The New Westminster News
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alternative: [New Westminster Daily News]
issued: 2016-06-14
issued: 1914-05-30
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nwdn/items/1.0316003/source.json
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note: -���v���mr-*- m-*rm iT"i. * * r. Volume 9 /.mber 73. NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1914 Price Five Cents, LOSS OF LIFE ON EMPRESS OF IRELAND WAS 934 *SENGERS AND CREW NUMBERED 1367 AND BUT 433 KNOWN TO BE RESCUED-NINE FROM THIS VICINITY ARE MISSING. RAZE BUILDINGS If UNABLE TO AGREE BRACKMAN-KER Harrowing Stories Told by Survivors���Empress Sank Within Few Minutes of Crash���Terrific Explosion of Boilers Blew Passengers into Water. QUEBEC, May 29.���A train with 396 survivors from the sunken steamer Empress of Ireland reached here at 8 o'clock tonight. The rescued on board numbered 29 first class, 29 second class and 101 third class passengers and 237 of the crew. Thirty-seven survivors were left at Ri- mouski, which would make a total of 433 saved. As revised figures show 1367 persons to have been on the vesesl this makes the probable number of lost 934. Drastic Action to Be Taken Unless Property Owners Change. Start Soon to Be Made on New Civic Stables���Condition of Ladles' Room at Depot Condemned. A start on the new civic stables to lu- ere I ed on the Eighth street property recently turned over to the city bj the provincial government, was foreshadowed at a special meeting of the city council yesterday. Alderman Dodd, chairman of the board of works stated that the erown grant was now and that he wished author- onnnence operations clearing the lite, which is located at the cor- Btreet and Blghth ave- E BURNS HOPE IS PAINTER FOR RELATIVES Spectacular Fire Breaks Out at 2:30 This Morninjr���Surrounding Property Endangered by Sparks. The ed iu broke most spectacular fire witness- lof those directly interested COttld be New Westminster In years]reached at tbe time of the fire, hut RIMOUSKI,, Que., May 29.���Sinking in 90 feet of water within 15 minutes after being rammed amidships in "^ci lhe upper reaches of the St. Lawrence river early today, tlie C. P. R liner Empress of Ireland, carried down wiih\Z.Wr that stakes may be lur more than 900 of he…
note: Titled The Daily News from 1906-03-06 to 1912-04-24; Westminster Daily News from 1912-04-25 to 1912-12-04; and The New Westminster News from 1912-12-05 to 1914-09-04. Published by The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited from 1903-03-06 to 1912-04-24; and The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. from 1912-04-25 to 1914-09-04.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0316003
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text