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s BY QUEENS "FP. Godson, A Survivor Of Empress Of oa Disaster, ~ Says Exit Door . Was Locked. He Claims There Were Only Thee Life Bet On The Port Side---Boats That Would Have Helped Could Not Be Released---Others Ship Only Toronto, Jume 1.--Charges of a most serious character were made by F. P. Godson, of Kingston, ome of the survivors, who arrived in To- ronto last night, when interviewed at the Queen's hotel. His charges are: That many second and third class Passengers were barred from access tw the deck because of the door lead- ing to the exit being locked. 1though efforts were made by the imprisoned passengers to break down the barrier they died like rats in a trap. Although he took two trips to his first cabin stateroom in search of life belts nome were to be found there, and the same was probably the case in most of the other staterooms. Pven though he was one of the first to arrive on the promenade deck, there were only three life preservers on the port side. That these life preservers were fas tened with binder twine, and that it was only with the utmost difficulty were they loosened. That the crew were the only ones who knew the location of the life helt and that they secured them for them- solves. i ¥ew Boats Launched. That the life boats, no matter in what position they struck the water, i mot sink, but owing to no fa for cuttin ini s being they pi p they would have aff a fo which the ® Srading passengers could have chung Yife boats left the ed before taking on a capacity load, leaving scores of struggling beings behind, he himself being picked up by one three quarters of a mile from the scene less than half filled and hurrying way to the BStorstadt. rc His story follows : ~ "About 2.05 am. 1 wad "awakened hy the shook of the collision. Real izing that thing serious had oc- curred 1 righ out of my stiite room, No. 21, clad only in my pa- jamas, and hurried on to the deck and I saw plainly a boat to a- - # the stern, which afterwards proved to he the Storstadt. Although there was a slight fog 1 could easily discern its outline about a hundred yards away. No Life Belts. "The Empress started to list and 1 then presumed that a calamity bad happened and hurried back to my stateroom and searched for a lifesbelt. But search as IT would, there was none to be found. Mak- ing my way to the deck again passengers were frantically looking for life preservers I happened to come across one on the port side, which 1 placed around a woman and started to look for more. I saw a man cutting the binder twine which fastened a life preserver but not having a knife mysel? found very dificult to dislodge the second belt I secured, which 1 [fasiened round myself. "About twenty others and myself attempted to lower two of the boats on the port side but without suc- cess. One poor chap was cought be- DAILY MEMORANDA Division Court, § am, Tuesday tor Bee top of Rage 3, right hand corner. Dike of Connaught arrives by 6. T i, 3 pam. Tuesday. Golden Lion Young Liberals meet, # rooms, 8 pan. * biock > Reducing the Rent n Mr. Siotekeeper, did you ev- er figure out that you can uti- lize advertising to reduce your ~ fixed charge for remt? How? By the very greatly increas. od business it will bring you. Just te your advertising cost as part of the rent and' figure your new percentage on the greater volume, If it does not work out yous have not given the public what they want. . The results of advertising in a gobd newspaper like satin certain as anything u Xi have voiced your properly, S it4 Went Avay From The Half Full. ~ tween a boat und the deck railing and killed, "The listing..of the ship 'made it very difficult for one to make head- way along the decks, and one wom- an could not climb the steep 'com- panionway, even with her daugh- ter's assistance, Hearing their fran- tic cries 1 rushed to her help and managed to drag the aged woman to the deck, but never saw her again. "When the boat was seven-eights sunk I anticipated that the bolle would explode and dived from the ship's side and struck out through the icy water. The temperature of the water was about 30 degrees or practically at the frzing point. "When 1 thought 1 was sufficiently far away from the boat I looked around and at that moment saw the liner break in two. She doubled up in the centre and seemed to split. Thrown Into Water, "About five seconds later a térrific explosion occurred when the water reached the boilers. A mass of strug- gling humanity was thrown in the wa- ter, together with trunks, hand bags and debris of all kinds. "There was a certain amount of sus tion, even the distance away that { had reached, and there must have been a great number closer to the sunken ship, who were drawn under. | was about fifty yards sway at this time. "1 seized a plank, but reali hat, it erould be Lid of ha tion when others clustered about me, I'let go and swam in the direction of the Storstadt, about a mile distant, After swimming three- "quarters of a mile or so I hailed a passing lifeboat and was (aken on hoard, where 1 found a few others. - In fact, the boat was not half filled. In spite of this the lifeboat left the spot svhere many were struggling in the water and pro ceeded to the Storstadt! Had No Shelter. "It was a heart-rending board the Storstadt. on -the deck with broken heads and limbs, and the lack of clothing and blankets on board the collier added to the suffering of the rescued. Men, wo- men and children were forced to wait shivering for hours with practically nothing on their bodies t except the water-soaked night clothes." Mr. Godson, who was born in Wilt shire, England, is a graduate of Cam bridge University, and is taking a course in mining "at Queen's Univer sity, Kingston. He stated that he had erossed the Atlantic five times and had started a round-the-world trip on the ill-fated Empress of lve land, scene on Many were lying GOES TO REPORT. Cover Much of the Journey Canoe. June 1.--C. DD. Melville). investigate for the federal gayernment the fisheries on the east shore of James Bay, leaves here on Wednesday. He will go by the T. & N. O.7and Transcontinental to the Missanabie river and then by . canoe to James Bay. His investigations will extend as far north as Cape Jones. EMPRESS CANNOT BE RAISED SAYS EXPERT Commander Tweedie Of H. M. §. Essex Thinks Dynamite Will Have To Be Used Quebec, June 1 --Uommander Twee | hie, of HM.8. Essex, is of the opin ton that the Empress of Irel: dd is be yond all hope of salvage. This opin- ion is, of course, ba on conjecture from a description of damage done to the liner by the collier. He thinks that 'the hull will have to be blown up by dynamite so that it may not become a danger to navigation. The divers of Essex have been offered to the Canadian Pacific officials if their services are required n Ottawa, who will Sad To Try to Raise Her. Quebec, June 1.---It is probable that the Empress of Ireland will raised that the bodies mow held in' tr cabins may be given decent burial, and two million dollars worth of Cobalt silver such as is held in her strong room, recovered along with ates. things Th the pod] pin may ve It is understood Now York srt have airimdy oH. "boat race riding, shifted, TWELVE Y EAR OLD OLD BOY Saves Man of ous Pounds Weight at Cornwall Cornwall, June 1.--An act showed great presence of mind performed. when Captain Giroux, the tug Morgan, belonging to Cohen's fleet, was rescued drowning" by" a twelve-year-old a'son of William Rice. Captain Morgan was engaged cleaning up the tug when the hose burst and he fell' into' the water. Earl Ries, who was standing nearhy, threw the captain a rope, but he could mot catch it. Then as he was going down the second time the boy found a board which he threw into the water. Morgan grabbed it and with the asyistonce of Ride he was brought to the shore exhausted. A particularly : interesting feature in connection with the rescue isthe fact that Captain Giroux weighed 228 pounds. which was of from boy, n SCORES MADE SATURDAY By Members of the Kingston Rifle Association. Owing to the riflle ranges under repair, only a few marksmen shot on Saturday. The following geores were made: J. J. Barrett, 98; Barrett, 93; F. J. Cold W. Knight, 90; H. Milton, Baker, 88; Rev. A. Cooke, Cuthbertson, 83. The' association members will be on the ranges next Saturday, 6th June, 16 practise for the Canadian Rifle I.eague and Dominion Salvor competition. Buases will leave the being 90; A. C. 0; 84; armouries at 1.30 p.m. for the ran- IRVING IN BENTH TRUE T0 HS IDEALS End in Tragic Harmony With Being, Said Sir Herbert Tree -- Touch- s o ing Tribute honden, June 2. Sif Herbert Tree paid a strikingly to tribute to | the fate Laurence Irvig's death at the ¢lose of Saturday night's per- formance at His Majesty®s theatre "We actors," he said, 'were proud of Irving in life and no less proud: of him in death, There was always something fateful about his person- ality, and one somehow feels his end is in tragic havimony with his being. Irving was an idealigt, and was fear less of standing by his ideals in any company, which is saying much of any man As, an actor he had already attained to "great height, his most notable achievement being perhaps his most réeent in "Typhoon.' His work, like the man himself, was al- ways original." Irving's Body Found Quebec City, June 1.--It firmed this afternoon that the body of Lawrence Irving, the distinguish. od 'actor. has been found on the shore near Rimouski. In his hand clenched part of a woman's night dress, in- dicating that he died in an ineffoct ual attest to save his wife is cons Courses of Motor Hoat Races. The course for the "open" on Wednesday will be as follows : Start from the Yacht Club around the pas buoy at pe nitentiary, aroun] the Miles shoal buoy, around motor the outer water works buoy, arqund the inner water works buoy vacht: club house buoy: three wround all buoys to port. The course for the other raves, will be : Starting" from the yacht club buoy, around the "inner water works buoy, around the outer water works buoy, around the Miles shoal huoy, to the wvachi club buoy. Handicap race twice and the other two races once around. All byoys to star- board. to the times pining Motor Boat Prize . The prizes for the third of June motor boat races are on view in a ' window. There are in all seven cups and a beautiful golf bag. The bag is the second prize for the ten-mile open race. The different rae os will be Two-mile race for all boats powered with single cylinder engines (for local boats only); two mile race fdr all boats powered with two-evlinder ines (for local ats only): four mile race, handicap, for any boat that runs better than fif- teen miles (for local boats only); ten mile race, open to all. Received Bad Shaking Up. © Rert Shane, groom of Lieut. A, Stroud, received a bad shaking up while on the trip to Pelewawa camp on Friday. By some means the car in which Shane and the horse were in so doing throw, ing the age which was st one icy the car, on top of Shane and the animal. -------------- The School Cadets. : The members of the cadet corps of the Kingston Collegiate Institute wilt hold a dress parade at the school this altatiioun at four o'clock. "The 'cadet corps of the uty in that {rude to Maedeuali Park, v alternoon, to ke part in vo ay 0 tion to the ke of Counsughs. Me PITH OF THE NEWS Tidings Told in Terse Measure For Busy Readers. Cheese sales : Belleville, 120; Corn- wall, Ld 3-16¢c. to 12}e,; i Hie. to 12¢ On cnday; June 9th, the conserva- tive convention for Fast Hastings will be held at Roslin, Hon J. S. Hendrie and Allan Stud- holme are likely to be unopposed for the Hamilton seals. The Toronto goumeil will vote a money grant for the" assistance of all Toronto people widowed or orphaned by the Empress disaster Commissioner McKie of the Salva- tion Army, who left on the Aquitania on Saturday, will undertake the per- manent command in Canada Eleven coal miflers were killed and a number of others injured yester- day by an sxplgtion gas in the Silkstone colljergiat Wharncliffe. © Marley Donaldson, ¥ite-president and general manager Hf the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, hs peturned from a trip over the line a§% far as Prince George. He expfesses. great satisfac- tion with the "goneral conditions throughout the country. . THE STORSTADT HAS BEEN SEIZED FOR DAMAGES I'he latest official report of the Empress of Ireland wreck is 103 sav ed and 937 lost. The collier Storstadt was seized by the authorities of Montreal on claim for damages, by the C.P.R. The cruiser Essex escorts the func ral ship to Quebec 8t the personal request of King George. Heartbreaking identification city. scegps a oad the Quebec of Capt. Kendall, at the Rimotiski, blamed the ausing the collision. inquest at Storstadt for A sister ship of the Storstadt went aground near Father Point. The Norwegian authorities have re an impartial tribunal has heard all the evidence. _-- } Stories = of survivors at Toronto indicate that no man Jisgraced him self when the Moo Frave thelr lives ore oY po live. The official éuduiry by the gov- ernment will start this afternoon at Montreal. dreodesiesb dodo deboded de dodo dodedoded -* oe * SEVEN MILES DISTANT Father Point, June 1, It was demonstrated by aect- # ual measurement this morn- ing that the wreck was just seven miles from this point and three and a half miles from shore The Empress now lies on her side .in twenty fathoms of water with ten fathoms on top of her. Both she and the Storstadt were in the usual course when the collision occurred. oe oo + 3 * & + * * * * + PRE r Ere p debe db * + raededeioirdedoirdedolob dri dob dododododdodobo Tendered a Luncheon. The semior fourth ciass of Louise school served a lmoheon at noon on Monday to the members of the teach- ing staff, in the domestic science rooms. The pupils had menu cards prepared and the teachers in attend- ance ween greatly pleased with the able manner in which the pupils con- ducted the aflair. Acted as Chaplain. Rev. A. E. Smart acted as. chap lain on the steamer Empress of Ire- land when be . was retuming. . from visiting: his home in the old land three years ago. E Quebec, Jung 1.--From the stories of the survivors of the sunken Em- press of Ireland brought here, it is now possible to get a fairly accurate idea of the great marine horror, The outstanding points to be noted were summarized as the collision between the Empress and collier AStorstadt took place in a fog. The oncoming Storstad was seen who had pulled up his vessel. answered. The Storstadt slackened speed, but too late to avoid the liner, just be« ginning to go astern. Owing took immediately after the accident, and the repidity . with which she sank, only two lifeboats could be launched. Most of {he first and 'second cabin passengers were caught in their cabins by the rush of water. A boiler explosion occurred which Sounded niany. of the sailors and quested that no blame be placed till | vy Captain Kendall, of the Empress, A sigpal from the Empress was to the heavy list the liner ROWELD NOMINATED. For North Oxford by Woodstock. Woodstock, Juge 1.-Newton W. Rowell, K.C,, leader of the opposition in the provincial house, received the nomination for the riding of North Oxford, here, Saturday afternoon. Mr. Rowell's name was "the only one placed in nomination, and a conven- tion attended by 277 liberal delegates gave him an enthusiastic reception." EK. W. Nesbitt, M.P., was nominated for the dominion house, Liberals, at in East Middlesex : London, Ont., June 1.----East Middle- sex conservatives, Saturday afternoon, renominated the present member, John MacFarlane, for the legislature, while the liberals once more put up Jobn Laidlaw, who was - MacFarlane's op- ponent at the bye-election. Both nominations were nade unanimous To Came to River. Clayton, NY.) June 1.--Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Vandergrift of Pittsburgh will spend the summer at their sum- mer home on leng Rock Island. The boats are being fitted out, the electric. lighting system "is being ov- erhauled, and the cottage = made ready. The Barker House, and Huginin streets, has been ren- ted to Mrs. Blake, of New York. She will 'come to Clayton early in June, with her two sons and her servants. Mrs. Blake was a yearly visitor at the Frontenac, and a great admirer of the Thousand She~-has alto rented Capt. Wilson's launch, Spray, summer. corner of John Gordon for the Funeral on Saturday. The funeral of. the late Frederick! Thompson, aged seventeen, Robert Thompson, 262 Earl street, took place from his father's residence on Saturday afternoon to __ St George' s cathedral. Deceased had ! been a member of the choir for eleven years, and his sweet singing' will be greatly missed by many. The beautiful floral tribute, showed the esteem in which he was held by all who knew him DECLARES THE EMPRESS KEPT RUNNING AWAY Tae Strange Story Told By The Wife Of The Starstadt "AMoygtreat, June. k: sides of every story. ost Empress survivors condemn the col lier Storstadt for causing the dis- aster but there is the other side. Mrs. Anderson, wife of the Captain of the Storstadt, was aboard with her husband who was on 'the bridge when the collision came, and she: was in their cabin. She says: "I saw the Empress lying across our bows. I thought we" were gO- ing doyn. I said to my husband, 'I suppose we are going down." He | said. 'it wight be.' He told me 'to just take things easy and not to cry. I sald to my husband: 'My place is here on the bridge; let us go down with the ship ° together.' We tried to keep Storstadt "beside the other liner. We thought she wag not badly hurt, and that she could save us. We thought If we could stay side by ride it would be etter but the other liner képt run- ning away. You wouldn't believe how fast we went. dark and quiet." Picton Market and Cheese Board Picton, June 1.--Very small supplies of meats were ofiéred at the market Saturday morning. Beef sold at Idec. ta 16c.; veal, le. to 18¢c.; pork. 16¢.; chickens, 60c. to R5¢. each. Butter and eggs were in fairly plentiful ' sup- plies. Butter sold at 25c. a pound; eggs, 20c. to 22. a dozen; rhubarb, onions, radishes and lettuce, threo bunches for 10c.; whitefish, 12¢.; young pigs, #8 a pair. At the P#ton cheese Friday, 1415-- colored boarded and all sold buyers were Messrs. Sprague and ---- hohrd, cheese at 12}e Publow, on were The Cook, OUTSTANDING FEATURES OF THE GREAT TRAGEDY Empress, and there was delay in low- ering her boats. Hundreds of women lives by stopping to dress. While the crew represent & major- lost their tion of the British traditional hero- lsm of sailors, many sacrificing their lives after putting people in the boats, and many being picked out he water in which they had swam Ed Angther reason for the saving of so many of the crew wa# the fact that they were on duty and on deck 'when the ship went down. The actual number of lost is 910, and the saved 477. With the Empress went $1,000,- England from Cobalt. Prepafations were being made to- day in government sheds at the dock for the accommodation of the 300 déad the Lady is expected to Lbring in. All the undertakers in the district have been em by railway autho Islands. | ; | terpretation of singals, Then it was all ity of the saved, there was no violas 000 in bars of silver, shipped to INTO LOSS OF Opened By Commissioner Lin : say In Montreal STORSTADT'S CAPTAIN HAS ALL His CREW BACK HIM UP. While Capt. Kendall, Who Blames Capt. Anderson Has No Support, As His Navigation Officers Went Déwn With the Ship. Montreal, June 1.--Wreck com- misstener Lindsay to-day opened the preliminary enquiry into the sink- ing _of the SS. Empress of Ireland Later ic will be taken up by the | judges of the Admiralty court to the minister of justice and the depart- ment of marine bave ordered that no effoft is to be spared to make en- quiry and trial most complete in or- der to definitely fix the responsibili- ty for Canada's greatest marine dis- aster. > This morning, officers of tive col- lier Storstadt gave interviews In which they support strongly their jcaptain's claim that he did his ut- | most to avoid the accident, and {when the accident came risked ev- !erything to save the Empress pas- TO Experienced marine men here be- lieve that the question of responst- i bility will Frevolve around the misin- In this con~ | nection, it is pointed out that Cap- tain Kendall had practically only his lection to bear out his conten- Hay {wheelsmen, the ships records many seamen of the | down with the ship. On the other hand Capt. Anderson of the Stors- {tadt has his entire crew with his {ship's records ® back him up. | Quebec, June Now that the first shock of the WEL, calamity is over, | the bitterness of public feeling grows with every turn. There is a growing demand for the punishment of some- jone. Rage smoulders in the eves of those who leave the Charnel house door after ¥ innocents there in and. watch went « hove, says that the body of tonite Trving has been found in is nity of Rimouski, but it cannot be } confined here. Pathetic Scenes at Toronto. Toronto, June 1.--Touches of | Pathos j were added to the Empress tragedy to-day when, in dozens of bereaved | homes in Toronto and other parts of Ontario, there arrived letters and pie- | ture posteards from loved ongs who have now gone to the bottom of the sea bhis mail was taken off at Ri- | mouski lust a few minutes before the crash came. One treasured momento here is a postcard from "Teddy" Grey, the artist, whose 'sketches have been published in many Ontario papers. 1t is a umique posteard with the signa- ture of Commissioner Rees, Col. Maid- ment, and all prominent Salvationists jon the ship, the last signatures they penned. : Oapt. Kendall Still Dazed. Montreal, Jume 1. apt. Kendall of the ill-fated Fan . { . press, was seen | this morning at Place Viger, where he is staying. Despite a day' 8 quiet- ness and rest his face still is hag- gard, and 'he goes about the ro- tunda like a man in a dream. His eyes are Very red, as from continuous sorrow, and, his cheeks are drawn and white. "To reporters, as well as to others, he is very courteous, Hit his friends about him form a body guard against all questioming. His only statement is 'I regret that I can say nothing for the Present.' Continue Search for Bodies. Rimouski, Que., June |.--The boats of the cruiser Kssex this morning continued the search for Lodies from rhe wrecked Empress. Thirteen were vicked up yesterday. Bubbles con: tinue to come up from the position where the vessel went down. It is a beautifal day at the spot' where there is so much tragedy. The Kalser's Sorrow. Ottawa, June 1.-Sympathy from Emperor William of Gerfniny ~~ was conveyed this morning to his royal highness the govermor-gemeral on he: half of the Canadian people. The kai- cabled : "I was deeply shocked . the fearful accident which befell the Empress of Ireland. I hasten to express to you my deepest sympathy with the bereaved families." Signed, "William R.LY Royalty Contributes. London, Eng. June 1--The king and queen and Prince of Wales have cootributed four thousand dollars to the fund opened by thetlord may- or of London for the widows and orphans made by the Empress Jis- aster. ; Harrison Looks for Victory. When T. F. Harrison was loaving W. W. D. Black, M.P.P., Parham, after v., Mr. Harrison + "1 will not say I will see you in Toronto." ---- All his navigation officers and On i > Feit, arms . Ranson dik VICE-RBGAL PARTY DRIVE enki The Route Autos Will Take on ow © 7 ving Macdonald Park. Arrangements for the drive for the vice-regal party alter leaving Mi: donald park on Tuesday Aner has been arranged. The not stop at any place along After leaving, Macdonald ed autos will proceed out King street | Rockwood hospital, returning" Barrie street, to Stuart 8! through Queen's university gro to University avenue, Union street is Barrie, Park avenue to Earl, ham to Brock, to Barrie to Johnson, King to market street to Ontario and thence to the Royal Military college: 4 - Had Narrow Escape. "Bobby" Om had a narrow from being drowned Saturday. was crossing from the steamer North King to the steamer Newboy, at the foot of Princess street when the plank he was walking on slipped and he was dumped into the water. Help, however was close at hand, and .n answer to his calls he was soon pull- ed out. He is now none the Wordo off for his early plunge. Gordon Stokes has been apopinted chief engineer of the steain-barge Jeska. John Roberts, the well-known carter, had his hand badly jammed between his cart and the car from which he was unloading: brick Sat- urday. The schooner J. B. Kitchen is 10Ad- ing fence wire at Richardson's for Charlotte. W. Dunigan late engineer of the steamer Caspian, has taken that po- sition on "the steamer Rapids King. HARD TO IDENTIFY SOME OF THE BODIES Public Faneral OF Unidentified Will Be Defemed As Long hs. , Io dana Quebec, June 1.--Thig morvings train brought serrowin friends to aid in the | bodies public ris 0 . rains will, of course, bo ¢ long" as possible. eon i held without much ter ever. The work of ident Ln proceeding steadily, but = slowly. N appears to be exceedingly diffienlt for survivors to recoghiZe even bi nearest to them. H. W. Willis-O'Connor and party, who have been visiting C, Birming- ham, Barrie street, for the last two weeks, returned to Ottawa in their auto. The tourist traffic is beginning tficrease with the better Conditions of the roads. White Rose four Pleases a most * tious, ---- a Ty - ING CITY STORES Buckuell's News Depot ..208 Clarke, J, W. & Coy......508 College Book Stores _.....180 Coulter's Grocery .. a Cullen's Grocery, Cor, Fromtense Hotel .,... Gibson's Drug Store . Market McAuley's Rook S "es 08 PH Metall Cigar Store Cow, ris. 0M Mediey's Drug Store 200 Paul's Cigar Store . yi 90 Prindess. Prouse's Drug Store TT p-- Vallean's Grocery de Lowe's Grocery .....iviens ho ' soi BORN, wh McCONNELL~In 1 oi ite w Myers Shnmons, fully invi Kings Sist, 1914, ta Mra and ay oi SIMMONS --In Vero Funeral on Tuesday ut 2.40 p.m. McConnell, 400 Barris St. A iy 1914, Georgina Friends and a AT respect: f Ito 20 AUS ia." , 'hairs, Sofas and it in, at TURKS, No oil to buy No oil to No ail to seat