About 4:30 A.M., March 24, the steamer ran aground on the Scatteri Island, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, eighteen miles from where we were supposed to go.

There was a high sea rolling and we had been going through broken ice all night. When the steamer hit the solid rock, all the lights went out and the passengers were thrown out of their beds. The steamer fell over on its side, exposed to the Gulf.

This allowed every sea to go over her. The steamer had four lifeboats. Two of these were smashed to pieces and two passengers were drowned in front of me.

The captain gave orders that women and children were to be taken off first. Due to the high sea, the other two lifeboats had to row four miles to land the passengers, and get word to the mainland for them to send a rescue boat.

Due to the fact that it took so long for a boat to row eight miles, four each way, a rescue steamer arrived before all the passengers had been taken off.

It was 4 P.M. when the steamer from Louisbourg came to take the rest of us off.

We were given dry clothing and lots to eat, then taken to North Sydney where I took the train for Toronto. I arrived in Toronto March 25, 1911.