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Show GAREOFSURVIVORS Pitiful Sight at Quebec When Rescued From Empress Reach City. MANY ARE BADLY INJURED All Ar, Thinly C.othed and Had Suffered Suf-fered From Plunge Into Icy Waters Wa-ters of the St. Lawrence-Few Lawrence-Few Women Saved. Quebec, May 3XA full BQUlpmeg of ambulances supplied by Quebec by tte town of Levis on the oppoa.te side of the river, and the army medical service corps was waiting t Iv when the special surwors of the Em press of Ireland train from I ski arrived and the survivors of the Em press of Ireland were immediately dls embarked and transferred to the ferry steamer, which had been waiting at the special wharf to facilitate the transfer to Quebec. . It was a pitiful sight when the ferry steamer Polaris docked on the Quebec side at 8:30 o'clock Friday night and the 396 men and women survivors, trooped falteringly down the gangway. Victims Show Exhaustion. The faces of all plainly registered the frightful experience they had gone through. Few of them possessed a complete outfit of clothes, the majority wearing onlj shirts, trousers and boots. Heads were bared as the injured were brought ashore, supported by friends and officials of the company. The second and third class passengers passen-gers and the crew were immediately made comfortable on the Allan liner Alsatian, which was lying In an adjoining ad-joining berth at the breakwater. The first class and injured passengers were transferred in automobiles and other vehicles to the Canadian Frontenac. A staff of doctors and nurses took charge of the injured. Twenty Women Are Saved. Among the 25 survivors of the first cabin there were eight women and one child and, strangely, among the 29 rescued res-cued from the second cabin there were also eight women and one child. Of the 101 persons saved from the steerage steer-age four were women. Among the 50 passengers left in Rimouski were a number who were so ill or so badly injured that they had to be taken to the hospital. Special praise was given the herotc work of Dr. James F. Grant of .Victoria, .Vic-toria, B. C ship's surgeon on the Empress. Em-press. To his coolness was credited the saving of a large number of persons per-sons taken out of the water who probably prob-ably would have perished had they not received prompt medical attention. FAMOUS PEOPLE DROWNED ' lll-Fated Liner Carried Men of World-Wide World-Wide Reputation to Ocean Graves, a New York, May 30. Laurence S. B. Irving, who, with his wife, was among the passengers on the Empress of Ireland, Ire-land, was widely known as an actor, author and manager. He received, his J education at Marlborough college, College Col-lege Rollin, Paris, and spent three years In Russia studying for foreign office. His plays are well known. In 1908 and 1909 he presented sketches of his own authorship in England and America, He was a son of the late Sir Henry Irving. Sir Henry Seton-Xarr, one pf the passengers on the Empress of Ireland, was created a knight in 1902, companion compan-ion of St. Michael and St. George in the same year and was deputy lieutenant lieuten-ant in Roxeburghshire. He was born In India on February 5, 1853, and was educated at Harrow and Oxford, taking tak-ing class honors on law in 1876, and becoming a barrister in 1879. He traveled trav-eled widely In this country and was an expert In shooting big game here and in British Columbia and Norway. He was interested in state colonization and was a member of parliament from 1885 to 1896. He published books among them "The Call to Arms," "My Sporting Holidays" and various' sporting sport-ing articles and reviews. He was captain cap-tain of the Royal Wimbledon Golf club In 1895 and 1896, and had a fine collection col-lection of American and Norwegian sporting trophies. His address was Kippilaw, St. Boswell's, N. B. and 47 Chester square, London, Eng. 'He was a member of the Carleton club London, Lon-don, and New club, Edinburgh.' On Way to Marry. Halifax, N. S., May 30. Dr M A Lindsay, one of the passengers on'the ftTr'v,0 lreIand' W3S olog,st at the Victoria general hospital Ha was going to the old country to marry His engagement to Miss Kathleen sec'. ond daughter of Richard Webb of Briarwood, Warwickshire, Enclan?! was announced yesterday, and the marriage was to have taken place l , middle of next month 9 Doctor Lindsay spent his tlrst two 'Zl a StUdy 01 D,ed,c1"8 " the Halifax Medical college. In 1908 he went to Edinburgh and graduated in 1911. He was also professor of path ology at the Dalhousie Medical college He was a brilliant student and a greal athlete. Among the passengers was w. Leon ard Palmer of the London Financial News, who is well known in Halifai. He came to Canada, landing at Hali fax several weeks ago, and was returning re-turning home, accompanied by his wife. Pioneer in Indiana. Terre Haute, Ind., May 30. Geoe C. Richards, who, with Mrs. Richards 1 and Mrs. Charles Gray and the latter's six-year-old daughter, was on the Em press of Ireland, going to visit his old home at Sheffield, England. He was a pioneer coal operator of Indiana. Mr. Gray Is a nephew of Mrs. Richards. Leading Denver Woman. Denver, Colo.,' May 30. Mrs. F. E Dunlevy, a passenger on the ill-fated Empress of Ireland, Is prominent in Denver society. Her husband, to whom she was married seven years ago, is a well-known realty dealer. Mrs. Dun levy left Denver, April 15, and in since visited sisters, brothers and coa-sins coa-sins in Boston, New York, Montreal and Quebec. She was highly accomplished accom-plished and finished her education in Paris. Summer Planned Abroad. Rochester, Minn., May 30. Herman Kruse, former secretary of the Rochester Roches-ter Commercial club, and his daugn, ter, Miss Freda Kruse, a trained -nurse, were among the passengers aboard the Empress of Ireland. With Seinnoldt Boch and Miss Edith Boch, the Kruses left Rochester only 1 few days ago to spend the summer in Europe. Boch Is a retired farmer. Quit Ranch for Home. Santa Barbara, Cal., May 30. Alexander Alex-ander Bonthrone and George Johnstone, John-stone, who were passengers on the Empress of Ireland, left Santa Barbara Bar-bara last Friday for their home at Faulkland, Ftfeshtre, Scotland. They had spent the last year on a ranch near Santa Barbara, Bonthrone was twenty years old, Johnson twenty-two. Mllwaukeeans Aboard. Milwaukee, May 30. Mr. and Mrs-Henry Mrs-Henry Freeman of West AHis were passengers on the Empress of Ireland, on their way to Europe, where Mf-Freeman Mf-Freeman was to conduct some business busi-ness for the Allis-Chalmers company. Mr. Freeman was superintendent ot the forge department of his company during the last 15 years. Ho wss fifty-two years and his wife about fifty-Many fifty-Many From Detroit Detroit, May 30 More than one hundred from Michigan were aboard the Empress of Ireland, rractlcall!' all of those from Dotroit, however, were foreign laborers returning to their homes in various parts of E"' rope. It wus stated hero today that Charles R. Clark, London manager for a local automobile company, ws3 aboard the vessel when it went do0-It do0-It is not known here whether he survived. sur-vived. Girls on Way Home. . Illllsboro, 111, May SO. Miss Florence Flor-ence llawden and Miss Bessie HawdVn. who wore passengers on the stoanu'r Empress of Ireland, loft here last Monday Mon-day for Quebec to take the steam'-They steam'-They were bound for their home l liridgowuter, Somerset, Knghuid. |