Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-02


Total dead buried at sea, 1l6
Adding 100 dead brought to part
to 116 buried at sea. 300.
Total dead found by Mackay- Ben
nett, 306
Halifax. N. S, April 30.--The cable ship
Mackay- Bennett. which came with 100
of the White Star liner Titanc's dead
into Halifax to-day, first cast gloom over
the city by her presence ms a funeral
ship, then sent a shock through those
waiting here for bodies with the an
nouncement of her commander that o. OF
those reported by wireless as identified
had Of necessity been cast again into
the sea. Yet none. not even the few here
whose friends or relatives had thus been
recommitted to the Atlantic, expressed
criticism of Captain Lardner's action. be-
leving him sincere in his explanation
that lack of space on board. shortage of
embalnng material and the mutilation
of bodies was solely responsible for his
course.
That there was no favoritism shown in
the reburial that is. that the bodies OF
prominent persons were not kept aboard
tc the exclusion Of the more humble. Is
indicated by the White Star lines an
nouncement that among those bodies
sunk again was that of George r. Wild
ener. the Philadelphia capitalist Al
though this appears to be a mistake in
that Mr. Wideners son. now here. be-
lieves from Captain Lardner's description
that the body was that OF his father
valet. the name Widener stands on the
official list of reburied as issued by the
White Star late to-day.
SIXTY BODIES UNCLAIMED.
The one great hope held out to the
bereaved tonight was the fact that there
lay stretched in the rough pine collins
in the morgue 81 bodies for which there
were no claimants Although most Of
them appeared by their clothing TO be
seaman, they hold a secret which will
not be solved until they have been
thoroughly inspected. Few OF them had
been carefully examined tonight. for ii
was well along in the afternoon before
they were placed in the morgue and even
then they had not been segregated. BY
morning they all will have been prepares
for close scrutiny and persons who found
only bitter disappointment in the death
house to-day will go back tomorrow with
dentists plates and other equipment.
prepared to exhaust every resource before
turning homeward.
Inasmuch as a majority Of those cast
again into the sea were composed of
members OF the Titanics crew. and second
and third-class passengers. their relatives
were not on hand in Halifax in Great
numbers. For this reas on the shock and
disappointment was not as great as It
would otherwise have been. Eliminating
Mr.. W1dener's name from the list there
remains so far as can be checked up from
the data here. tho name OF only one first
class passenger reccmmitted. He was
Frederick Sutton o: Philadelphia.
Reginald Hale was among the second
cabin passengers on the list
NO MORBID CURIOSITY
Perhaps never was An occasion 50
fraught with gruesome aspects. marking
ono OF the last chapters of one OF the
greatest disasters on ,ecord. attended
with more respectful silence and lack CT
morbid curiosity than was the docking
OF the Mackay Bennett to-day. Not a
half dozen of those actually concerned
in the dead came to the pier proper. and
the general public contributed not more
than 40. They stood in silence overlook
ing the terrace into the navy dock yard
200 yards eway. They could see nothing
Bennett. tents housing the coffins and
q canvas lane under which the dead were
beinE carried to the long file of under.
takers wagons which would their way
up the hill to the morgue.
II was nearly four O'Clock when a
scr1blance of order hal been achieved In
the morguc and then the claimants OF
bodies began to arrive by twos and
shrees. Nicholas Biddle Of Philadelphia
WHO accompanied Vincent Aston here ir
Q private car. went alone to identify Co!
Jonn Jacob Astors body and il was ths
hEst prepared for removal to New York
me body Of Isidor Straus, a few moment Is
later, was turned over to Maurice Roths
child Of New York and in quick success
sion with little or no ceremony the bodie.
OF Frank ID. Millet. the artist IT. !. Ali.
son OF Montreal and many others were
IN charge OF friends. BY tomorrow near.
ly all of the claimed will be on their waX
home for burial
BABY GIRL IS J-NIDEN,rJFIED
Ihere are only five womens bodie.
among the unidentified and as one o,
'hom appears 10 be that of a Swedish
woman ana the other four those OF
Italians, there is little hope apparen,
81 recovering the body of Mrs. Isido,
Straus.
One little child, a baby girl of about
two years. lies among the unclaimed
nameless and without suggestion O,
who her parents were or are. or al
the bodies picked up hers was the onl,
one that the waves bore without tn,
aid OF life belt She was foun
floating serenely looking very muci
like a big doll.
Despite predictions TO the contrar,
nearly all OF the bodies bore indica
lions that the victims had died swift,
II not almost painlessly In man,
cases their features were calm ane