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THE EMPRESS DISASTER.

EVIDENCE AT THE COURT OF

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The following reports are taken from Canadian papers--

MONTREAL, June 16th.

The Quebce Royal Commission to in quire into the Empress of Ireland disaster oponed this inorning. The celerity of Lord Merecy's methods set the legal representatives gasping. He swept away nil obstacles to an immediate commence ment, and Mr. E. L. Newcombe, K.O., opened the proceedings with a long review of the circumstances of the disaster. The Canadian Pacific Company filed the pre- sentation of their case and the Storstad owners made a vorbal statement of their contentions; then Lord Mersey naked for witnesses and Captain Kendall was called. The proceedings were businesslike and lacking in dramatic moments in the main.

Mr. Butler Aspinall, counsel for the Canadian Pacific, took Captain Kendall over the ground. The witness said that he passed through several light fog banks while proceeding down the rivor, always slowing down to half-speed. After drop- ping the pilot, one mile north of Father.

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clear weather, Captain-Kendall, First Officer Jones, Third Officer Moore, the two quartermasters, and one boy were on the bridge. He followed the usual course of outward bound vessels.

He first sighted the Storstad six miles away three or four points on the Empress of Ireland a starboard bow. He intended. to pass her on the starboard bow; there was no danger of collision then. He. noticed fog coming off the south shore, and the Storstad's lights got misty. He stopped his ship and ran full speed astern in order to take the way off, blowing three short blasts.....

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Then he lost the Starston's lights and blow another three short blasts. The last -of-the-Storstad's lights he saw were two masthead lights and her green light one point on the starboard bow. The

only thing which could have brought the Storstad into the Empress of Ireland's course would have been if she had ported her helm. Captain Kendall continued:-

COURSE OF THE TWO SHIPA,

"I heard a prolonged blast from the Storstad, meaning she was under way, four points on the starboard bow, which would have given safe passage. I blow two long blasts to let the Storstad know that I was stopping. I got one blast from her. Then I gave two more, but received no reply. I got three whistles. The third was about six points on my etar- board bow. After blowing two blasts a second time and looking out where the sound came from, I sighted his forward masthead light and his green and rod sidelights. He was about 100ft. away bearing at right angles to my course and going fast, as the foam at the ship's bow showed.

"I saw that a collision was unavoidable, I megaphoned to the master of the Storstad to go full-speed ahead and order ed my helm hard-a-port, the ides being to save a collision if possible by bringing the vessels starboard to starboard and to minimize the deadliness of the blow. It took only a few seconds to carry out my orders.

CAPTAIN'S LAST ORDERS. "Just before the collision the Storstad gave three short blasts, the third as the boats came together. The Empress of Ireland was hit in a line between the two funnels at a seven points angle right an the bulkhead, making the two bulk heads one.

Just before I saw that a collision was inevitable I ordered the first

officer to prepare the boats and told the

Storstad through the megaphone to go full speed ahead. But the vessels separated because the Storstad engine was working full speed astern, The moment the collier came out of the hole the Empress of Ireland heeled immediately to starboard. I ordered the bulkhead doors to be closed, ran along the boat deck on the starboard side and threw off the boat grips, Ampl

"When the Empress of Ireland heeled over I ordered full speed ahead and shouted to the engine-room to give her all that was possible as I was trying to beach the ship. I was told that the steam had gono. I could have beached her in a short time if the steam had held out. I then blew the siren and a signal to abandon the ship was posted up all over the ship. Then ordered the wireless 8.0.8 signal to be sent out and was. informed that this had already been done.

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the Empress nearer to the storstad. Replying to Lord Mersey, Captain Kendall stated that sheets of flame shot from the Empress when the Storstad struck her....

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A long argument was addressed to the owners, with the object of showing that Court by Mr. Haigh, counsel for the the Storstad was going slow in the fog Captain Kendall declared that the Storstad rebounded immediately that this was impossible with a ship striking the Empress. Mr. Haigh declared weighing 18,000 tons going at 10 knots, but Captain Kendall persisted in his declara- tion. The reason he stopped his engines and went astern was because the vessel. had probably gone a mile in the fog. He thought it safer to go astern. There had been a boat drill in port before the Empress of Ireland left Quebec. The Bremen and stewards were trained in handling collapsible boats.

THE COLLIER'S CHIEF OFFICER.

Chief Officer Taftones, of the Storstad, under examination testined that the Empress of Ireland blew a single blast before the fog enveloped her. He slowed the Storstad engines and then blew a long blast. The Storstad stopped two minutes after slowing up. When next he saw the Empress of Ireland she was moving fast towards the Storstad. The Storstud's engines were immediately put full speed astern. The orders were given by the Captain of the Storstol and him- self. After the collision he heard a hail from the Empreas, "Don't go astern." The Captain replied, "I am going full speed ahead." He agreed with Captain Kendall regarding the relative positions of the vessels when they struck.

THE CASE FOR THE “STORSTAD.”

QUEBEC, June 16th..

The written statement put in to-day by of the Storstad was us

"I saw three boats lowered. The boat the owners. deck was swarming with passengers. The follows

The Storstad was running on time Empress heeled over finally with a jerk churter. She was on her way to Montreal and went right over on the starboard side, with 10,800 tons of coal and was abreast both funnels striking the water together,

"I was thrown into the water. I of Metis Point at 1.30a.m. Montreal time, grasped a grating and was saved by one 2.30 am Sydney time. When abreast of of the Empress boats. I superintended Metis Point she was four miles off shore the work of rescue, and with a boat full-

and her course was then laid west by a and people hanging on to ropes thrown quarter south magnetic. The tide had ✪ echo side reativa" tile feritud.

been low water at 19 o'clock, and would I went up on the bridge continued have been high at 4 in the morning. By the captain slowly. He paused; Mr. patent log we ran six knots and then ran Aspinall said, "Wait a moment. I don't west by a half south for five knots. Shortly

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Captain Kendall," I wish to give an account.

"The course was then changed to weat by south and then the mast lights of the

bow, she then being six or seven knot off.

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know whether the Court wants to hear after this the log was taken in as not south, when the whistles of the Empress heard a hail from the Empress of Ireland being necessary, was of freland were heard again. The mate in charge of the Storstad put the wheel to port while the ship slowed up. The wheel was put hard to port, and when she did steaming up sufficiently. Two long blasts not answer it assistance was given by

were given to indicate that the vessel had the engine-room was ordered to go slow loat steerage way, and about the same time shead so that the vessel should not become

Lord Mersey That may be, but it may be irrelevant." The Storstad owners had no objection to Captain Kendall's making a statement, and he continued:

I went on the Storstad's bridge and said, "Are you the captain!" He said, "Yes." I said, "You sank my ship; you were going full speed ahead in that fog." He said, No; you were going full speed stead The pilot said that I had better go down befow. I went below.

CROSS-EXAMINATION

Empress of Ireland were seen on the port About six or seven minutes after seeing

her mast-head light we saw that her coloured light was green; then we saw a change in her course; her range lights came together and she showed red and gren, then the green faded and the our remained. After from two to four miuujes, log shut her out, but the red was still showing. Then the Empress of

unmanageable.

The captain, who had gone below, was called up by the mate. He asked, Can

came together. The master of the Storstud telling him to keep going ahead. He had ordered this, but found he could not keep the collier's nose in the Empress of swung round until she was parallel with Treland's wound, The Storstad was the liner, and the master of the collier was afraid his ship would be struck on the port side by the starboard quarter of the Empress of Ireland,

He had to swing round in a complete Ireland disappeared. The Storatul blew

circle and in the meantime the Empress of

Ireland blew a signal on one whistle. We you see Father Point 7 The mate said,signals to the liner, but it didn't answer.

noticed her in the fog about two minutes At the afternoon session, during oross afterwards. The fog shut her out and we examination by Mr. Haigh, Captain slowed down. The fog shat us in and we Kendall admitted that when he first saw | stopped. Then there was a second the Storstad the Empress was showing exchange of long blasts between the two her atarboard light to the Storstud's port.ships and a little later we heard three Under the rales of navigation the Empress whistles blown by the Empress of Ireland. was required to give way and the Storsted Te that we blew one long whistle in reply was required to keep on her course. The Lord Mersey-Meaning what is Storstad was on a crossing course. ⠀⠀ He admitted, in reply to Lord Mersey, that when he altered his course that brought

We are under way, keeping our course." We were still heading west by

It has just been shut out by the fog." He made no mention of the Empress of Freland, He called the captain because he had asked to be called if it got foggy-

THE COLLISION

When the captain got on deck he saw the mast lights of the press of Ireland three points to port and immediately ordered full steam astera, The vessels were then about 800ft, apart. A green light then appeared on the Empress of Ireland Three minutes later the vessels)

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About 10 minutes afterwards the master of the Storstad heard a chorus of cries his four boats ready for launching The Storstads bonts saved several hundredi of the Empress of freland's survivors and entirely manned one of the Empress of Ireland's boats ou its trip back, to the scene of the wreck and another boat partially.

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