STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN ANDERSEN’S WIFE
Mrs. Andersen, wife of the captain of the Storstad, dressed in a blue cotton dress because she had given all her other clothes to the survivors, said that the captain was called from his bed Friday night by the mate because it was foggy. Her husband called her to come on deck, and while she was dressing the collision took place.
“I ran up to the bridge where Captain Andersen was,” said Mrs. Andersen. “Everything was dark and quiet. There was no excitement among the crew and I was cool.
“‘Are we going to sink?’
“‘I think so,’ he answered.
“I couldn’t cry, although I felt like it. I said to myself, ‘My place is here and I will die with my husband.’
“Captain Andersen told me he was trying to keep the Storstad in the hole and that if the other liner had not been speeding they would have stopped together for a time at least. My husband ordered two of the officers to go to the bow and see if there was any water pouring in.
“Again I asked him if we were going down and he answered, ‘I can’t tell yet.’ He said he thought the Empress was all right.