Empress of Ireland Disaster Seeps into Quebec waters
Quebec reports the Empress of Ireland collision with the Storstad in fog off Father Point. Of 1,387 aboard, 969 perished and 206 crew survived, with seven hundred dead on the liner and relief efforts led by the Evelyn and Eureka at Rimouski amid a coroner inquiry and disputes over blame between captains Kendall and Andersen.
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Quebec
Rimouski
Liverpool
Father Point
Stoirstad
Storstad
Anderson
Kendall
Que
Empress of Ireland
Andersen
Thomas Andersen
Ireland
Tales of Heroism Told by Survivors
Survivors tell how the Empress of Ireland disaster was faced with courage at Quebec. Dr James F Grant of Victoria BC earned praise for saving many from the water. Gracie Hanagan eight saved herself after sinking, and Major Attwell of Toronto and wife both survived by clinging to life belts and a lifeboat.
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Quebec
Ireland
James F. Grant
Victoria
B. C
Gracie Hanagan
Salvation Army Band
Gracie
Major Atttwell
Toronto
Major Attwell
Trinity House Celebrates 400th Charter Anniversary in London
May 20 1914 marks the 400th anniversary of Trinity House chartered by King Henry VIII the brethren held a banquet with government and opposition leaders present. Fires plagued the corporation with two major destructions at Water Lane In 1676 and 1714 erasing archives and obscuring early history. The 1514 charter recognizes maritime protection and grants lands in Deptford and Strood to the shipmen and mariners and their successors.
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London
Henry VIII
Corporation of
Trinity House
Water Lane
Cording
Pepys
Tower Street
Dolphin Tavern
Corporation
England
Deptford Strood
Disaster at Sea Recited by Wireless Operator
Father Point Quebec May 30 The Empress of Ireland sank in ten minutes after collision and the wireless call Save the ship prompted immediate government steamer aid. Eureka Captain Belanger reached the scene within 45 minutes followed by Lady Evelyn and Storstad with survivors and bodies. About 337 people were saved at Rimouski wharf where the scene shifted.
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Rimouski
Evelyn
Eureka
Father Point
Captain Kendall
Doctor Crippen
Dowum
Salvation Army
Quebec
H. G. Kendall
Royal Naval Reserve
Storstad
Ireland
Philip Lawler
Brantford
Ont
England
Herbert
Mr. Lawler
Que
Empress of Ireland
Lady Evelyn
Kendall
Moore
Rimouski Wharf
Unidentified Woman Drowns After Plucky Swim From Sinking Liner
In Quebec on May 29 an unidentified woman leapt from the Empress of Ireland as it sank. She swam for nearly an hour in the St. Lawrence before dying of exhaustion on the deck of the pilot boat Eureka that rescued her. she wore little clothing and has not been identified.
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Turtle
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Eureka
Empress of Ireland Captain Captures Crippen
Captain H G Kendall, commander of the Empress of Ireland, helped capture Dr Hawley H Crippen, accused murderer of Belle Elmore Crippen. Crippen and Ethel Leneve fled on the Montrose July 22 1910, were traced by wireless from Quebec five days later, then detained after disguising Leneve as a boy and using aliases Rev John Robinson and John Robinson Jr.
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New York
H. G. Kendall
Hawley H. Crippen
Belle Elmore Crippen
London
Pher
Ethel Clara Leneve
Montrose
Antwerp
Kendall
Quebec
Doctor Crippen
Miss Leneve
John Robinson
Oldest U S Woman Clara Dawson Newhouse Briley Fountain 115
Hastings Nebraska celebrates Clara Dawson Newhouse Briley Fountain age 115, claiming oldest Nebraska and possible U S. born in 1779 on a Virginia plantation. She lives with her son Dr Nelson Briley, a 75 year old colored veterinarian, smokes a pipe, drinks a bottle of pop, and recalls slavery, multiple marriages, and surviving beyond Washington’s era.
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Hastings, Neb
Clara Dawson Newhouse Briley
Nebraska
United States
Hastings
Dawson
Newhouse
Suffragists Urged to Withhold Kisses Until Vote
New York report notes Mrs. Havelock Ellis urged suffragists not to kiss their husbands until they secure the vote, framing the act as a political statement linked to the suffrage cause.
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New York
Havelock Ellis
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A. McIntyre
Canada
Rees
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J. M.williams
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Clara Fountain
George Washington
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