The Pageland Journal, 1914-06-03

a lore sne sank was added to by j e an explosion which quickly fol- < i- lowed the collision. According >, to one of the rescued, the explo- , 1 sion, probably caused by the water reaching the boilers, bulg- , i ed the liner's sides and catapultt ed persons from her decks out i. into the sea. i d The ship's heavy list as water s poured in made the work of y launching boats increasingly difficult and when she sank r scores still left on her decks d were carried down, only a few ? being able to clear her sides and h find support on wreckage, i From all accounts Capt. H. G. , q Kendell of the Empress of Ireijdand bore himself like a true jHailor^ He retained such comthe Slorstad's^em SfasH hung in the gash it had 9 Jffcade in the Empress' side, Capt. P' Kendall begged the master of the collier to keep his propellers 1 going so that the hole might re^ main plugged. The Storstad, r however, dropped back and the r Empress filled and foundered, f Capt. Kendall stood on his

brief space of time?not more < 7 than 14 minutes?between the e shock of the collision and the sinking of the liner, there was , _ little chance for systematic j a marshalling of the passengers. , ;r Everything indicates that hund hunde - e hunde reds probably never reached the < r decks. Few women were among n the saved, not more than a dozen . 1 the lists make it appear. , k "The stewards did not have , t time to rouse the people from . 2 their berths," one survivor told , o Capt. Bollinger of the rescue , y ship Eureka. Those who heard a the frenzitd calls of the officers for passengers to hurry on deck s and rushed up piled into the , 2 boats, which were rapidly lower- , e ed and rowed away. Many who 4 1; waited to dress were drowned." 1 s , The horror of the interval s during the time the Empress was e rapidly filling and the frightened throngs on board her were hure rying every effort to escape be- (

NEARLY 1,000 DROWNEl Huge Ship Sinks in St. Lawrenc River?Many Lives are Lost Rimousk, Quebec, May 29.Of a total of 1,387 persons oi board the Canadian Pacific line; Empress of Ireland when sh sailed yesterday from Quebec fo Liverpool, 954 were lost whe the liner was rammed by th< Danish collier Storstand and sanl 15 minutes later off Father Poin in the St.Lawrence river befor< daylight today, according t< revised figures late tonight. Onl; 433 are known to have beei saved. Of the 87 first cabin passenger the late figures show 29 to hav< been saved.. Of the 153 in th second cabin 20 were rescuec of the 715 third class passenger there were 101 survivors, whil< 237 of the crew of 432 wer brought ashore. These figures account for th 396 Survivors landed here an taken by train to Quebec, wher il : 1 * ?

J. V. Griffith, quickly got to the ' ' home. Cleve Hurt was let down _' into the well and fastened the ropes about the body of the wo- 1 man and she was soon drawn ' out. She was cold and some of 1 the hair had been knocked off the head, but there was no seri- p ous injury. How she got in the p well or how long she had been c there cannot be told. She has "e not been dangerous and on ac- a count of the intense heat had .c. been given the privilege of the 1 hall, and some time last night a prized open a window and got out. The well was curbed ' up tightly with a hole only large enough for the bucket to pass J through. How the woman sue- p ceeded in working herself thru this small hole into the well is * a mystery. But she did, for the r />iirK moo #t/\4 J - -4 1 J

waier copiously at every meal; ^ and then followed another pe period during which they had rj little or nothing to drink with jp4 their meals. Ba The compared results showed ga that in some instances there was a very slight increase in the utilization of fat in the food during La the water-drinking period; but yc this was about balanced by nogative results in other cases, so that the final conclusion was jji that the ammount of fat and ^ carbohydrates utilized by the body from food eaten was apparently uninfluenced by the Al amount of water taken at meal- Ai times. \V Pi "Daughter" said the father, ^ "your young man Rowlingi, stays j ^ until a very late hour. Has not ^ your mother said something to j you about this habit of his?"

.. . . ?~ SWU 11181 piilAO VI 111 l_y dollars each and thirty second prizes of twenty-five dollars each. Regulations concerning the award of these prizes are as follows: 1. Improvements must be made between October 1st, 1913 and Dec. 1st, 1914. 2. Only rural schools can compete for these prizes. Districts barred by the State High School Act or the Rural Graded School Act are ineligible to enter the competiton. 3. Prizes will be awarded by the State Executive Committee of the State school Improvement Association immediately after the entries close. 4. All applications must be sent through your county superintendent or rural school supervisor. 5. Prizes will be awarded in checks sent from the office of the State Superintendent of Ed -

Friday and the Eastern States near the end of the week. This disturbance will be attended by showers and thunderstorms and be followed by a change to cooler weather over the Northern States East of the Rocky Mountains. Labor unions are strong in the West and especially strong in a city where, on Halloween, the boys pulled a lot of pickets off the fence belonging to a house in which a union barber lived N and made a bonfire of them. The darber bought some new pickets anq nailed them on his fence himself. Whereupon he was promptly fined fifty dollars by the council for doing carpenter work which should have been done by a union carpenter. The barber thought over this for some time. Then he presentthe Carpenters' Union with a bill

ites for Campaign Meetings. The itineraries of the state and natorial candidates have been 1 nounced. The candidates for ite offices will make their inal bow at Sumter June 17 and 1 ike their last pleas at Greenle August 20. The senatorial aspirants will ! eak to the voters at St. Matthrs on June 17 and close their mpaign at Sumter August 20. The engagements arranged by, 2 state Democratic executive 1 mmittee follows: \ 1 mter, Wednesday, June 17. anning, Thursday, June 18. onck's Corner, Friday June 19. 1 ;orgetown, Saturday, June 20. ngstree, Tuesday, June 23. ~ 1 arsnce, Wednesday, June 24. ' arion, Thursday, June 25. ! >nway, Friday, June 26. 1 llion, Saturday, June 27. lrlinrlfnn T.. ? ?