CAPTAIN ANDERSEN MUCH DISTRESSED
“Captain Andersen has taken the tragedy much to heart. Several times on our way up here I have found him crying. He was very much worked up over it, and was very, very sorry.”
“Did Captain Andersen tell you anything about how the collision happened?” Nault was asked.
“No; he would say nothing about it. He said he was under orders not to talk. He told me that he had managed to pick up three hundred and forty of the people from the Empress, and had done everything in his power to make them comfortable until they were transferred to the relief steamers.”
Pilot Nault said a remark dropped by Captain Andersen at one time was to the effect that at the time of the collision he (Captain Andersen), his officer, and Pilot Lachance, the pilot who brought the Storstad from Father Point to Quebec, were on the bridge of the collier.
“Did any newspaper men come aboard at Quebec and tell Andersen what Captain Kendall said?” Nault was asked in conclusion.
“Yes; the captain answered them.”
“What did he say about Kendall’s statement?”
“He said they were lies,” finished Nault.