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Empress of Ireland Disaster Claims High Toll in Fog
Reports from Rimouski and Montreal detail the Empress of Ireland sinking after a collision with the Storstad in fog on the St Lawrence. About 969 lives perished, with 418 saved. many bodies recovered and identified, including prominent figures Sir Henry Seton Kerr and Dr H A Barlow. Rescue efforts, inquiries, and royal commission plans follow amid conflicting survivor accounts.
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Ireland
Evelyn Nd Bureke
Msa
Empress
Spd
Wady
Rimouski
Sbersons
Stor
Henry Seton
Kerr
H. A. ‘Barlow
Canada
W. Leonard Palmer
London
The
Salvation Suey
Montreal
Lindsay
Dominion of Canada
Admiralty Court Vot Canada
British Board of Trade
George “‘Vaux
Kendall
Anderson
J Anderson
Storstad
Canadian Pacific Railway
Lawrence River
Quebec
St. Lawrence River
sCanpadian
Ire Sland
Peersona
Rela ‘Ives
Eo Btorstad
Messela
WBS
Lady Evelyn
Eureka
Father Point
Hureka
Col ‘Mason
Hner
Ballinger
Bill Aving
Wireless iv
Gay
Eurekea
Hyelyn
Passangers
Sir Henry Seton- Kut
God Laurance Irving
Henry Irving
Wif
Mabel Hackney
Gian. Balvattea