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HERE'S A QUESTION!

Ask yourself how often it is that a reputable firm of over ten years' standing in one town find themselves selling off and closing for good? It may never happen again during your life. Surely it is reasonable to believe that the reductions in price on a jeweller's entire stock must be enormous! Such a thing as this is going on right in our midst at A. M. SKEATES' JEWELLERY AND SILVER STORE, | ' right opposite Theatre Royal, Devon St.

TO-DAY'S MESSAGES. THE DEATH-ROLL UNALTERED. s Received 1, 12.20 a.m i Quebec, May 30. J Tho final official totals are: Dead, ) 1032; saved, 355. 1 ~ " HOW LAWRENCE IRVING DIED. APPARENTLY KILLED SY THE ' EXPLOSION. ' Received 1, 12.20 a.m. Quebec, May 30. Miss Thompson, of New Zealand, is among the rescued. Lawrence Irving and his wife secured lifebelts. "Dearie," said Irving, "liurry, thero's no time to lose." Irving placed the lifebelt around his wife (Miss Dorothy Braid), calmly donned his own, and climbed over the rail. As the huge vessel careened, Mrs. Irving was terrorstricken, and Irving carried her to the deck. The first explosion occurred as the Irvings prepared to leap into the water, and apparently the shock killed them. A BRAVE MAN'S SACRIFICE. SALVATIONISTS MEET DEATH LIKE HEROES. Received 1, 12.20 a.m. Quebec, May 30. Sir Henry Seton-Kcrr gave up his lifebelt to another passenger, insisting on the latter accepting it and saying ho could easily get another for himself. He entered the cabin to procure one, and was never seen again. Many women could easily have escaped, but they waited to procure articles of dress. A Salvationist, Ensign Pugmire, declared that all his comrades died like Salvationistss. Commissioner Rees ran back to rescue his wife. Another Salvationist tried to save him, but failed. Major Atwell swam for half a mile, i carrying his wife on his back, and then, I when succumbing through cold and exhaustion, his wife kept her husband's head up and both were saved. Another Salvationist described his walking down the side of the careened ship just as if one were walking down a sloping beach into tho sea. There was no disturbance and little panic. Once the snip turned sideways, it was simply like entering the water in order to take a swim. THE STORSTAD'S CAPTAIN. BLAMES THE SWIFTLY-FALLING FOG. THE COLLIER'S BOWS STOVE IN. Received 1, 12.35 a.m. Quebec, May 31. Captain Anderson, of the Storstad, arrived aboard the Storstad. He declared that the collision was entirely due to the fog, which shut down on both vessels quickly. The Storstad picked up three hundred persons, transferring them later aboard the Government vessels. This fact gave rise to the belief that there were more rescued than those at first reported. The Storstad's bows were stove in and her anchor was lost, having sunk with the Empress of Trcland. BIG LOSSES OF BULLION AND . MAILS. Quebec, May 30. Silver bars, amounting to a million dollars, en route to England, and large quantities of valuablo mail matter were lost. THE LINER'S FOG SIGNAL DISREGARDED. STORSTAD FAILS TO MAKE WAY. Received 1, 12.35 a.m. Quebec, May 30. Captain Kendall is incapacitated from nervous shock, and is speechless. It is understood that Captain Kendall signalled in the customary way, indicating that the Empress of Ireland was maintaining her course. The officers of the Empress of Ireland assert that the Storstad answered the signals, but failed to change her course. The Empress of Ireland was moving slowly when the Storstad struck her full in the side. LIKE A NIGIIT.MARE. THICK FOG, DARK WATERS, SINKING SHIP." PEOPLE DROWNED JN TIIEIU CABINS. Received 1, 12.-15 a.m. Quebec, May 30. .Miss Townshend swam alongside Clinton Hurt, a motor-car manufacturer, until he caught a suitcase, whii-h held up Miss Townshend until the Storstad picked them up. Mrs. Price, Miss Towns-bend's aunt, was lost. AHer being rescued, Miss Townshend busied herself amongst the rescued, heroically aiding the stricken. An Englishman, Duncan, deelartd that everyone of the crew acted like men, attempting to rouse the women. 'J'hey secured numbers of lifebelts on deck for when those below should reach there. When Duncan was thrown into the water by the ship's lurch, five men attempted to grasp him, and he was -obliged to fight them off, otherwise he would have been drowned. The rapidity with which the vessel careened and sank made it impos-ible to do more than was done. The whole thing was like a terrible nightmare, from which one might awaken at any moment. I The thick fog, dark waters, and the sinking ship seemed wholly unreal, and,

the passengers did not grasp the dangi until they were thrown from their bunl or torrents of icy water fell in cascadi down the companion-ways, drownin people before they were able to make single effort to save themselves. I Some women describe in horror-stricl en tones how they slid down tJhe dec into the icy waters, sinking, and eomin to the surface, grasping wreckage, an being dragged into tho boats half ur conscious. One woman described th sensation as resembling that of bein chloroformed in order to undergo a sui gical operation, then reviving to fin that death had taken some loved one. Meanwhile the rescued are being care Tor at Quebec. Many lost everything they possessed. COOL, COLLECTED CAPTAIN KENDALL. "WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST." COLLAPSE OF A FINE OFFICER. Quebec, May 30. Thomas Smart, of Toronto, says that Captain Kendall, when the crash came, was on the bridge. He shouted, "Keep your heads there. Don't gel excited." He then ordered the stewards to assist the passengers, shouitng, "Women and children first. Break open any locked doors." There wa.s so much screaming and moaning that although the captain spoke through a megaphone, his voice was drowned. When told by the ship's doctor that the. ship was lost, Captain Kendall buri«d Oris face beneath the tarpaulin on which he was lying, and after he was rescued he cried as if heartbroken. Several passengers assert that lifeboats fell from the port davits and crashed across the sloping deck, killing a passenger against the farther rails. EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. STEAMERS' FO.G-BINALS EXCHANGED. ENGINES' STOP ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. NO CHANCE OF BEACHING THE MNER. Received 1, 1 a.ur. Quebec, May 31. The Coroner tais 'opened an investigation at Romtmsilde. Captain Kendall, who had recovered from the effects of his immersion, but was still very depressed, was the chief witness. He stated thait he saw the Storstad two miles off before the fog obliterated foer. He stopped his ship and whistled three short founts. Thie Sto,rstad replied with one long blast. •Some minutes later the Storsitad loomed up in the fog a ship's length away. He megaphoned her to back •water and rang for the liner to go "full speed ahead," hoping |to avert a collision. Afterwards he asked the Sltorstad. to continue at full .speed aihead, in the hope that sihe would fill up the hole, hut the Storstad backed out. He failed to beach the Empress of Ireland beeansec ffbc engines became useless in three minutea The vessel filled rapidly when the Sforstad backod. He added that he -saw the tfogbaiik approaching in plenty of time to iprcpare and took every precaution humanly possible. The behavior of the officers and crew was beyond praise. Chief-Engineer Sampson gave evidence tUvat he remained in the engine-room until ithe light went out.. The steam was gone soon-. When he reached the deck lifeboats bi'oke iloo.se and swept numbers under wafer including himself, he being entangled in wreckage from which he narrowly escaped and scrambled on a boat. They coivld sec the collier a mile Mini a half distant. Immediately before the collision the Ennprosn went fufl speed astern, .stopped, and then he got the order, "full speed ahead," bint he had only started the engines when the crash came. There -was no explosion of any kind. If the collier had kept clow to the Empress's side many lives would have been saved. If ske teid pushed against the hole ithe Empwv; of Ireland could hnve reached shore be?orc sinking NO AUSTRALIANS LOST. Received 1, 1.10 a.m. Quebec, 'M'ay 30. No Austrai'ifliw wove lost on the Empress of Ireland. NEW ZEALAND CONDOLENCES ACKNOWLEDGED. OUR LOSSES OF PASSENGERS CONFIRMED. The Prime Minister has sent the following telegram to the Prime Minister of Canada:—"On behalf of the Govern-. tnent and the people of New Zealand, I desire to express sincere sympathy with our sister dominion in the appalling loss of life which has taken place in the foundering of the steamship Empress of Ireland, and our heartfelt condolence with the relatives and friends of those who have perished." Mr. Massey has also cabled to the Prime Minister of Canada, asking for the names of New Zcrtlsiuders on the passenger list of the Empress of Ireland, stating whether saved or lost, i-n order that friends and relatives may have information v as quickly as possible regarding those who may have been passengers. Tn reply to the first, Mr. Massey on Saturday afternoon received the following reply, sent from Ottawa at 12.45 p.m.: —"Prime Minister, Dunedin. —On behalf of the Government and people of Canada, I send deep and sincere appreciation of your message, and our warmest sympathy for those in your Dominion who have been bereaved by the loss of relatives and friends in this appalling disaster. (Signed) Borden." In reply to the other message, the following was despatched at 1.3.3 p.m.:— "New Zealand saloon passengers on the Empress of Ireland were: Colonel BloomHeld, Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss H. Bloomfield, of Auckland; Mrs. F. W. Price and Miss Townshend, address unknown. Miss Townshend was saved, hut I fear the Bloomfield family and .Mrs. Price were lost. (Signed) Borden." U.S.S. CO.'S ADVICE. Auckland, Last Night. Tho Union S.S. Co. has received official advice that the Auckland passengers aboard the Empress of Ireland were: Mr. W. R. Bloomfield, Mrs. Bloom • field, Miss Bloomfield, Mrs. H. Wynn

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 5

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HERE'S A QUESTION! Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 5

HERE'S A QUESTION! Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 5

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