LINER STRIKES AN ICEBERG

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2165, 2 June 1914, Page 5

LINER STRIKES AN ICEBERG

ALMOST A SECOND GULF TRAGEDY EOYAL EDWARD'S NARROW ESCAPE TIMELY WARNING Fftom ILL-FATED EMPRESS fey Aueocin.tio!! -Oor.jrifflit ! {fiec. Juii.a I, 11,<US p,i«.) London, Juno L A. Mftow osijaipe j'swa grnvo disaster was reported an i !;■„> arrival of the . Canadian Nort hern Steamship - Cwit- ; j>.any's passcoget liner ltojal .Edward tU,lll toils), kfc Av-oiiitiCirtii ihe lkii> *''•« pari for tl-to new passenger and freight scrvka ta Moou-wi. X : f)0- passengers staito tliat oiilv by the pwiiiLp-titUite of Captain Wool-ton was disaster averted in the Slfa'it flf Cabot (in tlto Gulf of St. LawrwlcOj lfctiveca Xwfoundluinl ar.d. Capo Breton Island). 1)1 cmrsogueneo of a wireless warii« ing from the- ill-faied E-ihp-ress of Ireland, wlitelj reported having sighted an isjehsj'g two lih.ous.aiii yards away, i/li.o Hoysl Edward reduced her spiuv;, tjin berg loomed up, and Gjipt-asn Wcotton.; reversing Ms eng:in(!Sj nut tiro ship Invul on. to k. The boats were swung out, t.vA iho passengers jMrstered .<vu somo of tife.m being placed in the bonis. Ths liner struck the berg, her bows being, badly buckled. Hut, sha was not Jisaicmg. Slift protfeafel on iior voyage, , Tke Royal Edward harj a gcoat retio)vtio.ii on. hi.-r arrival A\'cr,jnoutl;.