The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-11-08
issued: 1914-06-29
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0385318/source.json
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note: ■ OW *%. -' ♦ YESTERDAY'S WEATHER ♦ ♦ / ♦ ♦ Temperatures Yesterday wertj 0 0 Minimum .-*. 42 0 fit Maximum ..74 0 ♦ . ♦ 0 THE DAILY NEWS" * ■■ ■*_ Is read everywhere in Southeastern British Columbia (Koot* •nay and Boundary District) ♦ l the c' * ••■*• — i day of publication. VOL. 13 6 PAGES. NELSON. B. C. MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 29, 1914 50c PER MONTH. NO. 64 LOST HIS HEAD Storstad Counsel Says Steering Gear Broke Down NEWCOMBE SAYS BOTH TO BLAME Collier Should Not Have Ported Helm, Liner Should Not Have Stopped. ■r ! (By Dally News Leased Wire,) QUEBEC, Juno 28.—-The Empress wreck inquiry waa yesterday afternoon adjourned sine die to allow the commission to consider Its finding:. The last day was mnrked by an address to ■tho commission 'by C. S. Hals-lit, who has conducted the case from thc point of view of the owners of the Storstad, the collier which rammed the Empress, a reply by Butler Aspinall, K. C, who has acted for the Canadian Pacific railway, and a general review of the cvldonce by Edmund L. Newcombe, . K. C, who has represented the Dominion government Mr. Haight sought to lay tho blame fpr tho tragedy at the door of the Empress of Ireland, claiming that the vessel's steering gear broke down and that nfter this had happened and Capt. Kendall had been forced to stop his ship, ho lost his head when he found that ho had done so right in the path of the Storstad. Mr. Haight said it was not to bo expected that Capt. Kendall would acknowledge .this In face of tho world, Mr. Haight also emphasized the fact that the present heading of the hull of the vessel Is northeast, whereas, Capt. Kendall said the ship sank! pointing south enst, whereas the Storstad officers had all along given the direction of the liner as her bull had later been found, Evidence for his contention lhat the steering gear had broken down,* lie * claimed, was to be found in the testimony of fjalwuy, the quartermaster, who had withstood the unsparing use of thc lash of cross-examination fairly we…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0385318
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text