1 didn't succumb to the drowsiness. They revived me, and I wad got aboard ghe Storstadt, the ship that struck us I can't tell you any more." "It was justlike walking down the bedch into the sea. As the boats went over we climbed over the taff- rail and slid down the stanchinos on the plates and walked into the wa- ter." In this matter-of-fact man- ner, did J. L. Duncan, of Londen, England, describe haw he left the cabin on the promenade deck in. his pajama suit, and how he parted com- pany with the ship When asked what he had to say about the dis aster he replied: 'My cabin was not crushed in like an egg shell as were some of those immediately "below me Directly the collision oecurred the Empress on deck. The lights went out al- most. immediately and there was a struggle to get on the decks, but there was no fighting that I saw. We simply stood there We knew we were going down There was no question about that from the first, and it was no use struggling. The poor wbmen were hysterical, but there was no chance to do anything for them When the steamer heel- ed over, we walked into the water, and I struck out for the rescuing steamer which was standing ahout half a mile ofr." FEW HAD CHANCE TO GET OFF \ 7" ------ as Rimousky, Que., May 30.- only twell& women survived that aw fal marine < castrophe of vesterda: morning, it had been inferred that the three hundred odd men who escaped with their lives werd lacking that tra- ditional instinct seli-sacrifice~that gives the weaker ones first chance and puts women first in direction of safe ty. As a matter of fact, judging from the stories drawn from the half famished survivors here, the only peo ple on board the ill-fated Empress for; life were those who were on (he open 'deck, or very near it, when the crash came, and could swim and survive the terri Ble shock of two or three hours in the cold waters. The sinking of the liner came so rapidly after collision that there WAS no opportunity to launch boats The members i the crew and male passengers who tried it were swept of their feet by the waters that compass ed them about as theedeck tipped and they were engulfed by the river, bands who left - their wives and, chil dren in their cabins and came op to investigate the cause of "the dren Yin their cabins and came their loved ones, and many lecause ol the us shock up to of them 18, their own Lives in the attempt to 80. The sceneS were heartrender le io pg and indescribable, and it is natur al that it is scarcely onnected story the night. There possibility that Capt Kepdall's ofticial report of the d¥sas ter will 'be wuch delayed. He Ys in hospital from pneu monia, and his physicians say he may not 'I'he story senger who «jumped from deck of the sinking around. till: rescued, and was taken to Father Point, where she dropped dead of heart fuiltre BAND PLAYED "NEAR< ER MY GOD TO THEE" poasible to get a of the grim horrors of is a here suffering recover 18 told of a woman pas the upper vessel, swam arrived at Viger station this Tn- ing, with a blanket thrown ard nd ber shonlders, her eyes lit with the 'wild excitement of the night of horror, Miss Alice Bales, one of the young women Salvationists who was saved, recounted how her deshmcute struggles finally brought succor and safety. Her cheeks were su:- cessive)y hectic and palid as Whse Bales (old the hideous story. She said. : : "I thought we struck an iceberg when 1 heard the fearful grinding of the shock of the beats. Wiih « cry to the girls 'who were with me I stumbled out of 'the marrow berth room groped up to the deck. Here 'was chaos. The ship was lis- ting, listing. Every step I took to the uppermost part of the deck I seemed to 'be slipping back into maelstrem of water and falling bodies. » Finally I gained the rail, and on it, and with a prayer in my heart I jumped into the blackness. The water surged over my Ted. Down I went. I could not swim a stroke. 1 remembered thal "Foun and as I sank I clenched my Jaws determined to stay with the little as long as strength lasted. Af- ter long periods of struggle and fainting and renewed = struggle 1 saw a man not far off swimming with #life belt. 1 forgot to tel you that I fastened the I ryached my hand towards this hope of rescue, the man's belt eluded me, finally I grasped it. Then I saw how the nian made the swimming motions like a' frog. I triad to de the same. 1 used every fibre and imerve to make the motions--I knew this was the chance for life. Then when 'my energy was ebbing, heard should keep the air in your lungs. Montreal, May 30.--With memories of the Pune which was played as the Fitanié went down, and their hearts began to list, and I immediately went | heavy at the loss of their many com rades on the bmpress of Ireland, the Salvation Army of Peterboro passed 1 Which was sunk in collision tence in the enrly niorning of May dividing 4 faint cry far off to my back. In- her into seven watertight sank in a very few minutes. x # : 4 5 THE C. P. R.STEAMSHIP, EMPRESS OF through the streets of Montréal, yes- terday afterngim, with their band playing, "Nearer, My God, to Thee.' Ime detachment was on its way to the harbor, ®where it embarked" on {he Cunard finer Andania, sailing to Ply- mouth. The iittle band has been dis- patched to replace its comrades at the international Salvation Army congress in London. The Peterboro detach- ment, numbering some hundred nven, halted in Victoria square, where the band, played the hymn in memory = of the dead, and then proceeded up thea ver Hall Hil. bu The sickening lunge which carried the Empress to the bottont parted forever wives and husbands, parents and chil- dren. Une couple rudely wrenched asunder were Mr. and Mrs. William IRVING vho wa Ireland winter LAWRENCE a i Mr Davies, Davies wa rescued LAWRENCE IRVING by a boat, ¥ AMONG THE DEAD May 30. --The latest revised figures of the wreck are : T passengers aboard, WO saved, | total crew ghoard, 113; saved, 237: to tal lost, oft. Quebec, May 30.--Laurence Irving, the famou#™actor, son of Henry Irving, perished in an attempt to save the life of his wile, aecording to smn vivors. He wag last seen buckling =» life-belt on her, and helping her up a gangwal. . 1 Quebe eae * ae "UNSINKABLE GOES TO BOTTOM Montreal, May 30. Lreland had been on the Atlantic ser vice df the (.P.R. for eight years, and was regarded as one of the finest ships the route to Europe Comiortable, fast, and consider ed any ship afloat, she was a favorite, with, travellers, Six iransverSe bulkheads divided her i watertight compartments and, the 'Fitame disaster de monstrated 'that all safety devices have their weaknesseg, the Empress of Ireland regarded as approaching to the ideal of the unsinpkable ship Canadian fairly safe ag on to be as mto seven before wis ofesfeofesfenesfeose do dfesfnfedeofofonedde deseo desde sdedfeoforde de % " QUELN'S STUDENT SAVED. Montreal despatch Sat- morning reportéd that F. P. Godson, the Queen's university science student, who was a first-class passen- ger on the S. 8. Empress of Ireland, was 'among the known survivors oe de afesfootesdefostonfosds fe foot desde ode de fo fe funfe fee deo ste A urday After the Titanic disaster, the lifeboat accommodation of the ~ Empress, in common with that of all other big iners, was overhauled and extended. The total, passenger accommodation was 350 first class, 350 second class and 1,000 third class. The Empress fas British buik, and seafaring' men as be ing of thoroughly sound construction She was not the largest ship running to Quebec, the Calgarian and Alsat: was regarded by with. the North German Lloyd steg 20th, with a loss of about 1,000 liv. compartments, . proved unable to flo I'he Empress of | IMBLAND, an, of the lan line, being of about 18,000 tons. . © Lloyd's insurance on the Empress of Ireland's hull was, £280,000, and on the cargo £200,000; freightage, £100,000. The reinsurance rate went up"to forty-five guineas, dirkctly the newf of the disaster was received, then receded to. thirty guineas, jump- ing afterwards to forty guineas. TWO NEWLYWEDS 'WERE IN 8. A. PARTY Toronto, May 30.--~Two newly-mar- ried couples, belomging to the Salva- tion Army, were on the Empress of Ireland. They were Captain and Mrs.. E. J. Dodd and Mr and: Mrs. Thomas Greenaway, all of Toronto. Mrs. Dodd was formerly Miss Vio- let Howson, 'and she married Capt. odd on May 7th. Mrs. Greenaway's maiden name was Miss Margaret Dal- zell : "It is a horrible honeymoon,' said a Salvation Army officer as 'the list of the Army people on board was eagerly scanned at the Army head quarters GONE TO PLAY BEFORE THE KING Toronto, May 30 "Daddy has gone to play before the king," said the little children of William Hor- wood, baritone soloist of the Salva- tion Army staff band, as they played {about the house, evidently uneon- scious of the fact that their father was drowned, that before a greater king than of earth's monarchs. ® Engineer Almost Frozen to Death. Quebec City, May 30.°--F. Osland- don't want to talk about it," he said, "I've had enough. All IT can say is that I felt water I jumped from somewhere, somehow, and 1 swam, I was picked up in a lifeboat, nearly frozen to death I caught just y 444 glimpse of the collier--it must have been she---staggering . away, and vague blurs that indicated other boats. 1 heard no cries." ~\ 'We were picked up by Lhe E lyne I revived with some 'yoffee and tried to be of use aroulld the vessel. I don)t know how many souls had _on board. » My God, they were a mixed lof, mostly naked, first-class, crew and third-class, all huddled together We all looked we Aedoteedededorde deeded dodo duadpodoole deodeodosdoote dog <* oo LOST SHIP ON FIRST TRIP. Montreal, Yay 30. Capt. H. G. Kendall lost the Em- press of Ireland on his first trip as her command@F Hey selected from, 100 C.. P. R. captains just a week ago, to command the wrecked liner. * * +* -* * + sede dodo ide de doopeofe de 'muckers,', you couldn't tell a gentleman from a hobo We were reduced to mere items of humanity." WRONG SIGNALS SAID TO BE GIVEN May 30.~The collier Stor: which rammed and Sunk the Empress of Freland, passed hére under for Montreal. Capt. Anderson declined to make a state- ment, intimating that he"would do so the proper authorities when .the time came. It understood tha the col lision was probably due to mistaking signals, Storstadt officers thought the liner was going ahead and that they--would -pass--hehind; but the liner stooped. dead and reversed, and she was "sideswiped"' in railway parlance with fearful results. SW FFE R Eg Québec stadt, her own steam is |PARTIAL LIST OF SAVED Montreal, May 30. list was issued by the C afternoon as that of the persons known tg Be saved: Miss Blyth, R. Boile, Bantala, Wil- iam Brown, C. L. Burt, John Byrne, Miss Backford, R. Brennan, Mr. and Mrs. Black, Ottawa; W. T. Burouse, Banfort, Marconi operator, Camepa. Miss Court, George Coopling, A. Colba, C Coorbes, pédntryman; (Continued on Page 8.) The following P. R. this names of Troy steamer Storstadt in the Gulf of St. Law es, Her six transverse kind. at her after she collision, and, -- ------------------ he had appeared | der, an engineer, is a survivor "li | WHEW an attempt to EMPRESS SHIP Rimouski, Que. May 30.--Perhaps one, of the best unofficial reports of the disaster is given by Dr. Grant, one of the ship's surgeons who was picked up in a boat, but returned to the'scene and aided in the rescue work: He then boarded the Storstadt, and out of the confusion that made the grimy collier a place of horror, brought a semblance of order that meant much. Women died as they reached the deck, and he took charge of the bodies and ordered where they should b¥ laid. Down in the engine-room, men, for- eign for the most part, were shrieking and soreaming in the ecstacy of terror that had not yet left them. And there were women there, trying' to warm their chilled bodies and dry their draggled clothing! All over the ship hg went, earning 'that praise that afterwards was unanimously granted him, Asked for his story of the disaster, he told it in the following words There were interruptions women wanted him for a moment, women iw hose nerves had not yet become re- adjusted since the terrors of that woe- | some night. He would excuse himself {for a moment, and then returning for 'a moment, he would smile gently and resume his narrative ------ | The Collier Sighted. { "We left Quebec "on May 27th, at' 1.30 p.m., and had an uneventiul trip during the evening. During the ear lly morniig a fog dropped around us |and we proceeded slowly. At 1.30 a.m. we put the pilot off at Father Point. At 1.30 am. the collier Stor stadt rammed the Empress of Ireland "The vessel's lights had been sight ed by the watch, who reported to Capt. Kendall, who was on: the bridge. I'he captain signalled with three blasts of the whistle, '1 am continuing my course."" The collier answered, but what the reply was I have not learn- jed. Then ( apt. Kendall sounded a | whistle twice, saying '1 am stopping.' { "ane lights of the collier could be seen approaching, and the captain of the Empress signalled the engine-room to reverse and steam full astern. But the big liner could not avoid the small ship. She rammed amid- ships in the engine-room-.on the star board side. The plates wore ripped open to an enormous length. The col {lier then backed offi about a mile The Empress Doomed. "In a few minutes the Empress be- gan tetlist to one side. She je : t herseli and then canted over still her to stavboard as the water its way through the gap into the break in her side. She listed further and was doomed. "An attempt made to lower the boats on the starboard side. The first one was thrown clear and the sailor in it was thrown out. A boat was overturned. Then some of the port boats were{ flung across the deck by the list of the vessel, and several people were killed. They were crush ed to death against the rail. 1 he lieve that the chief officer, Mr, Steade, lost his life when these boats cata- pulted. There was !no disorder . a- mong the crowd. The captain and other officers remained on the bridge until the vessel sank. It was just seventeen minutes from the time she was rammed until she sank helow the surface. "Comparatively only a few were able to obtain Ilfe belts, and practi: cally all were forced out in their night attire info the icy water. Sev- eral clung to the ship uftil she sank, holding to the rail until the vessel canted over so far that it was néces- sary to climb the rail and stand on the plates of the side. Then as she keeled gver further they slid down in- to the water as though they ' were walking down a sandy beach'. into the water to bathe, -- Screamed for Help. "Then there were several hundred souls swimming 'aro in- the water, screaming for 'help, shrieking as they themselves were being carried under 'and uttering strange weird moans. of terror undisguised. "The life boats of the Starstadt were launched came rapidly to the rescue. Noi /one went back that was not well ded. About five of the Empress' boats got away. ' "Then the catastrophe was so sud den that scores never left their bunks. They were caught like rats in a trap. Added to this was the fact that the passengers had heen on the \shigonl¢ a day and were not vet familiar with their surroundings. In the confusion and semi-panic many could not find their way to the decks, and only. a few knew how to reach the boat's | decks. This was largely responsible for the terrible toll oi death. "Four women perished after they reached the Storstadt. In each case 1 was called and the unfortunates died before anything could he done. The last spark of energy had been. exhausted. One other woman died tinet as she was being taken ash- was was ore. 'All this time the doctor had said, not a word regarding his own ex- periences. He had dropped no word that he had gleane his infor- mation from one or another reliable source. He was then asked to relate his own personal story, and a strange story it was. The Doctor's E "I ktiow nothing of 'what was oc- curring," he said, "until I was roll- ed out of my berth by the listing of the boat. At once | knew that something was wrong, and 1 tried to turn on the lights but the pow- er was off. The dynamos had been stopped by the iarush of water, a PEPER FIP IPP I PIERRE PrP eS rept TELLS STORY OF 0 And then I could not I' could hear screams of - the sound of rushing water. T not know what was wrong, or there anything to guide me, a the immedate danger i managed to get out of my room, but I was unable ta the alley way because of the Mi the boat. I tried to, . orawl could not so I scrambled along wall and grasped a port hale, got my head out and what was astonishment to find the u side crowded with people standing there as though .it were the deck. I called and someone reached down, I was trying to ger my shoulders through the' opening. Thuis man nulled me out and I stood thefe with them for & momedt. There Were fully one . huidral people around me. There was na time to Guestion. I had no time to titink, "The ship pulled from under, wud we were all struggling in t water and then the fog that had Leen a.ound us, just as soon as tho boat sank, as though it had accomplished ita purpose, rolled up like a curtain low in the watér I could see a boat, i while away off were lights of the collier, vhat I aiterwarls = learned had struck' us. I swam to it and was picked up°by a Mfe boat whieh had 'just been launched. In it, 1 returned to the spot where the 'ship had gone down and helped to plek up those struggling in the water." SEPP REES DIED A HERO. | BEG IPP 44D CLP 040440 Montreal, May 30.--That Commissioner David Rees, chief of the*Salvation Army in Canada, died with econ- spicuous heroism, is indieats ed 'this morning by stories of survivors, who said that he refused to.get into lifeboats, although he had the chance to do :0, because, he said, there were women in cabins below, although there were none on deck to use the boats at the time. His wife and daughter who were with him, declined to leave him, and they were seen clasped in each' others arms, as the boat listed they were thrown against the railing For bread ; and pastry, White Rose our. Nt was on July 27th, 1912, that the C.P.R. Empress of Britain, the sisfer ship of the ill-fated Empress of Ire land, rammed and sank the collier Helvetia in the guli while outward bound. f "Rubber set tooth' brushes." Qily son's Red Cross hug Store. E Gibson's Drug + + Market McAuley's Rook Store ....08 4 MeGall's Cigar Store Cor. Prin. & Kin McLeod's Grocery ... Union $¢.W, Mediey's Drug Store 200 University Ave Paul's Cigar Store ........7T0 Prouse's Drug Store .., 813 Valleau's Greecery ., Lowe's Greeery >. MARRIED. BROW ER--McAULEY-On 1914, at Niagamt Falls, Edward Brower, of katoon, to Mabel McAuley, voungest dau Mr. and Mrs. MeAuley, 'Kingston. CHAMBLRS--WARNER--At Napanee, on May 23rd, George Chambers to Gertrude Warner, wil of Napanee. PURTERL--CUNNINGHAM--On ~~ May 26th, 1914, in St. James' chapel, by the Rev. Father Halli Agnes, eldest dsugh Ars. John J. Cunningham, to Wile liam Joseph Partel), youngest son" of Mr. and Mrs, John J. Purtell, both of Kingston. (Montreal papers please copy.) ROBERT J. REID, t 'Phone, 577 te. rr s-- I ire Sot wirg. Thane art wn 32 few moments' after the collision. x %