The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-28
THEIR LAST LONG SLEEP
Victims OF he Maine DisasterWill
Be Inferred at Arlington.
WITH SIMPLE CEREMONY
One Hundred and Fl ty-One Bodies Hav
Arrived-Maay o the Un'ortunates
Cannot Be Identih ,d-President
Will Attend the Services.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Captain Sigs-
bee and Chaplain Chadwick called at
the navy department this morning to
consult with Assistant Secretary Allen
respecting the ceremonies to take place
Tomorrow at Arlington in connection
with the reinterment of the bodies of
the Names victims.
The remains of ISL dead sailors ar
rived here this morning over the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad on special ira n
of six cars. The exercises will be as
simple as possible. The president and
members of the cabinet and a number
of naval officers are to attend the ser
Vices. The navy department to-day or
dered a sufficient number of wreaths
made of galax leaves to enable one to
be placed on each casket.
The body Of Frederick C. Holzer, an
ordinary seaman killed in the explosion
of the Maine, is the only one of the 151
Havana, and brought to Newport News
by Captain Sigsbee in the Texas, which
will not be buried at Arlington cemetery
tomorrow. The body OF Hoizer has
been shipped to New York, where 1t will
be received by relatives. About so re-
quests were received by the navy de-
partment for the bodies of the victims
of the Maine disaster, but In only 10 Of
these cases had the bod es been identi-
fed. The other 20 were either in the
list of the unidentified or among the
bodies not - vered. Owing to the
confusion in Which the graves were
found when the dead were disinterred
at Havana, the department has reluct-
antly decided not to extend to the rela-
nd fritz nf Ha ut nj
positively identified bod es the privilege
of burial of the remains at h~me.
When the remains were Inferred in
Colon cemetery two years ago, the cere-
mony was conducted with great haste
because the condition of the remains
absolutely required such action should
be taken in the hot climate. AS the re-
mains were landed at Machina wharf
at Havana harbor, they were Identified
as far as possible and each coffin was
numbered. They were taken to the
cemetery, but in some cases the super
intendent of the cemetery ia led to not
more than the number of the row In
which these collins were placed. For
instance, in one case there We're IA cof-
fms containing two victims who had
been positively Identified. When Cap
tain sigsbee came to dis!nter these COT
fms, the numbers had become unde-
ciperable and it was manifestly impos
sible to determine which Of the two
were the bodies of the identified at the
time of burial in Havana. The depart
ment therefore was compelled to deny
the requests except in the case of APP
prentice Holzer who died in the hos
pital some time after the, disaster and
whose grave was definitely located.
OF the $50 bodies which are to be
buried at Arlington tomorrow 6S were
identified at the time of their interment
in Colon cemetery. Ninety-seven of the
bodies to be inferred tomorrow were
never identified. In all of the 260 vic
Tins of the disaster, two officers and
25s men, the body Of ore officer, Leu
tenant Jenkins, who was burr d at AL
legheny, Pa, and the bodies, or por-
lions of the bodies of 191 men. were .e-
covered. Of the latter "a were identi-
fed The body of Assistant Engineer
Merritt was not recovered, or If recov-
cred, was anrecognizable. Twenty-Five
of the Maine victims were buried at
Key West. Their bodies are not among
those to be buried at ARLINGTON.