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f VOL. LIV.-XO. 16,696. PORTLAND. OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1914. PRICK II VK CENTS. LAND Id SIGHT AS LINER AND 934 GD DOWN Empress of Ireland Sinks 14 Minutes After Crash in St. Lawrence. COLLISION IMPACT KILLS Storstad Tears Great Hole in Side of Canadian Vessel, Midway to Stern. VICTIM "LYING TO" WHEN HIT Disaster Comes in Foggy River, Many Never Reach Decks. , "PRAYER OF SEA" BRIEF When Rescue Craft Reach Scene Wreckage Only Floats on Waves Over 90-Foot Icy Grave. Many Bodies Recovered. RI1IOUSKI, Quebec. May 29. Sink ing in 90tfeet of water within 15 min utes after being rammed amidships In the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence Ttiver early today, the Canadian Pa cific liner Empress of Ireland carried down with her more than 900 of her passengers and crew. Of the 1367 persons on board only 433 are known to have been saved, making the prob-. able death list 931. Looming up through the river mists as the Kmpress 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 Jer eide open clear to the stern. Llvra Lust In Sight of Land. The crash occurred not far from the shore off Father Point, 150 miles from Queber, which the Empress of Ireland left yesterday, bound for Liverpool, and 10 miles from this point on the St. Lawrence. In reality, therefore, al though the liner was heading for the sea and the collier coming in from it, the disaster was not one of the ocean, but or the river. Unlike the Titanic's victims, the Kmpress of Ireland's lost their lives within sight of shore in land-locked waters. Immediately the ship's crew recov ered from the shock of the collision and it was seen the liner had received a vital blow, a wireless "S. O. S." call was sounded. Moats Hlatrn to Rcue. The hurried prayer of the sea was picked tip by the Government mail tender Lady Kvelyn here and the Gov ernment pilot boat Eureka at Father Point. Both sped to the rescue. So deep was the wound of the Empress, however, and so fast the Inrush of waters, that long before either of the rescue boats could reach the scene the liner had gone down. Only floating wreckage and a few lifeboats and rafts from the steamer, buoying up ss than a third of those who had set sail on her, were to be found. The rest had sunk with the liner, had been crushed to death in the Storstad's impact with her, or had been forced from exhaustion tind ex posure in the ice-chilled Northern waters to loose their lipid on bits of wreckage that had supported them -and had drowned. Twenty-two of Those Rescued Die. Only a few persons were picked up by the Storstad, which was badly crip pled herself by the collision, and these were brought here by the collier, to gether with those . saved by the Kureka and the Lady Evelyn. Twenty-two of the rescued died from Injury or exposure. The others, most of whom had jumped in tho boats or plunged into the water scantily clad, were supplied freely with such cloth ing as the town had, and later those who were able to travel were placed on board a train and started for Quebec, where they arrived tonight. Accounts agree that in the brie space of time not more than 14 min utes -between the shock of the collis ion and the sinking of the liner, there was little chance for systematic mar shalling of the passengers. Everything indicates that hundreds of those on the steamer probably never reached the decks. . Ffw Wanri Are ave. , Few women were among the saved, not more than, a dozen, the lists make It appear. "It all happened so quickly that we did not really know what was goinj on and nobody had time to cry 'Women first,' " one of the passengers told iConciuded on l'as -J " MISTAKE GETS CITY GOOD GRAVEL ROAD SOUTHERN" PACIFIC LOSES TWO OF ITS CARS TO TIGARD. Club Appropriates Material and Job Is Done Before Company Sends Note Refusing Charity. SALEM, Or., May 29. (Special.) A mistake made by the Tigard Improve ment Club has served it In good stead, according to information received to day by the State Railroad Commission. The club several weeks ago asked the Southern Pacific Company to do nate It twrf carloads of gravel for pav ing -the street in front of Its building. The company decided not to grant the request, being of opinion that there is a limit to corporation charity. However, the next day it shipped two carloads of gravel to Tigard for its own use and the management of the club, not having heard from its re quest, took it for granted the gravel was intended for it. When it received a letter from the company notifying it that the gravel would not be sent, the street had been made. The com pany, being informed of the mistake, took a philosophical view of the case and decided to charge the gravel to profit and loss. The Commission gave its consent to the company making the present to the club and informed it that the charges could be canceled. OREGON BOX IS ADOPTED House Committee Favors Standard for Entire United States. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 29. The House committee on coinage, weights and measures to day reported Representative Raker's bill adopting the Oregon apple box as the standard apple-container for the entire United States. The bill provides that an apple box shall be of the fol lowing dimensions: Depth of end, 10 4 inches; width, llhi inches;, length, 18 Inches. All are inside measurements and represent 2173 cubic inches. Boxes not measuring up to the stand ard must be marked "short box." Vio lators of the law are liable to a fine of $1 a box. CITY HEADS GO TO WOODS Commission Leaves Business for Rest in Country at Week-End. For one day Portland has no City Commission. All that is left of it is Commissioner Daly, who is serving practically as the entire city govern ment. Mayor Albee and Commissioner Dieck went to Hood River, Commis sioner Brewster to Eugene and Com missioner Bigelow to Tillamook. They will return by Monday. Before leaving they adopted a reso lution providing for the payment of the salaries and wages of all employes for the holiday. On motion of Com missioner Daly day laborers will be paid for today also. GREAT LINER WHOSE LOSS IN" COLLISION COST NEARLY A THOUSAND LIVES. HER MASTER, AND DIAGRAM MAP SHOWING WHERE r : hw5tiE5',u" , . . . . . N: i I .. - - " I i '! : : ' ' ... ' - - J ; I t, : . . : .w'ii- ..y...-.. . , w . ...... . .x rw.Mwwrw ' ' t ! ; - - : I t ; i . - . - s ''irri-ssK-wi .... - t ii li : ; "V . 1 j STB.IMER KMPRESS OK IRELAND AND CAPTAIN KENDALL ONLY 433 OF 1367 KNQWNTQBESAVED Most of Survivors Are Taken to Quebec. 237 OF CREW ARE SAVED Only 29 in First Cabin and 29 in Second as Fortunate. PASSENGER LIST GIVEN OUT Many Members of Salvation Army Among Victims Thirty-Seven of Survivors Too III to Be Taken From Rimouski. QUEBEC, May 20. A train with 396 survivors from the sunken steamer Empress of Ireland reached here at 8 o'clock tonight. The rescued on board numbered 28 first-class, 29 second-class and 101 third-class passengers and 237 of the crew. Thirty-seven survivors were left at Rimouski, which would make a total of 433 saved. As revised figures show 1367 persons to have been on the steamer, this makes the probable number of lost 934. QUEBEC, May 29. A corrected list of passengers and crew on the Empress of Ireland, issued officially by the Canadian Pacific Railroad gives the total number aboard as 1367, divided as follows: .'-- -i First cabin passengers, 87. Second cabin passengers, 153. Third-lass passengers, 714. Officers and crew, 413. The" following list of survivors, missing and identified dead of the Empress of Ireland Is compiled from all available sources. First Cabin Survivors. Burt, C. It Duncan. J. Fergus, member firm of Kimber, Bull & Duncan, solicitors, Lon don. Fenton, Walter, Manchester. Gosselln, L. A Montreal. Koht, Miss Grace, Montreal. Lee, Miss Alice, Nassau, N. P. O'Hara, H. R., Toronto. O'Hara, Miss Helen, Toronto. Paton, Mrs. V. E.. Sherbrooke, sister of Frederick Grundy, European man ager of New York Sun. First Cabin Missing. Abbott, F. E. Abercrombe, J. R., "Vancouver. Adie, J. P. (Concluded on Page 5.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 76 degrees; minimum, 4S degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northerly . winds. Steamship Disaster. . Proportion of women and children saved from Titanic in sharp contrast. Page 5. Hull of Empress of Ireland called mere shell. Page 4. . -, - - Quebec and Levis care for survivors of the wreck. Pas 1. Collier's action In backing- out of bole causes) many additional deaths. Page 1. Empress of Ireland goes down with 934 with land In sight. Page 1. Only 433 of 1367 known to be saved. Page 1. Mexico. Americans plead for Carranza before media tors. Page 2. Carranza wants admission to mediation con ference. Page 2. Domestic Karluk. Stefansson's flagship, crushed and sunk off Siberian coast. Page 14. Dr. W. T. Elam "not guilty." Page 2. Sports. . . Coast League results Los Angeles 3, Port land 0; Sacramento 14, San Francisco 6; Oakiand U. Venice 0. Page 10. Northwestern League results Seattle 8, Portland 5; Tacoma 6, Victoria 4; Van couver 3, Spokane 1. Page 10. Oregon wins conference track meet. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Commonwealth Conference ends at Eugene. Page 14. Co-eds give dancing pageant at Agricultural College. Page 14. Fund to carry on moral crusade is denied Governor. Page 14, Tigard' s mistake in taking gravel from Southern Pacific gives it good road. Pago L Commercial and Marine. 9 Last of old-wheat crop Is to go abroad. Page 15. May contracts easily settled in Chicago wheat pit. Page 15. Improvement In trade reported in nearly all lines. Page 15. Portland and Vicinity; Statistics show business in Portland for month is as good as in May last year. Page Its. Lift span of Hawthorne bridge stuck high In air. Page 1(3. , Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15. Memorial day plans completed. Page L Marian Hoffman and two girl associates tell of Friars' Club visits. Page 9. 2 DIE IN MILL EXPLOSION Muetzel Plant's Boiler, Near Msvrsh field, Blows Up in Midst of Crew. MARSHF1ELD, Or., May 29. (Spe cial.) The boiler in the small Muetzel sawmill, at Ten-Mile Lake, exploded today shortly berore noon, while the full crew was at work. Isaac Free lund and W. T.- Shaw were instantly killed. The force of the explosion threw one body into the lake near by and it was some time before it was found. Several men employed in the mill escaped Injury. Harley Folby. a young: man handling: lumber near the explosion, received severe burns from steam. The mill is of only 10,000 feet ca pacity and was engaged in sawing dimension lumber for Willamette Pa cific Railway construction work in the Ten-Mile district . Reclamation Suit Decided at Pasco. PASCO. Wash., May 29. (Special.) Judge ivauff man today rendered a de cision In favor of the defendant In the case wherein r..a Tlmmerman was suing the Pasco Reclamation Company to escape liability under a contract for irrigating water under which con tract he agreed to give one-half of his land for a water right for the other half. ACTION POWER WM LIVES .4: Backing of Vessel Lets Water Fill Hold. STORIES OF SURVIVORS TOLD People Shot Into Sea by Ex plosion, Says Passenger. WOMAN SWIMS, BUT DIES Death From Exhaustion Follows Plucky Leap Into Sea and Hour's Battle "With Waves S. O. S. Quickly Picked Tp. QUEBEC, Que., May 29. The story of a' tremendous explosion on board the Empress of Ireland after she was hit by the Storstad was told tonight by Philip Lawler, a steerage passenger from Brantford, Ont. Lawler was on his way to England with his wife and son. ' "People were simply shot out of the ship Into the sea by the explosion," Mr. Lawler said. "I was pushed overboard with my wife and boy. The boy could swim, so I tried to take care of my wife, but she slipped from my grasp and sank." Collier's Backing Disastrous. Dr. Johnston, chief medical officer on the Empress, said that had not the Storstad backed out so soon from the Empress, a large number of the pas sengers would have been saved. He said that when the collier pulled her self free the sea surged into the hole she had torn in tne side of the Empress and the liner quickly sank. Chief Marconi Operator Hayes, of the Empress of Ireland, told of the sinking of the vessel: - j "As soon as I felt the shock," heaid. "I was ordered to sound the danger signal, and the flash of my S. O. S." was immediately picked up by the op erator at Father Point and answered. But I could not talk with him for five njinutes after the impact. My dynamos failed me, and 17 -minutes 'after the collision our boat went down." Woman Dies From Exhaustion. To leap from the deck of the sink ing liner and swim around for nearly an hour in the river and then to fall dead from exhaustion on the deck of the pilot boat Eureka was the fate of an unidentified woman. The noise of the water rushing Into his cabin awakened W. Davis, of Tor- (Concluded on Page 5.) QUEBEC AND LEVIS LAVISH WITH AID WRECK SURVIVORS CARED FOR OX TRAIN'S ARRIVAL,. Transfer of 39 6 Saved From Em press of Ireland Pitiful Sight and Many Are in Hospital. QUEBEC. May 29. A full equipment of ambulances supplied by the City of Quebec by the town of Levis, on the opposite side of the river, and the army medical service corps, was awaiting at Levis when the special survivors' train arrived here tonight. The passengers were immediately . transferred to the ferry steamer, which had been waiting to facilitate the transfer to Quebec. It was a pitiful sight when the ferry steamer Polaris docked on the Quebec side and the 396 men and women saved from the Empress of Ireland trooped falteringly down the gangway. Few of of them possessed a complete outfit of clothes, the majority wearing only shirts, trousers and boots. Heads were bared as the 'injured were brought ashore. The second and thirdfclass passengers and the crew were made comfortable on the Allan liner Alsatian, which was lying at the wharf. The first-class and injured pas sengers were 'transferred In automo biles and other vehicles to the Chateau Frontenac. A. staff of. doctors and nurses took charge of the injured. Among the 25 survivors of. the first cabin there were eight women and one child and, strangely, among the 29 res cued from: the, second cabin there were also eight women and .one child. Of the 101 persons saved from the steerage four were women. Among the passengers left in Rimou ski were several who were so ill or so badly injured that they had to be taken to the hospital. TRIPLE AGREEMENT MADE United States, England and Japan to Inspect Sealing Operations. WASHINGTON. May 29 A.fter a conference with the Japanese Ambassa dor today. Secretary Bryan announced that arrangements had been completed by . the United States, Great Britain and . Japani to dispatch scientific ex peditions to Bering Sea this Summer to inspect operations under the fur seal treaty. The expedition will work on parallel lines, though acting independently. $30,000,000 BONDS SOLD Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail nay Issue Taken by Syndicate. ' NEW YORK, May 29. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Com pany has sold to a banking syndicate 30,000,000 of 4 per cent refunding bonds, which will be offered at public sale next week around 96. These bonds are part of a large Issue authorized by the shareholders some months ago and the proceeds will go toward the payment of maturing obligations. AND HOW DISASTER OCCURRED. HONOR FOR HEROES SHOWN ONCE MORE All Portland Will Bow Its Head in Sorrow. PROGRAMME FOR DAY GIVEN Every Soldier's Grave Is Ob ject of Attention. SAILORS NOT FORGOTTEN Exercises Consist of Services in Lone Fir Cemetery, Lincoln High School and Cruiser Boston, With Parades of Veterans. PROGRAMME FOR MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE. 8:00 A. M. Veterans and friends leave for the various cemeteries to decorate grraves. 9:30 A. M. Details of veterans go to Lone Fir Cemetery to decorate graves. 10:30 A. M. Memorial services at Lone Fif Cemetery. 11:00 A. M. Parade starts from Courthouse en route to cruiser Boa ton. 11:30 A. M. Services for departed sailors on board cruiser Boston. 2:30 P. M. street parade start from Fourth and Main streets. 3:00 P. M. Memorial services at Lincoln High School. All Portland will bow today in sol emn memorial to dead heroes. The air will'be filled with the strains of hymns and martial and patriotic music. Old Glory will float in the breeze at half mast on every flagpole, and veterans of the Nation's wars and others will spread eweet-scented flowers over the graves of the departed In all the ceme teries. While a programme covering the en tire day has been arranged for veteran, military and fraternal organizations, the public--generally - will observe the day by decorating the graves of de- parted friends and relatives. There will be two parades, memorial services for departed sailors and ma rines on the Cruiser Boston in the lower -harbor and patriotic exercises at the Lincoln High School. Progrramaie Starts at 8 A. 51. The programme as arranged starts at 8 o'clock, at which time details from the various posts and camps of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Spanish-American War Veterans' Associa tion, and women's auxiliary organiza tions, will go to the cemeteries with flowers and flags. Each soldier's grave will be carefully decorated with flowers and a small silk American flag placed at the headstone. Not a grave will be forgotten. At 9:30 details from the Grand Army and Women's Relief Corps, headed by pupils of Sunny-side School, will go to Lone Fir Cemetery and decorate the graves there. At 10:30 all will as semble at Lone Fir Cemetery and serv ices will be held at the base of the Soldiers' and. Sailors' monument. Roses Will Be Strewn oa River. At 11 o'clock a parade, participated in by members of the Grand Army, Oregon Naval Militia, Pons of Vet erans and other organizations, will as semble at the Courthouse and form for a parade which will go down Fourth street to Stark and from there to the municipal boatlandlng. Launches will ply from the landing to the cruiser Boston, where services for dead sail ors will be held. . Roses will be spread upon the water in solemn memoriaL At 2 P. M. the main parade of the day will be held. The various divisions, comprising the Oregon National Guard, the Grand Army, Spanish War Vet erans, Oregon Naval Militia, Elks' band, Indian War Veterans and wo men's organizations, will form near the Courthouse at 2 o'clock, and at 2:30 the parade, headed by a platoon of mounted (Concluded on Page 2. ROSE FESTIVAL OREGON I ANS Six Issues, Including Post age, 20 Cents. 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