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i ress of 1 and Sunk in 1032 People Drowned , p THE STORY IN BRIEF. essen neie A despatch from Quebec says: 'Unchecked speed in a fog cost 1,032 lives Friday morning when the col- {lier 'Storétadt sdnk 'the' Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland in "the Bt. Lawrence River. 'About 400 'were saved from the whole ship's 'company of 1,387 crew and passen- ig 'the dead are Laurence Irving, the English actor, who was a son of Sir Henry Irving; his wife, Mabel Hackney, and Sir Henry Se- ton-Kerr, a famous hunter of big ame and prominent. at the: English r... Very few of the first or second cabin passengers were saved. few women were, rescued. Ai "The second greatest disaster in 'the history .of the Atlantic naviga- tion occurred at 1.45 a.m. Friday. The Empress of Ireland, the finest steamship of the Canadian Pacific fleet, was motionless in the St. Lawrence awaiting the lifting of a heavy fog. The Norwegian collier Storstadt hardly a fifth of the liner's bulk, crashed into the Em- press' port side and gplit her from amidships to the screws. The Empress sank within fourteen minutes. ' There was time only to lower nine lifeboats. More than 1,000 persons were asleep and were unable fo get to the decks before they were carried down in seven- teen fathoms of water. Scores were crushed to death by the bow of the Storstadt as it ripped through tiers of staterooms. The survivors in the lifeboats and upon bits of wreck- age were. picked up by the Domin- fon Government steamers which reached the sceme 'of the disaster ftom Rimouski, The survivors were taken to Rimouski by the Government steamers Eureka and Lady Evelyn. Later many were placed on a spe- cial train and started for Quebec. Captain Kendall, of the Empress was saved, but he was badly hurt from falling upon wreo as his ship sank. The chief officer was lost. Accotints which have reached here from survivors make it clear that the sinking of the Empress of Ire- land will rank with the Titanic dis- aster as one of the dreadful mis- . fortunes of marine history. The fact that stands out was the com- plete helplessness of most of the passengers. They were trapped in their state rooms amd were killed or drowned before officers and crew had time to help them. It was all over within fourteen minutes. The collier was near to sinking, but was able to make her way to Rimouski aftér picking up a few of the survivors from the Empress. Her bow was shattered to the water line from the collision. Qo far as could be learned the gollision came without warning. frightful blow came out of the fog and ruined-the Empress of Ireland before her officers knew that dan- ger "was near. It was 1.45 am. when the Norwegian collier and freighter Storstadt, a ship hardly a fifth of the size of the Empress, blundered against her and cut her down as if she had been made of pasteboard instead of wood and iron. The collien, weighted with 7,000 "tons of coal, was out of her course in the channel as she came om ab a good speed. She drove into the port side of 0" Empress and her steél sheathed bow raked inward and backward. It cut through 'a length of state rooms, Watertight compartments and deck beams, un- til there was an enormous' gap th opened from amidships to the stern of the liner. i: + : The water rushed in with the power of Niagara. Captain Ken- dall and his officers did all that, was humanly possible in .the fourteen minutes that the Empress hung on the river, Captain "Kendall "was hurt and in great pain, but "he: cesses as2 201" 1,387 © 355 1,032 showed the pluck and decision of a naval officer. In the first minute] of "the ' disaster" he ordered young Fdwand Bemford, " the wireless operator, to flash the 8.0.8. call, the ory for help that every ship must heed. He ordered officers and stewards to collect as many passen- gers ag could be found and hold them for the boats. He 'had nine lifeboats overside. within ten min- utes. 4 on ; 3 No Time for Flight. ' Had there been time, hundreds who went down with the ship wéuld ly | have survived. Bit time there"was not. - A thousand men: and women who had been asleep woke too late to scramble to the decks. They were crushed or mangled by the bow of the Storstadt, injured by splintered timbers or overwhelmed in the terrific rush of waters. It is probable that scores were killed the little relief steamshi Be {Forbin : e reliel ps, fou : y 3 1 Ss the wreck and the nine over-crowd-| - Half a Century in. $n We No, 2 Odterto Twenty-two Died of Injuries. ways, while trying for a footing sank can hardly be sengers and crew ed from Quebec on Thutsday turned to this city, ragged, ing the shore with their corpses. more mixed, worn out crowd train in Canada. It was more l dressed in anything that could either © nude or clothes. Several of them Were badly injured that they had to ies were assisted from the train their more fortunate comrades. toll of the weaker sex. Such few women as were ships 'and anguish they had drawn features and with utter A Few Children. the sad procession, who the buoyancy of youth not there, tar outnumbered 'the that an unu possible for them in the brief "they "bad to arouse and sa SCENE OF WRECK OF EMPRESS OF. IRELAN instantly, ' but hundreds perished : i L while feebly struggling for door-[iRlures and from exposure after be- | has just pompletel fifty the eloping decks. The terror and from floating wreckage. confusion of the few minutes while the Empress staggered; listed and ut in words. hausted and wounded, leaving nine | 1 am keeping on my course.! hundred amd mome of their ship- Jeter came two Short blasts, meaning . . k : ve stopped. mates dead in the river or strew-|&a out of Bred ike a shot Sdastiy od a relief train after a battle than a returning party from a steamship. The men were weary and worn, The women in the party were few, it being evident that the terrible experiences of the early part of the | gea. day, when the Empress of Ireland left | ele notae in the o v errible noise in sea. showed shocking traces of the hard-| "Women were crying and the difference of suffering and fatigue. land cold. They came aghore at Rimouski, stunned mentally as well as physi- at | cally. » Ca cers and crew were on duty at the SEM Sf the colliswon, and i was im |b time on |ing taken out of the lifeboats A SURVIVOR'S STORY, pressions as to the horror 'of it all. so gaily sail- {ouch more clear statement was mad re- ex- "I was in my berth" sald X11 Heard thre® Ynisties, whie 1 was scared Then the engines sudd ped, and a moment later ey, of | ea the whole. ship over with a terrible make, owing to the fact that the |; passengers' never appeared on a | grinding and smashing of bulkheads, alf- ik "1 gtarted to rush up on deel 1Ke | dressed, but before I got there 3 B press had listed so I Sond} along. here was not t with many." Crew Behaved Woll. Mr Duns sid, as far as he could s 80 y. be seen no sign of panic amongst them. by women. should not be here: shoutin, en- finall 1ifehos in- | 11 A pathetic contrast was furnished | we landed at Rimouski, by the presence of a few children in y recovered | As t from the shipwreck and prattled ed that all had behaved admirab! Da ciation «in bonds and investments | merrily: to mothers or to their pro-|standing at the bridge 'until the Ship tectors when, their mothers were {Sank and it will be some time before most oi recover sufficiently to travel." ' Paced Death FPearlessly. - o the officers, Mr. Dun death fearlessly, Capt.. doing everything po save lives. The ship, he said, ha going slow ' before 'he warning signal, which was followed the crash. xs vy. From the time I jumped oul pa 1 The proportion of the crew saved |bed not fifteen minutes elapsed teom the This is a satisfactory showing, espe- Olland the Empress of Ireland was ab is" ex- | bottom" : wren b th satemen 5S 0 BE } usual number ie offi- : a ts all ey out, there Twenty-two persons' died of their ffered f broken 1 Due suffere rom broken legs. wo- | showi the r in its' 26 ee rod who tia log A row ng best report in its his-1$ an arm broken. Others were crush- | amounted to $1,218,694, which is The survivors themselves could not ed or injured internally. Many describe those moments adequately. | the survivors were rushed to Que- lage paid-up capital for the year. bec this afternoon after they had | Taking' into account the average of ' had preliminary. care, and at Ri- ; Quebec, May 29.--A grim. remind- mouski. er of the fact that even the most : perfect of modern Atlantic liners was subject to the dangers. of the'l pain what they had . suffered, but sea was given here bo-night when Several of the women tried to ex- . 2 evory case they broke down and were the fact that the year, 'which: st | per bushel; tho 358 survivors of the 1,387 'pas.| only able. to sob, a few. incoherent eX' |'slosed,: was y amdoepat which fs py Mr. Fergus Duncan, of London, B16-| the Merchants Bank is considered , "when, highly satisfactory. For a consider- | "A moment | able portion of the year, C jump- | countered a' period of depression y stop- The survivors were brought by a|Versed. 1 could 'see throu hey hi of the banks. special Intercolonial train, and a{hole that there Was a dense tog. Then |with previous years ig difficult to 8 test chance to Jower lifeboats owing id the | 0 the present one co sudden lis hoy all stuck in the dav- f » months b its. Those who could got lifebelts, but of but five motikd : Ad © | the time 'was"too short even for th secured at Rimouski to cover them, ) most of them having been resoued| ,.. : in their might el as' to how the crew behaved, ehaved very well, and he had tory of the "bank, the i "Of course, there was disorder," said |®€ uals the pai removed in ambulances to the Jef- Mr Duncat; Jthere could be ine 9 ot ? A * else in such a frig! emergency, ut . i Pir sy Hale Sod whiter hospitals, while |1 saw the crow helping Jasschgers and considerable gain over others sufferin rom minor injur-|saw several men han eir lifebelts to ] ywious g rn ral men hand thelr lifehelia tof for the previous:year. .'It said Mr. Duncan, "but I met a man who cash holdings are $1,600,00 had two and gave me one. otherwise J than 'at the end of April, 1913, (te ) I al oa JeNnC1 01 oboe in this confusion the ship gave & % od. | while savings deposits have increas- en lurc an e whole lot o assen-'|' - gers were rolled down the decks fe the ed by $2,600,000. a a er ne 5 3 : en, ope neverlyear over $1,000,000, and TOW again to have such a terrible experi- y y TL went to the bottom of the Bb. Law-|ence" said Mr. Duncan. "There pe a amount to $54,700,000, rence, had claimed a far greater shriek as the ship turned over. I women crying and praying and men . 2%c. 3 they fell into the water.{share by catering to the commercial ; No. 2 to 233c; No. 2 came up there' was the same | needs of: the communities in which Tom bag;: arop-| its branches are located. The total pin aut oc sigh Tn Shienen, wile En | anscte show a gain of almost, £2,600. - n oge Ww. ng i 3 . ured. Mosh of them wore support | "Half a dgson grappled me andi 12% | 000, and now amount to $83,120,000. ed by men, and after disembarking: to fight thom off gs. best as 1 sould, : "bank issue . el pl - from the train walked through the Podies of dent men elt the 11 1 ightseers with | was in the water about an hour ar line of ourlous Si ticked up by one of the drifting vo 180,0 ueh, 'eboats, nearly dead. wit exhalistion 'the net earnings of $1,218,000 and |. J ne out of a % oi hundred of the passengers was dressed, balance brought forward amounting nothing ab o. 2 yellow, 80 to 8lc. Oats, Canadian these now standing at ) yi 2 4367 Candia can declare. ly, an heard the first | bank's report w. Fuk gl so sudden, auld Mo Buk | i can hardly think of it leas | of igs total liabilities to the-public. § | time I was fighting for life in the, soa cially in view of the recent financial i -- n | Western Ca ts quo No. 2, and at. A hod ten Sra BE No. §at 03 to, 04 outside ye--NO. al 0 Cy 8," # : Buck ity gears ofl Soma, 2 Aletta." wiare brated the half century mark 'by Bran Manitoha, bran, a 320. Business The Merchants Bank of Canada orl buginess in ton, in bags, 'Toronto f to $27. Net profits 'for the year rm RNIN oi Fi vg 0 I : 0 ° Fhe of |'equal to 17.8 per cent. on the aver- terior. 15 Re fatmers' separator nts, 3 to 24c; do. storage pri , 10 solids, storage, 20 to both: capital 'and the rest account, TE 31 Yu gle ser which amounted to $13,348,100, the Honey--Bxtratted, in 'tins, 103 to: Bank earned 9.13 per cent., which] rer ib. Combs. $2.30 1a.33.00 per doz- . vot a Lodi Bhs ve en for No. 1, and $2 for No.2. is a trifie less than was-earned dur-| Cheese--New cheese, 1¢ to ido fof In view of | 18¥g6, ana 145 to 1 ePopuns eans--Hand-picked, $2.26 to $2.30 rimes, $2.10 to $2.20. Poultry--Fowl, 17 to 390. er 1b; for the banks, the showing made by i got in|ing the previous year. Ontarios at $1.10 per hy on ae Baled hay--No. 1 at $14.50 to $18 orton with the carmings 1 413.38 na Seven, at 411 12 14 » w Y dd a ¢ "88 50. Exaet compariso rack Toronto. a \ i to $8.80, "f | sommon with. other countries, en- there came a teriffic crash, which keel- Provisions. i ** Bacon--Long clear, 14 to 14jc per in case lots. Hams--Medium, 18 to do., heavy, 17 to 18c; rolls, 143 to ! breakfast bacon, 18 to 19c; -backs, fiscal year of the bank was changed 1° | fram November 0th to April 30th get and the statement issued cprevious|go xo 2sc.. ° : 3 'a period ard--Tierces, 12i¢; tubs, 124c; pails, | ] sd 'many other wl ee : gi J 4 at, An examination of the report l« at Winnipte ants. y 1 \ X 3 nn . ul --Cas Ww clos- shows that gains weno: made in all fq 50 to Fo ni her for Aontract grades; departments of the bank's activi: h oats fc lower to ic higher; cash ee. | ties. For the. first ti "fhe his. Parley unchanged to ic higher, Montreal Markets. 'Montreal, June 2. -- Corn, American No. 2, 48% to | n C , 428 rt 4 ank's Man. fe b2e. eater tents, firsts, $5.60; sec TO bakers', $4.90; Win- patents, choice, $6.35 to $5.50; $4.70 to §4.90; The bank' ! Be bas $50 ive. $2 'he bank's cur- , $4.55; §, ., $2.16. - + + 8ho . Middlings, $28. vent loans increased during the 20: ravs NO. I 2s car lot 0 50, Oheese, 3 east- straight rollers, indicatin c. Buti choicest that the bank has been doing its full | § to ; ds, 23, to Mi ls Ju a oo EY During the year the bank issued |. Ly new. stook, on. which the premium Kes white. : r hich, with Dex ugha : Duluth, June Potatoes--Delawares, $1.20 on track) at ut La other § ] « much attention in Cana one. Tt will be 'a surprise to n readers to kndw that during the cal year which ended March 31 1013; Canada p $11,500,000 duty on food, and all of this, 1a; sum-is-virtually a direct tax in many instances, for there 'articles -of-food: produced in Can that are equal in every respect to those made in any country in the i sani Ty. to-date factory, and can ' cured in any first-class etore at half the price the imported ar sells for. eh Such articles as ra row in Canada, or are no duced here, have of necessity imported, and the duty paid: it the consumer would devote little thought and attention to. this subject a large amount of ey) could and would be saved. --Cana~ dian Home: Journal. - = T0 TEACH GARDENING. Young Englishwoman Will Join the _ Grenfell Mission. ed A despatch - from London says: Miss Christina Fellows, a Yarmouth lady, has sailed to Newfoundland as a. volunteer helper at Dr. Gren- to $401,000, made $1,800,000 avail- able for distribution. Dividend re- quirements absorbed $686,000, pro fit-and loss $580,000, bank premises account $1,000,000, officers: pensions fund $50,000, written off for depre:|. us a the large propor- ¥ | tion 'of quickly 'available assets, ; hich represent over 36 per cent. |, Altogether, the. show 18 10 thab good ban and careful conse va YOU CAN SLEEP ATER ip | $135,000, leaving $248,000 to bel' ; And still breakfast carried forwazd-\ A feature of the on time