THE WRECKED EMPRESS.
ENTOMBED BODIES TO REMAIN. (By Elbotbio Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.! Quebec, June 23. All attempts to get the eight hundred bodies entombed in the sunken hull of the Empress of Ireland have been abandonee], following on a conference between Lieut.-Commander Forlecs and the divers of, the man-of-war Ussex at the scene of the wreck, as the result of the death of Cossboora on Sunday from a fall off the slimy hull. This decision of the Canadian-Pacific Railway Co. wjll not affect the operations of the cofnpany which is attempting to salvage the ship, but it is thought they will have to give up diving operations. AID FOR THE VICTIMS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. The New Zealand Shipping Co. has contributed a hundred guineas to the Lord Mayor’s Empress of Ireland fund. New York, June 23. Mr J. D. Rockefeller has contributed 11,000 dollars for the relief of the relatives of the Salvationist victims in the Empress of Ireland disaster.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 24 June 1914, Page 5
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163THE WRECKED EMPRESS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 24 June 1914, Page 5
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