Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-08-05
SADLY FOLLOW
BENNINGTON DEAD
Impressive Ceremonies
At The Great Grave
Trench
COMMANDER YOUNG'S LAST
TRIBUTE TO DEAD PATRIOTS
GREAT CROWD MARCHED DUSTY
TEN MILES TO PAY THEIR
LAST TRIBUTE OF
RESPECT.
(From Fridays First Edition,

(F'rom Fridays First Editiop)
San Diego. July 23.-They buried
the Bennington's dead today-forty-.
seven of them-in a common grave.
On the crest of the promontory of Io-
ma, high above the shimmering waters
Of San Diego bay on the one side. and
within sound of the booming surf of
the Pacific on the other, they were
laid to rest in the peaceful little mill.
tary burying ground. Without the
crash of drum or the sound of brass.
without pomp or parade, yet with sim
pie impressiveness, all honor was paid
the Nations dead.
Survivors Among Mourners.
Army and Navy paid their last trib.
utes no less sincere. than the simple
grief of the representatives of peace.
who made the long journey around or
across the great bay. From Fort Ro.
secrans came the One Hundred and
Fifteenth Company of Coast Heavy
Artillery; from the city of San Diego
the Naval Reserves: from the JTniyer.
sal Brotherhood's Home on Point Lu-
ma a company of khaki-clad represeli.
tatives. and from the Government shin
Fortune dozen of her sailors. But
the most impressive body of mourn.
ers we're fifty.two men from the bat.
tered Bennington. Besides these there
were hundreds of civilians who, un.
thoughtful of the fatiguing Journey
from the city. brought their offerings
of flowers TO lay upon the graves,
San Diego was city Of mourning
today. Although the people of this
city have taken in the Remington ca
,astrophe an interest that was person
al to all from the moment IL happened
they set apart this beautiful Sabbath
day to pay last and loving tribute tc
the dead. Thousands filed through the
morgues this morning with arms filled
with flowers, dropping the blossom,
here and there upon some unfortu.
mates nag.draped coffin. Other thou
sands gathered in tine plaza whence
the procession of coffin.laden wagons
was to start.
Flags and Flowers Drape Collins.
Promptly at noon the long line Of
vehicles began the Journey around tn,
bay to the burial place. Owing to TIL
steep hills and the rough roads II was
found impracticable to use hearses OF
even dead wagons, and the bodies
were carried in heavy express wagon,
and other vehicles of everyday CON
merce. There were no bands of music
to stir the people with doleful melody
everything was quiet and business
like. The task was too big to be
hampered by any of the usages of or
binary funerals. Forty-seven mer
were to be buried, and to bury then
Il was necessary to carry them ter
miles up steep hills and along dust,
roads, and so there were only flowers
and flags. But there was a striking
display of these. Every casket bore
a beautifully executed wreath of as
paragus ferns. white carnations and
lmmortelles, thoughtfully sent by the
San Diego commercial bodies. TIL,
hags came from the Nation In whose
service the dead had died. Every one
of the plain black stained caskets waf
draped with the national emblem, and
the plain commercial utility of the
folds of the national colors.
Toll Miles Over Dusty Roads.
From noon until o'clock the dead
burdened wagons toiled toward the
burial ground and not until aImos,