Steamer Aground. Immigrants Aboard. Attempt to Tow Off Unsuccessful. Thursday Island
The steamer wapara, bound from London to Brisbane with 350 immigrants aboard, has gone ashore at Hannibal Island…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1914
534 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 27
The Missing Aviator Further Particulars. Searchers' Monoplanes Wrecked. Paris
Aviator, Hamel, whose disappearance is reported in another page, left on Saturday in a new monoplane. He alighed at Hurdelop, near Boulogne,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Picture Slashers Sentenced. the Biggest Steamer Does Considerable Damage. London
Freda Graham, the woman who damaged five pictures in the National Art Gallery, refused to plead when brought before the Police Court. She was A sensational incident accompanied the departure of the Vaderland, the biggest ship afloat, from New York yesterday…
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A goods train coming up from the south at half-past four last Saturday morning crashed into a goods train which had got in from the…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The Empress of Ireland. a Fine Steamer
The Empress of Ireland is described as one of the finest of the C.P.R.S. fleet. She was one of a pair of fliers engaged in the…
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The Empress of Ireland, built in 1906, was 570ft. long, with 65ft. beam. She was 14,500 tons register and 18,000 horse-power. The passage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How News Travels. the "Times" and the Shipwreck
A large section of the Bathurst public was on Saturday night directly informed of the number of persons who had perished in the terrible sea tragedy in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Big Wreck Earlier Reports Awful Scenes. Terrified Passengers. Ship Sinks in 10 Minutes. Quebec, Friday evening
A disaster, with few parallels in the annals of marine navigation, has occurred off Father Point, near Rimouski, on the Canadian Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck. Further Details. Pitiful Scenes on Shore Identifying the Dead. Why the Storstad Backed. How Did the Crew Behave? "We Saved 400 Lives." London
Interviewed, the captain of the Storstad, which caused the loss of the Empress of Ireland, refused to say anything beyond the remark, "We saved 440 lives."…
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Interviewed, the captain of the Storstad refused to say anything beyond that "we saved 4-10." An ominous note has been struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Empress of Ireland. Latest Particulars. London
The Dean of Westminster, preaching, in Westminster Abbey, referred to the tragic wreck, and said that the English people quivered under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck an Iceberg Wreck Narrowly Averted. Saved by Captain's Promptitude. Warned by Ill-fated Empress of Ireland. London
The steamer, Royal Edward, had a great welcome on arrival at Avonmouth. Passengers declare that Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whose Fault ? Wreck of the Empress of Ireland More Conflicting State-ments. Storstad's Captain Defended
All examination made on the Storstad shows that the anchor point of the vessel tore into the side of the Empress of Ireland. This must have caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alrman Injured a Monoplane Wrecked. "Wizard" Stone's Mishap
"Wizard" Stone, who was to have made his first flight from Melbourne to Sydney on Saturday, met with a sensational accident yesterday at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Wreck Demented and Starving Unknown Woman's Awful Experiences. Drifts 18 Miles. Forgets Her Own Name. (Continued from another page.) RIMOUSKI
Starved and raving as a result of her terrible experiences a stalwart Norwegian woman; a passenger by the Empress of Ireland, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Wreck
The Titanic tragedy thrilled the world two years ago. The wreck of the Empress of Ireland with the loss of nearly a thousand lives is a disaster scarcely less appalling, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Other Items. Incoming Steamer's Tribute. Montreal
An inspection of the Storstad's bow indicates that it was impossible for her stem to remain locked in the Empress of Ireland's side, as the bow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Ship Wreck. the Sunken Liner. Impossible to Raise
Commander Tweedie, of the cruiser Essex, says it is impossible to raise the Empress of Ireland, but divers may be able to recover the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Big Wreck Indentification of Victims Difficult. Serious Charges Against Captain Anderson. Statements of Passengers. No Boats Lowered From Storstad. Quebec
Great difficulty is experienced in identifying the Empress of Ireland's victims, owing to the mutilated state of the bodies. It is apparent that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Among the Dead. Wreck of Empress of Ireland. Choulish Stories Denied. the Relief Fund. London
Newspaper correspondents, discussing the wreck of the Empress of Ireland, advance many suggestions for the prevention of a repetition of the disaster…
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