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TERRIBLE DISASTER IN ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. STEAMSHIP EMPRESS OF IRELAND RAMMED BY COLUER AND A THOUSAND LIVES LOST. Rimouski, Quebec, May 29:?Of a total of 1,387 persons on board the Canadian Pacific Liner, "Empress of Ireland," when she sailed yesterday from Quebec for Liverpool, 954 were lost when the liner was rammed b> the j Danish collier, "Storstad," and sank off Father Point, in the St Lawrence river, before daylight today, according to revised reports late tonight. Only 433 are known to have been saved. Of the 87 first-class passengers the latest figures show 29 to have been saved. Of the 153 in the second cabin 29 were rescued; of the 715 third-class passengers there are 101 survivors, while Z6i 01 me crew of 432 were brought ashore. These figures account for the 396 survivors landed here and taken by train to Quebec, where they arrived tonight. There remained here 37 rescued persons, unclassified, com-) pleting the total of 433 known survivors. Immediately the sh'o's crew recovered from the shock of the collision, when 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 "La dy Evelyn" here and the (iovernment pilot boat "Eureka," at Father Point, and both set out to the rescue. So deep was the hurt of the Empress, however, and so fast the inrush of waters that Ions: before either of the rescue boats could reach the scene the liner had gone down. Only floating wreckage and a few lifeboats and rafts from the steamer, buoying up less than a third of those who had set sail on her, were to be found. The rest had 3unk with the liner, had been crushed to death in the Storstad's impact with her or had been forced from exposure in the ice-chilled waters to loose their hold on bits of wreckage and had drowned. Only a few persons were picked up by the Storetad, which was badly tiavaalf flflrf thpSP WPTP ?- ? brought here by the collier, together with thor 3 sayed by the Eureka and Lady Evelyn. Twenty-two of the rescued died from injury or exposure. Th^, others, most of whom had jumped into the boats or plunged into the water from the sinking liner scantily elad, were given such clothing as the town could supply, and later those that could travel were placed on board a train and started for Qncbee, where they arrived tonigh c. Accounts agree that in the brief space of time?not more than fourteen minutes?between the shock of the collision and the sinking of the liner there was little chance for systematic marshaling of the passengers Everything indicates that hun dreds probably never reached the decks. Few women were among the saved, not more than a dozen, the lists make it appear. "The stewards did not have time to rouse the people from their berths," one sur 'Ivor told Capt Bollinger, of the rescue ship Eureka. "Those who heard the frenzied calls of the officers for the passengers to hurry on deck rushed up, piled into the boats, which were rapidly lowered, and rowed away. Many who waited to dress were drowned." EXPLOSION ADDS TO HORROR. The horror of the interval during the time the Empress of Ireland was rapidly filling and the frightened throngs on board her were hurrying overv offnrt tn esrane before she sank, was added to by an explosion which quickly followed the collision. According to one of the rescued, the explosion, probably caused by the water reaching the boilers, bulged the liner's sides and catapulted persons from her decks out into the sea. The ship's heavy list as water poured in made the work of launching the boats increasingly difficult, ? I and when she sank scores still left on/ her deck were carried down, onlv a I j few being able to clear her sides and i find support on wreckage. I, From all accounts, Capt H G Kendall, of the Empress of Ireland, bore himself like a true sailor. He retained such command of the situation, it appears, that while the Storstad's stem still hung in the gap it had made in the Empress's side, Capt Kendall begged the master of the collier to keep his propellers going so that the hold 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 boat picked him up and he directed its work of saving others until the craft whs loaded. The captain was injured. but his hurts are not dangerous. When day broke the rescue boats had not returned from the scene of the wreck. People standing on the shore at Father Point scanning the harbor with telescopes saw the rescue steamers picking up boats in the river and prepared to give help to the survivors. They were sorely in need of aid, as most of them had on little clothing and the temperature was near the freezing point. When they had been given attention the work of recovering bodies was undertaken, l'ne rescue steamers themselves had brought in nearly fifty of these, and tonight, after they had continued their search, a total of about two hundred and fifty bodies had been recovered. One woman and four men, still living but unconscious, were picked up by the steamer during the day. Few of the bodies had been identified tonight. The wireless is given credit for saving many live3. Responding promptly to the "S 0 S" call, the steamer Eureka was on the spot approximately twenty minutes after the disaster, and the Lady Evelyn but little later. A corrected list of passengers and crew on the Empress of Ireland, issued officially by the Canadian Pacific railroad, gives the total number aboard as 1,367, divided as follows: First cabin passengers, 87; second cabin passengers, 153; third-class passengers, 714; officers and crew, 413. Saltans Sittings. Suttons, June 1:?The continued dry weather has the farmers somewhat disheartened, although the crops are looking fairly well and we hope to get better prices for our cotton and tobacco than we are gettion for beans. Some must anticipate better, as they have quit picking beans and are building tobacco , barns. j Mr S P B Altman has the best oats that has been made in this . community for years. Others are alon mall nlanoaH with their vield. I Mrs W D Byrdic has been visiting her sister, Mrs Shepherd, of Georgetown for th? past ten days. Mr and Mrs Dave Sykes, who have been making their home in Florence for the past few years, have returned. 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