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« Another Sea Tragedy The Canadian Pacific Empress of Ireland is Sunk in Collision with the C.llier S'orstad in the St. Lawence River--Steamer Gilbert Sunk on the Lakes NOTHER tragedy of the sea - has oceurred which will rank among the world's great trage- dies in that over a thousand lives were lost. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland was sunk in collision with the collier Storstad about 15 miles above Father Point in the St. Lawrence river. The Empress of Ireland had just left Quebec with a full passenger list while the collier was downbound with a cargo of coal. While the two vessels were in sight of each other and scarcely more than two miles apart, a slight fog bank developed between them. The testi- mony is conflicting as to what actu- ally happened after that. Capt: Ken- dall, ofthe. Empress, says that he immediately put his engine astern, then stopped and signalled to. the Storstad that he was without head- A moment or two later the way. Storstad showed up and rammed the liner amidships with her starboard bow. In his original statement Capt. Kendall said that he megaphoned to the Storstad to go astern, meanwhile crdering his own ship full speed ahead to avoid a collision, but that the impact occurred before the en- gines could respond to the signal. He added that he then begged the Stor- stad to hold her bow in the hole that she had made but that the Storstad backed out. Capt. Anderson, of the Storstad, tells a different story. He says that the Storstad was going astern but that when he saw the collision was inevitable he grasped the engine tele- graph to order her full speed ahead WHAT'S AHEAD? as soon as the impact took place iy order that the vessels - might sustain themselves, but that the Empress was going at the time at such a rate of speed that it was impossible to keep her bow in the hole, and that in fact it was twisted in the effort to do so. He was of opinion that his own ship had received a mortal injury, and so stated to his wife, who was on the bridge with him. She expressed sur- prise that the liner should not have stood by and did not regard her as seriously injured until cries were heard coming from the water. There is a great mass of conflict- ing testimony in the newspapers from which it is utterly impossible to ar- rive at the exact truth. The Storstad's crew was accused by passengers on the liner of exhibiting indifference in Donahey, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer