HOW MISS TOWNSHEND WAS SAVED.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7

HOW MISS TOWNSHEND WAS SAVED.

AN ENGLISHMAN'S NARRATIVE. "A TERRIBLE NIGHTMARE."' (Receive- June Ist, 12.45 a.m.) QUEBEC, May 31. Misj Tow__hend swam alongside Clinton Bt;rt, a motor-car manufacturer, until he caught a suit case and held Miss Townshend up until the Storstad picked them up. Mrs Price, 3lis_ Townshend's aunt. was lost*

After having been rescued, MisS ~'; Townshend busied herself amongst the rescued, heroically aiding the most ". stricken. An Englishman named Duncan declares that every one of tho crow acted, like men. They attempted to rouse .- / the women, and secured numbers of lifebelts on deck for the use of those below. When Duncan was thrown; into the water by the ship's lurch five men attempted to grasp him, and ho was obliged to fight them off, otherwise ho would have been.drowned. Tho rapidity with which the vessel careened and sank mado it impossible, *, .: he says, to do more than was done. Tho whole thing was like a terrible nightmare, from which one might awaken at any moment. Tho thick fog. dark waters, and the sinkiug ship, seemed wholly unreal, and the passengers did not- grasp the danger until . they were thrown out of their berths or torrents of icy water fell in cascades down tho companianways, drowning peoplo before they . wero able to made a single effort to save themselves. Somo of the women describe in hor-ror-stricken tones how they slid down the deck into the icy waters, and then sank and came to the surface, grasping wreckage and being dragged into boats half unconscious." One woman described tho sensation as like being chloroformed in order to undergo a surgical operation, and then reviving to find that death had taken, somo loved oue in the meanwhile. The rescued aro being cared for in ' . Quebec. Many have lost everything they possessed. -