RESPONSE TO WIRELESS CALLS FOR HELP
Brief as was the time in which the S. O. S. calls could be sent out from the wireless on the stricken Empress, they were caught by J. McWilliams, the wireless operator at Father Point. Half hysterical, he ran down the wharf to where the little mail tender Eureka was lying.
“For God’s sake,” he cried to Captain Boulanger, “get down stream at once. The Empress of Ireland has gone under!”
Captain Boulanger got his men together, and as he had steam up, after taking the mails to the Empress, got under way at once, followed shortly by the government boat Lady Evelyn.