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Show ANDERSEN DENIES CHARGE. Says Engines Were Stopped When Fatal Collision Occurred. Montreal. The other side of the story of the collision in the St. Lawrence Law-rence river last Friday morning between be-tween the Canadian Pacific liner Em-press Em-press of Ireland and the Norwegian collier Storstad, which resulted in the sinking of the liner with the loss of more than nine hundred lives, was told Sunday night. The master of the Storstad denies the charge that he was responsible for the disaster. According to the statement of Captain Cap-tain Andersen of the Storstad, when the Empress of Ireland was sighted and fog shortly afterw.ird enveloped both vessels, fog signals were exchanged ex-changed and the Storstad's engines were stopped. When she lost sigh, of the Empress in the river mists, the latter's course had been set so thai the vessels would pass each other safely. The Storstad's course remained remain-ed unaltered, the statement adds, but when the Empress of Ireland was next seen she was close at hand on the port bow of the collier 'and was making considerable headway." It is declared that the Storstad's engines en-gines were at once reversed and that her momentum was nearly checked vi hen the vessels came together. |