Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — DISASTER AT SEA COST 954 LIVES [ARTICLE]

DISASTER AT SEA COST 954 LIVES

Canadian Pacific Liner Sank Off Father Point Near Quebec In St. Lawrence River. Rimouski, Que., May 29.—0 f a total of 1,387 persons on board the Canadian Pacific liner Empress, of Ireland, when she sailed yesterday from Quebec for Liverpool, 954 were lost when the liner was rammed by the Danish collier Storstad and sank off Father Point in the St Lawrence river before daylight today, according to revised figures late tonight. Only 433 are known to have been saved. Looming up through the river mist, as the Empress of Ireland Was lying to, waiting for the fog to lift or day to break, the Danish collier Storstad crashed bow-on into the side of the big Canadian liner, striking her about midway of her length and ripping her side open clear to the stern. The crash occurred not far from the shore off Father Point, 150 miles from Qhebec, which the Empress of Ireland left yesterday, afternoon, bound for Liverpool, and ten miles from this point on the St. Lawrence. > In reality, therefore although the liner was heading for the sea and the collier coming in from it, the disaster was not one of the ocean, but of the river.Unlike the Titanic’s victims, the Empress of Ireland’s lost their lives within sight of shore—4n landlocked waters. ‘