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Show PITIABLE SCENES AT LONDON OFFICE LONDON. Mftv 30. A number of pa t.ntH -who ha' booked bert hs on trans -Atlantic steamers sailing today, canceled thpir trips at, the last, moment as the result of the accident to the Km- j press of Ireland. i The British public, which went home , last night believing that the greater j part ot the passengers on board the j Empress of Ireland had survived the : disaster in the St. Lawrence, was i shocked this morning to learn that the loss of life exceeded 1000, aud that many of the victims were from the United Kingdom. King George, early in the morning, sent a messenger to the Kuropeau man- ! ager of the anadian Pacific railway, j expressing his sorrow at the disaster and the great loss of life. j John Burns, president of the local government board, was one of the first j callers at tthe London offices of the company to ask for the latest news, i The lord mayor of London, on learning the extent of the disrv.ter, derided to 1 open a fund toward the relief of the ; widows and orphans of tho?e of the i passengers and crew who had been lo.-d. ! Great crowds besieged the London j and Liverpool offices of the com pa and anxiously scanned the lists of the i rescued. j There were many pitiable scenes when women and men who had waited i throughout the night in the hope of I hearing that friends and relatives were j safe, could not find their names on the , lists, and turned away in despair only ' to return when further bulletins were : posted. '. |