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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1914
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR note reports survivors aided after a major explosion in Quebec. Text is garbled with many illegible phrases, but references to people involved and aftermath actions appear. Details on location, cause, and dates are unreadable.
Reporters recounts the Empress of Ireland disaster with passengers and crew struggling in the swift water after the Storstad collision. Survivors describe people swept overboard and the chaotic rescue as Quebec city aided the weary, injured, and dying aboard ambulances and ferries to safety.
Dated items report losses near a thousand lives in the Empress of Ireland disaster alongside Montana alum updates from College circles. The edition notes road congress forecasts, Anaconda state news, federal court actions, suffrage debates, court orders freeing Blakely, and a bevy of church, mining, stock, and sports notes.
Home, Alaska May 28 The wooden agreton steam whaler Karluk flagship of the Canadian government's arctic exploring expedition under command of Vilhjalmr Steffansson was crushed in the ice and sunk Jan 18 near Herald Island northeast of Siberia The entire white crew except Captain Robert A Bartlett is now at Wrangell Island with food and wood Bartlett reached Wrangell after crossing from North Cape Siberia to Whaler Bay Siberia and was taken aboard the whaler Herman which brought him to St Michael Wrangell Island noted for polar bears and past expeditions The Herman will try to reach the marooned Karluk crew on Wrangell Island by July
New York on May 2 1910 mentions Laurence B. Irving an author of plays with noted works in England and America His activity includes sketches of authorship in 1908 and 1900 He spoke to the Equal Suffrage League in New York on May 3 1910 Seton Karr son of George Berkels attended a 1906 MP defeat and a 1910 dinner with Col Roosevelt in London
In the St Lawrence collision near Father Point, the Empress of Ireland sank after a bow damage by the Storstad. Of 1 etc. survivors numbered about 298 landed, 22 rescue deaths from exposure, and about 250 bodies recovered by night. Rescues by Eureka and Lady Evelyn aided many as trains moved survivors to Quebec.
The compiled list of survivors missing and identified dead from the Empress of Ireland is drawn from multiple sources. Names span locations including Winnipeg Montreal Toronto London Manchester Vancouver and New York and include many first and last names with titles and relations.
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