Empress Of Ireland

LONDON, May 29, 1914 (UP)-The offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company here today were besieged by crowds of weeping mean and women, relatives and friends of the crew of the Empress of Ireland, reported sunk with 800 off Father Point.

QUEBEC, May 29, 1914 (UP) - The big Canadian Pacific Transatlantic liner Empress of Ireland was sunk early today in collision with the liner Storstadt, a much smaller vessel, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

QUEBEC, June 1, 1914 (UP) -- Stretched in three rows in a low ceiling pier shed here today were 186 black, brown and white pine coffins containing 188 bodies, less than one-fifth of the victims of the collision between the Empress of Ireland and the collier Storstad. The total death list is now figured at 1,032.

MONTREAL, June 1, 1914 (UP) -- Government investigation of the loss of 1,032 lives when the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland was rammed and sunk by the collier Storstad started here today.

MONTREAL, June 2, 1914 (UP)-Plans are being laid to blow up the sunken hulk of the shipwrecked liner Empress of Ireland to recover hundreds of bodies of victims who went down with the vessel and $ 1,000,000 in silver bullion in its hold.

MONTREAL, June 3, 1914 (UP) -- Whether the sunken liner Empress of Ireland, in which it is now officially declared 1,024 lives were lost, is to be raised from the bottom of the St. Lawrence to recover the hundreds of bodies in her hull, or whether she will be dynamited to pieces is expected to be decided today at a conference here of government officials and representatives of Lloyds.

MONTREAL, June 4, 1914 (UP)-Buried with Laurence Irving, the famous English actor, in the shattered hull of the Empress of Ireland, is the manuscript of a play which Irving believed would make him great, according to A.S. English, representative here of the Canadian-British Theatrical Society who returned today from an unsuccessful search for Irving's body where the Empress went down.