Victor A Mason M C M D Physician and Surgeon
Victor A Mason M C M D physician and surgeon listed with office on Srd Street and residence at the corner of Srd and Maple Streets. Office phone 286 and house phone 204 are provided.
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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1914
Page
6
Victor A Mason M C M D physician and surgeon listed with office on Srd Street and residence at the corner of Srd and Maple Streets. Office phone 286 and house phone 204 are provided.
A ship identified as Captain and 350 encountered rough seas and foundered but was subsequently saved. Coast guard units responded, guiding lifeboats to safety and assisting in the rescue operation near the reported distress location. No fatalities were announced, and the crews were treated for exposure.
Nine hundred people drowned when the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland sank after colliding with the Storstad in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Survivors were landed hours later at Rimouski. passengers include Laurence Irving and Mrs. Irving, Sir Henry Seston Kerr, and members of the Salvation Army delegation.
A collision occurred at 2:30 a.m. thirty miles east of Father Point in heavy fog. The Empress of Ireland, carrying 1,200 aboard, sank after a brief SOS that drew the Eureka and Lady Evelyn to rescue efforts. Storstad, 3,561 tons, also damaged but not sunk, with about fifty crew. Survivors were landed at Rimouski. over 800 missing or presumed drowned.
The pilot of the Sunken Empress of Ireland, Captain Kendall, was recovered from the wreckage. Authorities report no further details on survivors or the fate of the ship remains.
Rimouski Quebec June 2 Captain Henry Kendall testifies at a coroner inquiry on the Empress of Ireland sinking. He says he took all precautions, the ship stopped and signals were given as the Danish collier Storstad approached in fog. The Storstad rammed the liner while it was nearly motionless. continued ahead, then backed away as water rushed in and the Empress sank. 964 lives were lost and 403 rescued.
Report from Quebec details 208 bodies recovered from the Empress of Ireland collision with the Storstad. Among them 188 recovered in Rimouski and sent home, 21 identified earlier, leaving many unidentified. Coffins held babies and adults with visible wounds, and relatives searched for kin as 12 more bodies were identified later. Many victims likely remain unidentified as salvage continues.
Miss Myrtle Robinson spurns Thomas Reilly of Halifax prompting him to detonate dynamite on the sidewalk outside her home. The blast shattered windows across two blocks with minor injuries. Reilly was captured about an hour later and jailed on attempted murder charges.
A severe wind and electrical cyclone struck Milwaukee and the western suburbs ripping down a score of buildings on the state fair grounds. Interurban traffic was crippled and delayed. Damage may reach 590000 dollars.
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