FURTHER DETAILS OF THE WRECK.
CAPTAIN" KENDALL'S STORY. REFLECTIONS ON THE STORSTAD'S COMMANDER. WORLD-WIDE SYMPATHY. £t Cshle.—Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, May 31. References were mado to-day in tho church's throughout England to tho disaster. Notable services wero held by the Salvation -Army. Two Board of Trade representatives hive gone to Canada to watch the enquiry. . English correspondents in Canada give many interesting details. Over ono million dollars' worth of , _ilver waa lost. Of 1-10 Toronto people aboard, 108 ware drowned. Of 160 Salvationists, including the delegates to tho London Congress, only 22 were rescued. Tho Storetad's bow was smashed for fifteen feet, and her anchors driven into the hull. Captain Kendall bade Mr Hayes, the purser, farewell on tho bridgo when tho Water was lapping their feet, and gave a passenger his lifebelt. Mr Hayes and Captain Kendall then jumped into tho water together. Mr Hayes was soon picked up, and Cafttftin Kendall was found later clinging to some wreckage. Hu_Breds wero drowned in their bleep.. Sir Henry Seton-Karr insisted on Mr Darling, of Shanghai, taking his lifo- * belt. Mr Darling was saved. | .Among tho watchers at the London I office, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was Captain Kendall's niece, Mrs Wtldj whose father was drowned in the Britannic. Her. husband was chief officer on tho .itaffl'c, and perished when she went down. Her brother, George E\*_ris, was sixth officer of the Titanic, and was drowhed. Another brother. Frederick, was an office- on the Empress of Ireland. The sixth Officer of the Titanic was Mr Moody. . George Evans may have been an engineer. :
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14983, 2 June 1914, Page 7
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264FURTHER DETAILS OF THE WRECK. Press, Volume L, Issue 14983, 2 June 1914, Page 7
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