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BIG STEAMER SINKS IN SIGHT OF LAND 9*4 PERSONS LOST WHEN SHIP HOES DOWN. Sinks Within Fifteen Minutes After Beiii? Struck?435 Are Saved. Rimouski, Quebec. May. 29.?Of a total 1.3S7 persons on board the Can adian Pacific liner Empress df Ireland when she sailed yesterday fr^m Quebec for Liverpool, 954 were lost when the liner was rammed by the Danish collier Storstad and sunk 15 minutes iater off Fa.her Point in the St. Lawrence river before daylight today, according to revised figures late tonight. Only 433 are known to have been saved. Of ihe 87 first cabin passengers the late figures show 20 to have been saved. Of the 153 in the second caibin 20 were rescued; of he 715 third class passengers there were 101 survivors, while 237 o': the crew -'of 432 were brought ashore. These figures account for the 396 survivors landed here and taken by train to Quebec, wnere they arrived tonight. There remained here 37 rescued. unclassified, completing the total ot 433 known survivors. About 300 bodies of dead from the Empress of Ireland lis tonight in the sheds at the wharf here. Some have been identified and claimed. One of the bodies is that of a woman, a child tightly clasped in her arms. Looming up through the river mists, as the Empress of Ireland was lying to, waiting for the ifog to lift or day to break, the Danish collier Storstad -crashed bow-cn in>to the side of the big Cadadian liner, striking her about midwav of her length and riDDing her side open clear to the stern. (The crash occurred not far from the shore off Father Point, 150 miles from Quebec, which the Empress d: Ireland left yesterday afternoon bound for Liverpool, and ten miles from this point 'on the St. Lawrence. In reality, therefore, al:hough the liner was heading for the sea and the collier coming in from it, the disaster was not one of the ocean but of the river. Unlike the Titanic's victims, the Empress of Ireland lost their lives within sight o'f shore?in landlocked waters. Calls for Help. Immediately the ship's crew recov ersd from the slwck cf the collier ana it was seen that the liner had received a vital blow a wireless "S. 0. S." call "was sounded. The hurried appeal was picked up by the government mail tender Lady Evelyn here and the government pilot boat Eureka at Father Point, and both ft sent ou: to the rescue. So deep was BF the hurt of the Empress, however, V and so fast the inrush of waters, that long before either & the rescue beats ould reach the sce^ie the liner had gone down. Only floa.ing wreckage j and a few lifeboats and rafts from the steamer, buoying up less than a third of those who had set sail on her, were fo be found. The rest had sunk with the liner, had been crushed to death in the Storstad's impact with her, or had b?en forced from exposure in the ice chilled waters to lose their hold ft on bits of wreckage and had drowned. g? Storsiid Badly ( rippled. Y Only a few perso.is were picked up 'by the Storstad, wnich was badly crippled herself, and these were brought here by the collier, together witii inose saved by the Eureka and Eadv EveLyn. Twenty-two of the rescued died from injuries or exposure. The others, ni:st of wlum had jumped into the boats or plunged into the water fro mthe sinking liner scantily clad, were given such clo hing as the town could supply, and later those that could travel were placed oc board a train and started (;'or Quebec. where they arrived tonight. I * Accounts agree that in the brief space of time?not -mere than 14 minutes?between the shock of the collision and the sinking of the liner, there was little chance for systematic marshaling of ;he passengers. Everything indicate tha tounureiis probably never reached the decks. Few women were among the saved, not more than a dozen, the lists make it appear. ( ouldn't Rouse Sleepers. "The stewards did not have ;ime to rouse the people from their berths,'" one survivor told Capt. Bollinger of the rescue ship Eureka. "Those who "heard the frenzied calls of the offi^ cers 'for passengers to hurry cn deck and rushed up piled into :he b">ats, which w r rapidly loweiw! and rowed aw:-y. Many . wail r dress w re drown-1;!."' v t! O , plosion, probably caused by the water [ reaching the boilers, bulged the liner's ! sides and catapulted persons from her I decks out in o the sea. ; The chip's heavy list as water pour| ed in made the work of launching j j boats increasingly difficult and when j ! she sank scores still left on her deck? ' . were carried down, only a few being! ; able to clear her sides and find sup- j port on wreckage. From all accounts Capt. H. G. Ken; | j dall of the Empress of Ireland bore , u!? hp ~ 4-wn/v f oil Ar 14 a r*r*_ XIUHSCI'l Jltvt; U U UC sanui. .lie, . ' ; | tained such command of the situa-1 ; tion, it appeals, that while the Stcr-; I s ad's stem still hung in the gash | it had made in the Empress* side j Cap.. Kendall begged the master of I the collier to keep his propellers go- j i ing so that the hole might remain plugged. 'The Storstad, however, dropped back and the Empress filled and foundered* ! Capt. Kendall stood on his bridge ; as the ship went down. A boa; picked him up and he directed its work c-i ; saving others until the craft was j loaded. The captain was injured but ; 1 his hurts are not dangerous. When day broke the rescue boats j i had not returned from the scene of : the wreck. People standing on s!hore at Father ' . ; Point scanning the harbor with tele- , scopes saw the rescue steamers pick-1 i ing up boats in the river and pre | pared to give help to the survivors. J ; They were sorely in need of aid. as | most ci' them had or little clothing j and the Temperature was near the i freezing point. j When they had be?n given af.ention ! the work of receiving bodies fvas un; dertaken. The rescue steamers them- j ; selves had brought in nearly 50 of; . these and tonight af .er theiy had con- j tinued their search a total :of about! 250 bodies had been recovered. One j woman and four men, sill living but j | unconscious were picked up by the steamers during the day. Few of the . bodies had been identified tonight. ! The wireless is given credit for sav-! ; ing many lives. Responding promptly 1 to the "S. 0. S." ?sall, the steamer ; Eureka was on the spot approximately 20 minutes after-.the disaster and the . Lady Evelyn but little later. When the rrain came from the wharf 'bearing survivors it was a piti'.ul sight to see them alight. Most | of them wore very li tie clothes. Many i had to be carried bodily. A woman j ; had a broken leg and shculd-er, and ! ! ! a man had two legs broken. They j were carried to the hotel opposite the 1 station. One woman, garbed only in a vest,! ! jumped from the Empress and swam J to the Lady Evelyn. She was so exhausted, however, that she died u | few minutes after she was taken from I i the water. Her identity has not been j established. { Both 'Marconi operators were res- j cued. Edward B:mford, after he had i ' caught the Father Point Marconi station and called for assistance, was ! saved by falling into a lifeboat. j The passengers were loud in their praise of the pilot and captain e Lady Evelyn and Capt. Belanger of the Eureka and their crews. All of . | them displayed the greatest bravery, ,' it was declared. A Mr. McWilliams oif Father Point was also active in \ aiui.:g the rescued. >Yent Down Like Lead. (I The stricken vessel sank as if she . i w:re lead. An explosion, apparently : originated in her engin? r:oms, has, ; <iened her end and these persons who .1 were able to make their way from their cabins found themselves on a , perilously slanting deck. Many leaped ^: and were drowned. 0 hers were 'for, tunate enough to grasp dritwood or .! were picked up by lifebcats. It is ap?! parent that the grea* hole torn in k the ship's side admit ed such a deluge ' of water that many must have been L ; overcome in their beds. j The rescued, fighting their way to / the lifeboats from the careening deck, clinging desperately ro the rails or | leaping blindly overboard, broke their arms or legs or otherwise injured 11 themselves so badly that 22 died after i being picked up. ] ! No one aboard had time to seize ' 4 j his belongings, much less to dress. ; Those found in the lifeboats were in their night clo hes. The women suffered most. Only a 'few were saved, | according to the early lists, and indications are that they lacked the ; strength to comba: *oditions which confronted them. There was not 1 ( time, as was the case on the Titanic. ' i for calm deliberation and rigid ob ~~ V? 11 li u'rit -rnln nf tllD ( servante ui mc un->i .n., w; ....v 1 sea. "Women first." \ party (if Salvation Army mem 1- mi routs' to L Mdon ' ; p] ; < st \ jammed full and many of the ocrupan s wounded. It was still dark. Wreckage covered the river everywhere. The S orstad, her bow badly crippl d. was s ill on the scene picking up the living whenever she could. The explosion which followed the collision forced many to jump. Ernest Hayes, an assistant purser, told of leaping "from the upper promenade decks. He climbed in o No. 3 lifeboat. The b ;at maneuvred and found Capt. Kendall clinging to a piece of wreckage. D. Davis of Mori real, one cr tiie few* survivors able to talk coherently, said he and his wife knew nothing of; th * acc ident until wa er began to rusu ; in o their stateroom. He helped his' ! wf.e to the boa: deck, but the ship had already listed and it was impossible t.) launch a b:at. They crawled on their hands and knees up the slop-; ing deck. His wife was swept from his grasp and then bo h were carried overboard. They clung to a piece o: wood and were rescued. The wife was unconscious. Went Down With Ship. " "* ' 1--- A ? ? /">.! I .J. \Y ivOngiey, a rauwci ai v an- | ford, B. 0.. calmly sat on the deck rail and went down with the sink-! ing ship. He held his breath, came up, grabbed the side of a lifeb :at and was rescued by the Eureka. William Measures, a Salvation army bandsman, crept along :he rail into th? water. He swam to a life boat and was rescued. .T. L. Black and Mrs. Black of Ottawa said they had jumped together in o the river. Tiiey had been roused by the sh:ck of the collison and unable to ipet iirtfc a lifeboat had * ? - T 1 risked tne leap. Tney were picneu up by a boat from the Lady Evelyn. The residents of Rimouski, num- j bering 3,000, came silen.ly to the deck where the dead and exhauste, living were being landed, and under the di- ! rection of Mayor H. R. Fiset, gave aid j wherever possible. Every doctor in j the town was on the scene and many! of the injured were taken to private ; homes. Prom cedar ches'.s and clos-' ets the townsfolk brought garments j i*: all descriptions for those who had lost their belongings. Two headquar- , ters were es:ablished at the wharf and at the station 01 me in ejuuiumai .g railway. At the station those injured : and not removed to homes were cared I PLAN OF PACIFICATION I VIRTUALLY COMPLETED I Main Issues Laid Before Wilson and _ Huerta?Next Will Come Smaller Points. ! r: I - Niagara Falls, Ont., May 2S.?Plans a for the pacification of Mexico hrough ^ ? mediation virtually have been com-;s1 pleted. i c The major issues are beifore Presi- ^ dent Wilson and Gen. Huerta for ap- ^ proval and when rhis is obtained sec-, :ondarv questions will be taken up. Ia A protoccl covering the basic prin- ^ ciples will be issued, ;he mediation i A conference will clos/, delegates will i u return to their homes and the medi- ! ators will complete de ails of the un-1 dertaking in conjunction with the au-! d horities at Washington and Mexico b Pitv. j I This work may require several b i t j months. It is expec- ed that the re- s< sponsibility f:r dealing with the con- ] stitu ionalist element will be thrown n up-n the United. States. ;r i ! Among tae pom s still to be dis- g ' posed of are believed to be the selec*;~v, tn r-nmnrise the new \\ IIUI1 VJ L ~ j . I provisional government and the exact a I manner by which it will take office n : in succession to the Huerta regime. j t] ! Media ors and delegates today said v I a protocol probably would be signed j J wMiin a week. j i] ! Just how the transition from the j present administration to a new pro- a visional government can be effected d is being given close attention. jv N<*t Hu eft a Man. : t< iThe intent of the American dele- d gates is understood to be that the' , new provisional executive shall not e ' appear :o have been chosen by t< | Huer'ta. If the Mexican consritution n j be followed literally it is necessary ! tha: the office of minister of foreign : I affairs, now vacant, shall be filled by i i : the individual ;o whcm the mediation r-nri'tprpnp.e pxnecs Gen. Huerta to I' I turn over the reins ' of government. j | The constitution provides tha: in case I of a vacancy in the office oif presi- j jd nt, the minister of foreign affairs e | shall succeed ;o the position. The tl American delegates recognize hat a ' ;;i) irregular method of choosing a $' 1 visional president might vok a oi ???). 'nn. ' . J t r* (. \y y 9BBDSBHnBR9BHRBIBB9nSSSSB Schc Remember, ( /H 11 Store you help nine prizes to 1 the largest nur The votes fo count are as f< Boundary Street Speer Street West End Fairview N. H. S. P. H. S. Zion Bush River Silver Stre.t V r/1 c XV 111CL L UO Loug Lane Dominicks Pomaria Whitmire Hunter DeWalt Garmany Beth Eden Big Creek *rA H_ roiK. Utopia Hartford BETTE May The h \ This successor then could name as ibinet members those persons who Iready had been agreed upon here., uch an arrangement might be con- j trued as permi.ting Gen. Huerta to i iioose his successor, but the fac: that! lose who will comprise the list from J hich the provisional president would ; e elected will be named in advance ji nd approved by the United S ates, in ; le opinion of some would prevent! lis impression frcm being widely j I redited. ^ j . Not Keal Obstacle. 1 Neither the American nor Mexican | elegates consider this poin-. a stum- j ling block. That there should be a governing od-y of five individuals is virtually j ettled. On this group would devolve i? responsibility oL' making arrange- ! lents for a general election and carying out other de ails of the proram arranged here. Though one of the group probably j -ill be called provisional president' nd the others men\bers oi his cabiet, there will be tacit understanding hat thpse men will have an equal oice in ihe government's operation. Questions cf personnel are absorb:ig the attention of all. 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